Latke-Hamantasch Debate Becomes Verbal Food Fight

[Fiona Shnapple]

P wants Maxine, a parody of the hard boiled investigator to lose her
license; he needs a rogue fraud investigator. Maxine, never a by the
books investigator, always ready to bend and break the rules to her
advantage and to the advantage of her clients, relishes the role. So,
again the traditional hard boil boiler plate, she takes that boat trip
bender with the Borderline people, after her buddy Heidi recommends it
and ends up soaking herself into bed and business with Joel Wiener,
who helps her out of her license by using her, as Horst does, as the
others do, though Maxine sees these conflicts of interest as a choice
between friendship and super-picky guideline adherence (18).

With fatal friends like that...of course her buddy, a pop buddy in the
sitcom, not in the hard boiled parody genre, Heidi, not exactly the
professor in the detective story, is sleeping with her Horst. Maybe
that's why she sent Max off on that cruise? Max suspects.

So, as P scrambles the Sit-com over the Hays Codes of hazy Hollywood
detectives hard boiled, we can taste the patterns, a playful palate
washed down the drain with waste waster, but then there is Windust.

She's not drunk. Not high. Not on a bender. Not missing her X.

And if being a rogue fraud investigator makes her more attractive to
her clients, and to Reg and Outfield and the rest, it is her
investigation of hash, not eggs, hard or scrambled that Windust is
interested in.    Oh, and her brother-in-law.

Her sister is married to a badass.

Can Maxine top that?

Her mom thinks he looks like a catch. Her Pop thinks he's a spook.

Perfect. No substance abuse required.

On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> A basic BE observation that may not have been said, so basically. : even the fraud detectors sleep with those they need to do deals with.
> The nature of bedfellows in the 21st Century.....fill in your favorite idealist w politicos.....
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Dec 24, 2013, at 9:46 AM, Fiona Shnapple <fionashnapple at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> In the exposition, as we meet Maxine, her family, and her "friends"
>> and associates, get some history, we don't see her eat or use the
>> toilet, but we see her party like a rock star, in high school,
>> college, and after her seperation from Horst, she drinks a lot, but as
>> the Pope sez, who am I to judge, but she  gets smashed, sleeps with
>> and makes business deals with the men she sleeps with. Like Horst, the
>> Commodities Trader from Chicago, Joel Weiner, the Real Estate Slum
>> Lord, and so on, then we see that family food is about take-out food
>> menus, again, who am I to judge, it's NYC, what people do, but, then
>> home with the folks and the pastry wars...to the Bagel joint with Reg,
>> the Flatirion crawls, local fusion food joint with Windust, where she
>> brings up Leviticus.  The pastry Joint is shut down. March complains
>> that the Piraeus is history, like so much that we love about our
>> neighborhoods, gone, packmaned by Duane Reed and Mick Deez. Eating is
>> a sacred act. Those local joints where you share a Sunday with people
>> for years. Something worth keeping. Nostalgic? Maybe, but magical too.
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Fiona Shnapple <fionashnapple at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Ever eat in the Piraus Diner on Columbus? Didn't think so.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 9:12 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> c'mon man gal robot you
>>>> stop with the cliche talk speak new york
>>>> watching too many old woody allen movies you (when he was good)
>>>>
>>>> happy holidays to all
>>>> rich
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Fiona Shnapple <fionashnapple at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Argue over food? In NY? Yeah, itz a thing in NY.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/csj/970404/food.html
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