“I’m really not into playing particular roles just because you’re a certain age or have a certain position in life,” says Lois Weiss, an early middle-aged jazz radio station account executive. “I’m an atypical person, and always have been.”

Is she ever!

Rare is the mother—and, one imagines, slightly rarer still the Jewish mother—who’d allow the fruit of her womb, her elder daughter, to listen to heavy metal in the home. Rarer still’s the Jewish mother who’d acquiesce to the fruit of her womb joining a heavy metal band and spending a fortune in local S&M haberdasheries on spiked and studded accessories—especially when the band’s called Bitch.

Rarer still’s the Jewish mom who wouldn’t positively rend her garments with grief and shame on noting that the heavy metal band’s stage show calls for the fruit of her womb to recline on stage with her legs spread wide to allow a long-haired Gentile guitarist from Texas to pretend to violate her with the head of his guitar. Rarest possible is the Jewish mom, who, having somehow survived all of, the foregoing, actually assumes the group’s management, for Pete’s sake.

Real, real rare is Lois Weiss!