We can't really remember--and we're too lazy to check previous posts--but we think we mentioned that original Shpotzirist Paul Christian (né Milton Ehrlich) was recently published in both The New York Times and The Christian Science Monitor. Well, his poetry is now out in force on the Internet, at this site, for any who are interested--and you should be interested--and if you're reading this webloge you are probably a Shpotzirist so it behoves you to read the works of one of your predecessors--and besides the poems are fascinating coming from someone normally so close-mouthed--much more dark than we would have expected--and ironic too in that he got published so easily in two big publications when his sons have had to work very hard in order to achieve same--and heartening to all of us slipping towards middle age by showing that the creative spark is not limited to the young--and providing a benchmark for how to live once you've retired and your children are out of the house--and just good because they are good poems.

In other news, G. Ehrlich continues the attack on T. Newman's self-image that we began a few posts ago (see below), by running this photo on his website. We're not sure if Theo is imitating the fashion lady from the Old Navy ads, Interview dominatrix Ingrid Sischy, or Brain Trust patriarch Etta Ehrlich (to whom, we believe, the glasses belong). At any rate, it's amazingly disturbing--more so, in its own way, than the threat from Al-Qaeda (see the good folks at MEMRI) which so unnerved Messrs. Moskowitz and D. Ehrlich yesterday that they ran home and hid under their respective beds.

In other news, Bones Moskowitz and his wife recently bought an upper West Side mansion for a cool 4.5 million, thereby ensuring their son Jakob will be attending community college 18 years from now. Meanwhile, A. Kisch recently finished renovating his family room, expanding it to the size of two football fields. He intends to use the room "to take my exercise of a Sunday morning."

That's all we really have time for now. The Shpotzir staff is currently hard at work putting together an archive of all the old Newsletters, which we hope to post a link to soon. And, as always, we welcome posts from other Shpotz alum, either emailed to us or posted directly by their authors.