A Study in Neo-Classic Ribaldry by P.G. Hoeven Farrell R. Davisson Good morning, class. Are we all here? Miss Hornung, would you close the door, please? The dean wears sneakers. Sorry—that’s an earlier generation joke. Now let’s see. Oh yes. We’re going to put aside for this period our discussion of the Roxburghe Ballads as an example of...
Thomas Fuchs I met my first Bud Wiser some time near the end of 1965, when I went to work in the research department of Wolper Productions, a company specializing in documentaries for television. I was 23 years old, fresh out of college. Bud, a writer-producer I sometimes reported...
by Jay Michaelson From the Archives Ashé Journal, Vol 5, Issue 1, 66-83, Winter/Spring 2006. According to the second-century Alphabet of Ben Sira, the mystic who gives the text its name was conceived when the prophet Jeremiah’s daughter bathed in a mikva in which her father had ejaculated earlier that day. Ben...
