Pissed Off Residents Paint Over PSP Ads - Kotaku

Pissed Off Residents Paint Over PSP Ads - Kotaku

Man, I'd hate to work for the company that came up with that ad campaign.

Oh, wait. I do.

Jack Dempsey Fish

Maybe fifteen or so years too late, but this is for all a y'all hatas.

A Comics Blogging.

Don't worry about being nerdy. Just go to Kelvin's Brainsplurge! for a little lowbrow humor.

C----\D-- Christmas Party 2005

Oh, what a time I had!

Ha, ha - just kidding! Your Pal MRJEFF didn't actually get a vile affliction of the naughty bits - that image is really from inSPOT LA's anonymous notification service for filthy degenerates and fornicators. "Drugs, not hugs," - that's MRJEFF's motto!

Names in the News: Jeffrey Devries

STAY OFF MY PORCH!!!

(This is much more interesting than that Jeff DeVries in Ohio whose emails I keep getting.)

POW! Blue Devils Save Gotham City

From the 2005 Davis High School Homecoming Parade (9/30/05)

OKCupid! The 3 Variable Funny Test

the Wit (80% dark, 11% spontaneous, 5% vulgar)

your humor style: CLEAN | COMPLEX | DARK You like things edgy, subtle, and smart. I guess that means you're probably an intellectual, but don't take that to mean pretentious. You realize 'dumb' can be witty--after all isn't that the Simpsons' philosophy?--but rudeness for its own sake, 'gross-out' humor and most other things found in a fraternity leave you totally flat. I guess you just have a more cerebral approach than most. You have the perfect mindset for a joke writer or staff writer. Your sense of humor takes the most thought to appreciate, but it's also the best, in my opinion. You probably loved the Office. If you don't know what I'm talking about, check it out here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/theoffice/. PEOPLE LIKE YOU: Jon Stewart - Woody Allen - Ricky Gervais The 3-Variable Funny Test! - it rules - If you're interested, try my latest: The Terrorism Test

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 98% on darkness You scored higher than 0% on spontaneity You scored higher than 0% on vulgarity

Link: The 3 Variable Funny Test written by jason_bateman on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

MP3s - New Music from controller.controller

Yay! Controller.controller's new album, X-Amounts, is out (in Canada).

Well, in the meantime, they've got three songs for you and me to download.

Curse of the Were-Rabbit?

Roger Ebert gives Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit 3 and a half stars, which it almost certainly deserves.

Thanks to the magic of Google Ads, at the end of the review we are invited to investigate further:

• Anime and Animation DVDs, from Netflix
  
• Rabbit and Deer Repellent, from Plantskydd.com
  
• Hellboy Trailers, from Moviefone.com
  

Karma Police: a night on the town

This is what you get: a $47 parking ticket

T-Shirts I Own, Part 1

TBWA\Chiat\Day Summer Party 2005 T-Shirt

The Art Tool

Carl Cheng's Santa Monica Art Tool: "Walk on LA"

Deepak Chopra: MOONBAT

Much like Atrios, PZ Myers at Pharyngula is totally on the ball.

Pat Robertson: "No Extremist Cleric"

Oh, good -- Atrios noticed it too.

Who Loves Ya, Baby?

(Your Pal MRJEFF tries out a new look.)

Bicycle

Bicycle in Los Angeles storm drain, near Culver and Slauson.

Finally - a CNN.com "poll" that speaks to MRJEFF!

I know it's time to move jobs when I...

S. Harris

A few of the science cartoons of Sidney Harris.

Wal-Mart Nation

Why can't you buy the Pensacola, Florida News Journal at Wal-Mart?

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Update 7/27 - Wal-Mart does have a sense of shame!

Blimp, again

You need this t-shirt, Matt

Some fellow has submitted a t-shirt design at Threadless.com, based on the building in the film Rashomon.

Three Years Old

Hey! Your pal MRJEFF just realized that this little thing is three years old! That's right, on July 13, 2002, I set myself up with a Blogger account, typed up two posts, and promptly set about ignoring mrjeff3000.blogspot.com until Matt Langdon started up his Rashomon seven months later.

Ahoy!

What kind of pirate am I? You decide!
You can also view a breakdown of results or put one of these on your own page!
Brought to you by Rum and Monkey

National Treasure

My roommate Mike, every so often, gets phone messages from people who are under the impression that he can help them get their scripts made into movies. We don't know why. Here's one that we got last week:

My name is Jeff Jones. My number is (724)637-xxxx*. I don't know if you're the right person to talk to about this. But, uh, I discovered a very interesting historical mystery and secret. Obviously very, uh, important enough that I've been somewhat blackballed. I cannot get the story out anywhere.

The story that I have is the true story of the National Treasure In other words, Jon Turteltaub got hold of my story from a friend of mine, and rewrote the story, and fictionalized it.

The story of the National Treasure is really a true story of myself and my great-great grandfather who was a minuteman at the battle of the Concord and Lexington. And I have a real cryptic. I don't know how I can explain this to anybody. And I realize you don't take solicite...unsolicitated, uh, stories and stuff, but, uh, I don't know what else to do.

I cannot get this story out. I've tried the BBC, PBS, uh, the History Detectives, Oregon Films, Lion Films...EVERYBODY.

I have literally been blackballed because of all this. All I know is that I have one of the most incredible stories that has ever been discovered in 200 years and I have been blackballed to get this story out. Like I said, Jon Turteltaub took my real story and fictionalized it and I suspect that's where I'm having the problem at.

I don't know if you're the right person to get this story to. But, um, I don't have anywhere else to turn. Ah, my life has been destroyed over this. Ah...if you can help me or are interested in this story... [chokes up] ...please call me.

Best of luck, Jeff!

(^* 2983)

Sparkler trail

July 4, 2005, Woodland, CA

Paul Giamatti IS The Amazing Screw-On Head.

Superhero Hype! - The latest superhero movie news and rumors: "Giamatti is the Amazing Screw-On Head

Source: Variety June 27, 2005

Paul Giamatti has signed with Sci Fi Channel to voice the lead character in the animated series pilot Amazing Screw-On Head, from executive producers Bryan Fuller ('Wonderfalls') and Jason Netter, reports Variety.

The cable channel last year quietly commissioned the pilot, based on Mike Mignola's (Hellboy) comic book of the same name. David Hyde Pierce, Molly Shannon and Patton Oswalt also will lend their voices to the project.

Giamatti will voice Screw-On Head, a Civil War-era secret agent at the service of president Abraham Lincoln and an unsung hero who never made it into the history books. His special power is the ability to screw his head onto a variety of different bodies. Hyde Pierce plays Emperor Zombie, Shannon voices Patience the Vampire and Oswalt is Mr. Groin.

Cable executives hope to see a finished pilot by early next year."

I picked up a copy of Amazing Screw-Off Head some months back. Best $2.99 I spent that week.

Tsunami Watch 2005!!!

Move to higher ground! Run away!

(edited to fix link - thanks, Matt!)

Emiliana Torrini - Concert Planet Claire - 13 Janvier 2005

5 songs, live in studio at a French radio station, from Italian/Icelandic songstress Emiliana Torrini.

If you're more visually-oriented, Ms. Torrini has videos for "Sunny Road" (.wmv) and "Heartstopper" (this one is especially wonderful).

Kate York : Paste Records

MP3 FRIDAY! Two songs from Kate York, at Paste Records. Good stuff for a summer evening.

Maui Wowee

Your pal MRJEFF has just returned from a much-needed vacation on Maui. (His sister had decided that that was where she was going to have her wedding.) Here we see the just-married bride, enjoying a well-earned beverage. Yum!

Blogging about blogging

Christopher Guest* blogs about capo gardening, at THE HUFFINGTON POST.

* That's Lord Haden-Guest to you, peon!

Airship Ahoy!

The Goodyear Blimp passes over Casa de Señor Jeff.

Goodyear currently has three blimps in operation. (They have erected nearly 350. More history here.) The West Coast blimp is the Spirit of America, based out of an airfield in Carson, near the intersection of I-405 and I-110. You can tell when the blimp is flying over your area by the sound of the propellers, and by the barking dogs. (The dogs in MRJEFF's neighborhood really don't like the blimp.)

Lawsuit mp3s!

Here's how the internet is a beautiful thing:

This morning I read an Ask Metafilter thread about a snoring neighbor. Somebody (perhaps jokingly) suggests, among other courses of action, filing a noise complaint. This reminds me about the old news story from my hometown of Davis, about a woman who was cited for snoring too loud. While looking up the particulars, I come across the Noise Violation page of the Davis Wiki. One of the people commenting on this page is Bev Sykes, mother of several of the members of the band Lawsuit, which was the best local band of the late eighties - early nineties. The band broke up in 1996, and lead singer Paul Sykes died in 1999, but -- miracle of miracles! -- they've put their albums online. (I've had Kind of Brown, Emergency Third Rail Power Trip and the Lawsuit EP ever since they came out, but I'd thought that I would never hear any of the old pre-CD music again.)

And so that's how I rediscovered "Into the Night," "The Disco Song" and "Days of Our Lives" and had a happy Friday.

Sad, But True

Rilo Kiley's "Portions For Foxes": Great song, crappy video.

Other people's private misery: VOTE NOW!

What is wrong with CNN?

Everybody Sees Something Different

Matt's been MetaFiltered!

Happy Cherry Blossom Festival!

MRJEFF and his Sküllton friends Coco and Cheri wish you the happiest of Cherry Blossom Festivals! (Make sure to say hi to Mayor Tortimer, of course!)

Burying the Lede

The New York Times > National > Schiavo Dies Nearly Two Weeks After Removal of Feeding Tube


A photo of Jesus?!? Tell me how that isn't front page news on its own?

Southern California beaches have the nicest sand!

That Is Not Appropriate, MRJEFF.

(Apologies to the Schiavo family and the Schindler family of Florida, and the Bueller family of Illinois)

Popstrology: What's Your Sign?

1970 - The Year of the Jackson 5
Sep 13-Oct 3 - Diana Ross "Ain't No Mountain High Enough"

"The popstrological end of the Beatles, the Supremes, and Simon and Garfunkel signaled the end of an era in 1970, but the sudden and powerful impact of the Jackson 5 provided an optimistic, sugar-funk injection to a year ripe with potential causes of mopery (viz. the aforementioned breakups; Kent State; the deaths of Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix). Still, the biggest stars rarely burn out without first casting off some of their energy into the pop universe. Indeed, in 1970 we see the first solo appearances of former Supreme Diana Ross and former Beatle George Harrison, heralding the birth of a brand-new popstrological grouping: the constellation Spin-Off, an entity known to inspire the kind of ambivalence that comes with realizing that while life may always go on, we sometimes know that the best is already behind us. Like the Jackson 5 themselves, the micro-generation born in this pivotal year may exhibit enormous gifts at a tender age. But the bright lights of youthful success can unmooor even the greatest of talents, so take heed, children of 1970, and never forget that for every Michael, there is also a Jermaine. Not to mention a Tito. "

3.4

Earthquake! The unbridled fury of an angry Earth, unleashed upon an unsuspecting public!

Charles + Maribel

Ah, l'amour. Your pal MRJEFF attended a co-worker's wedding on Saturday. The groom's family was conservative Orange County-types; the bride's family, working class Mexican immigrants. The happy couple are twenty-something punks who met at a concert.

I ♥ America.

How To Lie With A Bar Graph

Look! The Democrats are NINE TIMES as likely to want to remove the feeding tube as are Republicans and Independants! The picture proves it!

(inspired by the wonderful How To Lie With Statistics)

Update 3/22/05 12:15pm: I also posted this on del.icio.us, and now it's been noticed at Media Matters; Atrios and Josh Marshall have linked to the Media Matters post. (It's clear from those sites' comments that many people noticed this on their own.)

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UPDATE UPDATE!!! Media Matters says that "CNN has updated its graphic after the posting of this item." Of course, Gentle Reader, you know the real reason, but we'll let Mr. Brock believe what he wants.

In Which MRJEFF Purchases a Bottle of Diet Pepsi At Lunchtime and Wins One Free Song From the ITunes Music Store

The code: RFR4A TZOLH
The song: Seal's Killer (William Orbit Remix) (iTunes link)

Tales from Highway 99

"I can tell Modesto from Merced, but I have visited there, gone to dances there; besides, there is over the main street of Modesto and arched sign which reads:

WATER WEALTH CONTENTMENT HEALTH

There is no such sign in Merced."

- Joan Didion, "Notes From a Native Daughter"


The Modesto Arch

MRJEFF's Language Korner

Word Of TheDay: Blepherospasm.

EARTHQUAKE!

At 8:09 this evening your pal MRJEFF felt a small but sharp jolt that, to his Southern California-sharpened senses could mean only one thing -- an earthquake! Or a big truck driving past. (It wasn't a truck.)

Anyhoo. In this great Computer Age we're living in, the USGS keeps track of earthquakes online, and the public can report in on local tremblers (this one is Event 10083305, a 2.9 on the Richter scale, centered near Encino.)

All Earthquakes in California-Nevada Map Area for the past week (note that some "quakes" are suspected quarry explosions!)
Event 10083305: ZIP Map (who felt it, and how strong)

Terrible Two

Well, I've wished El Rashomono a Happy Anniversary and whatnot. After all, it was he who reminded me that I had created this little free thingy-mc-doodle some months earlier, and who provided me with just enough peer pressure to post at least once a month (whether I had material or not!)

Anyhoo, I've spent too much time concentrating on Audioscrobbler/Last.fm and del.icio.us, and not enough on Mister Jeff Dot Blogspot lately. (For whatever that's worth.) Anyhoo, I got another blog post out of this, and that's OK.

Benn loxo du taccu

A wonderful African music mp3 blog: Matt Yanchyshyn's Benn loxo du taccu. You won't be disappointed!

Garzón

Three bitchin' kickass pop songs and a video, from Spanish pop trio Garzon. Sadly, I don't understand their crazy moon language, but they get extra bonus points for the Creative Commons license.
via búscate un novio, who also turned me on to mid-eighties French pop-punk band Les Calamités and to Bradley's Almanac's mp3s of Velocity Girl (among others) at 1992's Sub Pop music festival Vermonstress.

"A Good Friend Has Left Us"

James Randi, on Johnny Carson's death.

Ancient Chinese Secret

You learn something new every day!

Wait...what???

All I was doing was looking up the newly released DVD of Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle. Who would have thought this horrible aberration would come up?


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image courtesy of Beards of the Web. Blog entry title courtesy of Tracey Meyers.