Svensker - September 2, 2010 | 1:40 pm · Link

This is apparently right near Fairbanks, so you know what that means, doncha!

You really CAN see Russia from this blog?

neill - September 2, 2010 | 1:41 pm · Link

must be why i got you bookmarked right beside bérubé...

eemom - September 2, 2010 | 1:44 pm · Link

cool!

ETA: Someone local could probably do a little research and find out which John Cole the road was named after. There IS more than one, right?

Comrade Javamanphil - September 2, 2010 | 1:46 pm · Link

But Sarah Palin can see this blog from her house! Run!

Tax Analyst - September 2, 2010 | 1:51 pm · Link

@Royston Vasey:

Next you’ll be telling us there’s a Tunch Boulevard.

I’m thinking of something more like “Tunchville”, with a sign entering town using the “Tunch is Watching You” logo design.

Tax Analyst - September 2, 2010 | 1:53 pm · Link

John, does that traffic sign attached to the street sign say “No Right Turns Allowed”?

Church Lady - September 2, 2010 | 1:54 pm · Link

The sign appears to be listing to the right just a little. No doubt just like our blog host on occasion. I guess the sign is John Cole +3 or more.

demo woman - September 2, 2010 | 1:56 pm · Link

Earl is one nasty storm and hopefully it does not shift further west. For those on the east coast, stay safe.

licensed to kill time - September 2, 2010 | 1:56 pm · Link

I think that road ends up in Curmudgeon Cove, where a cranky but good-hearted fellow lives surrounded by animals who destroy his furniture. It is well known as a refuge for a snarling mass of vitriolic vicious jackals, though town officials have had little success in clearing them out and have adopted a policy of simply walking on by the place in an attempt to leave their beautiful minds untroubled.

Poopyman - September 2, 2010 | 1:57 pm · Link

@Tax Analyst:
“NO DUMPING”

J.W. Hamner - September 2, 2010 | 1:58 pm · Link

You can just type in your name into Google maps and it will tell you if there any roads that share it… probably not going to work so well for a Joe Smith though… but there are several more roads named after the illustrious John Cole.

For example, contrary to what he’s been telling us, John Cole’s place is in Louisiana! And yet he’s a Steelers fan!

For myself, I’m happy there is a Hamnertown Road in Alabama.

Poopyman - September 2, 2010 | 2:00 pm · Link

@Royston Vasey: Google tells me that there IS a Tunch Road, apparently, but it’s on a continent I haven’t visited. There is an Askari Bank, Ltd there though.

Poopyman - September 2, 2010 | 2:02 pm · Link

@peach flavored shampoo: It’s there! And it has a little road running off it – “Penguin Lane”. Ain’t Cole cute?

Poopyman - September 2, 2010 | 2:04 pm · Link

@Poopyman: BTW, the Google Street View was evidently taken in Spring or Fall, because it’s twilight with the sun below the horizon to the SW.

wasabi gasp - September 2, 2010 | 2:06 pm · Link

@Dork: Cul-de-sac

danimal - September 2, 2010 | 2:07 pm · Link

Time for some serious journalism.

Is there any evidence that Sarah Palin has ever taken a ride on John Cole Road?

Inquiring minds want to know…

quaint irene - September 2, 2010 | 2:13 pm · Link

Is there any evidence that Sarah Palin has ever taken a ride on John Cole Road?

Hey, don’t piss Palin off. According to Vanity Fair, she can RUIN YOU!

arguingwithsignposts - September 2, 2010 | 2:15 pm · Link

OT, but how’s that offshore drilling working out for ya, La.?

NEW ORLEANS, La. – The Coast Guard is saying that a mile-long oil sheen is spreading from the site off an offshore petroleum platform that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana.

The site of the explosion is west of where BP’s massive spill occurred.

TooManyJens - September 2, 2010 | 2:16 pm · Link

Does anyone have a link to a post or comment where the vagaries of the commenting system here (such as how you deal with paragraph breaks in blockquotes) were explained? I need to bookmark it.

SteveinSC - September 2, 2010 | 2:21 pm · Link

No, Fairbanks is in the middle of Alaska. You can’t see shit from your road. Only if Putin rides in on Sputnik, can you see him. @arguingwithsignposts: Oh yeah, Drill Baby Drill.

Allison W. - September 2, 2010 | 2:22 pm · Link

I found this:

http://billingsgazette.com/lif.....8fb22.html

Not sure if its the same guy.

roshan - September 2, 2010 | 2:26 pm · Link

@TooManyJens:
See here.

Blockquote Tutorial

Place two underscores at the beginning of each empty line between paragraphs and it shall never spill out of the box.

Place two underscores directly above your blockquote and it shall not go bold.

Begin your blockquote directly below a line of text or reply link and it too, shall not go bold.

This is the search I ran to find the above.
Or just put this search string in google or bing: site:balloon-juice.com block quote double underscore

licensed to kill time - September 2, 2010 | 2:34 pm · Link

@roshan:

Haha! That’s my tutorial! Built on the shoulders of giants monkeyboy and Steeplejack.

This is a really funny thread where people are working out the Blockquote Dilemma. There are some obsessive folks here, yearning to know the secrets and mysteries of FYWP.

roshan - September 2, 2010 | 2:38 pm · Link

@licensed to kill time: I am sorry, forgot to credit you.
Hey Jens, pass on the thanks to Licensed, not me.

licensed to kill time - September 2, 2010 | 2:43 pm · Link

@roshan: No worries, it was just funny. I was off searching for a link for TooManyJens, got distracted by re-reading that post from a year ago and then came back here to see you had posted my tutorial after all. Made me laugh!

TooManyJens: oh gawd, Michael Gass and the laughing helicopters….well, at least he gave us the gassellipses…also fax the credenza !

suzanne - September 2, 2010 | 2:48 pm · Link

This is off-topic, but forgive me.

Some of you know that I just finished my Master’s degree in May. Governor Brewer’s signature is on my diploma. That pisses me off. Dumbshit never finished college herself. So to be a pain in the ass, I started a Facebook group….please join. :)

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=l.....7154473508

Comrade Rich - September 2, 2010 | 2:51 pm · Link

Here’s one I pass on my way to my folks’ house. Seems like a place some we talk about here could relate to.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=.....11.62,,0,5

It’s a dangerous intersection. Someday someone’s gonna get a great photo of an accident next to the sign.

Stillwater - September 2, 2010 | 2:55 pm · Link

@arguingwithsignposts: Only an hour ago, they were saying there was no spill resulting from the explosion. Now a mile long sheen. If the standard BP-sanctioned-BS is operative here, ‘no spill’ will laboriously morph into 1000, 5000, then finally 50,000 barrels a day as those pesky ‘facts’ become harder to deny.

Citizen_X - September 2, 2010 | 2:58 pm · Link

Dear Mr. Cole:

I am interested to hear that you have crack correspondents, and would like very much to become one. Please tell me how much crack you pay, and I will send you my resume forthwith.

Sincerely,
Citizen_X

ed drone - September 2, 2010 | 3:13 pm · Link

@Citizen_X:

Please tell me how much crack you pay,

Well, in Scotland, “crack” is conversation, just like this hyar blog-threadie thingie, so you’ve already got as much crack as you’re gonna get.

Ed

Katie - September 2, 2010 | 3:29 pm · Link

That sign may be listing to the right, but I don’t think Fairbanks can get much further to the right without falling off the edge of the world, which is flat from what I hear. To make matters worse, we just lost Lisa Murkowski who lost in the primary to Joe Miller. He was endorsed by the Tea Party, Sarah Palin, and Mike Huckabee. He’s scary as shit. I’ve never even heard of the democrat who’s running, but I’ll be voting for him.

I pass John Cole Road regularly and took the picture, and you won’t see much on that road except brush and mosquitoes. It’s pretty low and swampy. No Russia for you!

Zuzu's Petals - September 2, 2010 | 3:50 pm · Link

Speaking of the Mad Sow, the new Vanity Fair piece suggests former fangirl/blogger Rebecca Mansour is Palin’s Facebook and Twitter ghostwriter:

But [Mansour’s] voice, or at least a voice that sounds much like hers, was about to turn up in another venue. When it was first set up, in January 2009, Palin’s Facebook page might as well have been a file cabinet for official press releases (“Palin Pushes Parental Consent Legislation”) written mostly in a stiff, third-person form. The same was true of her Twitter feed, which went live in April. After Mansour’s voice disappeared on C4P, however, Palin’s voice on Facebook and Twitter started sounding increasingly provocative and irascible. A company called Aries Petra Consulting was formed in September and registered to Mansour’s home address, but under someone else’s name. (In astrology, Aries is the ram—or “RAM.”) SarahPAC’s first payment to the firm was made in October, about two weeks before Palin began her book tour. By then, Palin’s new virtual voice was growing in intensity. The more shrill it became, the more news Palin made: “QUIT MAKING THINGS UP DNC” … “OBAMA ADMINISTRATION’S ATROCIOUS DECISION: HORRIBLE DECISION, ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE” … “ARE YOU CAPABLE OF DECENCY, RAHM EMANUEL?” The payments to Mansour were not made public until February 1, 2010, when SarahPAC had to disclose its quarterly filings with the Federal Elections Commission. The day before the disclosure, knowing what was coming, C4P made an official announcement acknowledging that both Mansour and Russo had left the site months earlier and gone to work for SarahPAC. This summer, in her capacity as a SarahPAC staffer, Mansour insisted to a reporter that “anything that goes out under [Palin’s] name is hers.” Palin’s virtual voice does sometimes have the ring of authenticity. But often it sounds less like Palin herself than someone else’s fantasy version of Palin at her most vitriolic. On one occasion Palin’s virtual voice contradicted remarks she made in a TV interview two days later.

Oh, and evidently Palin is a lousy tipper and has probably never shot a moose.

licensed to kill time - September 2, 2010 | 4:16 pm · Link

@Zuzu’s Petals:

Isn’t it fun when you finally wrestle that damn blockquote to the ground and choke the bold and the paragraph spillage right out of its groaning throat?

R-Jud - September 2, 2010 | 4:18 pm · Link

@Katie:

I’ve never even heard of the democrat who’s running, but I’ll be voting for him.

He’s apparently the mayor of Sitka. My aunt, who’s since moved to Juneau, knew him and said he is really sweet.

I dunno if “sweet” is exactly what you want in a senator, but it sure beats “bugfuck crazy”.

Zuzu's Petals - September 2, 2010 | 4:28 pm · Link

@licensed to kill time:

I’m just waiting for it to get passed-out drunk.

Svensker - September 2, 2010 | 4:45 pm · Link

JRT attacks balloons

licensed to kill time - September 2, 2010 | 4:47 pm · Link

@Zuzu’s Petals:

Soon you will be starring in a special Lifetime movie, The Burning Blockquote.

Next on Oprah, we interview Zuzu’s Petals about her long years of abuse at the hands of that bastard Blockquote.

Xenos - September 2, 2010 | 5:41 pm · Link

@PaulW: Here it is, in Berlin.

Keep the cat hairs, please. I am allergic.
—Oops. that did not work, just a small street outside of Wartenburg. but if you type “warternburgstrasse” you will get a few hits, including a pretty dumpy spot in Berlin.

schrodinger's cat - September 2, 2010 | 6:44 pm · Link

@Royston Vasey: There is no Tunch boulevard but a Tunch planetary system instead.

Yutsano - September 2, 2010 | 7:19 pm · Link

@Svensker: JACK RUSSELL TERRORIST!!

I’m calling Homeland Security. :)

Origuy - September 2, 2010 | 11:28 pm · Link

@asiangrrlMN:
They sell a lot of those signs at the tourist gift shops. Mostly they are copies, but sometimes you can find the real thing after the city has replaced them.