…to Maggie and RTO for the Croupier birthday DVD. I’m a big fan of Clive Owen, not the least because he’s so moody. Seriously. The dude drips angst like a Robert Smith eyeliner catastrophe.
Oh. And for those of you interested, yes, the calcified portion of one of my ribs continues to poke from my back, a misplaced demon horn, an angry Yahweh’s dradel tip of bone pain. So I’m still tending to that.
In the mean time, though, I’m thinking happy thoughts. Like, for instance, how lucky I am to have health care — making Hillary Clinton’s latest promise to rob Americans of their free will by way of enforced state action not really my problem. Because here’s the thing: if Americans want to leave me with the choice, come November, of choosing between a nannystatist robber baron with a vindictive streak and a convoluted notion of how to effectively fight the war against Islamic fanaticism on all fronts, and, you know, Hillary freakin’ Clinton…well, I’ll just take a pass, thanks.
That way, I can still look at myself in the mirror, even if (as is increasingly likely) the government intercedes and demands that all mirrors be equally distorted, so that no one is made to feel less comely than his neighbor.
Self esteem, you see. For the common weal.
(h/t Texas Rainmaker)
You don’t even mention his name. That’s classy. But I think I detect a bit of concern in the media today that the odious senile codger ain’t gonna be all they’ve made him out to be come Tuesday, so I would a lot welcome a bit more from you on this subject.
Hillary freakin’ Clinton
I thought her maiden name was Rodham…
Wait, can we say “maiden” anymore? What’s the PC euphamism? I haven’t been on campus for a while.
Also I don’t know why people hardly ever recount this stuff. This list here is all you really need to know I think to make an informed decision. That and McCain is sticky all over with smegma.
I wouldn’t touch him with a 10-foot croupier.
Better put some ice on that.
well, of course not Dan because that would be too far away. ;D
Jeff, you say “moody” I say “pretty”. that was on of those movies that RTO was all, “why are we watching this?” and I was like, “um, I read a review of it when it came out and it looked interesting, I can’t remember why, but filed it away in my brain to watch some time.” and we both liked it after all. that doesn’t always happen with those.
#3 happyfeet
Ooh! Thanks for that list. A handy-dandy compendium of the GOP’s surrender monkeys, whose first instinct is to cut an unfavorable deal with the Democrats, even when they are in the majority.
I see my own Representative is there: the always tan-and-fit stuffed shirt Jerry Lewis. He has what is probably the GOP’s safest seat in the California Congressional delegation, yet he panders to the opposition shamelessly. Gah! The man hasn’t had a Republican primary challeger in years. It’s embarassing.
That’s a neat little heist movie, it plays on IFC and I’ve caught it a couple times.
Also Jeff just from the point of view of your thing that you do I don’t see how having a nannystatist exemplar in the White House wouldn’t be really a lot better for show and tell purposes than Hillary Freaking Clinton. Sometimes the only way out is through and Hillary will make us bow down to all kinds of things and also Madeleine Albright will be involved but we already know that. Let Smegma Boy be Smegma Boy and I think your brilliance will be recognized more better cause you’ve warned and warned but they didn’t listen. Them. Stupid non-listening people. I’m really not sure why they shouldn’t get what they’re asking for.
Mmmm… Clive Owen!
Jeff:
I’ve been contacted by the Clinton campaign to be the model for their new lines of “Distorto-Mirrors.” By normalizing my distorted body, mind, and spirit, they promise to make all other reflections truly–but equally–bent.
No need for accolades, just doin’ my part.
Hey, Lookit! Dan is pimping out Karl for a (potentially) paying gig!
Evidently I don’t have the chops.
But no worries. I’m a giver!
Wow. Betrayal.
More like a bit of uncomfortable familiarity, I’d say.
Ah, fuck it. Back to my hidey hole. You guys have it covered.
Maybe you should start calling him “Broke-Dick” McCain and see if Dan likes you any better…
Was Hillary using a cigarette holder and wearing a monocle when she said this?
Jeff, come back from the hidey-hole — we love you, man!
I’m staying here until Jeff kicks me out.
Unless leaving would get him out of the hidey-hole, in which case I’m so out of here.
well…theres no point in me bein here if no Jeffie G.
i guess ill get back to my griefer internship in second life.
:(
farewell cruel blogverse.
JG, the cure for what ails ya: Alex Kingston’s bare “croupiers” and the DVD pause button. Enjoy.
But I just met you.
oh. That was for nishi.
Sticking out…out(?) of your back? Sorry, but I am a literal person and actually used to, I said used to, believe everything…no more, SO: what is sticking out of your back and why can’t somebody cut it off?
You know what would be a great movie? Cast Gerard Butler and Clive Owen in a film about….umm… it wouldn’t really need a plot.
It’s not that you don’t have the chops, Jeff. It’s that you don’t have the ambition or motivation or whatever the fuck it is you don’t have that keeps you from spilling your brain into the intertubes in any sort of regular fashion.
People would pimp you if you were whoring. But you can’t collect on “Try your luck with that surly bitch in the corner…if she’s still there.”
You got some junk you wanna sell?
Maybe it’s just that you’d make a better king than king’s councilor. It’s funny but I always got the distinct impression that Karl and Dan try to regularly bring the best content they can in homage. Y’know, out of a genuine desire to keep the readers coming for when you return. But I’ve been wrong before. Maybe they’re just cynical opportunists.
That’s cool. I’ll keep coming back here every single day and skimming over Dan, Darleen, CraigC, TSI, Karl, et al’s posts hoping to find at least one authored by you. I’ll keep telling anyone that proffers a political opinion that they need to check out this fucking brilliant blogger, Jeff. And I’ll keep telling them that yes, they should keep reading the blog because Jeff will be back.
It’s not surly I don’t think. It’s more like high impact guerrilla blogging. It’s the future.
That’s been my intent — and I think Dan’s also, at least as far as PW is concerned.
Outside PW, I think Dan is scheming to rule all of Metropolis, but let’s keep that among ourselves.
Well, that was uncomfortable.
For the record, you’ve been doing a bang up job, Karl, blogging these races like no other. All props are well deserved.
Dan Collins, OTOH, well…I think he’s stockpiling Kryptonite.
“Comment by Jeff G. on 2/4 @ 2:08 pm #
Ah, fuck it. Back to my hidey hole.”
You got a Bat Cave?
Incidentally, I’ve been reading Jonah’s Liberal Fascism, and I think, at least in its early stages, it mirrors much of what I’ve written here over the past 6 years (albeit not with the kind of regularity that bespeaks ambition or whatnot).
Which means soon I’m going to have to pore over SEK’s critique / attack on the book, because it is clear in the early pages that Goldberg goes out of his way to separate today’s progressives from Nazis — instead intending only to show the common philosophical trajectories that create moments of important (and telling) overlap between the socialist, syndicalist, Romantic (by way of Rousseau) groundings of fascism (and Fascism), and American Progressivism that continues to this day.
In short, it is an historical study of philosophical and ideological lineages and (if you will) “root causes” for the kind of governance being pushed by today’s statist progressives — right down to Sorelian myth-making, which (depending on your point of view) is either cynical manipulation of the masses, or else pragmatism in the service of the state good.
Hell, there’s even a couple of mentions of how classical liberalism is diametrically opposed to what today we call “liberal” — an observation that will come as no surprise to regular readers here.
I recommend the book (thus far), and I hope to take on SEK’s criticisms when I’m feeling a bit more up to the task.
That is, if I can find the thing.
The man has a horn in his back, so I understand his mood, even if I would like him back now.
In fact, he may be missing a big opportunity. If he did some cranky-blogging, he might convert some McCain voters. Cranky is in for 2008.
I found a bunch of them at the bookstore on Ventura this weekend but they wanted $37 for it and I already knew better from seeing the Amazon ads. Also there were lots of footnotes and I kind of thought who do I think I would be kidding.
Apropos of nothing except Jeff’s general geographic location, this is silly:
Boulder City Council considering weekend construction ban
Honestly, whatever it takes to get Jeff back in time to cover the conventions. His work in ’04 was stupendious.
Honestly, whatever it takes to get Jeff back in time to cover the conventions. His work in ‘04 was stupendious.
He can come back any time, right? I mean, he left us.
I feel like I’m watching the parent get mad at the babysitters, because the babysitters are having too much fun with the kids. Come home, Daddy Jeff, and be the fun Daddy again! (or something)
has anyone considered that maybe Dan had some ulterior motive? I mean, I’ve heard rumors about Rachel Marsden and I wouldn’t want anyone I cared about involved with her. ;D
Maggie – You have a point there. Not quite in the Liz league, but not too shabby. ;-)
Oh, yeah! She’s the “Politics with a Cleavage” girl, right?
I think we ought to send Jeff to CPAC.
Jeff @ CPAC would be fucking brilliant. Almost as much fun as Jeff on the floor of a Dem convention when Hill/Bill and Barry O’ have to fight it out for the nomination on the floor. My bet? Obama, by virtue of a tapout from a rear naked choke.
How are things on the home front, JD? Coping?
On the other hand, he’s doing an film adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s Phillip Marlowe novella “Trouble is My Business” moody enough for you?
Coping is a good word. Celebrating the Patriots loss is another ;-) We are getting by. We are doing great. The better half is healthy and happy as can be hoped for for being 6-8 weeks shy of giving birth and living in a hotel room. We were able to get a little nicer hotel room at a hotel that has a restaurant under the same roof, which has made things a bit easier. All of the blowers, dehumidifiers and heaters are gone, and we are doing final demo tomorrow on the subflooring. Picking out tile, meeting with trim carpenters for the built ins, picking out colors, etc… ugh. But it is going according to plan and we are being treated fairly by our insurer. It helps that I handled these kinds of losses in the past, and know what to expect. I am going to general out the repairs, and we are coordinating quotes from all of the subs to minimize the costs, while maintaining quality. Some of our cost savings will go to some of the things on the better half’s wish list.
Glad to hear it, man. When I was a kid, our house burned down. We were 7 of us in a 3 bedroom with a living/dining room and small kitchen. Everyone got chicken pox except Mom and me, including Dad. That pretty much sucked.
But we survived.
You see, we do not have it so bad. We are fortunate. If everything works out with the scheduling of the contractors, and payment from the insurance company, we could possibly be back in there in 3-4 weeks, and just live in a constant state of construction for a while.
That’s kind of like in Poltergeist II except their house was attacked by demonic spirits and then got sucked through like a rift into hell or something. They had to kind of just pretend they all survived but really the cast and crew dropped like flies after.
They were liberals though. You could tell cause the dad smoked pot.
I certainly hope we have no poltergeists.
Me too. Bad business.
Jeff…come back….please?!?! Karl and Dan are doing a great job but your comment (#33) had me confused, intellectually stimulated and then confused some more. It’s usually research for me after you either post or comment. I live for that. I’m just a rapidly aging man of average intellect and reading your stuff is amazing. Don’t feel too bad for me, though. I have a fucking hot wife and two beautiful, wonderful kids that adore me as much as I adore them. Anyhow, just my way of saying that you are the best and I look forward to more of your posting. MUCH more of your posting.
Lucky you with perfect health benefits. It is a pressing issue but being handled by all the wrong people. The candidates are taking advantage of these weaknesses to make themselves all election-worthy.
Ohnoes JD.
They’re here.
Oh. And for those of you interested, yes, the calcified portion of one of my ribs continues to poke from my back, a misplaced demon horn, an angry Yahweh’s dradel tip of bone pain. So I’m still tending to that.
I thought the, um, ‘chosen people’ only had those on their heads. Y’know, that statue of Moses and all….
Hahahaha!
OK, ban me… OK, get better…
The better half is healthy and happy as can be hoped for for being 6-8 weeks shy of giving birth and living in a hotel room. We were able to get a little nicer hotel room at a hotel that has a restaurant under the same roof, which has made things a bit easier. All of the blowers, dehumidifiers and heaters are gone, and we are doing final demo tomorrow on the subflooring. Picking out tile, meeting with trim carpenters for the built ins, picking out colors, etc… ugh.
I liked the original version of this movie, the one with Cary Grant. The one with Ice-T was annoying.
Seriously, JD, how did I miss the horrible news that something happened to your house? Yikes.
how lucky I am to have health care
Doesn’t sound like it, so far. Sounds more like House without House.
MayBee – Just 9 hours of running water out of a frozen water line …
“To the Batcave!”
So you feel that while all the statements are true, they collectively ‘paint’ a false – or ugly – picture?
Oops, comment on wrong thread, nevermind.
Have a speedy recovery.
Thanks for what ever you have in life even it’s good or bad. If you have everything in life please don’t boast it to all. Be thankful!!!
Chicken pox is one hell of a nasty disease, it ruined my flawless skin a couple of years ago.””