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No, seriously, man. You deserve it. But you’d better run it by Ilyka first. See if this is how she or Andrea Harris or Lileks would do it.
Because I can tell you this much: what they wouldn’t do is let a shitstorm of nasty comments directed their way ruin their sunny dispositions. No, really. Just ask them.
Heck yeah. Have fun!
I think I’ll start with Bad News Bears. Which is quite possibly my favorite movie.
Jeff: Throw in a few Guinness here and there and I’m in.
Jeff: Done.
Sounds like you sprung a “fun leak” a while ago. Enjoy your well-deserved hiatus, friend.
Like Hell, son! I came to see the monkey dance, I expect dancing.
Sounds like you sprung a “fun leak†a while ago.
Let’s just say that yesterday’s experience with some of the humans I came into contact with reminded me why Twain wrote The Mysterious Stranger.
Could I recommend Hotel Rwanda? Excellent movie, and just out on DVD. As a parent of young children – I never see them until they appear at Blockbuster.
They weren’t “human”, Jeff. Humans are much more interesting.
“why Twain wrote The Mysterious Stranger.”
And WHitman wrote: “ Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.”
Which is true of most everyone and why interactions with most “humans” can so often prove both disappointing, or grand. Compounded by the Internet, and perhaps even blogging ripping at one’s perspective at times.
Sorry to hear you and your child are ill, hope all feel better, soon.
ps—Does this mean you’re with child? Cuz Drudge might break that … with a link. Later. Feel better.
Damn, you’re up early this morning !?
Jeff, right or wrong, good or bad, fair or not, you’re going to come across people who say your radio show stinks. You can’t let it get you down and you can’t deal with every one of them personally because that will drive you nuts AND obviously take some of the fun out of Internet life.
If you need a break, take it, but honestly I think the timing’s really unfortunate considering the fact you recently asked your readers for help in purchasing a new laptop. A hiatus is probably not going to help your radio numbers increase, either.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to push you into forced blogging, but what you’re considering may feel right because you’re burned out…but it may not BE right in the long run in terms of your desired goals. But then, I don’t know what you’re trying to accomplish with your blog or your radio show.
Later,
bbeck
Jeff,
It’s YOUR blog. Do with it as you choose. Don’t let it run your life (or ruin your life).
That being said, please don’t go Rachel Lucas on us. (“I’m quitting; I’m not; I’m quitting; I’m not.”) Because that was just infuriating.
Enjoy your DVD’s and low-carb meals and watching your son grow up and sunsets (and I guess sunrises today) with your wife. Come back to us refreshed, whenever that may be.
If you need a break, take it, but honestly I think the timing’s really unfortunate considering the fact you recently asked your readers for help in purchasing a new laptop. A hiatus is probably not going to help your radio numbers increase, either.
Well, what can I tell you? I didn’t plan to get burned out right now, it just happened that way. Being congested and rundown and caring for a sick and recently quite mobile snot machine while trying to post here and produce a radio show has meant I haven’t had time to do much else, like sleep or work out or pet my dog.
As for the radio show, feh. I busted my ass to get it on and now Rightalk won’t run it because they’re afraid that – hypothetically – Jesse Lee Peterson may stumble across it and the evil in it might cause something in his head to rupture. Probably not the right venue.
As to all those who contributed to my new computer fund, they’ve been thanked and I genuinely appreciated their help and support. But I can’t let that prevent me from resting if the alternative means going on a homicidal rampage.
Jeff, don’t sweat it. I’m a poor entry-level dupe who gave you a whopping $7 a month or two ago just because your blog lights up my day; as long as you come up with something as good or better than the Martha Stewart letters once you’re back from hiatus, I’ll have gotten my money’s worth. Have fun with the wife and kid!
Jefe,
Enjoy the movies. I just got the special edition of “Stand by Me” for this weekend. I can’t wait…
“Chopper, sic balls!”
Jeff, relax and enjoy the baby! MAKE ANOTHER ONE! They are great and Satch needs a sister..
Just give out a hollar when you are back.
You need any parenting tips, I am so there for you…Rightwingsparkle. MSN or AIM. I got your back buddy.
Well, good luck and enjoy, Jeff. I’m outta here.
Later,
bbeck
The Bad News Bears is everything good about movies. If you want to remember what life was like before the absurdity of political correctness, watch the original. It could never be made in today’s climate.
Jeff, I empathize with the snot machine. I’ve got 2 of them, both overproducing snot even as I type. Take some damn time off if you need to. To hell with the rest of it.
PTH
spam word: (fittingly) “father”
Ooh. Stand By Me. Maybe I’ll watch that one, too.
For what it’s worth, though, I don’t think I’ll be away all that long; what I really hope to accomplish with this little breather is to break the urge to post just because I know people are expecting me to post. Becaust that works fine until you start getting grief for half the things you write. At which point it dawns on you that you’ve lost total control of your life and are on the fast track to becoming that person who lives in a filthy apartment with stacks of old newspapers dating back 10 years stacked to the ceiling, and like, fifteen or so cats.
I’m more of a dog person.
Jeff, as a reader who recently donated to your computer fund, I feel the need to express the following: you don’t owe me shit! What I donated was a bargain compared to the enjoyment I’ve gotten from your site. Post, don’t post, whatever. If you take a break, you’ll be missed, but it is your perogative. You write for you, not for us, and we don’t have a shred of ownership of you or your site. Do what makes you happy, and don’t worry about what we think.
Spam word “united” – We should all be united behind Jeff’s decision, whatever it may be.
Thanks, all.
Preston’s right, by the way. BNB IS everything that’s good about movies. Perfectly captures the time of America’s bicentennial. If you people haven’t seen it, I command you to run out and find it.
Go.
Seriously.
If, instead of blogging, the Other Jeff spent the next weeks writing real fiction that might actually appear in a book, he would be much better off too
You’ll be missed. Just don’t make it a permanent hiatus.
The Bad News Bears. Watch the whole thing.
Incidentally, it’s where, as a 7-year-old, I learned what it meant to have the “hots” for an actress (Tatum O’Neal).
I agree with Wes.
If you happen to go on this rampage I just want to verify you live in northern Denver, not God’s country of a thousand rooftops in the blessed southern region.
As a movie buff you would likely rebel against a TV series on DVD but the wife and I gave in. We are now on the 2nd season of “24”. I know it’s good because I believe that Jack Bower is possibly the baddest man alive and I wish he were real. Kim Bower might be the victim of one of the worst acting jobs ever yet I still groan at her missadventures and stupidity. Good stuff.
Seinfeld on DVD is really a double edged sword. It’s all great but watching several episodes back to back to back tends to erode the humor in so far that the Seinfeld recipie can get repetitive.
I, for one did not care much for Cold Mountain. Wife liked it. I think I had a moment like Elaine in the episode of Seinfeld where she had to go watch The English Patient. Since it was a touching love story I squirmed my way through the thing and got NO loving for my sacrifice. Freeking seven hour movies….
….
By the way, Jeff, The Mysterious Stranger can be found online here. I’m ashamed to say I’ve never read it, along with most the stuff you’ve referenced over the years.
Any other appropriate reading recommendations for an uneducated schmuck like me while you’re away?
You take all the time you need, Jeff.
“I think I’ll start with Bad News Bears. Which is quite possibly my favorite movie.”
BNB is great! I feel the same way about Smokey and the Bandit. It’s nice to hear an undubbed Gleason on the DVD too.
Under an old brass paperweight is my list of things to do today
Go to the bank and the hardware store, put a new lock on the cellar door
I cross ‘em off as I get ‘em done but when the sun is set
There’s still more than a few things left I haven’t got to yet
Go for a walk, say a little prayer
Take a deep breath of mountain air
Put on my glove and play some catch
It’s time that I make time for that
Wade the shore and cast a line
Pick up a long lost friend of mine
Sit on the porch and give my girl a kiss
Start livin’, that’s the next thing on my list
Toby Keith, My List
http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/keith-toby/my-list-14718.html
“O Brother Where Art Thou” The movie, I mean.
Relax. Enjoy.
Spamword: Order.
Well arent you all just nicey-nicer than nice ?
I for one contributed a whopping $8.00 to that new computer fund and I DO expect repayment ! Luckily for you I am ok with taking comedy in trade for my cold cash and am willing to make payment arrangements. So I expect that you’ll be continuing your installments in…. shall we say.. Summer or Fallish of 2005 ? Or when Satchel gets in first grade and you have some free time, or whenever. Until then, Bon Chance.. Its been great !
Oh, by the way dont hold yourself responsible for declining readership numbers.. It was pretty well established by a certain blogging friend of yours that I, Alpha Baboon, am the sole reason for the loss of your previously stellar cast of world class commenters.. because of my lengthy, rambling, pointless and consistently unfunny comments… For that you have my apologies.. but if its any consolation, know that youve inspired and instructed at least one will-be writer through your examples. h/t to you…
—Baboon Savant
scratch that.. Make that Jake in Seattle
p.s dont think of roaching out on this payment arrangement.. I’ll have the Repo Men at your door wheeling that laptop out faster than Renta-Center would..
I can hardly contain the giddy regarding the return of a fresh and eager Goldstein. No sarcasm implied.
Read you soon, Jeff!
hmmm .. Is it just coincidence that you used this description ? I’m not a big believer in random chance.. And theres that new guy.. kinda looks Jewish … kinda like a Jewish Serpico.. that just moved in next door… Admit it ! Youre not fooling anyone ! Youre my neighbor and youre using fiber optic spying devices to watch me, arent you ?!!! Youre trying to steal my identity through my trash and my cats ! But I fooled you.. Heh.. I keep them all locked inside with me, all the time.. You have revealed yourself … Muhahahahaha
Turing word: hes
As in: The new guy next door doesnt look much like Charleton Heston, though Moses was Jewish.
Okay, I’ll stop being a lurker on this one.
Jeff, don’t let the bastards get you down.
Random commentors: all this shit about Jeff and Bill being thin-skinned is a bunch of fucking bullshit. I’ve made snarky comments to both of them from time to time and guess what? If you don’t write five comments telling them they fuck baby heads, then they won’t reply with one or two “fuck offs”. (That’s the approx ratio it seems.) That’s not thin-skinned, or playing the victim, that’s simply telling you to “fuck off”.
To the principals involved; I haven’t heard one of these radio shows yet and only did because the best teaser in the world is “my God, what a trainwreck, don’t look”. Just never been a big one for the format honestly. But, that said, I was surprised that it was funny. It’s hard enough being funny in print when you have all the time in the world to get it right.
That’s a worthy endeavor, methinks. Your readership will be here when you come back, and you’re funnier when you’re posting for yourself, anyway (well, you’re funny all the time, it’s just there’s a different tone in some posts – like more spontaneous ingenuity and I suspect those are the self-inspired, as opposed to “holy shit it’s been three hours since I wrote anything”-inspired posts. But what do I know.)
Have fun with spring and hope you’re feeling much, much better soon!
Turing word: “post” as in: “Even though I know I’ll be checking in for awhile at a frightening pavlovian pace to see if there are any new posts on PW, a hiatus to restore Jeff’s sanity is a wise, wise move.”
Jeff,
I’ve been coming here multiple times a day for 4 months now. It’s been great. Where else could I be entertained with grammar jokes and word play, Richard Brautigan re-envisioned, Talking to 80’s music, and Psychedelic Aquatic Mammals. I’ll be damned if this site doesn’t seem made for me and my sense of humor.
Thank you… thank you… thank you! For taking your time and energy and sharing your self with us. Rest up… relax… enjoy your life. I hope to see your triumphant return soon.
As soon as writing this stuff becomes work, you know it’s time to take a break. Because if it is work, it’s a really bad job since it doesn’t pay jack.
You deserve the break.
Watch BNB.
Follow that by ‘channelling’ Walter Matthau while having a couple of beers with your neighbor.
That’ll cheer you up.
Oh, yeah. Got a favor to ask you:
Would you mind being the offsite storage for my ‘backup’ copy of Shakes the Clown DVD?
Christ. Not this shit again.
The monkey/armadillo hasn’t danced in weeks.
Can you blog-types coordinate amongst yourselves on these hiatuses? Cause Lileks has been making noises about “breaks” for “real life”, Allah is history, Iowahawk hasn’t posted in a while, and now Goldstein pulling a long face because “mean people suck”, etcetera.
And I require you people to make with the free funny. Multiple times a day. Gratis. Did I mention on a cost-free basis to me? Yeah.
Jesus. Look, the beatings are gonna continue until morale improves so let’s see a sunnier disposition. Mmm-kay?
What, you want to renegotiate your contract already?
Have fun, & write if you get work!
(Then I scroll down to my Turing word – income. Really.)
VanHelsing was a fairly entertaining cartoon-ish romp of a movie. Vampires, werewolves, Frankenstein’s monster, and a guest appearance by Dr. Jeckyl/Mr. Hyde.
All that, plus it stars Kate Beckinsale!
If that doesn’t cheer you up, you should quit.
Jeff,
That contribution thing from up there at the top of the thread is bullshit, at least from my side of the aisle. I contributed for the entertainment “already received”, not to get an indentured servant. I hope that a couple of weeks gets you back on your feet. If not, have a good life and write a book. I believe you have a best seller in you. Even if a couple of weeks rest does get you back on your writing feet, I’d still like to see you write a book. Well,,,,,,,,, as long as it’s not a romance novel.
Thanks for the entertainment and the laughs.
Best Wishes and Good Luck,
Lloyd
maybe watch something with shannon elizabeth’s nipples, eh?
spamword: feel. one can dream
Try to check out “the Ladykillers” – the original with Alec Guinness/Peter Sellers, not the execrable Cohn brothers remake.
Have a good rest.
Fred, I just saw a bumper sticker today that said that and a bit more. I thought it was funny so I will share.
Mean people suck.
Nice people lick.
Everyone is welcome at my site although I’m not funny or naughty, but I will allow yall to be..
Someone needs to save me from these freakin liberals.
Ahem… you know, it’s not that bad. At least I don’t have to worry about mice. And I always have something nearby to read while sitting on the toilet.
Dude, take care of yourself. You’ll be missed – but hell, I’ve overcome my withdrawal from Martha Stewart’s Most Lesbotastic Penal Adventure Ever… and I figure you’ll be back blogging long before she returns to the slammer.
Let’s just say that yesterday’s experience with some of the humans I came into contact with…
You mean the ones who either missed, or criminally disregarded, the disclaimer right at the front of the frickin’ show?
JWebb, Those old Alec Guiness movies are favorites of mine. Seen the Purple Hill Gang?
Sparkle:
Everyone is welcome at my site although I’m not funny or naughty, but I will allow yall to be
Will there be snacks? Just asking.
Jeff, I could do some Unitarian jokes to perk you up?
Robin, there are unitarian jokes?
gail, i thought that was all unitarians. ;D
Sure, Gail.
I give you Unitarian jihad.
oh, oh, i just remembered one.
What do you get when you cross a unitarian with a mormon?
someone that knocks on your door for no apparent reason.
my spam word is faith. i’m going to hell aren’t i?
It’s about damn time someone else admitted to the Bad News Bears being one of their favorite movies.
Walter Matthau kills me in that flick.
Dammit, Goldstein, if you sold “Protein Wisdom” t-shirts with “Chico’s Bail Bonds” on the back I’d buy one.
In fact, Jeff, just about anything from Ealing Studios is worth your time. (Gail-Purple Hill Gang – yes!)
If life were fair Goldstein would be blogging and Hugh Hewitt would be enjoying a quite life of agreement with Grover Nordquist.
Really though Jeff, have fun, and enjoy your family and other activities… We’ll be here.
You just do what you gotta do, Jeff. We’ll be waiting. Enjoy it!
And speaking of The Mysterious Stranger, a bit of it is included in this fine little movie The Adventures of Mark Twain by Will Vinton, of all people (California Raisins for those of a certain age, M&Ms commercials for the younger set.) Definitely a cut above, and great for your vacation.
Turing word: “time”. As in “time to call it a day.”
RWS: thank you for the kind invitation. You’re not gonna turn into another blogtease and start kevetching about all the god-awful nastiness in our cruel, cruel world and then up and cut off the funny on me, are you?
Robin: I may not sleep tonight after reading that horrifying declaration of Unitarian Jihad! Where’s the outrage?! What is our government doing to protect us?
Please promise to come back in time to reprise your live blog at the next Republican convention when Ms Rice is nominated.
The word below is “required”—okay, it’s not just a polite request, you’re required to be back for live blogging the convention.
Auvoir.
Jeff, could you give us a new thread every day or so? That we could fill it up with loving and supportive sentiments. Titled, like, “Saturday 16 April,” e.g.
Turing word “normal.” Somebody tell me if you get an “abnormal”; I want to know if this was a legitimate diagnosis.
Play lots with baby Satch.
That does it.. I’m converting..
Now that this blog is toast, at least for a little while, where’s everyone gonna hang out?
Enjoy a well deserved respite. Eat, drink and be mary!
I vote to move the party to Oliver W’s place .. A sort of live-in right wing presence…
Good for you, Jeff.
Baboon, don’t you dare go visit Willis while my blog is available for partying at all hours and in all states of undress and insobriety.
Jeff, do whatever you think is necessary (other than the shooting rampage, those are SO last year). You’ve given us the funny for a couple of years, and anything else you give us is gravy. I do think you should keep the site active, just so Alpha and the rest have a place to hang their hats. Maybe you could get a guest host to run the show while you recharge your batteries. Give Hundredpercenter a call, maybe he’ll do it for you.
spambuster word: normal. This is the first time I’ve EVER associated that word with PW.
Have a good time! A suggestion for some Colorado fun, if I may? You could make an anatomically-correct snowman!
Dig it Cats and Kittens.. I had a cool buzz on until I checked in at PW today..What is this shit ? This whole “Jeff is leaving” scene is so not BEAT.. Its like some of that weird shit that Burroughs is always spouting out..So I guess its time for me and Neal to hit the road too.. maybe down Mexico way..The BEAT decade is over.. It wont be long til those stinking long hair Hippies get here. Look us up if you come down.. Your all welcome to stay at my pad on the beach. Adios Amigos !
–Jack Kerouac
p.s. Neal says ‘bye’too. says he cant wait to get down there and count him some railroad ties..
Good ! I’m glad he’s burnt out ! Good riddance ! Now maybe we Faux Native Americans can get the respect that we so rightfully deserve..We Faux Natives were here far before you Anglos came to steal our Faux Ancestral Lands.. A few more days of his incessant yapping and comparing me to Billy Jack and the U of Colorado might have done something really stupid like check my actual tribal affiliations or the details of my cirriculum vitae. Whewww.. So the Jooo’s outta here.. Thats a load off my mind..
— Ward Churchill, K6, HS, BA, MA, Phd, Warrior, Chief, Shaman
Dept Head – Faux American Indian Studies, U of C
Allah be praised ! Allah has brought great preasure upon Jeff the Dhimmi and caused his mind to snap like a twig from a date palm. Allahu Akbar !
But on the other hand I must say of Jeff.. Jew or no Jew, the brother done me right.. He killed me off months ago as a martyr in the service of Allah. Now I spend my days partying with my 72 dark-eyed beauty virgin (or were) wives. Think Penelope Cruz x 72 with no desire other than to please me anytime, anyway, anyhow.. I’m talking even 3somes..4somes..Handcuffs, jello, donkey shows.. anything goes.. Allahu Akbar ! Heaven Rocks ! Thanks my Jewish brother !
Ma’assalama,
–Farouk (previously of a bunker in Fallujah)
Need me to take over for a while Jeff? I can bring the weird if that’s what it takes. For size.
It’ll make for an interesting experiment in just how many of your readers I can drive away.
Nearly forgot: as long as you’re watching the Bad News Bears, you couldn’t go wrong by picking up The Last Starfighter.
Gotta agree on the BNB thing. Great, great flick. Been remade, though. Linklater directed it and should be released this summer. Trailers here Doesn’t look awful, but can’t say it nails the slacker cool of the original. I like Thorton, but he’s no Mathau. No one is. (why doesn’t he get the ‘recollection’ props nowadays he deserves?)
Yeah. At least it’s Linklater, who will do his best to keep it from devolving into pap, you’d think. Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Waking Dreams, and Tape are all brilliant films in their own right.
Agree about the trailer; looks like Billy Bob is playing the coach more Bad Santa-ish than Mattheau, whose genius decision was to make Buttermaker completely self-satisfied. Don’t like the “girling” up of Amanda (the pigtails), either. And Timmy Lupus needs blonde hair.
If anything, I’m hoping this will be enjoyable while introducing people to the original—one of the most criminally underrated movies of all time and one of the 10 best in a decade considered by many to be the pinnacle of American movie making.
Enjoy your rest, Jeff. Let us know how it goes; we’ll be checking in regular-like.
You don’t owe any of us anything, and your family is more important than any of your online friends, associates, fans, detractors, etc.
(Turing: getting. As in, I suppose, don’t neglect the most powerful regenerative activity around.)
Blackjack, cybersnacks will abound!
Not to be a tease, but I do have a surprise to day I have been promising.
Then I guess I’d have something to blog about.
Turing = turn, as in Turn off that radio show and make with the free online ice cream!