Happy Birthday To Me
By John Cole June 22nd, 2011
This is where you all say Happy Birthday to me. I’m 41, a year older, but no wiser. I made some more sun-dried tomato fettuccine to celebrate:
I have to admit, I’m getting pretty good at it. I’m to the point I can make enough pasta for at least 4-5 meals in under 20 mins. I’ll just freeze the rest in individual baggies and use it when I want.
Although as much as I excited about the pasta dinner, I’m really just excited about the mint chocolate ice cream I’m having for dessert.
Posted in Open Thread
Happy Birthday. 41 is just a kid!
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:01 pm
Happy Birthday, John Cole! The pasta looks gorgeous and the mint chocolate ice cream sounds divine. Enjoy!
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:01 pm
Happy birthday and thanks for what you do, especially the critter part.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:01 pm
Happy Birthday, kid! The pasta sounds great…actually more appealing to me than the ice cream, but that’s just me.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:02 pm
Zabaglione gelato, replacing the marsala with limoncello.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:02 pm
Happy birthday!
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:03 pm
Happy B-Day. Enjoy your dinner and your evening.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:03 pm
Happy B-day John. I’m just over a year younger than you, and will very shortly be experiencing a certain birthday, one that I’m pretending is not happening.
I’ll raise an extra glass of wine on your behalf tonight. :)
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:05 pm
Happy Birthday John. Enjoy your ice cream. I’m having some Blue Bell Butter Crunch in a little while. We are in favor of ice cream.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:06 pm
I’ll just freeze the rest in individual baggies and use it when I want.
He’ll eat it whenever he pleases, ladies.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:06 pm
Happy 41! Bless your heart…
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:06 pm
Cheers.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:06 pm
Happy Birthday!
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:07 pm
Happppppppppppppppppppy Birthday and John buy one of those vacuum sealers forget zip baggies you won’t be sorry.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:07 pm
Happy Birthday to the Cole entity, whoever it is, wherever it is, whatever it does for living.
I can hardly wait to hear about the nice present Rosie gives you!
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:07 pm
Happy Birthday John Boy. You are most certainly wiser.
You’re not a Republican any more :D
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:08 pm
I already wished you a happy birthday twice today (well, one of those was a few minutes before midnight last night) but am thrilled to have the opportunity to do so again.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOHN!!
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:09 pm
Aaahhhh, yer just a kid! But, we love you anyway. Happy B-Day, John. Your pasta looks great. As a fellow Cancer, let me just say that we are the nicest people out there.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:09 pm
I turned 40 just recently and have to believe that turning 41 is easier.
Happy Birthday John!
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:10 pm
Happy birthday!
homemade pasta ruins you for the alternative.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:11 pm
happy birthday, you grumpy old bastard.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:11 pm
As my drunken ancestors would say, Breithlá Sona Duit.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:11 pm
Happy Birthday John!
Pet pictures, please, of the loved ones celebrating your big day.
Raising a cold beverage to you.
41’s a fine age.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:12 pm
Happy Birthday! Here’s a picture of a piece of cake!
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:13 pm
Happy BDay, and thanks for making this place!
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:13 pm
@JPL #13
If I didn’t like you, I’d hate you. NO MOAR CHIPMUNX PLZ!!
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:13 pm
Happy b-day, Cole.
Drink some bubbly, for fuck’s sake.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:13 pm
BTW .. It’s about time you mentioned your birthday. Considering when you woke up and found your garden scalped, I guess I can’t blame you.
On my sixtieth birthday, my son came over to help me install a shower door. (thick glass and expensive) As we lifted the glass to install in the runners, it shattered into thousands of little pieces which left little scratches and cuts over both of us. I’m not sure why they call it safety glass. I hate birthdays!
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:13 pm
Happy Birthday!
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:14 pm
Happy Birthday John—I’m jealous re: the mint chip ice cream, no one here likes it but me!
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:14 pm
Happy birthday, youngun! (I’m hungry…)
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:15 pm
Happy birthday, John!
41? Get off my lawn!
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:15 pm
@JC: Have a happy! (Young punque)
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:15 pm
Happy Birthday, John “The All-Seer” Cole. Don’t give yerself a sugar coma.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:15 pm
Happy birthday. No cake?
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:15 pm
SiubhanDuinne I looked for Bambi singing Happy Birthday because I thought that would be appropriate but couldn’t find it.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:16 pm
When you have your bypass, you even have a popular blog to tell us all about that too.
edit – oops, almost forgot, happy birthday.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:16 pm
Happy birthday!
I’m a guest, so Ill try not to drive away your entire audience while you’re carbo-loading.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:16 pm
Happy birthday, John. Your pasta is teh noms!
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:18 pm
O U Kid! Happy birthday, John, and thanks for all the posts!
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:18 pm
happy birthday!
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:19 pm
LOL, they all say that when they arrive, only to learn later they can check out but never leave.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:19 pm
A very happy birthday!
You give us so much joy. Plus your blog inspires many clever comments. Double thanks!
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:20 pm
Giovanni, buon compleanno! Gustate la pasta e gelato!
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:21 pm
Happy Birthday! Test out the 41 waters for me, I’ll be there soon enough.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:21 pm
Happy b-day. Mine is coming soon (53).
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:22 pm
Happy Birthday, John!
I found that life got easier after the age of 40. There were a number of things I didn’t get upset about any more.
Hope this turns out to be true for you.
[And I hope it’s true for Max, too.]
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:22 pm
Happy bday John! Did Tunch make you a cake yet?
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:23 pm
My 40th sucked. 41st was a big improvement & they’ve continued to get better. Best wishes for the same for you.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:23 pm
@SiubhanDuinne:
What’s wrong with chipmunks? I hear they’re very tasty when stewed.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:23 pm
Happy birthday, J.C.!
(Singin: John Cole is just alright with me.)
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:23 pm
Happy Birthday, John. Love the blog and sure wish Paul Krugman had linked to it sooner. Or, maybe he did and I missed it.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:24 pm
Only 41? You’re so cranky, I thought you might be older. Happy Birthday and many blessings on your road to the next one. Thanks for your kind hospitality here for all these years.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:25 pm
Life in the fat lane at the Hotel West Virginia.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:25 pm
I just turned 60 on Sunday and still love pets, food and booze as much as ever. Happy Birthday and many more I hope!! Oh and I am certainly no wiser than I was in my 40’s.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:26 pm
Hau`oli la Hanau, John!
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:27 pm
For a really special occasion, include some bourbon in while making the mint chip ice cream. Fantastic.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:29 pm
@JPL:
The ought to call it tempered glass, but your experience ought to show you why it’s supposed to be safer. If it had been regular glass that broke, you would have wound up with a few nasty cuts and puncture wounds from the big, jagged pieces of broken glass instead of lots of little annoying cuts and scrapes from the tiny cubes of broken glass.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:30 pm
Happy Birthday, young feller.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:30 pm
Happy birthday, ace!
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:30 pm
Happy Birthday, John!
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June 22nd, 2011 at 7:31 pm
Happy, happy birthday John!
Thanks so much for keeping this thing going—the weird amalgam of politics, food and gardening advise and the ever wonderful loving pet posts. It keeps me sane during hard times—approximating a strange but very happy balance for me.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:32 pm
Happy birthday!
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:32 pm
Happy Birthday, John! Thanks for giving us a place to hang around. Sorry about the occasional mess that we make.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:33 pm
Cole! Warm felicitations! Put some hot fudge on that ice cream!
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:34 pm
Oh, and Happy Birthday, Mr. Cole.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:35 pm
Here’s the WaPo headline:
Here’s the relevant paragraph from the article itself:
This is a grand journalistic game, and anyone can play. Say one thing in the headline; say the EXACT OPPOSITE in the body of the article.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:35 pm
You are my favorite web site. My son’s birthday is today as well, I always remind him of the 21 hours of labor, the c section, and the subsequent hospital infections that ensued, it is a standing joke, that I will never let him forget. Have a great day, and the pasta is amazing. Keep up the good work on this site, it really is captivating. So many ideas, and so many voices. I love it.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:35 pm
Happy birthday John, and thanks for making this an always “interesting” place to stop by.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:37 pm
local old-time italian store (gone a year now, alas) had dried hot pepper pasta, ziti shaped. Not real hot, tasted like a very light hand used, but it did look like tomato pasta. Might be worth a try.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:39 pm
SiubhanDuinne The Washington Post is simply following Drudge’s lead. The misleading headlines helped him become a player in the great game of scamming the public.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:41 pm
Happy birthday!
How did you decide to prepare the pasta?
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:44 pm
Happy birthday, young’n…
... and many happy returns!
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:46 pm
¡Feliz Cumpleanos a tí! And here’s a much better song than that Chipmunks thing. (It’s been stuck in my head the last few days—and here we are, it’s all appropriate an’ shit.)
And your birthday’s a day later than my sister’s!
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:46 pm
Happy birthday, gramps! Sun dried tomatoes are a good way to get out of a contract with the devil; you know, just in case you ever accidentally make a broodwich.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:47 pm
wow, john cole is getting too old for this shit
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:48 pm
Congratulations
!
and because it is your birthday, I will forgive your horrible decision for mint ice cream. Ice cream should really have a delicate taste and not a sledgehammer flavor like mint.
Enjoy.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:49 pm
“HIPY PAPY BTHUTHDTH THUTHDA BTHUTHDY.”
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:50 pm
Happy Birthday, John. Wishing you many more happy years.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:51 pm
Happy Birthday, John, from a girl called Ringo.
Warning: not recommended for guys and girls of a certain age who thought they preferred Daphne, because you will come down solidly on the pro-Velma side. Oh, yes you will.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:51 pm
Ahhh, 41. The good old days. Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em young un, and dance like there’s no one watching, unless it’s Tunch.
Happy B-day to one of the most
interestingcrotchety men in the world. Also too.June 22nd, 2011 at 7:52 pm
6/22 NEVER FORGET!
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:52 pm
Happy Birthday. Mint chocolate ice cream is my personal favorite and your blog is my favorite too. I came here for the politics and I stayed for the strange and wonderful glimpses of the Cole/Tunch/Lily/Rosie household.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:52 pm
Happy birthday, John! May you be spared by His Tunchitude for many more years!
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:53 pm
What day is today?
It’s John Cole’s Birthday!
What a day for a birthday!
Let’s all have some cake.
(and you smell like one too)
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:54 pm
Happy Birthday, John! I hope this year is filled with good health, happiness, success, and some sort of blissful resolution of the “Rosie Problem.”
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:55 pm
...what about mint chocolate pasta?
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:57 pm
Music for your Bday!
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:57 pm
@jeffreyw I love your cake and want to marry it.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:58 pm
You really are just a young punk.
June 22nd, 2011 at 7:59 pm
My Birthday was last Tuesday. I’m heading down N’awlins way tomorrow and will have a Sazerach in your honor. Anything wild I do after that, will also be in your honor. Or you’ll get the blame, depending on how Amaranthe affects me.
Pasta looks great! I want one of those electric pasta machines, that mixes the dough and then does all the rolling too. Plus it’s got extruder attatchments for making the rounder pastas. John you’ve got to try raviolis and tortellinis. That’s where you need the pasta party.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:00 pm
Happy Birthday!
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:02 pm
Late to the party, but Happy Birthday to the owner of the most well balanced blog on the web. And I am jealous of your wonderful looking pasta.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:02 pm
Happy birthday, grasshopper. ;)
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:02 pm
Late to the thread, but I hope you have a great evening, Cole. Subdued celebrations are the bomb after 40.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:04 pm
I bet Hamsher gives you a wedgie.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:04 pm
Homemade pasta, ‘scream and Lily as a dinner companion. Sounds like a good deal. Have a great birthday, John. Thanks for creating a cool place to hang around.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:05 pm
Happy Birthday! Enjoy your pasta and the ice cream.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:06 pm
Happy Birthday, John, and thanks for being such a gracious and wonderfully cantankerous host! There was a time when I was younger than 41. That time has, regrettably, passed… Watch out! It will happen to you.
Enjoy the pasta & ice cream and many happy returns!
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:07 pm
Happy Birthday, John Cole!!
George Clooney turned 50 last month. Clearly, you’re both just getting started.
May all your most wise and delicious wishes come true.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:14 pm
Happy birthday and thank you. This is also my favorite blog—nice balance of rant and reason, passion and perseverance. And I just troll. . . for sustenance.
1.5 inches milk in tall glass, mint chocolate chip ice cream, shot of RumpleMinze = awesome shake.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:14 pm
Happy birthday punk ;)
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:16 pm
Happy Birthday, John. Enjoy your youth while you still have it.
I was just in Ithaca for my 20th class reunion from vet school and wandered over to Purity Ice Cream after dinner one night. 20 years later, the mint chip ice cream is every bit as good as I remembered it. Heaven on a sugar cone.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:16 pm
Happy birthday, John! Pasta, ice-cream, and pets—it doesn’t get better than that. Hope you’re having a blast on your special day. Thank you for giving us this blog, and for helping animals in need.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:17 pm
Happy birthday, John. Hope there’s many more.
Thanks for making it possible for all of us to be Juicers!
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:18 pm
Happy birthday, you young whippersnapper.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:18 pm
Happy Birthday! Thanks for letting us play here.
Cheers,
Scott.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:26 pm
41.
Alas you’re too young for me. I will have to confine my passion for you to the internets.
Love you anyway and happy birthday. My forties were my very best decade so far.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:26 pm
You’re only 41? Holy cow! You’re still young enough to get a life. Happy birthday.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:29 pm
hsppy bday
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:32 pm
Happy birthday, boyo. You’re really just a spring chicken.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:33 pm
Happy birthday!
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:35 pm
Happy Birthday, John. Many happy returns.
And don’t sweat it—I am rather awful at cooking pasta, and to me, you’re definitely waaayyyy ahead of me in that department.
Here’s to your health and strength.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:42 pm
Happy, slappy birthday!
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:44 pm
Happy birthday John – I really wish you all the best
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:46 pm
Happy birthday. Mine is tomorrow. Whoop-dee-do!
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:56 pm
I thought you were 45. Don’t know why.
Happy birfday you recovering wingnut. You should celebrate by taking one of my foster cats off my hands.
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:59 pm
Happy Birthday! to You.
Looks like your pasta-making is yielding good results. And especially after many commenters here poo-pooed the quest for home made pasta, perhaps you are indeed wiser. : D
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:09 pm
Happy birthday! Là breith sona dhuit!
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:13 pm
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN COLE!
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:13 pm
Happy B’day, Cole.
So, how many donkey years is that ?
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:14 pm
Happy birthday and thanks.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:20 pm
Happy Birthday John! and thanks for this site and all the commenters that congregate here. Dunno how or why it all works, but it does.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:20 pm
Happy Birthday! (from Otto and Juno also, of course.) Where should I send your (non-autographed) copy of the Brisket Palin memoir?
I am five years older, but we seem to have a similar crankiness quotient…
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:20 pm
Congrats John! You survived through dubya to get here! Now if only you work real hard to squeeze through these deer infested times we can all complain about the next kleptocrat who gets elected president….but not for at least 5 more years, OK?
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:21 pm
The longest birthday of the year! How fortunate you are. Mazel Tov!
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:24 pm
Happy Birthday, John Cole. I’ll drink another Yuengling for you.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:26 pm
Almost half a year younger than me. Happy birthday, Mr. Cole. Your blog has given me happiness for years. I haven’t commented much, but I haven’t let many days go by when I didn’t read, laugh and marvel. Cheers.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:26 pm
Happy Birthday, John!
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:29 pm
You’re not getting older, just getting fatter.
Thanks for bringing us together and all the critter posts.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:36 pm
Happy birthday, ya punk. Bazillions more to you.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:38 pm
John, Welcome to the 41 Club!
Slainte!
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:39 pm
Happy Birthday!
Thanks for hosting a great blog. I wish you the best always.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:40 pm
Said it elsewhere, but it bears repeating: Happy Birthday! Mint choc ice cream is real good stuff. Eat some xtras for me.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:43 pm
Hey, you’re a prime number!
Happy Birthday.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:49 pm
Happy Birthday!
After much market research, my husband and I decided Blue Bell mint chocolate chip is the best, and the most like what the local parlor sells…
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:49 pm
Happy happy joy joy!
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:50 pm
@jeffreyw
And now I want cake when there’s none to be had. You sir, are a bastard.
Happy Birthday to the dude who made me a blog reader. Generally I wouldn’t know whether that’s something you should thank someone for or not, but I’ve enjoyed it, so I guess I’ll thank you. Also, mint chocolate chip ice cream? Hell to the yes! Completely underrated ice cream flavor. Hope you enjoy it. Happy Birthday once again, Mr. Cole.
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:55 pm
Happy birthday JC, thanks for an interesting interweb place to check into everyday and all the animal picts!
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:58 pm
Happy Birthday!
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:59 pm
Happy Birthday Cole –
I was happy to finally find a picture of you the other day – that’s a great looking 41!
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:04 pm
Happy Birthday! Thanks for this wonderful blog- a must-read for me every day. My county is the epicenter for Peak Wingnut, and I enjoy the break I get from the Glenn Beck devotees. Where else could I find a discussion of my favorite things, such as pets and gardening?
Mint chip-mmmmm….. May have to go get some myself.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:08 pm
happy birthday asshole.
You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:09 pm
Birthday greetings!
I am so going to try that homemade pasta thing. Sounds fabulous!
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:30 pm
So, I have a theory that getting old is nothing more than a really long process of finally coming to realize that the universe doesn’t care about your existence. Now that you’re over 40, you are in a place to provide evidence for or against said theory. What say you?
Happy Birthday, JC!
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:30 pm
Wait, where’s the pic of Tunch with a party hat on?
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:34 pm
You’ve reached the age of don’t give a fuck anymore, congrats. Just because the only sweats available in extra-fat are pink doesn’t meant you can’t wear them.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:36 pm
Happy birthday, John! Pretty impressive achievements at 41, including the beautiful homemade pasta. Thank you for what you (and your friends here) do.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:39 pm
Wow, Jewish Steel, that’s right! “Do you always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it.” But Mr. John Cole does not.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:49 pm
Happy birthday!! Enjoy your dinner,your refreshments, and your day.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:59 pm
Happy birthday to my favorite blogger. And enjoy the ice cream!
June 22nd, 2011 at 11:06 pm
What are those cardboard cone party whistle buzzer things called? Cos I’d like to give one a buzz in honor of your Bday if only I weren’t so darned semantically challenged.
June 22nd, 2011 at 11:08 pm
Happy Birthday, John.
I’d sing but it would end badly.
June 22nd, 2011 at 11:10 pm
Same birtday well-wish is already there, but may Tunch not decide to kill the fat man in his sleep.
June 22nd, 2011 at 11:21 pm
Sincere Happy Birthday, John, and thanks for giving voice to me at the price.
June 22nd, 2011 at 11:35 pm
@Cole:
Happy birthday, Cole! Many happy returns, and thanks for running the best damn politics/pets/gardening/snark/bad music videos/food/rageaholic/culture/snark/Tunch! blog on the Intertubes.
June 22nd, 2011 at 11:36 pm
happy birthday john! thank you for doing this blog. i know it may seem a thankless task sometimes, but thank you.
pete
June 22nd, 2011 at 11:38 pm
Reading nothing of the above thread; I LOVE YOU JC!! Happy birthday!
June 22nd, 2011 at 11:42 pm
Happy birthday! May you retain your natural snarkiness for many years!
June 22nd, 2011 at 11:44 pm
Hey John Cole. I’ll bet Lily decided you needed a dog in your lap tonight, didn’t she? Screw the deer and anybody else who annoyed you today, Lily may be all the happy birthday you need. Well, Lily and the ice cream, anyway.
June 22nd, 2011 at 11:54 pm
Happy Birthday, John Cole, and many happy returns of the day.
Thanks for hosting a lovely party on all the rest of the days that aren’t your birthday.
P.S. Is your pasta machine a hand-crank or electric?
June 23rd, 2011 at 12:11 am
Happy Birthday, John Cole!
Really like what you’ve done with the place.
June 23rd, 2011 at 12:15 am
O-TANJYOOBI O OMEDETO GOZAIMASU!!
(as they say in parts of the other side of the Pacific)
June 23rd, 2011 at 2:16 am
Cole’s only 3 years older than me? Damn, I thought he was some 59-year-old grouch.
Happy Birthday, ya big lug. And thanks for putting up with all our bullshit.
June 23rd, 2011 at 2:24 am
@AxelFoley:
No, I’m the 59-year-old grouch. Fuck you, and get off my lawn. Satisfied?
June 23rd, 2011 at 3:34 am
Belated birthday wishes to you! (Sorry, I am overseas and usually read your blog first thing in the morning… so, like 3 am your time, the next day).
This is my favorite blog—you have excellent bloggers—however controversial sometimes, it is never dull and never STUPID at BJ. I appreciate the passion and dedication of your bloggers.
June 23rd, 2011 at 4:13 am
Happy Birthday Mr. Cole! You share with Bruce Campbell and Todd Rundgren so that’s pretty excellent company, even if one of them did once call you an asshole.
June 23rd, 2011 at 7:36 am
Hmmm…how many of us share a birthday with someone who called us an asshole, (at least publicly, I presume…)
June 23rd, 2011 at 8:25 am
Best wishes, John! Hope you & your brood have a wonderful time celebrating your 41st.
June 23rd, 2011 at 9:55 am
What you said John. I’m a day late I guess. 41 is a great year. You are past the 40 mark and on your way to the best years of your life.
June 23rd, 2011 at 10:23 am