Why, right here, of course! But only for a moment — and only to wish you all a happy and safe New Year!
When you next hear from me, I should have the first draft of a novel(la) done, the subject of which is either intentionalism and the manipulation of interpretation brought about by its denial or dismissal as the de facto state of being for speech acts; or else Jesus tacos.
Depends on who you ask.
Wish me luck!
Comment by maggie katzen on 12/31 @ 1:55 pm #
Good Luck! and Happy New Year!
Comment by Pablo on 12/31 @ 2:04 pm #
Work some Pico de Judas in there and I’ll take 3! Happy Gnu Year!
Comment by nathan on 12/31 @ 2:05 pm #
Good Luck, Jeff! Best wishes for the New Year. May you find success in 2009 doing what you so obviously love. And thanks again for a great year at PW.
Comment by Darleen on 12/31 @ 2:09 pm #
Happy New Year, boss!!
Woohoo, you’re writing! Awesome, best of luck and I so look forward to crossing your palm with filthy lucre for the privilege of reading it.
Comment by Bob Reed on 12/31 @ 2:10 pm #
Jesus tacos? You’re writing a cookbook? Well, I can’t deny that it made folks like Emeril and Racheal Ray a ton of cash!
Seriously though, Happy New Year! Many happy returns to you and yours. Best of luck in all you undertake in the new year.
And a hearty Happy New Year! to all the PWers too
Comment by Sdferr on 12/31 @ 2:15 pm #
Glad to wish you good luck, so, mazel tov, bonne chance, viel glück, and right along with ‘em Happy New Year!
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 12/31 @ 2:19 pm #
Happy New Year, Jeff. That is fantastic about the novel(a). Good luck! I can’t wait to read it.
And Happy New Year to all you other knuckleheads in this here joint. Thanks for all the knowledge and the laughs. A great combination if ever there was one.
Comment by The Sanity Inspector on 12/31 @ 2:19 pm #
Good luck, you.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 12/31 @ 2:19 pm #
HNY, J!
(I’m saving up spare letters for my book, should I choose to write one)
Comment by thor on 12/31 @ 2:21 pm #
The kid eats a full plate of Celine and the next day he’s shitting out novels. Bukowski, Palahnuik, Ellis, again and again the cycle continues.
It better have an outlaw edge, Swan, or I’ll request a refund from Amazon.
Comment by SarahW on 12/31 @ 2:30 pm #
Black eyed peas are supposed to be good for advances.
Comment by geoffb on 12/31 @ 2:31 pm #
Best wishes and a Happy New Year to you.
From one who works so others can PARTY!
Comment by SarahW on 12/31 @ 2:37 pm #
Oh, and baybee come back.
(link is to my pick for PW theme song of 2008)
Comment by Ira on 12/31 @ 2:43 pm #
Will you be writing mostly at your desk or on the symbian? Just innocently wondering.
Comment by Mossberg500 on 12/31 @ 3:06 pm #
Happy New Year, Jeff, and to all PWers!
Comment by TaiChiWawa on 12/31 @ 3:11 pm #
Chapter 1
Taco de Facto was for all intents and purposes the ethnic food king of Miami — at least that is what I was led to believe…
Comment by Ana on 12/31 @ 3:30 pm #
And here I’d thought you’d gone to Israel to fuck up Hamas.
It could happen.
HE HAS NINJA SKILLZ!
Comment by Matt on 12/31 @ 3:33 pm #
Happy New Year, Jeff.
And, in case you missed it, Congratulations.
Comment by Jeff G. on 12/31 @ 3:55 pm #
Thanks, Matt, but the weblog awards are a cruel and very foul besoiling of the soul. I want no part of them — or of anything that places Balloon Juice in the running for best of anything, other than douchebaggery.
Ggah. Please, make no more mention of those things. At the end of each year, they drive me into a hiatus.
Comment by BobM. on 12/31 @ 4:00 pm #
I have to ask: what are Jesus tacos?
Comment by Lt. York on 12/31 @ 4:01 pm #
Yikes…ok, no [s]soup[/s] vote for YOU!
Seriously, Happy New Year to all.
Comment by Jeff G. on 12/31 @ 4:07 pm #
By the way, PJM is going to call me back about my “OUTLAW Minute” show idea 3 weeks ago. I can’t wait!
Oh. And the answer is sybian.
Comment by zoy clem on 12/31 @ 4:07 pm #
Jeff,
Happy New Year and best of luck with the novel. Thanks for the mention earlier in the year. The guys at our site really got a kick out it. This is still my favorite site for thoughtful writing so I hope you decide to stay with it even after your novel takes off. Cheers!
Comment by Jeff G. on 12/31 @ 4:11 pm #
But enough. I have to re-read a bunch of novellas to get me into the right frame of mind. Then, I hope to bang out the draft in a couple weeks.
Because I’m both lazy and impatient, I’ll self-publish. You know, move outside the system, OUTLAW style.
Then I can pass on the savings to all of you — who most assuredly will be thanked in the acknowledgments. Not by name, of course. That could get unwieldy. But with something like, “and last, I’d like to thank myself for creating protein wisdom, a site that allows many people to come by and wait for me to write things. So thank you, Jeff! You fucking ROCK!”
Comment by thor on 12/31 @ 4:17 pm #
OK, so you need a blurb.
Goldstein’s Hiatus is an awe inspiring manifesto of grief and reason. Idyllic compassion reveals itself within the author’s self-observed conflicts of his own “Goldsteinian” principles. His distinctive voice, alas, is found at the impact of self-discovery, “trolls? But are they trolls if I like reading them?” The compelling message board drama-based first work of Goldstein is an indelible mark forged from the angst of unprecedented drama.
Don’t say I never contributed nothin’ since you this blurb comes free of charge.
Comment by thor on 12/31 @ 4:18 pm #
youComment by Jeff G. on 12/31 @ 4:19 pm #
Oh. And thanks to all who sent their well-wishes. I’ve had family in town for the last week, and next week my son turns 5, so we’ve been getting his party together, so forgive me for not getting back to you personally. I really am appreciative.
Special thanks go out to Carin for her thoughtful card, JD for the phone message, Thor for the books, and Brett for cabbage.
2009 is year of the OUTLAW. Bedeck yourselves in leather and denim and get ready to ride.
Comment by MAJ (P) John on 12/31 @ 4:22 pm #
I’ll have to skip the leather and denim, but I can pull a mean convoy escort…
Comment by thor on 12/31 @ 4:23 pm #
message board
drama-basedComment by thor on 12/31 @ 4:25 pm #
Books? Never any books. I hate you and you hate me. Stick to the script, damnit!
Comment by Mossberg500 on 12/31 @ 4:27 pm #
Has anyone heard from happyfeet?
Comment by ushie on 12/31 @ 4:40 pm #
“Oh. And the answer is sybian.”
Is this the alternate spelling of lesbian? I’m really looking forward to your book, then!
Comment by Blitz on 12/31 @ 4:53 pm #
Good luck Jeff, and Happy New Year to everyone here. All the best to you and yours in the coming year! (yes, even YOU Thor, you jerk)
Comment by Lost My Cookies on 12/31 @ 5:28 pm #
Merry New Year.
I’m off to embarrass myself in front of people who know what I look like instead of, you know, the usual.
Take it easy in the new year Jeff, but take it.
Comment by T&T on 12/31 @ 6:10 pm #
Jeff,
Happy new year, guy! I’m looking forward to reading your work. Best wishes for it all.
Oh, and happy birthday to [your son]. 5 already? It doesn’t seem possible.
T&T
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 12/31 @ 6:26 pm #
Looking forward to reading it, Jeff!
Comment by dre on 12/31 @ 7:28 pm #
“or else Jesus tacos. ”
A Soylent Green Manifesto.
Comment by dicentra on 12/31 @ 7:33 pm #
Depends on who you ask.
<pedant>whom! whom!</pedant>
Comment by Carin on 12/31 @ 7:36 pm #
Yea! I had this horrible thought the other day that I’d copied the wrong address AGAIN.
Comment by Jeff G. on 12/31 @ 7:38 pm #
I was writing colloquially, pedant.
Comment by Carin on 12/31 @ 7:40 pm #
Then I can pass on the savings to all of you  who most assuredly will be thanked in the acknowledgments. Not by name, of course. That could get unwieldy. But with something like, “and last, I’d like to thank myself for creating protein wisdom, a site that allows many people to come by and wait for me to write things. So thank you, Jeff!
I think many of us could overlook your failure to acknowledge us, as long as you said something pithy regarding thorazine being an asshole.
Comment by Swen Swenson on 12/31 @ 7:55 pm #
Jesus tacos? is this the Spanglish edition of the Jeffrey Dahmer cookbook?
Comment by Swen Swenson on 12/31 @ 8:02 pm #
What can I say? Ride’m c’boy!
Comment by Swen Swenson on 12/31 @ 8:16 pm #
Think of it as a mechanical bull for girls..
Comment by guinsPen on 12/31 @ 9:06 pm #
Godspeed, Jack !
Comment by Seth Williams on 12/31 @ 10:10 pm #
Luck.
Should be good either way: Jesus tacos or that wordy stuff.
Comment by MAJ (P) John on 12/31 @ 10:19 pm #
Indeed – I hope Happyfeet is having a better time. He came through for me when I wasn’t having so fun atime…wish I could do the same for him.
Comment by Makewi on 1/1 @ 2:57 am #
Happy New Year all!
Comment by JHoward on 1/1 @ 6:45 am #
Actually, the kid eats a full plate of Celine and the next day he’s shitting out Yanni. That’s a warning.
Comment by B Moe on 1/1 @ 7:38 am #
The kid eats a full plate of Celine and the next day he’s shitting out novels.Bukowski, Palahnuik, Ellis, again and again the cycle continues.
There is at least one thing we can agree on.
Comment by SDN on 1/1 @ 8:35 am #
Happy New Year, Jeff.
BTW, was that you driving the car full of hookers and Rumpelminze, with a scaly hood ornament pole dancing on the antenna, that went by my house last night?
Comment by serr8d on 1/1 @ 8:54 am #
HN-2009-Y Jeff, and best of luck with the novella.
“Never get out of bed before noon†-Bukowski’s advice, that I should’ve followed today.
Comment by MarkD on 1/1 @ 9:03 am #
Happy New Year. Does the book have any hot chicks? Armadillos? Ninjas? Buried treasure? Or is it one of those books, the kind that never make it to the big screen? Deathless prose, the kind nothing can kill, the stuff that makes you want to bleach your eyeballs?
Just asking. I’ll read it anyway, just to see if it has the secret of the armadillo death touch hidden on page 1239 in the annotated bibliography.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 1/1 @ 9:14 am #
Happy Ne’erday, everyone.
Comment by guinsPen on 1/1 @ 9:16 am #
<Oh, and baybee come back
MayBee, too.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 1/1 @ 10:47 am #
repost:
Just got an e-mail from Matt the Marine, he had an explosive New Year celebration involving a couple EOD guys, 70 gallons of diesel and many many explosives.
Film at 11. (I hope)
Comment by N. O'Brain on 1/1 @ 10:50 am #
Oh, and a mushroom cloud.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 1/1 @ 1:18 pm #
Luck.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 1/1 @ 1:25 pm #
#56:
And much luck to Matt.
My nephew Nathan the Marine will find out where he’s going this year.
Comment by thorine on 1/2 @ 1:00 pm #
The Goncourt was out-right stolen from Celine for his first work . He lobbied for it. Every one thought it was his. I’ve always thought France’s literary elite shunning his first two works left a massive scar on his ego, and this was a man who would have been better served with less scars not more. The reason the elitny stole his due was they didn’t like his street argot stylings, well, that and all the else. I think this is key for you to understand since you no doubt will never take the time to read the modernist greats such as Celine, too busy bit-torrenting Yanni’s latest no doubt.
The mere mention of Celine’s name to certain feminist professors of the humanities risks incurring one’s name being dropped during an anonymous call to the campus security’s rape hotline. Celine’s never been liked by the PC crowd. He wasn’t liked by the PC crowd before there was a PC crowd. You either enjoy him or wish him to be eternally drop-kicked in the balls in a fiery afterlife.