Sorry I have been so cranky lately. Not sure what has gotten into me, so here is a peace offering. It got prematurely dark and started thundering, and my wind chimes changed from a lazy clanging to something sounding like the blue man group on meth, so I walked around the house to shut all the windows when I found this in the bedroom:
Lily was apparently crushed by a falling comforter and rendered immobile. It’s like the pampered canine version of 127 Hours, but with fluffy bedding instead of rock. And no, it did not require a pen knife to extract her- just someone yelling “Who wants to go for a walk?”
BGinCHI
That dog is a waaaay better actor than Charlie Sheen.
Plus smarter.
Cris
All these Open Threads, it’s like Eschaton in here
Ruckus
Some days I feel the same as your dog.
Ruckus
@BGinCHI:
And better looking
BGinCHI
@Ruckus: Even at that angle.
Ruckus
@BGinCHI:
I was thinking especially that angle but YMMV
losingtehplot
Lily, I love her, but am badly needing a dose of Tunch – kaithxbai
Bret
I honestly like it better when you’re cranky, John. It makes coming to the site much more entertaining.
PurpleGirl
Funny picture.
Just Some Fuckhead
Apology accepted.
BGinCHI
Cole’s got his Xmas card pic and it’s only March.
arguingwithsignposts
Is this a trick question?
Comrade Mary
John gets cranky, then makes it up to us by offering chicka-bow-wow shots of his dog?
Eh. Works for me.
TaMara (BHF)
Wow, that picture pretty much illustrates my last two weeks. Luv it.
Edit: as in crushed by large falling object, not safely tucked under a comforter.
joe from Lowell
Hadn’t noticed.
MattR
So you probably don’t want me to link to Frank Gaffney’s piece where he worries that our invasion of Libya is creating a “Qaddafi Doctrine” that will be used by Obama to justify military attacks on Israel?
I don’t believe it takes anywhere near this amount of effort. With Ellie, all I have to do is grab my pants off the chair and start putting them on.
Joe Beese
Chris Floyd:
schrodinger's cat
Lily is sweet but where is the boss kitteh?
Brachiator
@Joe Beese: Is there a point here somewhere?
MattR
@Joe Beese:
I love that quote at the end of a paragraph that uses the words of Hillary Clinton as evidence of the author’s point. (ETA: given that Clinton is part of that group of liars)
me
A retired General on the Snooze Hour just said the coalition is trying to stop Saddam Hussein from attacking his own people in Libya (twice!). Old habits die hard?
Keith G
Lily sums it up nicely. March came in like an SOB and shows no intent of getting nicer (non-meteorologically speaking). I want to crawl under cover too.
BGinCHI
@me: Or the entrance to Hell is in Libya.
Say, it is hot there…..
soonergrunt
Divisions erupt over NATO command in Libya
The operation in Libya is about become out baby for the forseeable future, because our European ‘allies’ are about to try to bend us over planning table in NATO HQ and fuck us and yell in various cheesy B-movie villain accents “Squeal like a pig, you stupid americans!”
I’d hate to say I told you all so. But really, I am just petty and smart-aleky enough to say “I fucking well told you all so!”
And it only two days for our erstwhile NATO allies
joe from Lowell
@Brachiator:
We look like we could use a few ZZZZs?
Tax Analyst
You think YOU’VE been cranky lately? HAH!
Bet you didn’t just blow off a company meeting because you just didn’t feel like it, did you? Well I did. But only because it was scheduled 2 1/2 hours before my start time today and I’m retiring shortly anyway.
Still didn’t get me many brownie points with my boss when I called on the phone this morning. Apparently, I’m still supposed to be part of some sort of “Team”. I thought about mentioning that team’s have “Disabled Lists” for when somebody just isn’t up to playing, but I thought that would just piss her off more.
Anyway, I know how your puppy feels. I might even have an inkling about how you feel, but then again, maybe not.
joe from Lowell
@soonergrunt: How did you get “The operation in Libya is about become out baby for the forseeable future” from a piece that says “Italy issued a veiled threat to withdraw the use of its bases unless the alliance was put in charge?”
JPL
This month has sucked. April can’t come soon enough.
@soonergrunt: I decided to give it a week to see what happens. Did you happen to see the Glenn Beck tape at media matters where he criticized Obama for not being involved in Libya and 20 seconds later criticized him for being involved in Libya? It’s hilarious.
Miss Kitkas's Comrade Wayne
This an open thread? I watched Obama in Brazil via the Globo and GloboNews feed over the weekend for the stops in Brasílila and Rio de Janeiro. And then again in Santiago today, via EMOL.
In Brazil the reviews raved.
The Dangerman
@schrodinger’s cat:
Isn’t that boss kitteh sitting on Lily?
BGinCHI
@joe from Lowell: Italy has two major reasons to fuck the coalition over:
1. They get a lot of their oil from Libya.
2. Berlusconi will be the biggest dick in the world if Khaddafy gets killed.
Joe Beese
And mainly just because it will piss you off, The Man Who Cost Gore The White House®:
JPL
@The Dangerman: lol
MattR
@The Dangerman:
Heh. You made a funny. There is no way Lily could survive having Tunch sit on her.
joe from Lowell
@soonergrunt:
OK, what, exactly, did you tell us from the beginning that you’re crowing about now? That there would be bickering among different governments in the alliance?
That’s not exactly Nostradamus.
ProgressiveATL
Russian constructivist my little pony, leading us toward a brighter future: http://images.4chan.org/co/src/1300738228424.jpg
I’m cranky too, John (could someone with a working brain and heart actually not be cranky, given state of this country?).
Lead on, little pony.
General Stuck
@soonergrunt:
That those clowns are being clowns is not a surprise to me. I care what the POTUS is thinking, and every one of his statements has been terse, matter of fact, and free of wiggle room.
We shall see, but my impression is that obama relishes this shit like having root canal at an all night dentist.
Joe Beese
You’d think Obama would have learned his lesson about timetables after “I will close Guanatanamo in one year”.
lamh32
Does any other BJ’ers still watch Fringe on Fox?
If so have ya’ll seen last Friday’s episode?
I had a really interesting thought, what if William Bell’s soul somehow leaves Olivia’s body, and comes back IN ALT-LIVIA’S baby????????
4tehlulz
@ProgressiveATL: Reported for MLP content outside the general thread.
Barb (formerly Gex)
@General Stuck: He just makes it look like that. He’s upped it to 12th dimensional chess.
The Dangerman
Libyan Tweet links to CNN dissing Fox. Quality of their news travels fast.
Anne Laurie
@Brachiator:
If his momma let him play with the sharp scissors, he wouldn’t be around to annoy the rest of us, now would he?
jenn
Awwww, puppy. Love her little nose peeking out.
I am having a kick-ass awesomely productive day, and just found out that a project I’ve been trying to put together for a couple of years now, is actually going to come to fruition, and I am dancing ’round Starbucks. Wahoooooooooooooo! (Ok, the dancing part is not literal.)
Have a great day, everybody!
MattR
@lamh32: Lalalalalala!! I can’t hear you!! I am two episodes behind on the DVR.
Calouste
@Joe Beese:
Bulwer-Lytton award nominee.
Odie Hugh Manatee
I visualize Joe Beese as an internet version of the crazy drunk dude that wanders around every town muttering to himself, cleaning windshields for free by pissing on them and smearing it around with newspaper.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
jl
@losingtehplot:
Wonder if that big white thing on top of Lily might be part of Tunch.
Cole said it was a comforter, but what does that mean? (Time for another blogger ethics panel?)
But, then, Lily was OK, so, probably not the Tuncher.
CynDee
@Brachiator: Yes: Dogs is good.
shortstop
Funniest Lily photo yet.
JCJ
Wait, you’re sorry about being cranky? I’ve been coming here for only a few months and the crankiness and lack of civility is what keeps me coming back for more! I even got my daughter checking in from time to time. We don’t want milquetoast!
joe from Lowell
@Odie Hugh Manatee: If you take one of his hand-written mimeographed manifestoes, he’ll stop blocking the escalator out of the subway station and let you go to work.
parsimon
John Cole:
Thanks for the image of Lily, babe. It made me laugh, and smile.
WaterGirl
@jenn: I was afraid we were going to have to have “the talk” about anatomy, but I decided it would be wise to double-check the photo before saying “that’s not her nose!” Sure enough, Lily’s nose was sticking out toward the top of the photo, I had missed it earlier.
debit
Remember the lamb white days of innocence when Cole blacked out Lily’s nipples in a photo? Now he’s showing us her lady bits.
soonergrunt
@joe from Lowell: I get that all of this is theatre to force the issue. The French as operational/political leaders of this thing is an idea that appeals to precisely France and nobody else. It’s either the French, us, or the Brits can run an op like this for more than a couple days at a time without the whole thing collapsing.
Nobody, and I do mean NOBODY wants the Italians anywhere near the command of this thing. They have a history of selling out, especially where Libya is involved. They say there is no reason to keep two headquarters and in light of that will review the use of their bases. Translation–put this all on our territory under a commander acceptable to us or fly from farther away.
It’s us or the Brits then, and I don’t think the Brits can get all of Europe to follow them after decades of declaring that they aren’t Europeans.
The Norwegians and the UAE turned their planes around instead of continuing on to Italy over the command issue. I wonder exactly who they thought would be in command.
Dee Loralei
@debit: HAH! Thanks for reminding me of that! That thread was fucking epic!!!
AhabTRuler
@debit: You mean the light stigmata?
That was terrible. I prefer this version.
AhabTRuler
Or this one, even with the radiant beams of holy spirit.
Although, hands down, this one is my absolute favorite piece of Tunchwork.
soonergrunt
@Anne Laurie: Ohhh, burn.
WereBear (itouch)
At last. At last! AT LONG LAST!!!
The Way of Cats announces their new line of herbal cat toys
Getting this off the ground has driven me mad. But now I’m better.
Note to self: Next time, don’t marry a perfectionist art director.
joe from Lowell
@soonergrunt:
But they’re not saying they want an Italian commander. They’re saying they want a NATO commander, operating under the aegis of the organization.
This is exactly the shit Russ Douthat was talking about. I’ll still take it over the alternative every time.
AhabTRuler
@WereBear (itouch): And in return I give you Momo in a wok.
Litlebritdifrnt
When I wake up in the morning I put on my bath robe and shuffle in my slippers to the kitchen where I fill the kettle and plug it in to make my tea. When I return to the bedroom Judy has already snuck onto the bed and is just waiting for me to lift the covers for her to snuggle under them for the 40 minutes or so between me waking and me getting up and getting dressed. That forty minutes, with Judy under the covers and Cueball on top of the bed are the best part of my day.
debit
Warning: Use of cats on keyboard while meshing in Milkshape may cause unpredictable results. Save your progress often. Or in other words: ARRRRRRRRRRRG!
asiangrrlMN
Lily has a boo-tee-ful hindquarters. But, can a grrl get a picture of Tunchie up in here???? Nothing says you’re sorry like an action video of the Tunch cat.
Phoebe
Everyone here will probably love this website, which I happened upon today. It’s all dog rescue:
http://luckydogrescueblog.blogspot.com/p/rescue.html
Lily is ridiculously adorable.
WaterGirl
@debit: There’s something my kitties have done twice while I was reading the BJ blog, one minute everything is normal and the next everything on my screen is HUGE and the computer has become virtually unusable. Now I mostly just put my laptop to sleep when they want to help when I am at the computer.
Lee hartmann
John, be well- and if that requires you to be cranky- so?
tkogrumpy
@JPL: Whiplash should be called Becklash.
WaterGirl
@WereBear (itouch): Nicely done! I will buy something as soon as the kitties and i get paid on the 1st. Am I right in thinking it’s not a mix and match situation, that you get 3 of whatever you choose?
WaterGirl
@asiangrrlMN:
Rotating tag line, please:
tkogrumpy
@jenn: I’ll take any good news i can get. I’m happy for you.
schrodinger's cat
@WereBear (itouch): Is the nip better than Midge’s home grown?
tkogrumpy
@Odie Hugh Manatee: That stinks.
jl
@asiangrrlMN: My theory is that it may be (I do not claim certainty), it may be, possibly, some minor part of Tunch anatomy crushing Lily. A stray flap of midgut, perhaps.
Cole chose to cover up the scandal, rather then be an honest journalist.
Thank goodness Lily is OK.
schrodinger's cat
@asiangrrlMN: Tunch Action Video = Tunch giving us his look of disdain and may be moving a paw. Not that I am complaining, I lubs me some Tunch and his paw of doom. Right now I will be happy with a Tunch pic too.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@WereBear (itouch): TRISTAN! he’s such a doll.
WereBear (itouch)
@AhabTRuler: gawjuss! However, I will see your kitten wok and raise you a kitten cube:
http://www.wayofcats.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Tristaninhispurplecube.jpg
starring Tristan, as the kitty most likely to knock something over
Paddy
@lamh32: Did not think of that, but now you’ve got me nervous. Fauxlivia would have to die though, right?
They have gotten me all into knots here lately with all the cliffhangers. Almost resorted to finding a fan board to vent. Almost.
WereBear (itouch)
Put in your order, send me an email so I know you’re from BJ, and I’ll do you up on special. (I’m on my touch because Tristan spilled wine on my laptop keyboard. It’s not enough that the links are sometimes the same color as the background, now I can’t reply… Augh. )
Use the contact tab at the site to send me your special Balloon Juice request for a One of Each sampler. The things I do for love.
WereBear (itouch)
schrodinger’s cat: I have not tried that one. But what we offer is true peel-them-off-the-walls good.
And why does the mobile version always forget my email? Tristan, get over here and fix Mommy’s keyboard!
MikeF
I know we’re not supposed to talk about Rebecca Black but this (fake) Bob Dylan cover of her song is awesome.
tomvox1
Wind chimes? Really? Somehow I had not pictured that as being part of the decor at the Cole household…
AAA Bonds
Here’s a theory: you’re one of the few Americans left who’s genuinely emotionally impacted when we go to war.
I feel you.
bystander
I knew I strolled over here for a reason, and it was this!
Laugh.Out.Loud.
junebug
Why didn’t you use MS Paint to black out her girly bits? Grown up, much like your views of war and when it’s a reasonable response and when it’s not?
Naw, Sully must have told you it was silly to black out dog parts that people see every day and to oppose this UN non-bullshit sanctioned effort and to belittle the people it is meant to protect, nay imply that they are terrorist from the war of choice you once supported.
Since you don’t watch the Snooze Hour, I guess you missed it that France recognized the opposition, that many military have defected, that the Foriegn Minister and their U.S. Ambassador left the government. But hey, yeah, it’s cool to call people terrorists randomly.
Jebediah, a Bruce
Thanks for the fun pic. Pretty Lily definitely knows how to live. I am jealous.
ET
Lilly is adorable but I WANT ME A TUNCH PICTURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tunch
That picture of serenity lasted about 3 minutes longer, then I totally kicked Lily’s ass. You should have heard that little freak yelping. Then that douchebag Cole runs in like he’s going to do something about it. I stared him down and he started to cry like a doughy baby.
Don’t mess with me.
And Cole, open up another can of tunafish for me, bitch.
Paul in KY
@Tunch: Do what he says John! You don’t want to piss him off.