Tunch is being ornery, so you will have to just make do with this out of focus picture of Lily, who kept trying to jump up and lick the camera while I was taking her picture:
Have at it.
by John Cole| 79 Comments
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General Winfield Stuck
IOW’s perfectly normal. But without proof of life, some will wonder. Lily is still sweet as Tupelo Honey.
Bill
Lens lover Lily.
MikeJ
From the “artwork” previously cited:
That’s from the artist’s notes, not the parody.
Ash Can
@MikeJ: That picture’s more full of shit than a Christmas goose.
WereBear
Gosh, Lilly has a wonderful face. No wonder ya fell, John!
arguingwithsignposts
Gad, I love the open threads! Go tunch!
General Winfield Stuck
And more new Libby picks. Cute factor HIGH.
freelancer
Holy crap!
5-5 Bot 11th
http://atdhe.net/5546/watch-tigers-vs-twins
Aunt Moe
Going to look at Labs for adoption later this week. You have inspired me John! (and made me envious cuz Lily is so darn appealing.)
kid bitzer
so since this is an open thread, a completely random thing that bugs me.
“1 tip of a flat belly!”
what the hell is that “of” doing in there? “tip of”? if you’re offering dieting tips, wouldn’t you say “1 tip *for* a flat belly”?
this just looks illiterate. or like “all your bases” english. or is that the point, i.e. to make it meme-ish?
AhabTRuler
Peace in the land of kittehs!
Annie
Maybe this picture explains why Tunch is being ornery. He wants Lily to sit down, be quiet, and give him some peace. Does Lily try and lick Tunch everytime he moves? Or are there still futon space issues? Or John lap time space issues?
freelancer
@kid bitzer:
I’ll explain only if you can tell my what is meant by the description of Reagan as a “Patriot of Freedom” in the picture described by MikeJ and Ash Can.
Mark S.
@MikeJ:
I said it in a previous thread, but I can’t get enough of the dancing John Adams and Alexander Hamilton. What’s that Russian dance called?
madmommy
@freelancer:
It’s a nail-biter. Then whoever wins has to hop a plane for Gotham to face the hated Yanquis. It would be sweet indeed to see either the Tigers or Twins win that series.
General Winfield Stuck
@AhabTRuler:
Henri is one cooool kitteh! so is Momo.
AnneS
@General Winfield Stuck: Oh, the Libbiness is such a wonderful puppy! Teh loveley face!! Smooch!
AnneS
and if i cood spel id be wunnerful!!!
Love pixtures of Lilly, too. !!
HRA
Tunch says to Lily: “Look it’s your turn to deal with the @#$%^& camera.”
AhabTRuler
@General Winfield Stuck: They are really getting along well, too. Integrating them was a chore, but patience paid off.
AnneS
@AhabTRuler: Thanks for sharing the lovely ones. The furries here say bldrrrrmrow!
schrodinger's cat
Lily: I can has futon
Tunch: I had a futon, Lily beez taking mah futon
matoko_chan
Jesus’ General and Salon are helping out with the New Conservapedia Bible…..I think Balloon Juice should pitch in too….maybe cull this thread for the best ones and group them up for Sully?
freelancer
Mother of God,
and I thought the Twins’ relief pitcher had nuthin’ left. Amazing.
Fulcanelli
Gawd, I just wanna skweeze that little puppy’s face, she’s so fuggin cute!
Yet more evidence we need to keelhaul the bankers:
My wife went to cash a check (made out to her personally) at the local Bank of America branch given to her by a lawyer associate of hers. The lawyer friend does her personal and business banking at this branch of BoA. (We do NOT use Bank of America as our bank.)
Bank of America wanted six dollars to cash the check because she didn’t have an account with BoA and…
Her fingerprints.
They wanted six bucks and her fingerprints to cash a check drawn on an account at that very branch because she didn’t have an account with BoA.
She walked out with the check.
Random mortgage industry factoid I recently learned: In 2004 in the state of Rhode Island there were 5500 licenced mortgage brokers.
The state implemented a stringent licensing program 2 years ago designed to keep unsavory types out of the mortgage banking business.
The number of licenced brokers today?
273.
Just Some Fuckhead
You need to keep Lily on a short leash and put her in her place and then fumigate.
matoko_chan
Oh and lily’s smile makes me believe in Santa and the Easter Bunny all over again.
<3 Lily
madmommy
I can’t believe the Tigers had the bases loaded and couldn’t push a run across!
ellaesther
@Just Some Fuckhead: Damn you! I was going to say that! Or something much like it! If I had only been FOUR MINUTES faster…!
This is my life. Four minutes too late and a dollar short.
Cat Lady
@General Winfield Stuck:
Libby makes me feel teh cute funny inside. I hAz a hApPy.
I’m glad I’m neither a Twins nor a Tigers fan, and just a baseball fan. This game is just pure baseball WIN.
Fulcanelli
Zût Alors! It looks like my burnt offering to the FSM the other day paid off!
I haz edit and request delete button!
/IE8/XP Media center SP3.
freelancer
Go Twins! Kill the Yankees!
Comrade Mary
That’s a terribly sweet picture of Lily (shut UP, all you dirty-minded pervs!), but you know, saying “Tunch is ornery” is like saying “Water is wet”.
Please, please, please John, is it possible to get even a single picture of an ornery Tunch? Unless he’ll eat the camera or something, of course.
AhabTRuler
@Fulcanelli: BoA has charged a fee for cashing its own checks for years, and the fingerprint (? usually a thumbprint) has been SOP since the early nineties.
geg6
Ilove Lily. Thank you, John. She makes my day. Between Lily and my growing suspicion that we are actually going to get HCR with a public option (though no idea what it will look like), I might actually not slit my wrists and sleep a little better tonight. Lovely Lily, giver of comfort.
tpc
I heard on NPR today that some folks are upset about the president postponing his meeting with the Dalai Lama. How long until McCain declares that “we are all Tibetans”?
TheFountainHead
Damn. Well, I was pullin’ for the Tigers on the premise that Minnesota is still tainted by the Republican National Convention and that Detroit could use any boost it could get. Oh well, the New York Liberal Elite Yankees are gonna rip them “Real Americans” a new one tomorrow. Also.
schrodinger's cat
@Comrade Mary:
I second the idea, we want Tunch.
Top three reasons I frequent BJ
3. Smart, funny and insightful blog posts
2. Lily
1. Tunch
Fulcanelli
@AhabTRuler: Perhaps where you are, but not around here. They would refuse to cash it if you didn’t have an account and there was never any fingerprint nonsense.
Morbo
Damn choke artist Tigers, crimony. They didn’t deserve to move on the way they closed out the season, and hitting .262 with runners in scoring position. All that’s happened is they’ve been spared the indignity of losing to the Yankees. Note that still does not mean I want the Yankees to win.
ellaesther
Ok, open thread, right? Is this the place to register the sinking feeling I have that President Obama, in whom I had so much faith, put the final nail in the coffin of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process last week? Like, with his own two little hands?
What’s that? Take my misery and go darken some other corner? Fair enough….
Martin
Um, the Mets are the liberal elite ones. The Yankees would waterboard your daughter in exchange for a line drive single and Yankees fans would boo them for not killing her in order to get the stand up double.
In the U/U version of the Rapture, everyone goes to heaven that doesn’t have Yankee memorabilia.
Ash
@ellaesther: Ehrm, to what are you referring?
Penfold
@Fulcanelli:
@AhabTRuler:
I can’t speak to how much this differs by region and whatnot, but BofA has been doing that here for at least a couple of years. It’s so widespread (and obnoxious) throughout the industry. I think the first time I remember seeing at going WTF? was circa 1998-99 at a First Chicago/Bank One (Now Chase).
I didn’t know BofA charged fees for cashing checks from their own banks, too. Classy.
Scott Rock
This is getting familiar.
Red Wings – Philly
Michigan State – UNC
and now the Tigers cave. Not the World Series, sure, but still.
Good thing crushing disappointment is something we Michiganders are used to!
ellaesther
@Ash: The whole forcing Abbas to table the Goldstone report thing. Which most of the world probably didn’t notice much, but which served to essentially behead Abbas as a potential negotiator because now his credibility is completely in the toilet. Israelis always complain that there’s no partner for peace, and in doing this with the Obama Administration, they have seen to it that, indeed, they have no partner. Which is kind of what I suspect they wanted, though I doubt that the Administration fully understood what they were doing.
Seriously, don’t mind me. I’m just beside myself and felt the need to say it out loud. (Type it quietly).
Phoenix Woman
Twelve bleeeeeeping innings.
That, folks, is baseball.
Phoenix Woman
Oh, and the Metrodome would like to say a few words:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=caple/091006&sportCat=mlb
AhabTRuler
@Penfold: I first encountered both behaviors back in 95-96 (possibly earlier). BoA and a number of other banks, here in the DC Metro area.
Phoenix Woman
@Scott Rock: ‘s’OK, we’ll probably get creamed by the Yankees. Though then again, we weren’t supposed to catch up from three games back with four to go.
Annie
@HRA
Your post really made me laugh. Maybe Tunch is being wise, and figuring that he can get John off his back by refusing to be followed by the camera. I think Tunch said or thought exactly what you said he said!
What we want is a picture of Tunch running from John and looking to Lily for help!
Brachiator
Before this thread gets too long, I wanted to make sure that I recommended the great interview with Ryan Lizza, Washington Correspondent for The New Yorker magazine on the KPCC public radio program Air Talk with Larry Mantle (available on the KPCC web page and as a podcast on iTunes and elsewhere).
http://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk/2009/10/06/fixing-a-dysfunctional-economy/
One of the things that make the interview great is that a caller’s question was so good that it lead Lizza to respond to it by referring to additional material that he had not been able to include in his New Yorker piece.
The New Yorker article can be found here:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/12/091012fa_fact_lizza
.
schrodinger's cat
@Annie:
Tunch is too dignified too run, he glares and gets John to do what he wants.
mai naem
@Fulcanelli: I used to maintain a BofA account solely because I had a guy I used to do some freelance work for who banked at BofA precisely because they gave me such a hard time for cashing a check and the guy was somebody who used to kite checks so I had to cash the check right then. Anway, initially BofA let you maintain an account for about $200 with no charges. Then they increased it to $500 so I maintained that too but then they upped it to something like $5K or something and I thought FU. Ain’t paying $7/mo for doing nothing to my account. Also too, they were very unclear about when they would change the rules so I would lose a few months’ fees before I figured out what was happening. Thank god for credit unions.
Brachiator
@ellaesther:
Interesting stuff. Are there articles/links that provide a background on this?
How does Abbas tabling the report neutralize him?
Corner Stone
@schrodinger’s cat:
Ha! You should be in marketing, or PR, or a Republican Senator or something!
Scott Rock
Anthony Weiner and the Wicked Witch of the East tangle at NYU. Notably, Weiner scores a gold fucking star for this:
ellaesther
@Brachiator: Funny you should ask! Here’s a story from HaAretz which both gives the basic story, and helps to explain why I think he’s now doomed, because it shows the kind of rage that’s been unleashed. Apparently he’s now trying to find a way around his blunder, but I’m not sure there’s a way around it.
I mention this a lot around these parts, but who knows who’s heard what, so for the record: I’m an American-Israeli Jew and a Zionist who has lived, studied, and/or written about the conflict since about 1982, and I’ve been advocating for a two-state solution since 1986-ish (first intifada).
All the Palestinians have, in 61 years of struggle, is the fact that occasionally, very occasionally, the world will acknowledge their pain and suffering. That’s pretty much it. To have their purported leader cave to American and Israeli demands regarding a report that documents the most recent round of that pain and suffering is just too much. I think the man is done for.
Leaving us with Hamas, who no one plans to negotiate with anyway.
asiangrrlMN
The Twins, bitchez! What do you think of them now????? (I am being as jubilant as I can before the inevitable Yankee sweep).
WOOOT!
Midnight Marauder
Alan Grayson is still tearing it up. I know you’re going to be surprised, but it seems like Republicans aren’t following through with their hissy fit after he called them out on their bullshit.
Alan Grayson Unlikely to Face GOP Reprimand
WATB. The lot of them.
CynDee
Thank you, John. This is Sweet Face’s sweetest face yet. Licking the camera; her little muzzle is sooo cute.
Please pet Teh Big Kitteh specially tonight for all us Tunch lovers, but don’t make him mad by telling him of our affection.
I ain’t reading another thing tonight — just going to bed with visions of Lily and Tunch in my head for safe and sane sleep.
SiubhanDuinne
@asiangrrlMN:
Okay. Seriously. This Atlanta Braves fan who remembers every moment of the 1991 World Series is happy for you, happy for Minnesota, happy for the Twins. Congratulations.
No, really.
Great game.
(Will my BlackBerry asplode when I hit the Submit button?)
Comrade Mary
You know how I’m getting my Tunch fix? This.
With Safe Search off, his Tunchiness has three hits on the first page, two more on the second — God, I’m pathetic. Maybe I should just get my own cat again …
Corner Stone
@Cat Lady: THAT was a fucking baseball game.
Damn that was all kinds of win.
Robertdsc-iphone
It may not have been posted outright, but the below link is to John’s YouTube page which has videos of Tunch, sweet Lily, and Ginny & Guesley:
YouTube
Francis
PUPPY!!!! I HAVE A NEW PUPPY!!!
ahem. since i don’t post regularly, let me recap. I lost my big black akita bitch a few months back to a heart attack while we (wife and I) were on vacation. (no guilt there, of course not. cell phone rings on the day we’re due to fly back to LA. OMG, the person says, your bitch went to sleep last night and didn’t wake up!! gah. she was only 6 yrs old.)
so, the big dog (no, not bill clinton, my half akita half malinois) gets all depressed. tail drooping, whining, sulking, etc. At the same time I finally agree to quit my horrible job.
So, the love-o-my-life (aka wife) gets on petfinder and finds the cutest little white husky bitch, blue-and-brown eyes and all!! (can you believe that someone would abandon a beautiful little husky puppy? some people SUCK.) She’s 13 weeks old (approx), home with us, the big dog is thrilled and my last day is Friday!!!!!!
[if anyone needs a CEQA/water lawyer in So.Cal., I’m your guy. if not, I’m planning on a little emotional rehab with the poochies after a rough 3+ years.]
pictures will be posted as soon as I figure out flickr, or send them to our bloghost.
SiubhanDuinne
@Francis: she sounds absolutely adorable and gorgeous. That was a good thing you did. Cannot wait to see those pictures!
The Other Steve
Was at the Twins game tonight.
Great game. I think the Twins fielded their entire pitching roster. :-)
Now if we can only beat the Yankees.
asiangrrlMN
@SiubhanDuinne: Heh. Bitter much?
Lovely Lily. I hope to see Tunchie soon.
The Other Steve, that game was insane.
Francis, congrats! Can’t wait to see picks.
General Winfield Stuck
@Francis:
Use flickr, and hurry please. Our bloghost is an absent minded professor after all.
SiubhanDuinne
@asiangrrlMN: They say the bitterness fades with time. I’m giving it another 18 years.
arguingwithsignposts
@asiangrrlMN:
Congrats to teh Twinz, bitchez! Hope the sweep happens the other way.
Anyone else see the “We are all Mayans now” commercial on Hulu recently and think of BJ?
burnspbesq
@ellaesther:
I’m not following. I don’t know how Obama can be said to have put the final nail in the coffin of something whose burial was completed when Netanyahu became PM. The only peace Bibi wants is the peace that comes after the Palestinians are exterminated.
Brachiator
@ellaesther:
Thanks very much for the links. It certainly appears that attempts to even set up future talks have been derailed for now.
RedKitten
@Francis: Yay! Congrats, Francis! Can’t wait to see the photos!
meander
Nice piece about how pets can help troubled children in Tuesday’s NYT Science section.
schrodinger's cat
@Corner Stone:
Whatever do you mean?
asiangrrlMN
@SiubhanDuinne: Oh, I hear you. I wouldn’t be one to forgive any time soon, either.
@arguingwithsignposts: Thanks, arguing! Nice to see you’re optimistic about the Twins’ chances. I sure as hell ain’t. No way they can win in the House that Ruth Built*. They will be scrappy and plucky and put up a hell of a fight, but how can the beat the mercenaries?
*Ruth = NY taxpayers.
SadOldVet
Keep the animal pictures coming! Lose the Steelers pimping!