re: #80 ggt

It sounds like that one scene from Crash with Don Cheadle and Jennifer Esposito in bed. His mom called and he said he was having sex with a Mexican Girl. She got pissed and got out of bed and explained that neither of her parents were from Mexico. He replied, “well I thought it would piss-off is mom more.”

or something to that effect.

It’s all very complicated. Ashraf (the cute Palestinian) has a sister who’s in college in Jordan, and is coming home to marry Ashraf’s friend Jihad. Meanwhile, Ashraf is supposed to be getting engaged to Jihad’s cousin, but she, alas, is a girl. So he is hiding out in Tel Aviv, and Noam has offered to let him stay in the apartment, which Yali and Lulu, the roomates, have agreed to, because they don’t want to be responsible for the death of the Israeli left, and they feel guilty for not going to Checkpoint Watch with Lulu’s mother, so they are relieving their liberal guilt by letting Ashraf hang out in the apartment.

Lulu is involved with some guy named Sharon (the only straight man in Tel Aviv it seems), and Yali is hooking up with some guy named Golan who’s trying to get a waitering job at the restaurant Yali runs.

Also, although I have only caught a glimpse of it, and am not sure, the three roommates seem to have a poster of Ronald Reagan in the kitchen.