Monday, June 27, 2005

Czar and Away

Czar and Away.


This might just be the new name for Memo's from the Czar. As my good friend Oakton Andy has suggested in his previous post. I will try it out and see. It is sort of a quick hits section as well.

First of all, I have 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins stuck in my head. As I have reflected upon this band over the weekend, I have remembered just what a great group they really were. I have also reflected upon how their namesake reminds of one of my favorite activities I was involved in one year around Halloween. Enough said.


Cont'd from last post: Your Comments on my last entry have inspired me. I give you another reality TV show based on Kelly's comment. (I do not know how long this next part will be up so read it while you can. It may be removed if to offensive, I certainly don't mean for it to be.)

This show would be based on Midgets. I am not sure if it would be a reality show or a mock reality show. Anyways, we would build a house or even a small town for midgets to live in. The catch is, we would build to their size NOT a normal persons size. Then we would find a person with normal height and get them to live in the midget world for a week or two. I know this show would be a hit and while it sounds mean on the surface, it really does sound like something the networks would do. Have you seen the Surreal World? Of course, the name of the show would have to be
Smallville.

PS: For a theme song you could take the theme from Gidget and substitute the word midget.


Dog the Bounty Hunter:
I stumbled upon this reality show the other day. It is about this Bail Bondsman in Hawaii that hunts down people who skip bail and arrests them. This guy is over the top. I want to see a show about a real bounty hunter though. Like Bobba Fett, who has armor and a flame thrower and fly's around blasting people.



From the Prussian "Free" Artisan League:
This a brief review of the movie Bewitched, which I saw for free the other night. Simply put, I am glad it was free. I had reasonable hope going into this movie. After all, it had Will Ferrall, Nicole Kidman, Michael Caine, Jason Schwartzman and Steve Caral in it. Nicole Kidman looked about as cute as you could imagine but Will Ferrall looked as lost as you could imagine. His humor seemed old hat and he seemed to struggle with what to do really do to be funny. It had it's moments of course but save it for a rental from Payless at best. Also, as interesting anecedote, my parents never allowed me to watch the TV show as a kid, but I somehow still ended up playing Dungeons & Dragons. They should have just let me watch it anyway.

H.P. Lovecraft: Also I have started reading H.P. Lovecraft. An early 20th century Sci-fi/Horrer writer, most noted for the cult classic, The Call of Cthulu, as well as creating the Necronomican. (See Army of Darkness and other weird tales.) I hope to post some quotes by him because he is a brilliant writer and has a very interesting way of looking at things. Ways I can relate to. He also loved cats.

New York: Most of you know by now that I am considering moving to New York City. So I am taking a public opinion poll. What do you think? Should I stay or should I go? I am open to other suggestions of where to go as well so long as you don't tell me to to the place of fire and brimstone.

Tomorrow I'm sending of my first manuscript to a contest for publication. I'm really excited about it and it gives me a really good feeling to do so. It is the sort of feeling that says your doing something you were meant to do. Will I win or lose? I have no clue, but I am none the less excited. Pray for that if you think about it. Ironically enough I am sending it to the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest. Maybe Tom Cruise will read it and star in a movie about it. Better yet he will read it, introduce me to Katie Holmes and she will introduce me James Van Der Beek and I can get his autograph. I would then hang it in my room.

Well, I suppose that is it for now. I really enjoy everyone's responses and whatnot. The posts are almost a blog in and of themselves. I love you all like you were my very own illegitimate children. Good night.





4 comments:

Andrew McMahan said...

Having experienced all the places you are considering moving Jeff, I must say that you should move to NYC. Of course, I am biased. Alternate location would be Nairobi, where you could film the pilot program for OC-D. Everything here has germs on it and there are a lot of things to count and put in order.

Anonymous said...

This is Rhino (I just didn't want to sign up for a blog of my own - at least for now - and so I'm doing this anonymously - so you don't really know who I am, 'kay?). Anyway, an alternate suggestion for your show "Midgets" (if you don't want to go through the actual trouble of hiring midgets, building the midget city, and possibly offending said midgets [they hit hard and necessarily low]). Instead, you could just advertise the show, as if it was a show about a normal size guy living in a midget world, and actually just film me living in the normal world (for those that don't know me, I didn't get the nickname Rhino because I'm average sized - but I'm also anonymous right now so you still don't know who I am, 'kay?).
By the way, great job on the story submission and the picking up on Lovecraft (he is great, in an eerie/wierd but wonderfully readable sort of way).

Anonymous said...

I think you stole the midget reality show idea from a commercial spoofing the idea. You are a fraud.

Call your column 'The Biz-Czar'... or mebbe that could just be your rap name.

Peace out, homie.

Anonymous said...

hmmm...it seems as if i am to look into this "HP Lovecraft", in that you mentioned it to me and on your blog. i find it interesting that you called my blog dark...i actually toned it down lately. and yes, i know what the german says. it's about a man you was never born, and has no mother, and yearns for the things he never had.

and as for your potenital move to New York, i would say go for it. i agree with faith in the fact that you could begin a little prussia, which you would probably have a bit more trouble with here, in the fact that everyone has a cowboy hat permanently attached to their cranium.

and last but not least, i was intruiged to see that you were a writer. i am as well. though my blogs don't show it as well as your do. do keep me informed on you publishing status, for i would love to read your book as soon as it is published....or sooner?
long live the czar!
victoria