Friday, March 31, 2023

Do you know who your great-grandfather was? His name?

 Yes, I do.

My great grandparents are Abraham Levine and Goldie Benjamin and they were from Minsk:



They settled in Brooklyn and all of the Levines gathered in 1916 for a family photo:



Abraham and Goldie had a son called Max Levine who is my grandfather. He married Bessie Lazarus.



My grandmother, my mother's mother, is Lena Kaplan (from Vilna). 




She married Maurice Seidel (from Vilna) and they had my aunt Ruth, my uncle Charlie, and my mother Dorothy (Levine). 







This side from Vilna: 



My parents had me, and I, at a young age, learned to follow the rule: even in shallow water, always wear a tube:



parent's wedding day: 














Thursday, March 30, 2023

THE FAN BASE

Here is a compilation of some comments over the years written by "Yetta/Cookie" fans (my two broadcast names)... 
they sure are creative.



Tuesday, March 28, 2023

The Last Day and What Came Before

This is a present view in front of the school where I was on my last day:


This was where I waited for the bus to take me home on my last day:


And in between, some glimpses of what was during past times:











Quincy, IL















 

Saturday, March 25, 2023

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Jewish Girls Don't



Jackie Goldschneider, during an episode of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, stated: "Jewish girls don't give blow jobs..." Then, during a reunion show, those same housewives in the show proudly declared whether they "spit or swallow." It was a titillating discussion for many viewers I am sure, but I watched expressionless and far from gobsmacked. The topic was low level and snore worthy. 


Jackie's conclusion may or may not be true. I tend to think many Jewish girlfriends and wives do engage in fellatio and they have Jewish boyfriends and husbands who worship the goddesses to whom they are attached. 


I am also sure those same women are excellent cooks. I always believed you needed two talents in life to find and keep a man: the ability to cook and suck, and I can tell my readers straight out I severely lack both skills. I have never engaged in that popular oral activity involving male genitalia and I will never indulge in what for many women either comes naturally and is enjoyable or maybe becomes an acquired taste and then is performed nightly to please a man as a prelude to lights out. Plus, I cannot even scramble an egg.


Maybe men's penises are like compasses with magnets and they are drawn to the women who they instinctively know will willingly and eagerly indulge in sucking with no encouragement... they gravitate to and find women who inherently love it. Yum yum. No doubt, the "deep throats" rise to the top of men's most desired and wanted lists. While those women got free rides, I took rides for fun on the Staten Island ferry. 


There are some men who reply: "Well then don't expect it done to you." Who said I think I am part of some equal opportunity sexual smorgasbord? I level all playing fields and get the rules of the game. I am no dummy dick... not even a Dumb Dora.


I am happy I have my own money and dislike attachment so my shortcomings, fails, and limitations never determined my fate or made me a victim of my preferences. It was what it was and it is what it is... ver veyst


I realize that in general, a woman's total value by men is measured by her willingness to sexually gratify and if she is reluctant on any level she is pushed into a corner and all other parts of her that may have worth just fall away. 


No I am not a lesbian. I am a straight woman. But honestly, if Christopher Hitchens is right and "the G-spot and other fantasies have dissipated, (and) the iconic U.S. Prime blowjob is still on a throne" I suppose I sit high up alone in a peanut gallery called "the nosebleed section" where the air is thin and I need oxygen... so Jeeves, pass the smelling salts. 


To this day, in old age, I still ponder if my solitude and single status was a lifestyle which I grew to love because of my choices or: if I was a cocksucker, would I still have chosen to be alone at the end of every day? This is a bizarre mystery in terms of correct personal historical sequencing and an individualized life map. 


The weight of a man, though desired, has always been a long wait perhaps because of the fact that I have always been trapped by my obstacles. In a way, obstacles did determine my life. I am my obstacles. 


It seems now set in stone somehow that I follow the pattern of living a quiet internal life. I understand perfectly why I chose so many roads less traveled and adjusted even more particularly and firmly into a lifestyle and then as the days grew shorter I settled into the same old same old: perhaps considered a red lighted life. These were not road blocks or boundaries I chose to set up, my intrinsic features defined me as clearly as any other personality characteristics but presented as barriers so now as I write this I do believe I accommodated my life to live in a comfort zone into which I was pushed. The life I carved out became the only way I could live because an unwilling indulgence in blowjobs determined my life's trajectory and course. Nothing else mattered or matters: not the ability to care, not loyalty or devotion within friendship, not emotional involvement, and not even love that could grow to deeper and more meaningful love. Nothing. 


Anyway: along life's way, I collected "crushes" like Nicole Kidman collects coins. There was Bobby, Pete, Bob, Paul, Richie, Buddy, Paul number two, John, Andy, Jake, and Jack... the list goes on and on.  


Richie was a severe crush at C.W.Post College... a guy who looked like Paul Newman but a guy who never gave me a side glance. I longed for him within the most intense limerence I ever experienced. I can still smell the Yardley perfume I wore to the Strathmore Bar in Manhasset where I knew he would be one cold snowy night in December.  


Several years ago, I grew bold and tracked down Richie who was living in a suburb of San Diego. There was no specific purpose in my call, except perhaps to just let him know what I was too shy to tell him decades ago. It was sort of my present older self living within some bizarre time travel moment attempting to go back to the past to try to do a reveal and then in the present bring a memory to closure. So... we had a nice conversation on the phone in which I confessed my infatuation with him from decades ago and he seemed to enjoy the light banter. He told me he would soon be in New York City and added that he would call and we could meet. I looked forward to a nice night. 


Roses are red and violets are blueish, 

When will Marjorie stop being so foolish? 


In any event, a few weeks later he arrived in New York City and called. After about ten minutes on the phone he said: "So how about if I come over and you cook me a nice meal and for dessert you can finally give me that blow job?" 


© Marjorie J. Levine March 22, 2023



Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Paradise in Shades of Green and Orange






I awakened with a start and wanted to see paradise:

I thought eyeballing a different view would be nice.


I knew where to go, I knew what I wanted to see

These days it does not take much to create a happy me. 


So I gazed at a town that resembled Willougby to me

And as I looked and looked I saw what I needed to see.


I saw a brick road covered in orange leaves after months of green

And when I saw a magical street light I knew this was my scene!


I packed my bags and waved bye to neighbors and locked up my place 

And soon I settled in to a quiet new town that I called my space.


Now this poem should not be considered sad… 

So do not be mad.


I wanted to create a happy poem for my readers and friends

After all, I am Yetta… and everything I do has to have laughing ends.


CODA:


I went to the doctor today

And she did not have much to say.


She diagnosed me with Limerence and suggested help

“What? And cure myself of magical thinking and end with a welp?”


Marjorie J. Levine © March 21, 2023