30
Mar
Post #10,000
That means I have written a whole lot of gibberish in the past few years. Maybe this will make up for it:
Tunch, resting on top of the printer, where he spends most of the day.
That is actually where Tunch spends most of the day, although some days he lies on the desk in between the keyboard and the monitor to make it easier to attack my hands. He sleeps there so much I have to keep the paper tray pulled out, so that he will not roll over on the form feed button and cause a piece of paper to “attack” him. When that happens, all hell breaks loose and he attacks the printer and gets the offending piece of paper jammed.
At any rate, there goes post 10,000. About as important as the previous 9,999 posts.
Mary
There is insufficient Tunch in this post. Hmmph!
Mary
yay! Tunch appeared while I was grousing.
skritches the kitty
Hart Williams
Congratulations and felis citations.
zzyzx
That’s some great feline behavior. It beats First’s hobby of grooming anything that will let her – Last, me, blankets, windows…
Jared
Awesome cat, but those red eye issues must be worked out.
Tim (the Other One)
Nice cat !
Zuzu
Cutie-pie cat !
I just bought a Flip Ultra camcorder, so low-tech even I can use it first time out.
Evidently you can plug the thing straight into your computer’s USB port and download your clip straight to YouTube.
I suspect my first-ever contribution will be of my poor little shaved cat. It was the only way they could get the mats out, but he looks a bit like a feline poodle. And he just can’t figure out what happened.
Yes, I am turning into an old biddy by the minute.
jake
Every blogging milestone should be honored with a picture of a cat doing wtfiw and looking pretty damn smug while he does so. Just don’t let him discover the toasty warmth of a laptop.
I would pay to see the movie “Tunch v. The Page of Doom.” is there any way you can get that on UTube?
Dennis - SGMM
Congratulations, John. Now please don’t go all Billmon on us and shut down. Thanks in advance.
Dennis
Pb
I think this was one of your better posts, actually…
Hilarious! You should put it on YouTube...
The Grand Panjandrum
Congratulations.
Any commenters here from day one? Or have they all stayed on the dark side?
lutton
Is that cat deaf?
I’ve got an all white cat with one blue eye and one yellow eye, and he’s deaf.
...something about white cats with blue eyes.
b. hussein canuckistani
This post exceeds in importance all your football posts, which have negative importance.
Mary
Sure, Pb, YouTube has cute kitty-and-printer video, but it’s also a meeting place for hardcore cat-spankers. I think Tunch is a top and wouldn’t tolerate a moment of this.
LiberalTarian
Cute cat.
louisms
I started reading it early on. But then I had a “know your enemy” motivation. These days, post-Cole’s conversion, it’s become my favorite political blog.
Had I known as much about John then as I do now (including his soft spot for kitties), I’d have realized that his change of heart was inevitable.
IanY77
Congrats, John, Tim and the rest. Hope for many more.
Notorious P.A.T.
Congrats John. Here’s to 10,000 more.
Ninerdave
19th!!
John Cole
I went through some old threads from about 3-4 years ago, and no one from those threads has commented here since at least Schiavo. They all pretty much agree I am a turncoat asshole now.
demimondian
Hmm. I think I go back three years. I’d have to go look myself up—but I’ve been here a long, long time, dood.
Tim F.
I’ve been here long enough to remember a many of the older commenters – Stormee, Ricky, Mac Buckets, Defense Guy, and the scads of rightwing bloggers who came and went. Jeff Goldstein was sometimes pretty funny, though pathologically in love with the random output of his dog-eared thesaurus. Most don’t realize that the one winger whom everyone remembers arrived later than I did and was flamed hard by John on his very first comment.
One by one those guys declared the blog a circlejerking cesspool of liberal hate and left, and believe it or not that used to drive John up the wall. I even wrote a couple of posts about it, since for a while it was a point of pride that we had a healthy mix of wingnuts and libtards.
Tim F.
Anyway, now we have some Obama supporters and some Hillary supporters and call that diversity. Not that I’m complaining about that.
Krista
Same. I think I started commenting around 2005, if I’m not mistaken. Congrats on the 10,000th post, John! And it’s nice to see Tunch again. We hadn’t seen pics of him or heard about him in so long, I was starting to grow concerned.
It’s the self-deprecation that keeps us coming back. :)
ThymeZone
Congrats, great cat pic, and keep up the good work on the World’s Best Blog.
demimondian
Tim, you certainly antedate me, although not by too much. Goldstein, Defense Guy, Mac Buckets, all the rest (but not yet the Senator) were all here when I joined, as were you, Krista, and ppgaz (whose name I misread as ppqaz, I believe).
Godzilla's best friend, Herny Stalwart the 3rd
Vampire cat?
DougJ
John, you’ve done a good job. This is a good blog. And I don’t say that about many. You “get” contemporary politics in a way that not many others do.
Pb
I’ve been reading here a while… somewhere between demi and Tim F. perhaps. I do remember that I first started reading because I followed a link here from a kos post, so I certainly haven’t been reading for as long as Markos. :)
Mary
I keep coming back here to look at Tunch blissed out on the printer. I’m having a sucky, stressful day, so I take my wee hit of Zen where I can find it.
On to your 20,000th post, John! We’ll be nipping at your heels all the way.
Krista
John, you’ve done a good job. This is a good blog. And I don’t say that about many. You “get” contemporary politics in a way that not many others do.
Doug, I’d say you’ve been around this blog the longest, in one permutation or another, wouldn’t you agree?
maxbaer (not the original)
Thanks, John. You have the classiest blog in the tubes. And, a cat blogger to boot. Sorry I wasn’t around for your conversion into a DFH.
Delia
I’m pretty much a newbie in these parts. And my cat that would remember those days, the one who liked the computer and would walk on the keyboard and claw the monitor because she liked the feel of static electricity—she died. My new cat just sits behind me on the back of the office chair and claws the leather when she thinks I’m not looking. My dog remembers back that far, but computers just bore him. He waits around to go on walks.
Ninerdave
Out of curiousity, when did you join on as a front pager Tim? What were the circumstances?
DougJ
If you include my work as Stormy, then yes. When I started as DougJ, a whole bunch of others were already here.
demimondian
I wondered—were you Stormy?
John Cole
Thanks for the compliment, but I don’t know what you mean, really. I guess I don’t “get it” that much after all. :P
He was a left-wingish commenter with Kevin Drum-like moderation and always posted good comments so one night after some wine I emailed him and asked him if he wanted to contribute. The blog had been around for 4 years or so and I thought it was time to add to it.
Good addition, I think.
Krista
Piss right off! You were not Stormy! Or are you now just yanking my chain? I never realy know with you.
demimondian
Actually, Krista, I wouldn’t be surprised it at least some of Stormy’s work wasn’t written by a woman, but I was new enough here that I wasn’t sure. I could have done a lot of “her” clothing stuff myself—I have a background in costume design, so I could have faked it. I always found the hard alcohol stuff just…wrong. I know a lot of southern female upper class drunks, but they never admitted to their alcoholism quite like that; they were more refined about their afternoon slosh.
BH Buck
Any post that highlights cats are the most important ones!
;-) ;-) ;-)
kc
Congrats on your 10,000th. Pretty kitty . . .
Punchy
A white cat with green eyes? Does it answer to “Damien” and pee on your Bible?
Krista
I love how he’s in that pose that usually says, “I would like you to pet my belly. You will know when it is time to stop, as I will notify you by suddenly biting your hand and kicking it…with my claws extended, of course.”
Just Some Fuckhead
LOL!
b. hussein canuckistani
Is there a way we can find out when our first post was without clicking through years of archives?
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Xenos
Congratulations, and well done!
If, when you started this, you knew the sort of people who would hang out here, you probably would not have bothered. But thanks, anyway,
jake
The whole point of that pose is so they can suddenly maul your hand. “Look at the soft furry belly. Touch it. Come on. Yes, yesssss. [Violent attack] Ha ha, hairless monkey, I got you it again!”
Special toxins in their saliva and ensuing blood loss erase the memory so you fall for it again. And again. And …
scott
Is the cat named after Tunch Ilkin?