29th Jun 2002
Filboid Studge: I Stand Corrected
As mentioned the other day, Jay Niemann is blogging. This is a good thing. I don’t mean to be pedantic, but let me first point out that the name of his blog, Filboid Studge, is not so much cryptic, as I suggested, but simply very obscure. As he points out, I had failed to notice that the name is explained in a short story running along the right margin of his blog: “Filboid Studge, The Story of a Mouse that Helped,” from The Chronicles Of Clovis (1912), by H.H. Munro (Saki).
This is classic Jay. If I may indulge myself for a moment (and gee, I have a blog, do I really need to ask permission to indulge myself?), Jay was a big character in my life once upon a time. My late teens and early 20s, to be precise. We met when my mom started dating his father. After they hitched, we were kind of like the Brady Bunch, except for the drug arrests, good music and other stuff.
Around about the second or third time I met Jay, I arrived home from my high school job at a cheese shop. Jay greeted me with a chorus of “We have a friend in cheeses” (to the tune of “We have a friend in Jesus,” in case that wasn’t obvious). I decided then I liked him.
He introduced me to Lou Reed. How could I not be grateful for that? Not to mention Robyn Hitchcock, The Jazz Butcher, We Might Be Giants, Richard Thompson, The Proclaimers and many, many others. Last time I asked, several years ago, he had around 4,000 LPs plus a few thousand CDs.
He also taught me the word “pedantic,” in the lyrics to our smash-hit single “We’re Huge!” (composed while sitting on the roof of our house): “Like battleship and barge, we’re oh so fucking large. We’re huge! We don’t mean to be pedantic, but we are just gigantic. We’re huge!”
It is also “thanks” to Jay that I have such phrases in my vocabulary as “holy Jesus acid fuck!”
One of the smartest guys I know, albeit a complete freak (in a good way). Just discovered his blog (we don’t keep in close enough touch), but am already discovering some of the most frightening nonsense on the Internet yet. How’s that for bald-faced nepotistic blogrolling?
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