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!
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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!

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