Proof of Life
By request:
He’s sort of just cruising around the house looking for ways to be a PITA.
*** Update ***
Argle bargle. blah blah blah
Sweet surrender on the quayside
July 23, 2010 11:12 pm
Posted in: Open Thread
114 Comments
114 Responses
General Stuck - July 23, 2010 | 11:16 pm · Link
Tunch IS King. no mo need be said.
Doctor Science - July 23, 2010 | 11:23 pm · Link
The mouseovers are priceless.
Cat Lady - July 23, 2010 | 11:25 pm · Link
That really does need to be said.
Bnut - July 23, 2010 | 11:30 pm · Link
Sounds like my girlfriend.
Jager - July 23, 2010 | 11:30 pm · Link
He’s looking for MEAT scraps, MEAT scraps, MEAT scraps!
Btw, he looks like my niece’s old cat, Booger, that nasty boy would leap on the counter and grab sausage right out of the pan. Properly fortified, he’d go out and kill a couple of birds just for the hell of it and leave them on the deck! He and Tunch would make quite a pair of widebodies.
General Stuck - July 23, 2010 | 11:32 pm · Link
@Bnut:
Feed her some tuna and she will never leave you.
JCT - July 23, 2010 | 11:33 pm · Link
He’s got the “I’m ignoring you” look down pat.
And hah, Jager—my naughty cat brings his new “friends” when they are still alive so he can get bored and set them loose in the house for us to catch.
merrinc - July 23, 2010 | 11:33 pm · Link
Noelle the Maine Coon diva caught a mouse an hour ago. Unfortunately, it got away before she could dispatch it and despite the help of the dog and another cat, there is a (probably) living cat toy somewhere in the house.
robertdsc-PowerBook & 27 titles - July 23, 2010 | 11:35 pm · Link
Love him to death. He iz KING!
Bnut - July 23, 2010 | 11:36 pm · Link
@merrinc:
And soon enough, more living cat toys, lol. Damn mice.
Corner Stone - July 23, 2010 | 11:36 pm · Link
@Bnut: When I say Hillshire you say Farms!
Hillshire!
Farms!
GO MEAT!
Strandedvandal - July 23, 2010 | 11:38 pm · Link
Fred brought in a quail this morning. Friggin thing was about as big as he is.
jl - July 23, 2010 | 11:39 pm · Link
Wonderful pictures of Tunch. He looks very satisfied. Must have been all that nice steak and Scots whisky for dinner.
Thanks!
What did the humans eat?
Jager - July 23, 2010 | 11:41 pm · Link
@JCT:
A couple of years ago, my German Shepard, Straka strolled up to me with a god damned tail hanging out of his mouth…I told him to drop it and a very confused and damp mouse fell out and scurried across the patio
wmsheppa - July 23, 2010 | 11:46 pm · Link
@John Cole you still doing pet rescue stories? I have one cat from the deserts of Utah and one cat found pregnant and dumped in WV for everyone’s viewing pleasure if so.
Violet - July 23, 2010 | 11:48 pm · Link
Awww….he looks sweet in those photos. That’s a rarity. The mouseover titles are priceless.
His tail cracks me up every time. He’s got a tiger in his tank!
JCT - July 23, 2010 | 11:52 pm · Link
@Jager:
Oh yuck!
We often joke about what the poor mice feel as Mango leaps onto the back fence and makes his way to his cat door (high window in the kitchen)—dangling the poor creature in the breeze.
One night he brought in a live pal and neither he or the 2 beagles could capture it. I heard him chasing the poor thing all night. The next AM my husband told me that he had found the mouse… floating in one of the dog’s water dishes! Husband quipped that he couldn’t decide if Mango was washing his “friend” and accidentally drowned it or the little thing took his own life.
I can see by the thread my pet is not the only one who pulls this annoying stunt.
muddy - July 23, 2010 | 11:53 pm · Link
I’m trying to remember if I have ever seen hind legs on Tunch.
Bnut - July 23, 2010 | 11:54 pm · Link
I call for an official BJ cute pet contest. Front pagers are forbidden from entry. My dog will win. I bet 20 internet bucks on it.
burnspbesq - July 23, 2010 | 11:54 pm · Link
@General Stuck:
Bad Stuck! How many time have I told you not to eat trolls? Now you’re going to puke Uncle Clarence Thomas all over my freshly cleaned carpet.
BR - July 23, 2010 | 11:59 pm · Link
So I was digging through my music collection and ran across this gem, from 1996. It’s by a Canadian band most folks probably never have heard of:
Yes, they’re a bunch of angry Canadians, who are obviously shrill:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5YZ7FELtCI
Bnut - July 23, 2010 | 11:59 pm · Link
@burnspbesq:
Never been called a troll on BJ before. Kind of funny.
Rommie - July 24, 2010 | 12:01 am · Link
I think all he’s missing is a Pointy Hat and he could be a lawn ornament.
Corner Stone - July 24, 2010 | 12:01 am · Link
Picard is the superior officer.
There. I said it.
Corner Stone - July 24, 2010 | 12:03 am · Link
@Bnut: Even though I don’t think burnie meant anything with that against you, I will say he does see himself as a rope tender for BJ.
He’s all about the inside v outside.
Probably due to his Dukie heritage.
Bnut - July 24, 2010 | 12:05 am · Link
@Corner Stone:
Yikes, a Duke guy. Well, I’m a Yankees fan, so I can understand his defensiveness.
General Stuck - July 24, 2010 | 12:06 am · Link
@Bnut: I don’t think he was calling you a troll. It referenced something happening on another thread.
burnspbesq - July 24, 2010 | 12:08 am · Link
@Bnut:
I realize it’s late on Friday night, but reading comprehension is a good skill to keep in your toolkit at all times. Unless you are Stuck, I wasn’t talking to you. And unless you are Uncle Clarence Thomas, I wasn’t referring to you.
Corner Stone - July 24, 2010 | 12:09 am · Link
@Bnut: burnspesq also loves the Yankees, sad to say. Loves them almost as much as Cole loves the organ.
Bnut - July 24, 2010 | 12:11 am · Link
Maybe it’s the rolling rock, or the kind, or the insane rabbits as PMC’s. Just not a good night for comprehension all around.
scav - July 24, 2010 | 12:11 am · Link
No pets but I did for a while have mice showing up in my appt mailbox. The one inset into the wall in the front hall. Brick building. I learned to open the mailbox door very very gingerly and to check for mail even if there were no deliveries to let them out. The most memorable inhabitant came flying out at me at eye level, dropped to the floor and proceeded to run head-first at high speed into all three walls of the hall—somehow without knocking himself out—before managing to make it out the door. It was like being in a pinball machine.
Jennifer - July 24, 2010 | 12:11 am · Link
For anyone who’s bored, I’ve got Fox’s clip of the Taliban monkey jihadist with the gun photoshopped into his hand up over at my joint.
I’m suggesting that all future discussions of “equivalence” between right-wing and other media be answered with a shorter: “Monkeys. With guns photoshopped into their hands.”
burnspbesq - July 24, 2010 | 12:13 am · Link
@Bnut:
We’re not defensive. We understand that consistent excellence brings out hatred from the small-minded. We revel in their hate. Small price to pay, when you get to celebrate two Championship Mondays in two months.
sfinny - July 24, 2010 | 12:14 am · Link
Lovely pictures and love the captions. Fortunately my cat does not throw up often, but when he does it is strategically located in my morning path.
Last week I woke up to a dead bird in the hallway from my bedroom. Stupidly I left the door to the patio open for air (its been very hot in the NE) and Uncle Joe managed to get a bird off of the terrace, which is no mean feat, and left it for me. Well at least he was happy (not my favorite thing to dispose of dead birds early in the morning).
OT: Driving home on Wednesday I swear that a tornado passed by me. I had to pull off the road because I couldn’t see even with the wipers at full, and debris was flying around like crazy. This does not happen in CT often but it has happened more in the last five years then when I grew up here. Scared the crap out of me on my drive home.
Mister Papercut - July 24, 2010 | 12:14 am · Link
You tell me, as a blogger, how Balloon Juice put up a picture today purported to be John Cole’s cat? What did you do to find out whether or not that was John Cole’s actual cat?
Tunch = plant
Bnut - July 24, 2010 | 12:15 am · Link
@burnspbesq:
I will feel this in a few months when Bama wins back to back national championships.
Yutsano - July 24, 2010 | 12:15 am · Link
@Bnut:
I just want to give you hope, as both of these conditions are curable.
This, however, I have a tougher time arguing against.
@MikeJ: This is precisely why I want a place on either Queen Anne hill or West Seattle. Actually I think I’ll be happy with any location with easy access to 99. Goes right by the new job.
MikeJ - July 24, 2010 | 12:16 am · Link
I got Red Sox tickets for Sunday. Apparently they’re going to play the local fishermen. And I will eat Ichi-rolls and drink Manny’s until I can’t drive home.
scav - July 24, 2010 | 12:18 am · Link
@Mister Papercut: who you calling a vegetable punk? Check page three of your reader. C is for . . . :)
ETA: more clues, NOT a mineral and check your kingdoms.
Kered (formerly Derek) - July 24, 2010 | 12:19 am · Link
Mmmmm, pita.
burnspbesq - July 24, 2010 | 12:19 am · Link
@BR:
I don’t like that at all. Not even a tiny bit.
Politically conscious Canadians? Already got one. Think I’ll stick with the one I’ve got.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8CibAuvZM4
Yutsano - July 24, 2010 | 12:19 am · Link
@scav: Cookie? That’s good enough for me!
gbear - July 24, 2010 | 12:23 am · Link
Those pictures don’t look like proof of life to me. They look more like proof of taxidermy or, at the least, proof of rigor mortis. Maybe proof of extreme cannabis intake…
scav - July 24, 2010 | 12:23 am · Link
@Yutsano: how ‘bout Cabernet? Cahors if we’re lucky.
BR - July 24, 2010 | 12:26 am · Link
@burnspbesq:
Yeah, I wouldn’t say Propagandhi is the most accessible or listenable band. But I somehow find them awesome anyway. And somehow their lyrics always end up being so sadly true even years later…
Emma - July 24, 2010 | 12:27 am · Link
sfinny: there were tornado warnings for CT on Wed.
Tunch is definitely a Turkish Van. Does he like water? His coat is most likely water-repellent, really.
The Dangerman - July 24, 2010 | 12:27 am · Link
@gbear:
Proof of massive consumption of tuna as a way of life.
KG - July 24, 2010 | 12:29 am · Link
@Corner Stone: was that a joke/reference that I missed? It feels like one, and I don’t want to go Comicon here…
Mary G - July 24, 2010 | 12:29 am · Link
You read our comments! You really, really read our comments!
Tattoosydney - July 24, 2010 | 12:36 am · Link
@Yutsano:
Hello.
@ all:
Why Back to the Future is secretly horrifying.
Yutsano - July 24, 2010 | 12:38 am · Link
@Tattoosydney: Kon ban/nichi wa. I just got home from dinner with the parents and have a massive chocolate craving I may go indulge here sooner rather than later. I don’t think the chocolate milk is gonna cut it.
Corner Stone - July 24, 2010 | 12:38 am · Link
@KG: Well…kind of a joke I guess. But nothing to do with comic-con.
It’s from Family Guy:
I just caught the end of a ST:TNG while surfing.
I love Picard.
There. I said it.
burnspbesq - July 24, 2010 | 12:41 am · Link
@Yutsano:
Haagen-Dazs chocolate chocolate chip. An entire pint.
You know you want to.
Yutsano - July 24, 2010 | 12:44 am · Link
@burnspbesq: :: gnashes teeth mightily ::
Damn you. I didn’t necessarily want to go to the store tonight. You may have just forced my hand here.
KG - July 24, 2010 | 12:45 am · Link
@Corner Stone: ah, yeah, I know the Family Guy episode. I like Picard, too. Not to go too Trekkie on it, but I don’t think you can really compare the two. TOS was set in a more wild time than TNG. I think you could arguably compare Kirk and Archer; and Picard to Janeway or Sisko. It’s a historical thing. It’s like trying to compare Washington to FDR, completely different worlds.
JCT - July 24, 2010 | 12:45 am · Link
I must say that in the first picture Tunch looks like he is sitting on an orange kitty.
That tail is a scream.
Tattoosydney - July 24, 2010 | 12:45 am · Link
@Yutsano:
I’m trying to get up the energy to make date tarts, but it’s a sunny but cold Saturday afternoon, and I don’t know if I can quite be bothered for today anyway.
Anne Laurie - July 24, 2010 | 12:47 am · Link
@wmsheppa: Rescue stories always welcome! Email your photos & story to me (address at the top right-hand corner) . I’ll front-page them if Cole doesn’t beat me to it.
burnspbesq - July 24, 2010 | 12:48 am · Link
@Yutsano:
My work is done here. I believe I’ll be moving on.
Yutsano - July 24, 2010 | 12:50 am · Link
@Tattoosydney: I’m making a corn and black bean salad with corn left over from dinner tonight plus a knock-off of a trifle involving lemon cake, chocolate pudding, strawberries, and blueberries. Plus roast chicken for dinner tomorrow. I think I’m in a cooking fit again, although something tells me I’m not going to bother to bake the jelly roll cake I was planning on (even though it’s dastardly easy) and just use ladyfingers. I dunno, I’m leaving all that for tomorrow.
SIA - July 24, 2010 | 12:51 am · Link
Van Jones gives an excellent talk at the net roots conference.
scav - July 24, 2010 | 12:53 am · Link
There are certainly signs of a right old life coming out the Vatican / Rome recently. Guardian
KG - July 24, 2010 | 12:56 am · Link
@Tattoosydney: I have learned, over the years, to not think too hard about time paradoxes when it comes to time travel stories. The most recent one that has begun to annoy me is on Eureka. But yes, Back to the Future, the entire trilogy is so full of plot holes that it’s crazy. That said, anyone says anything bad about Doctor Who, I will start throwing blows.
Violet - July 24, 2010 | 12:58 am · Link
@burnspbesq:
No. Ben and Jerry’s Phish Food or New York Super Fudge Chunk. The dark chocolate fish/chunks really satisfy a chocolate craving.
Corner Stone - July 24, 2010 | 12:58 am · Link
Am I alone in thinking we’ve missed some significant portion of the “Evangeline Lilly Era” by her being buried on such a ghost ship like Lost?
slag - July 24, 2010 | 1:02 am · Link
@SIA: That was a great talk. If you missed the Van Jones convo in the other thread, I’ll sum up:
Consensus is Van Jones is made of awesome and is quite the hottie.
Obviously, it was a deep conversation.
SIA - July 24, 2010 | 1:10 am · Link
@slag:Can’t argue with that assessment.
Tattoosydney - July 24, 2010 | 1:12 am · Link
@Yutsano:
I have found this recipe for the Australian version to be remarkably simple.
slag - July 24, 2010 | 1:17 am · Link
@SIA: Indeed. And contra Atrios, the message of Van Jones’ speech had nothing to do with clapping louder. It had to do with taking responsibility upon ourselves for the direction of the progressive movement. And, if anything, ignoring the President and the Administration and focusing on local politics instead as doing so will better help us deepen the grassroots.
He’s right, of course. Getting pissy at this Administration hasn’t done much for us. We’re better off focusing on the things we can control. But sadly, we still lack organization and unity, which can never come from without.
Tattoosydney - July 24, 2010 | 1:21 am · Link
@KG:
I read an comment (somewhere on FlickFilosopher) that much of Doctor Who should be read as fantasy, not science fiction, and therefore time holes and paradoxes could be fixed by the simple expedient of magic. I quite liked the argument. Also, the argument that it’s a kids show that adults are allowed to watch, so get the hell over the whole time paradox thing.
That said, I was amazed by the number of comments I read (on other websites) after the final show where (no spoilers) the commenter just didn’t understand how what had happened happened.
Re: link above – If you like Dr Who, and haven’t read FF then you are in for a treat. Note the Spoiler warning at the top of each of her pages, if by some chance you haven’t seen the season finale.
burnspbesq - July 24, 2010 | 1:22 am · Link
@Tattoosydney:
Hey, mate, WTF was Ponting thinking, choosing to bat???
I assume he’s getting roundly sledged by the local media.
SIA - July 24, 2010 | 1:25 am · Link
@slag: I also liked the part in the Q&A about John Kerry. I agree with him whole-heartedly there.
hamletta - July 24, 2010 | 1:29 am · Link
@sfinny: The late, great Priscilla (so named because she had perfect kohl-like rings around her eyes, the way Elvis liked it) was a calico, and therefore a mighty hunter.
One spring, a bird came down the chimney, as they almost always do.
I could hear the desperate flapping of wings, but I did not care, because birds are just rats with feathers.
Some time later, I ventured out to the front room and found two neatly amputated wings. And nothing else.
Figuring she’d eaten the rest, I disposed of them and went about my day.
When it came time for bed, I pulled back the covers, only to find a rat-bird’s head in my bed!
It was then that I realized my kitty was a member of the Mob.
What nefarious message she was transmitting I never understood, because some time later, she shot out the front door in pursuit of a bird in the neighbor’s yard and got eated by his asshole dog. The end.
Yutsano - July 24, 2010 | 1:32 am · Link
@burnspbesq: That he doesn’t want to get laid tonight?
Corner Stone - July 24, 2010 | 1:34 am · Link
@slag:
An example?
Yutsano - July 24, 2010 | 1:45 am · Link
Too much Laphroaig?
slag - July 24, 2010 | 1:47 am · Link
@SIA: I think he’s right about the fact that we need to stop treating Democrats who lose elections as losers. And I do consider John Kerry a hero in several respects. But I wish he would help us help him a little more by not saying stuff like this: “we believe we have compromised significantly, and we’re prepared to compromise further.” Seriously. Not helping.
Corner Stone - July 24, 2010 | 1:49 am · Link
@Yutsano:
I’m pretty sure that’s the breadth and scope of what Cole defines as “mayhem”.
Steeplejack - July 24, 2010 | 1:56 am · Link
@Yutsano, @Corner Stone:
My God, he’s channeling Dire Straits. Get some coffee, stat! (With maybe just a jigger of Kahlúa in it.)
Yutsano - July 24, 2010 | 2:07 am · Link
@Steeplejack: This may be a hopeless cause. JC may be Tunch food by morning at this rate.
Steeplejack - July 24, 2010 | 2:11 am · Link
@Yutsano:
The horror, the horror . . .
I can’t stay around for this. I have to get my beauty sleep so I can sack up and get out in the 101° heat tomorrow. Good times.
Mañana.
Tattoosydney - July 24, 2010 | 2:16 am · Link
@burnspbesq:
I confess that the attractions of cricket pass me by (except when Mitchell Johnson takes his shirt off).
I do admit to an odd schadenfreude when Australia gets thumped, mainly because our national sporting ego can use the occasional sharp elbow in the ribs.
gwangung - July 24, 2010 | 2:22 am · Link
Ah, so you did get a new job. Cool!
Just be careful not to live ON 99 when its Aurora Avenue. Getting back to be a main drag for hookers and drugs on some blocks…
gwangung - July 24, 2010 | 2:25 am · Link
@slag:
Huh. I always had the feeling that if you didn’t have control at the local level, it was a contradiction in terms for the “grassroots” to go looking for power at the national level—in order to make a splash at the national level, you HAD to dig in deep at the local level.
slag - July 24, 2010 | 2:36 am · Link
@gwangung: Indeed. Personally, I think we need to work both levels simultaneously. But then, I’ve always been a multi-tasker (aka a half-assed-er).
Hob - July 24, 2010 | 2:37 am · Link
@Strandedvandal: Heh heh… I’ve lived with one GSD and one strange sheproid mix, and they’re both the world’s least mighty hunters. Both have accidentally found themselves face to face with the next-door cat that they had barked so many death threats at, and ran away even faster than the cat. One caught a squirrel and didn’t know what to do with it and dropped it unharmed. One found a gopher peeking out of a gopher hole in the park, and ignored the gopher in order to pee into the hole.
Hob - July 24, 2010 | 2:38 am · Link
@slag: I’m more of a half-tasking multi-asser.
ETA: +5
slag - July 24, 2010 | 2:39 am · Link
@Hob: Well…if it works for you, I say go forth and multi-ass!
Yutsano - July 24, 2010 | 2:43 am · Link
@gwangung: I actually found a place on 2nd and Yosler, which is basically Pioneer Square. And they’re practically giving it away. Only major reason I can think of is, well, it’s Pioneer Square. It’s not exactly known as a quiet neighborhood.
JGabriel - July 24, 2010 | 4:17 am · Link
@BR: Thanks for that link to Propagandhi. Great song.
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NobodySpecial - July 24, 2010 | 4:42 am · Link
My original cat (named Cat, of course) was a mighty hunter and responsible for evidently feeding his family, as we ended up with I don’t know how many birds, mice, and the occasional bat on our porch. On the other hand, his daughter was a strange one – she liked to eat the legs off mice and leave them there, still alive.
Lesley - July 24, 2010 | 4:56 am · Link
I know I’m late to this Tunch love in but I have a question no one has asked.
How long did it Mr. Throw Up Here to walk from here to there?
asiangrrlMN - July 24, 2010 | 5:19 am · Link
Cole, if you just posted pics of Tunchie 24/7, I would be a MUCH happier woman. I love that cat with a passion bordering on stalkerish (but not quite. I am too fucking lazy to stalk anyone. In fact, I wrote an essay about why Alan Rickman didn’t have to worry about me stalking him, unless he moved into my house, at which point, I wouldn’t have to stalk him).
@hamletta: I am sure that was not fun in the moment, but it makes a great story (the head in the bed). My boys don’t sleep with me ‘coz of my allergies. One morning, I went out and petted them per usual. I saw something on the ground (I don’t turn on lights) and assumed it was a cat toy. I picked it up to throw it for them. It was warm. I thought, “Cat poop?” Um, no. It was a freshly-killed mouse. I dropped it, but managed to gather myself so I could praise them for being mighty hunters. Then I got rid of the carcass (perfectly intact).
Anyone still up?
Tattoosydney - July 24, 2010 | 5:30 am · Link
@asiangrrlMN:
Hello. I am baking potatoes in duck fat. Yum.
asiangrrlMN - July 24, 2010 | 5:31 am · Link
All right, then. I will leave the morning crew with this song. It’s Freaks from the movie, Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Night.
@Tattoosydney: OK, that sounds to die for! How you be? Over your bad stomach, I hope.
roshan - July 24, 2010 | 5:32 am · Link
A good read: Wars Don’t Make Heroes
asiangrrlMN - July 24, 2010 | 5:39 am · Link
@roshan: Wow. There’s a lot of meat to digest there. I think, in general, I agree with his assertion that those fighting in wars are not automatically heroes. In fact, labeling them such strips them of their humanity, I think. Thanks for the link. I will have to mull it over more.
And with that, I am really retiring now. Night.
thalarctos - July 24, 2010 | 6:13 am · Link
@asiangrrlMN:
You know, if you’d asked me before I took this particular cat-sitting gig in Philadelphia a few years back, what my preference in cleaning up dead mice from the living room floor would be, in the lack of any experience I’d have gone with guessing fresh-killed over indefinitely-long-dead in provenance.
Just goes to show you how naïve I was then—Pete helpfully provided enough data points over the course of the summer to disprove that hypothesis. I had totally underestimated how helpful rigor mortis is in picking up a dead rodent with minimum contact. A freshly-killed, still warm, mouse is floppy and squishy and hard to manage through the layers of plastic, while a mouse in rigor can be easily picked up with two fingers and a wad of plastic, and then simply flipped into the garbage bag.
Bet you won’t find THAT tip in Martha Stewart, eh?
wormtown - July 24, 2010 | 6:17 am · Link
@Jennifer: Is that real? Cripes, I really can’t tell anymore.
P.S. Haven’t read the entire thread; so maybe discussion below your comment….............
kommrade reproductive vigor - July 24, 2010 | 7:44 am · Link
Wasn’t he on a diet at some point? When did you say “Ah fuck it” and start buying him whale blubber?
kid bitzer - July 24, 2010 | 8:08 am · Link
people…don’t you see?
there are not two photos of tunch up there.
there is only one photo of tunch, and the second one is just flipped and retouched a little!
look at the exhaust trails! identical!
i’m telling you—there’s some mischief going on here. notice how it’s titled “proof of life”? but it isn’t really proof at all, is it, if it’s only one photo?
who is trying to fake a proof of life? of whose life?
is this john trying to fool us into thinking tunch is still alive? or is it…tunch? trying to fool us into thinking that the fat hairless monkey is still alive?
i won’t speculate—it would be irresponsible—but my analysis of the two photos proves that they are identical! identically identical!
Svensker - July 24, 2010 | 8:30 am · Link
@Mister Papercut:
Giant redwood, maybe.
Doctor Science - July 24, 2010 | 9:29 am · Link
@Jennifer:
This is a good meme. I look forward to the opportunity to spread it everywhere.
CaseyL - July 24, 2010 | 9:51 am · Link
@Tattoosydney: How much energy does it take to date tarts?
steve davis - July 24, 2010 | 10:32 am · Link
gotta love the comb-over he’s got going on.
scav - July 24, 2010 | 12:30 pm · Link
@CaseyL: depends on how many rings you have to count.
(any dendrochronologists in the audience?
bago - July 24, 2010 | 12:43 pm · Link
@Yutsano: You know, I’ve got this basement apartment right off of 99 on queen Anne.
QuaintIrene - July 24, 2010 | 1:36 pm · Link
It’s funny. When I first saw pics of Tunch he looked like he was carved out of a giant pristine meringue. Now every time there’s another little brown smudge showing up.
Yutsano - July 24, 2010 | 1:44 pm · Link
@bago: I thought maybe this would get lost somewhere in the BJ archives but it seems to be a slow posting day. I haven’t committed to anything yet as far as housing so perhaps we should start a dialogue.
Steeplejack - July 24, 2010 | 1:56 pm · Link
@Yutsano:
Run, Yutsano, run!
P.S. Find out if Bago’s middle name is Wayne. Almost all serial killers have the middle name Wayne.
Yutsano - July 24, 2010 | 2:21 pm · Link
@Steeplejack: Not entirely true. There is always John Wayne Bobbitt. You winced, admit it!
matoko_chan - July 24, 2010 | 2:31 pm · Link
ummm…..probly someone has ax this already, but how much does Tunch actually weigh?
From the pics it looks like if he was black he could double for Bulgakov’s cat in The Master and Margherita.
schrodinger's cat - July 24, 2010 | 3:37 pm · Link
@QuaintIrene: Marshmallow kitteh dipped in caramel sauce
asiangrrlMN - July 25, 2010 | 12:30 am · Link
@thalarctos: This is so true. I’ve touched mice with rigor mortis before, and they were MUCH easier to handle than a freshly-killed mouse.