{"id":33451,"date":"2018-03-30T14:35:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T14:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/?p=33451"},"modified":"2018-03-31T19:05:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T19:05:13","slug":"holiday-happy-easter-and-passover-with-a-special-extra-day-thrown-in-for-good-measure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/holiday-happy-easter-and-passover-with-a-special-extra-day-thrown-in-for-good-measure\/","title":{"rendered":"HOLIDAY: HAPPY EASTER AND PASSOVER (WITH A SPECIAL EXTRA DAY THROWN IN FOR GOOD MEASURE!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

HAPPY EASTER AND PASSOVER (WITH A SPECIAL EXTRA DAY THROWN IN FOR GOOD MEASURE!)<\/h1>\n

Once again, Passover and Easter share a week-end! I love when that happens because it reminds me of my very first Spring in LA as a teen-ager. I had been here only a few months, but had made so many wonderful friends that I was lucky enough to be invited to one\u2019s mother\u2019s house for the first seder and her father\u2019s house for the second, (which was especially interesting to me because I had never seen divorced parents yet at that point in my life\u2014I guess Brooklyn \u2019rents stayed together back then.) And then for Easter, I went to the home of my friend, The Beautiful Desdemona, whose family was the most fabulous, disparate group of people I had ever encountered! I actually named my circus character, Little Mina from Copenhagen, after her mother!<\/p>\n

\"easter-egg-seder-plate\"<\/a>Even though the two holidays being on the same week-end is a rare occurrence, it did<\/em> happen very recently, in 2015. But back then, none of my pals in Los Angeles were very much fun. This<\/em> year, though, I\u2019ll be going to one seder, followed by what I know will be a fabulous Easter because Mr. X and I are joining some uber-fun new pals in Malibu for that occasion. We did the same thing last year, so I already know that after a marvelous lunch, which features party favors at each place setting, we\u2019ll have an Easter e-word hunt on the amazing property, complete with prizes, and then we\u2019ll follow all that with a fun, easy-to-play, money-winning game. We had such a good time there in 2017 that we had considered hiding out in that beautiful house until this<\/em> year’s festivities!!!<\/p>\n

\"images\"<\/a>I have only one conundrum for the whole week-end, (and, no, giving up watching the Final Four of the NCAA basketball tournament is not even a consideration!) I usually wouldn\u2019t even tell you this now, so that I can catch everyone off-guard that day, but Easter is also\u2014wait for it\u2014April Fool\u2019s Day!!! You\u2019re all safe, (I\u2019m talking to you Carol Rampino and Lila West!,) because Easter dinner begins at noon that day, and the party goes on until late, and it\u2019s about an hour each way, so I won\u2019t have time (or energy) to pull my usual pranks. (And therein lies my aforementioned conundrum\u2014which to give-up that day\u2014a beautiful Easter party or my favorite activity of each year\u2014getting all my friends with my fabulous April Fool\u2019s Day gags! But, reading this paragraph back to myself, I see that I\u2019m going with the Easter fete. Who needs a shrink to bounce things off when you have your own e-zine?!)<\/p>\n

\"passover\"<\/a>So, I\u2019m going to very unselfishly give you a primer on the correct<\/em> way to do April Fool\u2019s jokes right now. Here are my hard and fast rules:<\/p>\n

1) Most importantly, under no circumstances<\/em> scare people too much, like with something about death or awful health. Those topics are absolutely unacceptable.<\/p>\n

2) But you do<\/em> have to make it something semi<\/em>-bad, so the recipient will be relieved<\/em> when you take it away.<\/p>\n

3) You absolutely cannot tell them something great<\/em>, like that they got a job or somebody likes them, etc., and then take the good thing away. That would just be a bummer all the way around. (And sadly, that\u2019s how most people do it. So wrong.)<\/p>\n

4) The more based in truth<\/em> the joke is, the more believable it will be. (Like telling someone who\u2019s counting on you being someplace, as when I visit pals in New York, that you won\u2019t be able to make it, after they\u2019ve planned a big party for you.)<\/p>\n

5) And, most importantly, it has to be quick<\/em>. You can\u2019t prolong the pain, or it will lose its goal of making everyone laugh. It will just make you look like a douchebag.<\/p>\n

And there you have it! Just do not try to get me<\/em>! It has rarely been done.<\/p>\n

I wish all of us a fantastic week-end: Passover seders, the Final Four, Easter, and April Fool\u2019s Day; a week-end does not get better than that! (For me<\/em>, anyway.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HAPPY EASTER AND PASSOVER (WITH A SPECIAL EXTRA DAY THROWN IN FOR GOOD MEASURE!) Once again, Passover and Easter share a week-end! I love when that happens because it reminds me of my very first Spring in LA as a teen-ager. I had been here only a few months, but had made so many wonderful<\/p>\n

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