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TGIF

by John Cole

I have been informed there have not been enough pet pictures this week, and it is true. I have been preoccupied with other stuff. Here are a few for you:

Not sure what I am going to do this weekend.

*** Update ***

BTW- the PJ adds come down next Wednesday, and google adsense is killing me. It refuses to accept my existing google account info when I try to fill out the damned form. Going through this and trying to figure out blogads again reminds me of why I liked PJ ads in the first place.

Also, the easiest way to support this website is if you use Amazon, to click through before you shop.

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March 27, 2009 5:34 pm Posted in: Cat Blogging, Open Thread  140 Comments

140 Responses

  1. J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford - March 27, 2009 | 5:37 pm · Link

    My cat’s FURminator arrived today and it works great.

    That’s all I got.

  2. TenguPhule - March 27, 2009 | 5:38 pm · Link

    What, no dogs?

  3. Snail Darter - March 27, 2009 | 5:38 pm · Link

    This exchange from yesterdays Senate Budget Markup.

    Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND): "Oh, you are good."

    Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA): "Well, your wife said the same thing."

    Wingnuts do sometimes say cool stuff.

  4. Cris - March 27, 2009 | 5:40 pm · Link

    Would any of you iPhone / iPod Touch using Balloon-Juice regulars like to join me for a game of Chess With Friends? My username is Vogelfrei. Don’t worry, I’m not very good.

  5. Cris - March 27, 2009 | 5:42 pm · Link

    @Snail Darter: Awesome. I, for one, welcome the use of "ur mom" on the Senate floor.

  6. demkat620 - March 27, 2009 | 5:44 pm · Link

    TGIF, indeed. This week at work almost killed me. Now I get to take two 7 yo girls shopping. Oh joy!

  7. Laura W - March 27, 2009 | 5:49 pm · Link

    One of the most depleting weeks in recent memory.
    Tweety about to make Ms. Bachmann his companion, I hope.
    Cheers!
    Edit: Oooooooo….with Taibbi doing commentary! Double companions! Triple cheers!
    Edit 2: HA! "Glue huffer makes more sense than Bachmann."
    Edit 3: Christ. Matt got one good lick in. Sucks.

  8. wingnuts to iraq - March 27, 2009 | 5:50 pm · Link

    Everyone saw this, right?

  9. AhabTRuler - March 27, 2009 | 5:50 pm · Link

    I have been preoccupied with other stuff.

    There are things more important than people’s pets? See if I click through now.

  10. jake 4 that 1 - March 27, 2009 | 5:57 pm · Link

    BTW- the PJ adds come down next Wednesday

    The end of an error.

  11. Mike S - March 27, 2009 | 5:57 pm · Link

    Check this out, John. Lucy Goldberg Jr wrote an article in NRO that started:

    Maybe we have it all backwards.
    Here’s the basic story President Obama wants to tell. The last eight years were an economic disaster because President Bush and the Republicans ignored necessary government regulations and “investments.” The economic crisis has discredited “market fundamentalism,” as some liberals call it. Now, thanks to Bush’s hands-off approach to the economy, Obama has no choice but to get government much more involved. “To kick these problems down the road for another four years or eight years,” Obama sighs, “would be to continue the same irresponsibility that led us to this point.”

    Crazy Lo wrote an article at Townhall that started:

    Maybe we have it all backwards.
    Here’s the basic story President Obama wants to tell. The last eight years were an economic disaster because President Bush and the Republicans ignored necessary government regulations and “investments.” The economic crisis has discredited “market fundamentalism,” as some liberals call it. Now, thanks to Bush’s hands-off approach to the economy, Obama has no choice but to get government much more involved. “To kick these problems down the road for another four years or eight years,” Obama sighs, “would be to continue the same irresponsibility that led us to this point."

    And yes, the rest of the articles are identical.

  12. AhabTRuler - March 27, 2009 | 5:58 pm · Link

    @Laura W: Thanks to you the cereal box and the cat toy are ranked at #1 and #2 for number of views.

    Accordingly, someone has a bone to pick with you.

  13. Cris - March 27, 2009 | 6:01 pm · Link

    the PJ adds come down next Wednesday

    I’ll miss the irony.

  14. South of I-10 - March 27, 2009 | 6:05 pm · Link

    I would just like to state that trying to lose the last 10 lbs sucks. Especially when I promised little South she could have Chick-Fil-A if she got all stars at school this week. Who knew she would pick this week to start behaving?

  15. canuckistani - March 27, 2009 | 6:08 pm · Link

    the PJ adds come down next Wednesday

    If Joe the Plumber speaks in a world without PJ ads, does he make a sound?

  16. MazeDancer - March 27, 2009 | 6:11 pm · Link

    You should be getting Ron Popeil numbers at Amazon on the Furminator. They’re seriously discounted there. A new blue one arrived here today thanks to you, Tunch, and the link. It is astonishing both how much they like the thing. And how much fur comes out. Not quite sure how or why either happens.

    But until Adsense gets going, consider running that link with every pet post.

  17. The Cat Who Would Be Tunch - March 27, 2009 | 6:14 pm · Link

    @AhabTRuler:

    Ahh, I’m always up for Momo Sproutiness goodness. I’ve got Momo’s first BJ picture permanently saved in my ‘Random Intertubez Pics’ folder at home.

  18. Laura W - March 27, 2009 | 6:15 pm · Link

    @AhabTRuler: Stoking the star maker machinery behind the popular Momos…(apologies to Joni).

    The cereal box Victim was the most haunting image I’ve seen all week. A jarring follow-up to The Wounds.

    The movie was good, but the stills, and the upcoming book, are far superior. (Et le boule? That was minimalism at its transcendent best.)

    Edit: Not that I did not snicker last night and tonight, equally as loudly, at the Monkey Boy glare of the Momo Sprout de la Hope and Joy.

  19. Montysano - March 27, 2009 | 6:26 pm · Link

    Six weeks ago my dad passed away. He was 84 and had been in poor health for years. Thursday, my best friend Mike died at age 55 from unknown complications of knee replacement surgery. Tonight it’s once again 400 miles north to Indiana, for the 8th time in 2 years, and for another funeral. So everyone please hoist one tonight for Mike "Chester" Davenport, a great friend for 30+ years and a truly exemplary human being.

  20. Svensker - March 27, 2009 | 6:26 pm · Link

    Aha! Someone here has a cat who sits in an old Reebok box looking clever and ultra-cute. Your secret will come out, whoever you are, and you will be known.

  21. Svensker - March 27, 2009 | 6:28 pm · Link

    @Montysano:

    So sorry to hear that Montysano. Knee surgery? That really sucks.

    Holding all of you in the light, as the Quakers say. Safe journey.

  22. Laura W - March 27, 2009 | 6:32 pm · Link

    @Montysano: ugh. That is so very sad, and what a moving tribute you’ve offered. I’ve been thinking about death a lot today, for whatever reasons, and appreciate your reminder here about how impermanent everything really is. As if we don’t already know that.

    Please travel safely. What a heartbreak for you, and most especially for his Nancy. Can’t imagine finding The One so late in life only to have the life together gone so quickly. Argh. So sorry for you all.

  23. Dennis-SGMM - March 27, 2009 | 6:34 pm · Link

    @Montysano:
    I just opened a cold one. Here’s to Mike!

  24. demkat620 - March 27, 2009 | 6:34 pm · Link

    @Svensker: I think that is cleek’s cat.

    I am so sorry to here that Montysano. May god bless and ease your heart.

  25. Darius - March 27, 2009 | 6:37 pm · Link

    Apropos of nothing, I was browsing Swampland earlier today, after Obama announced his Afghanistan/Pakistan policy.

    Joe Klein provided a detailed rundown of Obama’s policy, along with his personal analysis.

    Michael Scherer quoted Chuck Grassley’s Twitter feed.

  26. Montysano - March 27, 2009 | 6:37 pm · Link

    @Laura W:

    what a moving tribute you’ve offered.

    Everywhere he went, people were thrilled to see him.

    Not a bad epitaph.

  27. Mike in NC - March 27, 2009 | 6:43 pm · Link

    My cat’s FURminator arrived today and it works great. That’s all I got.

    They are great. I’m going to fix another martini and then try to FURminate the cats. Picked up extra Band-Aids from Costco today…

  28. Montysano - March 27, 2009 | 6:43 pm · Link

    I just watched, again, the video of the Republicans waving the "budget" binder around, and now I feel better.

  29. Bad Horse's Filly - March 27, 2009 | 6:46 pm · Link

    Oh, someone else’s cat loves shoe boxes, too. Though my Emma will tell you shoe box shaped Amazon.com boxes are better, they don’t lose their shape when you’ve gained a few pounds.

    And since this is a pet thread, we had blizzard yesterday and a friend had some extra time on his hands. Here’s his ode to Fluffy Fang with apologies to Jack London.

  30. Dennis-SGMM - March 27, 2009 | 7:05 pm · Link

    Teh Funny:
    Ed Henry Visits Jack in the Box: A CNN LGM Behind the Scenes Exclusive

    The most amazing part of my trip to Jack in the Box is that I didn’t walk into the restaurant intending to order a steak teriyaki bowl…

  31. South of I-10 - March 27, 2009 | 7:08 pm · Link

    @TenguPhule: Finally got around to uploading some dog pics. The border collie is mine. The lab is my parents and is in the field hunting, thus the intense look.

    @Montysano: I am so sorry for your loss. He sounds like he was a great friend. I sip my wine in his honor.

  32. Dennis-SGMM - March 27, 2009 | 7:16 pm · Link

    @South of I-10:
    Love those border collies but I refuse to have a pet that’s smarter than I am.

  33. AhabTRuler - March 27, 2009 | 7:25 pm · Link

    @Dennis-SGMM: You would have liked Maggie the Paranoid Dog™, a Border Collie that was frightened of popping bubble wrap (she would try to hide behind the TV).

  34. robertdsc - March 27, 2009 | 7:25 pm · Link

    Oh, someone else’s cat loves shoe boxes, too. Though my Emma will tell you shoe box shaped Amazon.com boxes are better, they don’t lose their shape when you’ve gained a few pounds.

    My KC lives in the print shop I work at full-time. She loves to do kitty yoga and wedge herself into any box she can find. If warm freshly-printed material is in a box and there’s a smidge of space she can wedge herself into, it’s a done deal.

    Of course, it was a nice surprise to find out that she had vomited on a job write-up while I was busy in another area of the shop.

  35. John S. - March 27, 2009 | 7:27 pm · Link

    @Mike S:

    Holy shit on a shingle!

    I thought you were pulling my leg with that, and just had to see it for myself. Somehow magically they wrote the exact same article? Or maybe it was simply an attribution error…yeah, one of the websites incorrectly attributed the article to one or the other. Because they both work for NRO, so somebody mixed up one batshit insane conservative for another…yeah, that’s the ticket.

  36. South of I-10 - March 27, 2009 | 7:28 pm · Link

    Hannah (the Border Collie) is currently freaking out because of thunder. Third night in a row. She may have a nervous breakdown before this front comes through!

  37. jg - March 27, 2009 | 7:29 pm · Link

    Any thoughts on this?

    It was sent to me by a conservative coworker (I’ve tried to get him to post here but he won’t do it).

  38. JenJen - March 27, 2009 | 7:30 pm · Link

    Google AdSense is a pain in the ass. I had to set up something like three different accounts before it finally liked one, and then the very next day, it shut it off.

    Finally got it worked out, but found the entire experience irritating.

  39. J. - March 27, 2009 | 7:35 pm · Link

    KITTIES! Yea! The first kitty pic is especially cute, though not as cute as Felix asleep on my laptop and giving me an F.U. with his paw when I tried to remove him (because he fell asleep on my Caps Lock key, CAUSING ME TO WRITE IN ALL CAPS). : )

  40. Marked Hoosier - March 27, 2009 | 7:37 pm · Link

    Whatever you do, don’t cuss in Galveston, TX. From the Consumerist:

    According to the Galveston County Daily News [a] woman was shopping for batteries in preparation for Tropical Storm Edouard when she said aloud: ‘They don’t have any fucking more.’ This, apparently, was enough to get her handcuffed and written a citation by an assistant fire marshal who was near enough to overhear her. Dwight Shrute? Is that you?

    I wonder if the cop was assistant fire marshal, or assistant to the fire marshal?

  41. JenJen - March 27, 2009 | 7:37 pm · Link

    Open thread? Was wondering if anyone ever listens to this asshole Lynn Samuels on Sirius. I flip around and listen to a lot of talk while driving, and I go crazy when this woman is on. It’s especially annoying to me that she is, like, the ultimate PUMA, but gets to yap about it several hours a day on what is supposed to be the left/progressive Sirius station.

    What gives with her? Anyone have any background? Today she couldn’t stop yammering about how J Crew is expensive and Michelle Obama is a big phony. Oh, and also how President Obama will never win a second term, and she can’t wait to see who runs against him in the ‘12 Democratic primaries.

    WTF? Was she ever a progressive, or did Hillary and the PUMAs send her over the cliff?

  42. lawnorder - March 27, 2009 | 7:37 pm · Link

    Oh goodie, no more having to see Assrocket when I read your blog!

  43. Karen - March 27, 2009 | 7:44 pm · Link

    According to my husband & son, I’m one of Amazon’s best customers. When I click on it, I’m still signed in.

    What should I look for to click on at the Amazon site to support this site?

  44. Maude - March 27, 2009 | 7:54 pm · Link

    @JenJen: She used to be on WABC in NYC. She has always been overboard. She goes on and on without making a lot of sense. She was a rabid supporter of Bill and Hillary Clinton in the 1990’s.
    I guess she hasn’t changed.

  45. srv - March 27, 2009 | 8:00 pm · Link

    Mitch says they couldn’t go anywhere because W was a ‘millstone’ around their necks. Now that will change.

    gurgle, gurgle, gurgle.

  46. JenJen - March 27, 2009 | 8:01 pm · Link

    @Maude: Thank you! Explains a lot, really. Her show is basically an All Clinton, All The Time program.

    When she isn’t just shredding President Obama, or talking about American Idol, that is.

    Honestly how does a person with such a horrible voice get a cushy radio gig like she has? She’s basically a nutbar, and I can’t sense any other talents she might possess.

    Wasn’t aware she was known outside of Sirius. I feel sorry for New Yorkers, having to listen to her far longer than I have.

    /Lynn Samuels rant :-)

  47. Bootlegger - March 27, 2009 | 8:06 pm · Link

    @jg: Why should "groups" have rights just like individuals? With groups there is no personal responsibility for the rights as there is with individuals. I’m fine with it.

  48. Laura W - March 27, 2009 | 8:11 pm · Link

    KO on the Bachmann story right off the bat. Titles it: Talkin’ About A Revolution.
    Way to lead into Friday Night Link Throw Down, Keith!

    Jonathan Alter is too funny on top of Taibbi’s huffer quip earlier…"She has a problem with reality; Esperanto speakers want global currency." Poor Michelle. MSNBC clearly has an anti-Bachmann bias tonight.

  49. Litlebritdifrnt - March 27, 2009 | 8:12 pm · Link

    @Laura W:

    Mission to Marzipan is absolutely awesome. Like I said I am not an ice cream lover but this stuff is BLISS!

  50. JenJen - March 27, 2009 | 8:15 pm · Link

    @Laura W: Taibbi is my future ex-husband. He was killin’ it today. I laughed and laughed!

    Taibbi re-post for anyone who didn’t see it; it’s an instant classic:

    "You know it’s funny, this morning outside of Penn Station I saw a guy huffing glue out of a paper bag, and he was making more sense than Michelle Bachmann was making. I can’t believe it. You need to pass a written test to drive a car in this country, but I bet this woman can’t even write her name in the ground with a stick. I mean, it’s just unbelievable to me that this person is in the Congress."

    Between KO, and Tweety and Contessa the last few days, MSNBC has been bringin’ the goods. Even that asshat Joe Scarborough was totally ripping the GOP Budget roll-out. Love It!

  51. big woo - March 27, 2009 | 8:17 pm · Link

    Also, the easiest way to support this website is if you use Amazon, to click through before you shop.

    I used to see the Amazon widget just above the blogroll, and now I don’t. At first I thought it was just NoScript being wonky and cache tied, but it doesn’t show up in IE either.

    I’m confused.

  52. passerby - March 27, 2009 | 8:22 pm · Link

    @Montysano:

    Adios Mike.

    Safe drive Montysano.

    Positive waves.

  53. passerby - March 27, 2009 | 8:26 pm · Link

    Big woo said:

    Also, the easiest way to support this website is if you use Amazon, to click through before you shop.

    "I used to see the Amazon widget just above the blogroll, and now I don’t. At first I thought it was just NoScript being wonky and cache tied, but it doesn’t show up in IE either."

    Same here John. I would be glad to use Amazon thru this site (I spend waaay to much time here) but I have no sign of Amazon even with scriptblocker allowing all.

  54. Snail Darter - March 27, 2009 | 8:26 pm · Link

    @big woo:

    I’m confused.

    Yea. me too/ I clicked on it anyway being the helpful sort, but how does that benefit BJ which has not an Amazon Icon?

    Another mad perfessor experiment, I expect, made to vapor lock we blockhead minions. It always works on Moi’, but at least now, I suspect I being rickrolled.

    Stuck

  55. Anne - March 27, 2009 | 8:27 pm · Link

    Missing the Friday evening Tunch cam expose….

    My old girl Daisy passed away just a week ago today from kidney disease. She was 20, the sweetie.

  56. Mission To Marzipan - March 27, 2009 | 8:33 pm · Link

    @Litlebritdifrnt: I don’t know how to express a huge, unexpected, inhalation of air in print??
    HUH?
    GASP?
    EEERP?

    I can’t believe you got it there already! Prolly be Labor Day before we see it here in Tiny Town. I’m so happy for you (and if you believe that..) and now so obsessed for me. I will probably have to stop at every market between here and xxxx while I am out driving around tomorrow.
    But I really am thrilled to hear it is as good as I dared hope!

  57. John Cole - March 27, 2009 | 8:35 pm · Link

    I need to get a copy of the image. Then I will throw the old amazon link back up.

  58. Mike in NC - March 27, 2009 | 8:36 pm · Link

    Between KO, and Tweety and Contessa the last few days, MSNBC has been bringin’ the goods. Even that asshat Joe Scarborough was totally ripping the GOP Budget roll-out. Love It!

    In that case, it sounds like a corporate smack-down is forthcoming. Keith will be the last holdout, I guess.

  59. wb - March 27, 2009 | 8:36 pm · Link

    Everywhere he went, people were thrilled to see him.

    Nope, not bad at all.

    Here’s to you, Chester.

  60. Laura W - March 27, 2009 | 8:37 pm · Link

    @Anne: So sorry, Anne. 20 is amazing! I have a 16 and 17 y/o, and a few posters here have seniors in that range. 20 is really something for a kitty. That’s a lot of history the two of you shared. You must be missing Daisy something fierce.

  61. AhabTRuler - March 27, 2009 | 8:37 pm · Link

    @Laura W:

    the Monkey Boy glare of Her Royal Highness, the Princessa Momo Sprout de la Hope and Joy y Changey

    Momo sez: Grumble!

  62. JenJen - March 27, 2009 | 8:38 pm · Link

    @Montysano: A toast!!

    I attended a funeral, too; it’s been that kind of week, hasn’t it?

    Take care of yourself… losing a best friend is so difficult, in so many different ways.

  63. Laura W - March 27, 2009 | 8:44 pm · Link

    @AhabTRuler: oh my…where can I send the bill c/o Momo for the couch slipcovers?
    That is SO funny!

    I knew I screwed up her name. Hope and….uh….uh…??
    I was in on the edit and you know how crazy-making that countdown clock can be when you are trying to draw old dusty stuff out of your memory?

  64. Snail Darter - March 27, 2009 | 8:46 pm · Link

    @Montysano:

    Me and my childhood friends are the same age and so far, they are all still around. I figure that will change in the not so distant future, and unless I’m the first to bite the dust, I wonder how I’ll take it. Don’t drink much anymore, but a snort of Diet Caffeine Free Sam’s Cola for your pal!

    And hospitals are more dangerous than Wingnut Secret Agent Bachmann.

  65. Colonel Danite - March 27, 2009 | 8:49 pm · Link

    General Erick Erickson over RedState lays out the current Republican theory of governance – do the opposite of whatever the left does. There is no thought, no real counter argument, just ignorant blather.

  66. Litlebritdifrnt - March 27, 2009 | 8:54 pm · Link

    @Mission To Marzipan:

    To be honest I was gobsmacked to see it this evening when I went to the grocery store on my way home, I just snuck by the Ben and Jerry’s section out of curiosity and there it was. There is something rather spectacular when sticking a spoonful of ice cream into ones mouth only to have it melt into a glob of marzipan. I didn’t really notice the almond cookies or anything like that but the fact that the marzipan remained after the ice cream had melted was wonderful. NOM NOM NOM.

  67. big woo - March 27, 2009 | 8:55 pm · Link

    @John Cole: #57

    Cool. I have many things to order.

  68. Comrade Stuck - March 27, 2009 | 8:56 pm · Link

    @Colonel Danite:

    There is no thought, no real counter argument, just ignorant blather.

    Tomorrow, house wingnuts will release their Pro-thought, and Pro-non-ignorant blather plan for America.

    TAXXY CUTS for the the Aristocracy, but cake only for poor people/who’s duty it is to pay, and pay dearly.

  69. Montysano - March 27, 2009 | 8:57 pm · Link

    @JenJen:

    Take care of yourself… losing a best friend is so difficult, in so many different ways.

    OTOH, I was always suspicious of his countertops.

  70. futzinfarb - March 27, 2009 | 8:59 pm · Link

    It occurs to me that "Reebok" would be a very good name for a cat.

  71. Litlebritdifrnt - March 27, 2009 | 9:00 pm · Link

    Speaking of ordering things, I am on a 600 thread count Egyptian Cotton sheet thing right now. I bought a set off E-bay recently and now I refuse to sleep in anything else. Just ordered two more sets. (For my summer weight comforter, the last two sets were for the winter weight comforter)

  72. AhabTRuler - March 27, 2009 | 9:01 pm · Link

    @Montysano: Do any of us truly know the stuff from which our friends’ countertops are made?

    Errr, metaphorically speaking, that is.

  73. cyntax - March 27, 2009 | 9:04 pm · Link

    @Anne:

    Awww… that’s too bad, but 20 is a pretty good run.

    Alternately, I think I’m going to miss the irony of the PJ ads.

  74. Just Some Fuckhead - March 27, 2009 | 9:05 pm · Link

    Also, the easiest way to support this website is if you use Amazon, to click through before you shop

    Do you get to see what your commenters purchase? Because that would be pretty cool.

    Although with this crowd here, it’s prolly the same two items every time.

    1 Furminator in your shopping cart. Customers who bought this item also bought a neti pot.

  75. AhabTRuler - March 27, 2009 | 9:09 pm · Link

    @Laura W: The Princessa has graciously condescended to rescind the order for your execution.

  76. cyntax - March 27, 2009 | 9:10 pm · Link

    Also, the easiest way to support this website is if you use Amazon, to click through before you shop

    Yeah, or to cover all the bases [so to speak], you could cut a deal with Good Vibrations…

    Just sayin.

  77. Comrade Stuck - March 27, 2009 | 9:10 pm · Link

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    I read that and thought you must have paid a Pharo’s ransom for it. Then Checked Ebay and they are only 13 bucks new. Getting ready to order one or two to replace my mere 300 count ones. Sheets are as important for good living as comfortable socks and proper fitting underwear.

    Another example of important stuff a body gleans from BJ.

    Oh, and thank you!

  78. Laura W - March 27, 2009 | 9:11 pm · Link

    @Just Some Fuckhead: Customers who bought Furminator and Neti Pot also bought this item.

    And then they bought this item.

    Tell a Friend!

  79. Rosali - March 27, 2009 | 9:12 pm · Link

    I wish I had known about the Amazon link here before I bought my Kindle and the cover. Please put it up soon because I’m busy looking for books to order.

  80. AhabTRuler - March 27, 2009 | 9:16 pm · Link

    @Just Some Fuckhead: Hey, as a John Cole fanboi, I also got the HEPA filter, too!

    Then I turned the box into a Scottish cat toy.

  81. Comrade Stuck - March 27, 2009 | 9:18 pm · Link

    @Laura W:

    Nose vacuum and ear hair trimmer.

    But does it pick Dingleberries too?

  82. AhabTRuler - March 27, 2009 | 9:19 pm · Link

    And then they bought this item.

    Yes, but does it work? I was thinking of getting one.

    For a friend that is. I would never be so vain as to worry about such things.

  83. South of I-10 - March 27, 2009 | 9:19 pm · Link

    @Comrade Stuck and Littlbritdifrnt: check Overstock too, they have good deals on high thread count sheets.

  84. AhabTRuler - March 27, 2009 | 9:22 pm · Link

    Jesus. The old fart factor for this thread just shot to 11.

  85. Boomin - March 27, 2009 | 9:23 pm · Link

    Here’s another to Chester…I’m sorry for your loss.

  86. Litlebritdifrnt - March 27, 2009 | 9:23 pm · Link

    @Comrade Stuck:

    I used to be "the cheapest sheets I could find at the family dollar" type person, until I purchased a set of 400 thread count sheets at the North Myrtle Beach flea market, once I had slept under those sheets I refused to use any others, which meant me taking them off the bed, washing them, and drying them on the line in the same day in order to sleep well at night. I am now an absolute and utter sheet nazi, I will not sleep in sheets that are less than 600 thread count Egyptian Cotton, I am not sure how I came to be at this place, but I am, and damn if I am ever going to go back, however thanks to E-bay, I don’t have to, seeing as a set of 600 tcs are now tops $30.00 including shipping.

  87. passerby - March 27, 2009 | 9:25 pm · Link

    @Anne:

    Wow 20. She musta lived like a queen. Kisses to Daisy.

  88. Just Some Fuckhead - March 27, 2009 | 9:26 pm · Link

    @AhabTRuler: This is why nursing homes have to schedule activity times.

  89. Tattoosydney - March 27, 2009 | 9:29 pm · Link

    Good morning…. (Hi Laura, Hi Fuckhead… hope you’re well).

    A gorgeous late summer day in Sydney. Just back from the gym (urgh). Listening to my favourite new song (I know Pet Shop Boys aren’t to every taste, but this is a hell of a song – it builds wonderfully).

  90. passerby - March 27, 2009 | 9:30 pm · Link

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    600 tcs?! Okay, I’m sold. During the winter months tho it’s lush flannel for me.

  91. Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse - March 27, 2009 | 9:32 pm · Link

    I need to see video of someone using a neti pot on their cat.

    I can wait. It will be worth it.

  92. Just Some Fuckhead - March 27, 2009 | 9:33 pm · Link

    @Tattoosydney: I sent one to Laura earlier this evening that she said I had to save for you. So here it is:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18qTiU6d8dY&

  93. Mike in NC - March 27, 2009 | 9:38 pm · Link

    I purchased a set of 400 thread count sheets at the North Myrtle Beach flea market, once I had slept under those sheets I refused to use any others, which meant me taking them off the bed, washing them, and drying them on the line in the same day in order to sleep well at night.

    Well, we live a few miles from there and we really need an excuse to go back, seeing how it was about the seediest flea market we’ve encountered in the USofA in 20+ years of going to such things. They do have some nice painted hubcaps and rusty golfclubs. Actually, flea markets in New Orleans were worse, and that was before Katrina.

  94. Tattoosydney - March 27, 2009 | 9:39 pm · Link

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    One of my favourite songs ever. I love it shamelessly – Dusty and the PSB - what’s not to love?

    I’m not sure if I have linked to this one before… Rufus Wainwright’s voice plays right into my love of the slightly wonky.

  95. Bad Horse's Filly - March 27, 2009 | 9:40 pm · Link

    @Just Some Fuckhead: Coffee on the keyboard!

  96. Just Some Fuckhead - March 27, 2009 | 9:41 pm · Link

    @Tattoosydney: Do you feel like Dusty Springfield kinda looks like an over-the-hill drag queen in that video? Do you think that was the intention or they just got lucky?

  97. Comrade Stuck - March 27, 2009 | 9:41 pm · Link

    @AhabTRuler:

    That’s still a notch or two below the ever present snot nose whippersnapper factor.

  98. Anne - March 27, 2009 | 9:42 pm · Link

    Thanks to all very much for the love for Miss Daisy.

  99. Comrade Stuck - March 27, 2009 | 9:44 pm · Link

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    Same here, always bought cheap 150 or 200 at most TC, until splurging on a 300 counter. Sheets then went up on my chart for easy living.

  100. AhabTRuler - March 27, 2009 | 9:44 pm · Link

    @Comrade Stuck: I try to keep a foot in both circles, as it were. Crotchety, yet hip.

  101. Tattoosydney - March 27, 2009 | 9:45 pm · Link

    And my entry for the day in the "Scary crap no-one should ever be exposed to" is also courtesy of the Pet Shop Boys….

    Liza, losing her mind, and (apparently) her good sense (such as it was) not to appear in shit like this. If you can bear it, hang around for scary drag alternative personality Liza at the end. Chillingly bad.

  102. Tattoosydney - March 27, 2009 | 9:46 pm · Link

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    Unfortunately, by that point Dusty WAS an over-the-hill drag queen. Thankfully the voice survived a little longer than her looks.

  103. WereBear - March 27, 2009 | 9:49 pm · Link

    Sorry to hear, Montysano. Good friends are so rare and precious.

  104. Laura W - March 27, 2009 | 9:49 pm · Link

    @Tattoosydney: Hi TS! What perfect timing you have. Why, it’s almost like you heard us talking about you and The Pet Shop Boys! How freaky is that?
    (I consumed all my Cheeky Lemon Sauce and am halfway done with the Lime Riesling Jelly. Errrrppp…)

    Happy Friday Night Link Wars!

    Edit: After watching this video, I could totally go lesbo for this woman.

  105. Just Some Fuckhead - March 27, 2009 | 9:56 pm · Link

    Who doesn’t love Last Date

    And REM’s cover is even better.

  106. Bad Horse's Filly - March 27, 2009 | 9:56 pm · Link

    Well if we’re going to talk about odd things to purchase here at BJ (600 TC sheets excluded!). I just purchased a pair of these off of EBAY to compliment my cycling training. If they work, no more ellipitical or treadmill on cold/rainy/windy days.

    KangooJumpBoots

    There’s video, too, if you’re looking for fun.

  107. AhabTRuler - March 27, 2009 | 9:59 pm · Link

    @Tattoosydney: When I meet people who think that I am losing my mind, I introduce them to the killer inside me.

  108. Tattoosydney - March 27, 2009 | 10:00 pm · Link

    @Laura W:

    Nice. Very nice.

    Were you being disparaging about my PSB obsession? (there’s a new album out – I can’t help it)

  109. Laura W - March 27, 2009 | 10:00 pm · Link

    @Tattoosydney: Well, I actually liked that! In a campy, perverted way, of course. It reminded me of a Streisand song/video I can’t find now cuz I’m rushing to refill wine cuz Hitchens is on Maher!

    (Disparaging? NEVER! As soon as I saw FH’s PSB’s song earlier I simply told him to be sure to keep it handy for sharing when you showed up later tonight. I knew you’d like it. And there you came, in through the barn doors, with your new PSBs t-shirt and tote! It was perfect.)

  110. Just Some Fuckhead - March 27, 2009 | 10:02 pm · Link

    My music link comment went poof. Oh well, only me and Mary woulda liked it anyway.

  111. AhabTRuler - March 27, 2009 | 10:03 pm · Link

    Although it is difficult when awash in waves of fear.

  112. Laura W - March 27, 2009 | 10:22 pm · Link

    @AhabTRuler: Can’t hear Lou Reed without thinking of my Patti.

  113. Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse - March 27, 2009 | 10:32 pm · Link

    JSF, are you saying that there won’t be any more? But I’m sitting and thinking that it can’t be right.

    (My old bandmates from the thrash band I was in during the 80s would never believe I loved some kinds of country so, so much.)

  114. Just Some Fuckhead - March 27, 2009 | 10:37 pm · Link

    Since yer still around, here they are..

    Last Date

    REMs cover

  115. Just Some Fuckhead - March 27, 2009 | 10:38 pm · Link

    My music link comment went poof again.

  116. Just Some Fuckhead - March 27, 2009 | 10:39 pm · Link

    Last Date

  117. Just Some Fuckhead - March 27, 2009 | 10:40 pm · Link

    Again. Now I’m humming it for ya, Mary. Are you digging it?

  118. Laura W - March 27, 2009 | 10:46 pm · Link

    @Just Some Fuckhead: Whassup up with the sudden e-link-tile dysfunction here, Fuckhead? It’s not like you to not be able to get them up quickly, on demand.

  119. big woo - March 27, 2009 | 10:48 pm · Link

    @AhabTRuler:

    Two favorites smashing head-on.

    Thank you.

  120. Just Some Fuckhead - March 27, 2009 | 10:55 pm · Link

    @Laura W: I blame Cole for running such a crappy site. Any other prominent blogger woulda already picked up a websavvy sidekick to kick the site in high gear. Cole picks up a commenter who spends more time playing other commenters.

  121. KRK - March 27, 2009 | 11:03 pm · Link

    Nice kitties.

    @Montysano: My condolences on the deaths of your dad and your friend. Safe journey.

    @Anne: Sorry for your loss. Glad you enjoyed such a long run.

    You all going on about your sheet indulgences are settling. 100% linen is the way to go.

  122. Laura W - March 27, 2009 | 11:04 pm · Link

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    Cole picks up a commenter who spends more time playing other commenters.

    Sounds pretty twisted, Fuckhead.

  123. Tim F. - March 27, 2009 | 11:22 pm · Link

    Any other prominent blogger woulda already picked up a websavvy sidekick to kick the site in high gear.

    1. DougJ personally melted down Tom Maguire and Jeff Goldstein’s websites. I wouldn’t sell him short.

    2. That high gear guy was me. Can’t you smell the adrenaline?

  124. AhabTRuler - March 27, 2009 | 11:33 pm · Link

    DougJ personally melted down Tom Maguire and Jeff Goldstein’s websites.

    Like this site needs his help for that.

  125. Wini - March 27, 2009 | 11:36 pm · Link

    For any college hockey fans out there, UMD scores twice in the last 40 seconds of the 3rd period to tie it up and go to overtime against Princeton.

  126. big woo - March 27, 2009 | 11:38 pm · Link

    @Tim F.:

    I appreciate DougJ ’s efforts, but Jeff Goldstein isn’t quite done melting down yet. There are still opportunities in that venue.

  127. AhabTRuler - March 27, 2009 | 11:43 pm · Link

    any college hockey fans

    [chirp-chirp, chirp-chirp, chirp-chirp]

  128. Catsy - March 27, 2009 | 11:52 pm · Link

    TGIF

    Fuck that. I’m still at work and I have to spend most of this weekend patching upward of 1000 servers.

    If I ever meet the cockbite who wrote this stupid worm, I’m going to shove CDs of Windows ME up his ass until you can see bluescreens in his eyes.

  129. Just Some Fuckhead - March 28, 2009 | 12:00 am · Link

    Thanks for the history, Tim F. I wasn’t serious.

  130. reality-based - March 28, 2009 | 12:35 am · Link

    @AhabTRuler:

    OK, I clicked through – well, what a BEAUTIFUL portrait of Feline majesty

    Just curious – is the Occupant of the Throne any special breed of cat?

    Because he/she looks a lot like my Late Lamented Darlin, Cedric the Blue-eyed boy – complete with beautiful silver-blue-fawn tabby-point markings.

    I always figured, when I got Cedric as a kitten from a shelter, that I had just won the Gorgeous, Sweet, Loving Kitty Lottery by accident – but is there actually a breed with those beautiful markings, and that loving temperment?

    appreciate any info – e

  131. Wile E. Quixote - March 28, 2009 | 1:00 am · Link

    @TattooSydney

    A gorgeous late summer day in Sydney. Just back from the gym (urgh). Listening to my favourite new song (I know Pet Shop Boys aren’t to every taste, but this is a hell of a song – it builds wonderfully).

    Hey, I love the Pet Shop Boys, if it weren’t for three songs on the Fundamental album, "I’m With Stupid", "Integral" and the Richard X extended mix of "Fugitive" on my iPod I never would have been able to do the last 50 miles of the Seattle to Portland in 2006. And I can’t have been the only straight guy at their concert in Seattle that fall, I’m sure there were others. Thousands of others damnit!

  132. auntieeminaz - March 28, 2009 | 1:39 am · Link

    @jake 4 that 1:

    love it

  133. Tattoosydney - March 28, 2009 | 1:42 am · Link

    @Wile E. Quixote:

    Richard X extended mix of "Fugitive"

    Very nice. I haven’t listened to that one for a while.

  134. Tattoosydney - March 28, 2009 | 1:47 am · Link

    @Wile E. Quixote:

    Pure and shameless dance cheese for you.

  135. Tattoosydney - March 28, 2009 | 1:57 am · Link

    @Wile E. Quixote:

    I also quite like this.

    I’m done now. And yes, when I was at their last concert in Sydney, there were straight men everywhere. I saw two at least, maybe three.

  136. Zuzu's Petals - March 28, 2009 | 2:30 am · Link

    Awwww.

    That kitty-in-da-box looks just like my 17-yr-old, right down to the "so…?!" expression.

    Actually, he’s probably twice that size, and a little worse for the wear, but still …

  137. J. Michael Neal - March 28, 2009 | 2:40 am · Link

    For any college hockey fans out there, UMD scores twice in the last 40 seconds of the 3rd period to tie it up and go to overtime against Princeton.

    Yo! With a minute left in the game, I was trying to figure out whether I was going to root for Notre Dame or Princeton the rest of the way. I can’t stand anyone in the northeast regional. Air Force is Air Force, and the best thing I can say about Vermont is that they beat Yale. Enrico Blasi is annoying and Miami plays a dull style. I can’t root for Cornell, Bemidji State isn’t going anywhere, and Northeastern is perfectly inoffensive, but, really, there’s nothing positive to say about it.

    Then, after Duluth stumbled their way through 59 minutes of hockey, Connolly pops in that nice rebound. Then, when they pulled that draw outside the zone with 12 seconds left, I thought it was over. Think Kalemba would like to have back that decision to throw the puck into the corner rather than cover up?

  138. Svensker - March 28, 2009 | 8:29 am · Link

    @AhabTRuler:

    Then I turned the box into a Scottish cat toy.

    That is one pretty kitty and a bunch of funny pics.

  139. AhabTRuler - March 28, 2009 | 12:28 pm · Link

    @reality-based: Sorry I missed your comment, but if Cedric had tabby points and blue eyes then he had a Siamese ancestor. The pointing and the blue eyes are associated with the same genetic abnormality. Mixed-breed Siamese (like many mixed breed animals) are known for keeping some of the best traits (intelligent, personable), while downplaying some of the lesser traits (they talk, but not as much as purebreds do).

    I had just won the Gorgeous, Sweet, Loving Kitty Lottery by accident – but is there actually a breed with those beautiful markings, and that loving temperment?

    If you ever meet another pointed mix-breed, grab it a give it a wonderful home. Everyone that I have spoken to who has owned one has talked about how wonderful they are.

  140. dancinfool - March 28, 2009 | 12:39 pm · Link

    Thanks for posting the pic of my oldest, Aretha, Queen of Sole. And no, you can’t have her for $39.99!


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