Jesse: what's in a name

All about the name Jesse

I just did Sara (get your mind out of the gutter!). Today I'll do my name.

There's the Preacher comic's character, Jesse Custer, and the tv show Jesse, the title character of which was played by Christina Applegate. All Wells Fargo ATMs have Jesse Wells on them, I believe. Jeeps evoke my name (to me), substituting P for S.S. P is a mouth with a tongue sticking out, the emoticon for ack (=P). Nazis are an ack, most definitely, I would say, to put it mildly.. Tennessee seems very Jesse. J is 10, as J is the tenth letter of the alphabet. 'Esse' means being in Latin. I'm being J. WWJD? My name was used on a Verizon tv commercial. It said, "Jesse!" like it was trying to get me to pay attention. I guess I did. I've never had a cellphone, though. The guy who said I was a vampire (and said he was, too), said something about a global telepath. Who needs a phone, if the whole world's already in your head?

'Jesse', a shortened form of Isshiah, means "Jehovah makes forget" (although it could also be a shortened form of Abishai). I've also heard it comes from Yishay, possibly meaning "gift." In grammar school, the encyclopedia salesman guy said it meant "god's gift."

There's an earth science journal with a J.E.S.S.E. acronym. It's the other Jesse journal. It stands for the Journal of Earth System Science Education. Which is a bit weird, owing to my last name anagramming to 'as earth'. Geographically speaking, I couldn't find a place called Jesse at first (although there's a jessethecity.com), but there is a Jesi, Italy and a Lake Jessamine in the U.S., a Jesselton Malaysia, and a Jessheim Norway, a Jessnitz Germany, and a Jessore, Bangladesh. Actually, there's a city in Wyoming county of West Virginia called Jesse. That's all I could find, though. There's a Jessie street in San Francisco, I remember. Googlemap came up with 4 other Jesse streets in the U.S. I was looking for cities and all I got were streets, which was frustrating. There's more streets beginning with Jes, like Jesup.

Jesse anagrams to 'see S.J..' Jesuits sign S.J. after their names to indicate Society of Jesus. The Jesuit order sees God in all things, and I see the Jesuits in my name, as well as when I sleep. To explain, J sleeps on the left, S on the right, and the dogs (H) sleep in the middle. The Jesuit symbol, JHS, with a cross over the H, looks like it's it could be referential to us, if we so chose to perceive it that way. (with the H-dawgs in the center, yo).

I talked about Jesuits in relation to having going to S.I., a Jesuit school in S.F. St. Ignatius founded the Jesuit order. I grew up in San Francisco. S.J. also stands for the S10 truck and Sara Jesse. My wife's name is Sara and my sister's name was Sarah.

Aside: My last names are very dirty- Brown earth mud. My last name anagrams to 'as earth'. My birthfather was Mudd, I've been told. My name is Mudd (I haven't seen that movie). There's Mudd jeans and Puddle of Mudd... My wife Sara is a Brown. Apparently, I am dirt, in more ways than one. To dust I shall return. Ooh, I need a dirty woman. Did you see that David Spade comedy about "dirty" girls? Good stuff. Sara Brown is my universe, and Brown is a good university. We're both Catholic, which means universal. She's Italian. Br now (brown), it's cold today. Anyway, back to Jesse.

Famous Jesse's include the 3 politicians, Jesse Jackson, Jesse Helms, and Jesse Ventura. Ventura was a professional wrestler in additon to the Governor of Minnesota. Another Jesse is a professional wrestler now (part of the team Jesse and Festus). And of course, there's the great Jesse Owens. (I ran track in high school (hurdles), although I didn't score much, but we had a future Olympian hurdler on our team, Tom McGuirk). Other famous Jesse's are Jesse James, the outlaw (called America's robin hood) and Jesse James, the tv show motorcycle builder (West Coast Choppers). There's Jesse McCartney, the singer, and Jesse White, the actor who played the Maytag repairman, Jesse Cook, the Nuevo Flamenco guitarist, Jesse Duplantis, the New Orleans preacher (who I just saw on tv yesterday), and Jesse Bradford, an actor in 18 films including Romeo + Juliet, as Balthasar. I'm Jesse Teshara, the blogger, lol.

I was writing about anagrams, and I discovered the Rush song anagram (for Mongo), and I discovered there's a blogger in Thailand named Jesse Monggo (which I discovered has 36 anagrams at wordsmith.org). And I just had Thai food recently. It's a small world, after all.

Jesse, in Spanish is Isai, which I hope doesn't make me mind controlled by an artificial intelligence or something (Is A.I.). David was the A.I. in the A.I. movie. That's DVD, without the A.I. We have Aiwa and Funai technology in the house. Anyway, Jesse is also Chuy (pronounced chewy, like Chewbacca) or Jesus (pronounced hey Zeus). Bite me. Jesse is also a vampire in Anne Rice's world, specifically in her book The Queen of the Damned, which I guess was also a movie. Jesse and Chester were in that movie, Dude, where's my car. I worked with a Chester at Walgreens in S.F., after college.

Dude, where IS my car? I drove a black Mercury Comet back then. My most recent car was a white Corsica. I don't have my own car now. I used to listen to Michael Mercury on kdvs radio, the college radio station, when I was in Davis. My dad drives a Saturn, and also has an Astrovan. We're all driving spaceships, of sorts, eh? Okay, I keep getting sidetracked. This is getting ridiculous. Bear with me. Back to Jesse, again.

Biblically speaking, there's the Jesse tree (JT, for short, like John Travolta or Justin Timberlake). King David is often called "the son of Jesse." Jesus traces his lineage back to Jesse, too. The Jesse tree is a genealogical tree, not a data tree or an actual plant.

I found it interesting to note that Jesse could be JSS EE, which is like Tr EE, as Jesus sums to two. Sorry if I am being obtuse. If you're like most people, ignore this paragraph. Seriously, though, JESUS is 10,5,19,21,19. Or 1.5.1.3.1. Or 11. Or 2. Did that make any sense?

Getting away from Jesse, and back to me again, my initials are JLT. JT looks like the pi symbol. I'm living the life of pi. Pi was a scary movie. You know the drill. I'm a pi-rate. I also think it looks like the symbol on Tejava. In the Boy Scouts, JLT stood for Junior Leadership Training. That was kind of cool, back in the day, for me. Boy Scouts seems to be a fairly nerdy thing, though, nowadays. I had fun with it, though. JLT also stands for jailtime, for me, as well as jolts, like headshocks, or what they call "brainzaps." You can think of it like a shock from Voldemort, like Harry Potter's scar. I also think of it in the context of Bill Gates' book title, the digital nervous system. Speaking of digits, Bill moves his fingers weirdly. Just a bit weird. I heard of a guy who bit off his pinky finger and wore it on a chain around his neck. Jolting. Whatever happened to Jolt cola?

To digress even further, the average american drinks 56 gallons of soda a year. One quarter of American calories come from soda. They're empty calories, and the spike in blood sugar crashes so you want more than you wanted originally, creating a cycle of increasing thirst, and increasing obesity. Screw Jolt cola. I don't even like coffee that much. Coffee is the second biggest american import behind oil, I read awhile ago.

Back to JLT: Did you know that JLT also stands for Joe Lynn Turner, and was the name of his 8th solo studio album. I haven't heard it, yet. He was in the rock band Deep Purple. I like deep purple. Smoke on the water, the fire in the sky. At B.S.A. Camp Royaneh, where I spent every summer of my childhood, they used to have floating fires and flaming arrows at the canoe base. The canoe base stopped being built (bulldozers would create a dam) because of the rare and endangered freshwater shrimp, syncaris pacifica, that lives (still?) at East Austin Creek. Save the shrimp! Anyway, back to Jesse. It's not always about me, my wife says, lol.

The Jehovah's Witnesses, who come to my door every Saturday, and who I enjoy talking to (like the ICP, the Insane Clown Posse, who sing about them), gave me a sheet on the Jesse in the bible. Apparently, there's some confusion on how Jesus Christ can be both "a twig out of the stump of Jesse" as well as "the root of Jesse". They explain that Jesus is still alive, and what he has become and will yet do qualifies him to be the root of Jesse, which doesn't make sense, except maybe for me in the personal sense of I, Jesse, had a Christian (Catholic) upbringing.

The biblical Jesse was a sheep owner living at Bethlehem, and fathered 8 sons. The OT's King David is called "the son of Jesse" both disparagingly and more respectfully.

The list of famous Jesse's on Wikipedia includes two murderers, the famous outlaw, and a porn star. But on the whole, we're a pretty good bunch. It lists 16 other Jesse's than the one's I've already mentioned, including the Desperate Housewives actor, Jesse Metcalfe, the MTV deejay Jesse Camp, and the astronomer, Jesse L. Greenstein. To infinity and beyond!

I have jokingly called myself Jessemiah, which never goes over that well. Oh well. The jester.

If you at all understand or are interested by my numerological weirdness, Bill Gates sums to 6, like JLT, and can be written 888, a trinity of Gods, (god sums to 8)who wrote about a digital nervous system. As for H. Potter, God is referenced as a potter, shaping and molding the clay that is us. Sorry, I know this has very little to do with 'Jesse.'

Let me know if you have any further juicy Jesse facts or factoids.