From Bensonhurst to Liverwurst

This is the non-professional site of Irving P. Herman. It contains occasional insightful musings and postings. The latest updates includes new jokes (humor page), a funny book (reviews), a political possibility and four weddings and a funeral thoughts (Iighter thoughts), thoughts on Harper Lee and JFK (heavier thoughts), and additions to the music page.

Those on smartphones can navigate to the other pages by clicking on the following:

1. “All about Irving”  http://www.irvingpherman.com/all-about-irving/   
2. Song parodies that could be used at a Passover (Pesach) seder during the reading of the Haggadah (with three new songs for 2016) http://www.irvingpherman.com/passover-seder-song-parodies/
3. Humor  http://www.irvingpherman.com/humor/
4. Music  http://www.irvingpherman.com/music/
5. Reviews  http://www.irvingpherman.com/reviews/
6  Thoughts (lighter fare) http://www.irvingpherman.com/thoughts/
7. Thoughts (heavier fare)  http://www.irvingpherman.com/thoughts-heavier-fare/

You are welcome to visit my professional site http://www.columbia.edu/~iph1 for information on my more serious activities (research and teaching activities, papers and books, seminars and mini case scenarios in ethics (responsible conduct of research and professionalism)), though many question whether these are indeed serious efforts, and some more light-hearted fare concerning my research and the American Presidency at http://www.columbia.edu/~iph1/hermanPresidency.html and how my career may have been influenced by Superman at http://www.columbia.edu/~iph1/Download/Dr. Abner Sedgwick-for IPH website-newest-again2.pdf . My latest book is described on www.facebook.com/PhysicsOfTheHumanBody.

You may ask “Why Liverwurst?”. Well, it rhymes with Bensonhurst, the neighborhood in Brooklyn of my infancy and childhood. (I was born in a hospital that is technically in Boro Park. Said birth was nine days before (and the bris was one day before) Rocky Marciano (rising up the heavyweight ranks) beat Joe Louis (sadly, then plummeting in the heavyweight ranks) in the then Madison Square Garden. I do not recall attending this event.) It also reminds me of the song parody by Allan Sherman, an early influence, “Don’t Buy the Liverwurst”.  (“… But that big hunk of liverwurst, Has been there since October First, And today is the Twenty-Third of May, So when you go to the delicatessen store, Don’t buy the liverwurst, Don’t buy the liverwurst, Don’t buy the liverwurst. …”)