Memories of Jeff

So this evening I decided that I would tackle some of the mess left over from when I moved into my condo. There were some boxes of papers that I decided to go through and see what I needed to keep.
There were old notes from a D&D campaign in there. I’m probably going to save those for sentimental reasons. I also found all the notes I made from old computer games. There was a map to a Civilization I game from long ago. I found maps for Ultima 4. I loved that game and actually made myself a large poster map of the entire world. I found my maps from Ultima 6. That was a lot harder to map, but I still did a pretty good job. I still remember Jeff (probably the only person who reads this journal) playing that game while I mapped everything. Whenever he took us to the other world, he would sing the “Gargoyle land” song. I’m sure I’ll be embarrassing him with that memory if he ever becomes famous and they interview me to dig up dirt.
I also found a collection of the Syllogist. At the time it was the Faculty of Arts periodical. Jeff wrote some articles for it. I did to (despite being in the Faculty of Science) so I could be just as cool as Jeff.
So I was looking through these old issues and I come across an article titled “The Golden Rule”. A diatribe by one Jeff Franzmann. It’s all about America’s Manifest Destiny and how it relates to the war on Iraq. Keep in mind that this was published on March 27th, 1992. (12 years ago! I feel old.) It reads surprisingly topical. It helps that the president has the same name. One line looked interesting:

The citizens and government of the United States seem to think of themselves as moral paragons. They talk of “New World Order” and being the “911 of the world” (George Bush).

Eerie.
I read that and I look at his LiveJournal, and realize that Jeff has remained very dependable. He is still making great rants. He still has a bone to pick with the Unitied States. I’d copy out the entire article and post it here, but I don’t have a scanner or OCR. So you are better off asking the original author if he still has a copy hanging around.