I don't know how the Archives are structured, but is there a way to do a query for $comments by $pseud that would return a list of $comment_threads? I was wondering about this the other night.
(I know the dollar signs are not the right thing there, but hopefully the sense is clear.)
I'm a dope about this sort of thing, but a straightforward google for "Posted by: Jesus McQueen" should work.
He had terrific stories about his mother the medical examiner, but I can't think of how to find them specifically.
1 IME DuckDuckGo is better at this than Google.
4: http://www.unfogged.com/archives/comments_15232.html -this thread has about his mom's license plate.
5: DuckDuckGo is better!
http://www.unfogged.com/archives/comments_11229.html#1303768
Newbies don't even know about the hoohole.
http://www.unfogged.com/archives/week_2008_08_17.html#009148
This may be heebie's finest hour, but also lots of Jesus on parenting content.
Also this exchange which has acquired even more resonance.
Heh. A friend called this morning to tell me she got stood up for a blind date last night because the guy didn't want to miss the VP announcement.
Posted by: Di Kotimy | Link to this comment | 08-23-08 1:28 PM
Stood up for Joe Biden? Now there's an ego deflater.
Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-23-08 1:30 PM
Okay, he's gay.
Posted by: Jesus McQueen
God, writing that post was truly the most fun I've ever had.
Now she's in middle school.
A solid half the commentariat bought it hook line and sinker, including me. You are the finest troll.
If you want to go further back ISTR that Jesus commented as JMQ for a while until one of the front pagers (they know who they are) went on a crusade against people commenting over their initials. So you might want to search on that too.
I stand by everything I've ever said on that point. Jesus McQueen is an infinitely superior pseud to JMCQ.
Not even to speak of the forgotten commenter, MH.
From heebie's baby-announcement thread:
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Wow. Late to this, but big congratulations, guys. That will make four front-pagers with kids then, right? Man, has this place changed over the years.
Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-23-08 11:41 AM
I just caught up with the sad news about Jesus. I have fond memories of the thread or threads that eventually led to his nameshifting from JMCQ.
(I believe that Wry Cooter remains available.)
Oh, hey, there's the lost fruit basket! The basket itself seems to have linkrotted.
From heebie's baby-announcement thread:
I read this and thought "awesome! More Unfogged babies." Then realized it was old.
Time passes quickly.
Is Ogged a grandfather yet?
Jesus's Grace:
Sorry for your loss. Thank you for keeping us informed. His loss will be felt.
Hey, I'm in the range where while I'm not expecting to be a grandmother anytime soon, it would no longer be very unusual. Sally's 21.
So many people I knew back in high school have grandchildren. Not just the "oops" ones now, but the ones with kids born more than nine months into a marriage having kids more than nine months into their own marriage.
Out walking the dog and saw a gravestone for a man who'd died aged 40; "Beloved Son, Father, Uncle and Grandfather". Quick work.
A friend of ours who is probably a couple of years older than me has at least two great-grandchildren. She did start young though.
I don't know if this is precisely appropriate for his daughters, but I loved this comment from McQueen.
Incidentally, the bar last night was quite the wild scene. Three hot 30ish women approached me while I was waiting for a drink; one of them said, I love the flow of your hair, all three started running their fingers through it (I think they were on E), and one of the others asked what shampoo and conditioner I used. That has to be the most LA thing that's ever happened to me.
Don't believe the women. Conditioner is a fraud. Just don't wash your hair with shampoo until it gets soft enough that strangers in bars will think you use conditioner.
When he was a pretty new dad.
My daughters, who just turned four, appear to be at the height of their advice-giving powers. The other day Siobhan said, "Daddy! Let's pretend we're sleeping, and this is our dream!" Life has flowed merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily ever since.
A confession.
People without kids may be unaware that there is a vast ocean of crap kid-lit out there, and try as you might to keep it away, some of it inevitably washes into your house. I've been discreetly tossing Berenstain Bears books into recycling for a while now.
JMcQ is in here commenting on the OJ case and quoting his mother:
http://www.unfogged.com/archives/comments_5788.html
A comment from The Other Place:
"I fed mine haggis when they were not quite two years old (they liked it, but later denied that they did), and for a while they developed an expensive taste for things like mangoes and smoked salmon, and went on to a steady diet of Annie's mac and cheese and frozen pizza. I have a $3K bet with one of them that she will love blue cheese by the time she's 30; I'll win, but likely not collect."
Oh, that's a good one -- whichever kid the bet was with will want to be reminded.
That's a lot of pressure if she still doesn't like blue cheese.
Shortly before Jesus McQueen passed away, he did that thing on FB where you post ten covers of albums that had an effect on you. I decided to gather together (digital) copies of all of them. Eight were pretty easy to find. I've put them in this folder along with a .docx file of the master list.
The two that I can't find right away are Haniwa-chan Kanashibari and Chants de le Liturgie Slavonne - Choeurs de Moines de Chevetogne. (The first link is to the amazon page for an unavailable CD. The second link is to a youtube posting of a single track.)
Please enjoy the files in my dropbox link. My last interaction with Jesus was to tell him that I was listening to "Rivers of Delight," number six on his list, and it had vastly improved my life.
If you have any info about the to missing albums, please let me know.
That's some great archival work, thank you! I found a few tracks from the Haniwa-chan record by googling the name in hiragana. Are you ready for the eighties? Truly, it would take a heart of stone not to smile at these.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzSLkvN7wAA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD9bBCnrC5A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W8X0Td95TA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QHJ50Zk_3Y
And Amazon music has the Slavonic liturgy: https://www.amazon.com/Slavonic-Chevetogne-Gr%C3%A9goire-Bainbridge-B%C3%A9n%C3%A9dictins/dp/B00C40CC2I
re: 29
My mum was a grandmother at 39.
This one says kanashibari full album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVK-7FseoZk
On September 11, 2019, my daughter had had a rough month of a broken arm and hundreds of seizures. James McQ reached out and said to me: "Truly, the ER is a place that proves that marriage, however it turns out, is eternal."
https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/it-was-never-enough/
37, 45:
I remember when he told me about the blue cheese bet with Thing 2. I just put a reminder in my phone now for their 30th birthday, 2/16/2033.
What a cruel joke that exactly a year after he said that, there he was himself. Because of COVID-19 restrictions, only one person was allowed to visit him during the duration of his entire hospital stay, and that was his ex-wife. Not even the Things got to see him to say good-bye.
Ugh, so sorry, J's G. That is indeed a heartbreakingly cruel joke.
Ugh, so sorry, J's G. That is indeed a heartbreakingly cruel joke.
Not even the Things got to see him to say good-bye.
That's so so sad.
I'm browsing through Facebook interactions. Here's a bit relating to his family. For Candlemas in 2019 I'd posted Holst's Nunc Dimittis as set by Holst. Jesus replied with Byrd's setting. We then said:
J: Damn. I was playing that, and my daughter asked about it, so we had a little chat about Candlemas and the Nunc, and she said "Oh, we're doing the Nunc dimittis by Arvo Pärt" (after whom I once named a cat, incidentally) "in choir." https://youtu.be/Pazzm_f8rJ8
M: The Pärt is great! So wonderful that she's doing it!
M: And you hadn't known she was singing Pärt's setting until then?!
J: I hadn't. A lovely coincidence. And the icing on the cake: the choir with whom my ex and I used to sing did both Byrd (the Mass for Four Voices) and Pärt (Bogoroditse Djevo) at our wedding.
I think this is pretty Jesus.
http://www.unfogged.com/archives/comments_7890.html#708993
I guess the difference between past and present perfect is hard when you are 2 1/2.
Irregular verbs are still a challenge at 4 1/2. A common call in our household is "I GOED POOP" from the bathroom ("poop" in this case is a two-syllable word which descends a minor third).
("poop" in this case is a two-syllable word which descends a minor third)
Like all the best chants.
Wow, my humor used to be so much more aggressive.
We were all afraid of you back then.