Latke-Hamantasch Debate Becomes Verbal Food Fight

[Fiona Shnapple]

But down in the dog with Windust, the man she suspects of murder,
pushing her buttons she has a vision of the murdered man. What kind of
new drug is this? How does it work?

On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Fiona Shnapple
<fionashnapple at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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