yeah i know it’s been a while. 3 days, and eterinty in jefke years. my apologies,
as weird as it sounds, i have been crazy busy at work, and after work i’ve been mostly messing around with the tivo and making dinner and drinking booze and the like, and well, never had the itch to post. and you wouldn’t want me to post without something to say…..would you (har har)
right so it’s friday, and well i don’t have much to say. shocker i know. I have had something of a rough week, in that at work all i have been doing is chasing down errors in some stuff that i tried to help coworker don produce. I say try in that most of the analysis i did before he started building it, ended up being either wrong or it didn’t help much. so we’ve been reduced to looking at all this code for all these calculations that somebody wrote 4 years ago and know body knows how they work… and like all things thus far in my career, it comes back to accounting, which of course, was the reason i stopped studying business and decided to go into philosophy in the first place. cosmic huh.
I am happy to annouce that i’m not as bad as i thought at accounting, er well at least at the principles behind it, i still suck at math. i think i want to go to law school–not sure why, i think i’d like it, and well i want my life ot be like LA law-well i have never watched the show, but it seems like something one would want to model their life around. hmm so lets see, i’ll need 100k for school and 3 years, and well to get in naturally… hmm, maybe i’ll just get a 6 pack of cheap beer tonight instead.
so people all say that tivo changes one’s life, not just their tv habits. by jove they may just be right. it’s crazy. fast forwarding through commercials, having the family guy recorded with out having to schedule it. it’s gold i tells ya.
hmm on the house front: nothing
yep you read right. nothing new, the cold wall is still cold. i have not started any projects that i can’t finish (actually have i ever finished any project?)…no stories about the maestro or the evil neighbors that won’t talk to us. boring, i know.
hmm, oh gay marriage.
i’m getting married to my lover. no no, i joke. i love how this has become a constiutional issue. hmm that seems like a good use of resources. I heard some commentator say “well if people really want gays to be miserable, they’d be encouraging marriage, everyone knows that marriage ruins people’s lives” –amusing. not my experience but amusing. oh fuck it i don’t feel like getting policital.
should i refinance my mortgage? seems like a hassel. but woudl save some money in the short term.
acutally i sorta feel like those pod people or whatever they are called inthe dark crystal when they get their life drained out of them–but not totally drained. zombie-ish. (could not find a good pic to link too)
hmm maybe this is adulthood.
16 responses so far ↓
1 JOhn // Feb 27, 2004 at 2:56 pm
Pull yourself together man…its friday
JH
2 B // Feb 27, 2004 at 5:28 pm
First thing: Was I hallucinating, or did you post something earlier and then quickly remove it, hoping no one had read it?
Second thing: The fact you ended up doing accounting is not cosmic. Accounting is EVERYWHERE, jefke. But don’t fret. Just imagine what crap you’d be doing if you had stayed in philosophy. You wouldn’t have any tivo, I tell you that.
Next: Yes indeed, my friend, you have finished a project in your lifetime. It is entitled: ‘Accomplished and Ethical Nihilism: Gianni Vattimo’s Theory of Post-Modernity and the Possibility of the Ethical.’ Remember what you have learned. Remember that what we are trying to do is “accomplish the radical reworking of modernity.” But we have to do it “without either moving toward irrationality,” or, what sounds much worse, getten thrown into a “casts him back dialectic which he struggles to escape,” forever and hopelessly, I assume. Sounds quite relevant to today’s post, actually.
Lastly: They are called Fizzgigs. I was recently given a copy of ‘The Dark Crystal’ and have been watching 10-15 minute snippets of it every night before going to sleep. I’m taking my time and enjoying the remarkable detail of it. Anyway, last night I watched the scene where the Skeksis suck the life force from the poor Fizzgig. Now THAT is cosmic.
3 jefke // Feb 27, 2004 at 6:02 pm
the pod people are fizzigigs? or is that a specific pod, er person. i dunno. i just didn’t like the gelflings, sissy little beings, though when they make out it is almost like a lesbian scene or something. mmmmmm
4 B // Feb 27, 2004 at 8:41 pm
I haven’t come across the makeout scene yet, but I’ll keep you posted. Maybe what turns you on about gelflings so much is the fact the females have wings?
The fizzgigs are a happy go-lucky and simple people (strongly reminiscent of the peasants in a Bruegal painting). But when the skeksis rose to power, they started hunting them down and enslaving them. They used to suck the life force from gelflings (because their juices produced a greater rejuvination effect) but having wiped almost all of them out, the skeksis were forced to feed on lower life forms. Once their energies have been tapped, the fizzgigs become pod people: ashen grey, withered and puffy-eyed.
5 B // Feb 27, 2004 at 8:42 pm
Oh yeah: and I haven’t forgotten about the censored post either.
6 rcg // Feb 27, 2004 at 10:43 pm
C’mon Jefke, the censored post, the censored post.
Post it in code, and send us the key by e-mail.
If we were to go by the book…
7 Co-Worker Don // Feb 27, 2004 at 11:28 pm
Yes, I too want to hear more about the post that was removed. Maybe it will make an apperance on the jefke.com director’s cut. I guess we’ll have to wait and see!
8 Natty // Feb 28, 2004 at 12:05 pm
Ok, I need to set Brendan straight here. The pod people are the little people who raised the girl gelfling (Kira or something). Fizzgig is here little furball pet, with all the teeth. It’s just this little ball of fur with a big mouth. I don’t know if the pod people get are renamed once their life force has been sucked away or if they are just life-forceless pod people, but they are definitely not called Fizzgig. I also know that my mom took me to see this movie when it came out and the skekses scared the crap out of me, especially that misfit skeksis, the one who was like, “Hmmm? Gelfling, friend,” but he was full of shit.
Other movies that scared me as a child, The Wiz (man eating garbage cans and dolls on a stick that grow progressively larger as they bounce) and, hmm, maybe nothing else scared me too much. Jefke is sick of hearing this story from my family, but when we were in the theater watching the Wiz (I was, like, three years old), I got so scared that I tossed my coookies right there in the theater for all my felow movie-goers to enjoy. A memorable event for everybody!
9 B // Feb 28, 2004 at 5:07 pm
Natty, you are absolutely right. The little happy cave dwellers (so pre-Doozer-like) are indeed pod people, both before and after they get their juices sucked. I realized this last night, watching another segment, and was very very ashamed of myself.
Where the gelflings were jefke’s least favorite, Fizzgig is the worst of them for me. With all the detail Henson put into his puppets, how could he settle for such a flat and shallow mouth that looks about as real as Cookie Monster’s yap? It’s just cardboard painted black!
I once puked in a movie theater. But that was because I was shitfaced. I had downed 15 Hoeggardens in about 45 minutes before the show, and had stuffed my face with Chinese food and popcorn…
Censored post! Censored post! Censored post!
10 jefke // Feb 28, 2004 at 6:31 pm
right, ok, back in the saddle again….
censored post, it was not anything very exciting, but it was something of a career related rant, and well, it was not all that flattering to everyone in the world, and after Mr. Hanscom was canned for merely mentioning that MS was purchasing new macs, well better safe than sorry. suffice it to say this, we’ve been working very hard this week b/c we need to get things done. and in a different world perhaps things would have been organized differently… is that vauge enough? good.
regarding the dyke out scene in the dark crystal. my recollection is the chick gelfling kisses the boy gelfling and brings him back to life or someshit. prolly though libido power, i dunno, but in my mind they are both so “delicate” and femine well it gets jefke a little bit randy….in a non transgendered porn kinda way.
11 Natty // Feb 28, 2004 at 10:40 pm
Kira, the girl, is stabbed by one of the skekses, but Gen/Ghen (?) takes the shard for the large crystal (he got the shard from Augra, played his little flute and it lit up, while other shards did not, thus he was able to determine which shard was the one that he needed to take on his journey to eventually be placed back into the big, dark crystal in the skekses’ castle, but I digress) and places it back into the larger crystal where it was broken off some time ago (that is what caused the schism between the Skekses and the Mystics). Mind you, he has to do this before the Great Conjunction (planets lining up or something). Once it’s done, the Mystics and the Skekses become one again and Kira is revived. The end.
12 Natty // Feb 28, 2004 at 10:40 pm
Don’t you people remember anything?
13 rcg // Feb 28, 2004 at 10:52 pm
I’ve been trying to figure out what the fuck you all are talking about, and only just now I realized you *aren’t* talking about “The Secret of NIMH”. For some reason I always mix up that movie with “The Dark Crystal”. One of them featured David Bowie, as I recall, and *that* was “The Dark Crystal”. I think that movie only marginally sucked less than “Legend”.
You’re all a bunch of losers. Why hasn’t Wawa chimed in?
14 rcg // Feb 29, 2004 at 8:00 am
Oh. “Labyrinth”. That’s the bad movie.
I have zero recollection of “Dark Crystal”.
I retract my hostile statements. Carry on, then.
15 jefke // Feb 29, 2004 at 12:33 pm
labyrinth terrible movie except for jennifer connelly working the sexy brainy baby sitter about to bust out of her shell and become a big breasteded hotty. roarrrrooo
well and bowie in that get up. priceless.
16 Natty // Feb 29, 2004 at 2:02 pm
The Secret of Nimh is about Mrs. Brisby, the mouse, who needs to move her family before the plow comes. She is the widow of Jonathan Brisby who aided the rats in escaping “the terrible cruelty of NIMH.” NIMH was a lab where they performed many horrible experiments on animals of all kinds. The Secret of Nimh is a GREAT movie that everyone should see. It’s a movie that helps to speak up for the animals.