Wednesday, August 04, 2004
THE JURVOZ BROTHERS, SCATTERED TO THE FOUR WINDS O THESE MANY YEARS, ARE REUNITED
Jimson: His passion was barbershop music. His efforts to mold the Jurvoz brothers into a top notch quartet were frustrated by Jake's increasingly erratic behavior. Eventually he stopped singing altogether. In his later years he reportedly became enraged if he should hear even so much as a few bars of Sweet Adeline. Jimson never married. He died an angry and bitter man.
Old Jake: Mister Green Jeans with a carpet knife. Moved out west to become a potato farmer. Never very stable, Jake became increasingly unhinged by the bleak and frigid Idaho winters. He sexually violated and murdered three local girls. I won't go into any of the details here, but Jake's deeds received extensive tabloid coverage at the time. You could look it up.
The B movie Russet Rampage is a lurid look at Jake's atrocities, albeit one that plays fast and loose with the actual facts.
Jake is still alive and resides at the Ketchum Home for the Criminally Insane.
Jervez: A recluse who preferred the company of horses to that of humans. In his later years he was stricken with arthritis, lupus, myasthenia gravis, scleroderma, and a myriad of other, minor ailments. He treated himself with horse medicine, primarily pills, liniments and poultices, estimating the dosage by dividing his weight into that of his favorite horse, Napoleon III. He finally succumbed one cold January evening, after falling face down in a bucket of oats. He was found a few days later when the frantic whinnying of his hungry horses alerted a neighbor.
Jorrel: Youngest of the four. Was a jukebox stocker for a company controlled by the local crime syndicate. Amassed a tremendous collection of used 45's. Became a self-professed expert on one hit wonders.
After many years of working in bars and listening to the pop song after pop song, he turned to painting to quiet his nerves. Worked in oils, painted many cliched scenes of an imagined west. Craggy men, craggy mountains and craggy horses featured prominently in his works. Now also collects western memorabilia.
Father of the Jurvoz who has begun appearing regularly as a more fully realized character in an obscure blog.
Old Jake: Mister Green Jeans with a carpet knife. Moved out west to become a potato farmer. Never very stable, Jake became increasingly unhinged by the bleak and frigid Idaho winters. He sexually violated and murdered three local girls. I won't go into any of the details here, but Jake's deeds received extensive tabloid coverage at the time. You could look it up.
The B movie Russet Rampage is a lurid look at Jake's atrocities, albeit one that plays fast and loose with the actual facts.
Jake is still alive and resides at the Ketchum Home for the Criminally Insane.
Jervez: A recluse who preferred the company of horses to that of humans. In his later years he was stricken with arthritis, lupus, myasthenia gravis, scleroderma, and a myriad of other, minor ailments. He treated himself with horse medicine, primarily pills, liniments and poultices, estimating the dosage by dividing his weight into that of his favorite horse, Napoleon III. He finally succumbed one cold January evening, after falling face down in a bucket of oats. He was found a few days later when the frantic whinnying of his hungry horses alerted a neighbor.
Jorrel: Youngest of the four. Was a jukebox stocker for a company controlled by the local crime syndicate. Amassed a tremendous collection of used 45's. Became a self-professed expert on one hit wonders.
After many years of working in bars and listening to the pop song after pop song, he turned to painting to quiet his nerves. Worked in oils, painted many cliched scenes of an imagined west. Craggy men, craggy mountains and craggy horses featured prominently in his works. Now also collects western memorabilia.
Father of the Jurvoz who has begun appearing regularly as a more fully realized character in an obscure blog.
