Real Music & Real Estate . . .

Yiddishe Cup’s bandleader, Bert Stratton, is Klezmer Guy.
 

He knows about the band biz and – check this out – the real estate biz, too.
 

You may not care about the real estate biz. Hey, you may not care about the band biz. (See you.)
 

This is a blog with a gamy twist. It features tenants with snakes and skunks, and musicians with smoked fish in their pockets.
 

Stratton has written op-eds for the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Washington Post.


 
 

EARPLUGS BY DALI

What’s the most important element at a wedding?

Maybe not the band.

After the party, guests often can’t recall if they saw a live band or a DJ.

How many pieces in the band? No idea.

Guests attend parties primarily to schmooze. They dance a bit, they drink a little, they eat a lot, and they talk — to friends, relatives.

Loud music . . . the bane of all parties. I was at a family bar mitzvah in Chicago where everybody went into the atrium to talk. The DJ was blasting it.

I have a case of earplugs, 50 of them. Got them in Orrville, Ohio, home of Smucker’s.

I didn’t like the earplugs I was getting at CVS; they’d pop out of my ears because the plugs were too big. The earplugs from Orrville, they’re jelly.

I use orange marmalade.

(The earplugs are actually tiny orange inserts.)

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1 comment

1 Teddy { 06.23.09 at 9:05 am }

I like this slice-0f-life stuff. It could be a Seinfeld episode.

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