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.
wormtown
Happy Birthday. 41 is just a kid!
Violet
Happy Birthday, John Cole! The pasta looks gorgeous and the mint chocolate ice cream sounds divine. Enjoy!
stuckinred
Happy birthday and thanks for what you do, especially the critter part.
Tom Hilton
Happy Birthday, kid! The pasta sounds great…actually more appealing to me than the ice cream, but that’s just me.
Joel
Zabaglione gelato, replacing the marsala with limoncello.
kc
Happy birthday!
RossInDetroit
Happy B-Day. Enjoy your dinner and your evening.
taylormattd
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. :)
Phyllis
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.
Sixers
I’ll just freeze the rest in individual baggies and use it when I want.
He’ll eat it whenever he pleases, ladies.
Rey
Happy 41! Bless your heart…
Omnes Omnibus
Cheers.
JPL
Happy Birthday!
jo6pac
Happppppppppppppppppppy Birthday and John buy one of those vacuum sealers forget zip baggies you won’t be sorry.
jl
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!
Halcyan
Happy Birthday John Boy. You are most certainly wiser.
You’re not a Republican any more :D
SiubhanDuinne
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!!
abo gato
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.
Max
I turned 40 just recently and have to believe that turning 41 is easier.
Happy Birthday John!
WereBear
Happy birthday!
homemade pasta ruins you for the alternative.
chopper
happy birthday, you grumpy old bastard.
Dave
As my drunken ancestors would say, Breithlá Sona Duit.
Elizabelle
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.
jeffreyw
Happy Birthday! Here’s a picture of a piece of cake!
mr. whipple
Happy BDay, and thanks for making this place!
SiubhanDuinne
@JPL #13
If I didn’t like you, I’d hate you. NO MOAR CHIPMUNX PLZ!!
BGinCHI
Happy b-day, Cole.
Drink some bubbly, for fuck’s sake.
JPL
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!
cxs
Happy Birthday!
JCT
Happy Birthday John — I’m jealous re: the mint chip ice cream, no one here likes it but me!
Joseph Nobles
Happy birthday, youngun! (I’m hungry…)
Martin
Happy birthday, John!
41? Get off my lawn!
trollhattan
@JC: Have a happy! (Young punque)
EvolutionaryDesign
Happy Birthday, John “The All-Seer” Cole. Don’t give yerself a sugar coma.
ErinSiobhan
Happy birthday. No cake?
JPL
SiubhanDuinne I looked for Bambi singing Happy Birthday because I thought that would be appropriate but couldn’t find it.
General Stuck
When you have your bypass, you even have a popular blog to tell us all about that too.
edit – oops, almost forgot, happy birthday.
SteveM
Happy birthday!
I’m a guest, so Ill try not to drive away your entire audience while you’re carbo-loading.
Scuffletuffle
Happy birthday, John. Your pasta is teh noms!
jnfr
O U Kid! Happy birthday, John, and thanks for all the posts!
Swishalicious
happy birthday!
General Stuck
LOL, they all say that when they arrive, only to learn later they can check out but never leave.
Vickie Feminist
A very happy birthday!
You give us so much joy. Plus your blog inspires many clever comments. Double thanks!
Thoughtcrime
Giovanni, buon compleanno! Gustate la pasta e gelato!
South of I-10
Happy Birthday! Test out the 41 waters for me, I’ll be there soon enough.
OzarkHillbilly (used to be tom p)
Happy b-day. Mine is coming soon (53).
Linda Featheringill
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.]
Valdivia
Happy bday John! Did Tunch make you a cake yet?
Dana Houle
My 40th sucked. 41st was a big improvement & they’ve continued to get better. Best wishes for the same for you.
Roger Moore
@SiubhanDuinne:
What’s wrong with chipmunks? I hear they’re very tasty when stewed.
Joe Lisboa
Happy birthday, J.C.!
(Singin: John Cole is just alright with me.)
Constance
Happy Birthday, John. Love the blog and sure wish Paul Krugman had linked to it sooner. Or, maybe he did and I missed it.
Libby
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.
Thoughtcrime
Life in the fat lane at the Hotel West Virginia.
Susan
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.
Linkmeister
Hau`oli la Hanau, John!
The Main Gauche of Mild Reason
For a really special occasion, include some bourbon in while making the mint chip ice cream. Fantastic.
Roger Moore
@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.
policomic
Happy Birthday, young feller.
robertdsc-iPhone 4
Happy birthday, ace!
JGabriel
Happy Birthday, John!
.
Elie
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.
gnomedad
Happy birthday!
Montysano
Happy Birthday, John! Thanks for giving us a place to hang around. Sorry about the occasional mess that we make.
shortstop
Cole! Warm felicitations! Put some hot fudge on that ice cream!
Roger Moore
Oh, and Happy Birthday, Mr. Cole.
SiubhanDuinne
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.
dlnelson
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.
Paddy
Happy birthday John, and thanks for making this an always “interesting” place to stop by.
p.a.
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.
JPL
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.
J.W. Hamner
Happy birthday!
How did you decide to prepare the pasta?
Anne Laurie
Happy birthday, young’n…
… and many happy returns!
Citizen_X
¡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!
Morbo
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.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
wow, john cole is getting too old for this shit
luc
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.
scav
“HIPY PAPY BTHUTHDTH THUTHDA BTHUTHDY.”
PurpleGirl
Happy Birthday, John. Wishing you many more happy years.
Comrade Mary
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.
Cat Lady
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.Quicksand
6/22 NEVER FORGET!
barbara
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.
Johannes
Happy birthday, John! May you be spared by His Tunchitude for many more years!
freelancer
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)
TuiMel
Happy Birthday, John! I hope this year is filled with good health, happiness, success, and some sort of blissful resolution of the “Rosie Problem.”
protected static
…what about mint chocolate pasta?
mr. whipple
Music for your Bday!
Cat Lady
@jeffreyw I love your cake and want to marry it.
M. Bouffant
You really are just a young punk.
Dee Loralei
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.
Genine
Happy Birthday!
Josie
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.
hilzoy
Happy birthday, grasshopper. ;)
geg6
Late to the thread, but I hope you have a great evening, Cole. Subdued celebrations are the bomb after 40.
HumboldtBlue
I bet Hamsher gives you a wedgie.
Garbo
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.
tulip
Happy Birthday! Enjoy your pasta and the ice cream.
tomvox1
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!
MazeDancer
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.
cg
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.
Santiago
Happy birthday punk ;)
RosiesDad
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.
Desargues
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.
AliceBlue
Happy birthday, John. Hope there’s many more.
Thanks for making it possible for all of us to be Juicers!
NeenerNeener
Happy birthday, you young whippersnapper.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
Happy Birthday! Thanks for letting us play here.
Cheers,
Scott.
Beauzeaux
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.
maye
You’re only 41? Holy cow! You’re still young enough to get a life. Happy birthday.
AAA Bonds
hsppy bday
John Weiss
Happy birthday, boyo. You’re really just a spring chicken.
Sarah in Brooklyn
Happy birthday!
Marc McKenzie
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.
Carrie
Happy, slappy birthday!
mcmullje
Happy birthday John – I really wish you all the best!!!
Mike in NC
Happy birthday. Mine is tomorrow. Whoop-dee-do!
comrade scott's agenda of rage
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.
passerby
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
Origuy
Happy birthday! Là breith sona dhuit!
Admiral_Komack
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN COLE!
amk
Happy B’day, Cole.
So, how many donkey years is that ?
Keith G
Happy birthday and thanks.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
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.
Jebediah
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…
kindness
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?
Jewish Steel
The longest birthday of the year! How fortunate you are. Mazel Tov!
Neal
Happy Birthday, John Cole. I’ll drink another Yuengling for you.
Evolved Deep Southerner
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.
mistermix
Happy Birthday, John!
David F
You’re not getting older, just getting fatter.
Thanks for bringing us together and all the critter posts.
Ash Can
Happy birthday, ya punk. Bazillions more to you.
IrishGirl
John, Welcome to the 41 Club!
Slainte!
5x5
Happy Birthday!
Thanks for hosting a great blog. I wish you the best always.
Svensker
Said it elsewhere, but it bears repeating: Happy Birthday! Mint choc ice cream is real good stuff. Eat some xtras for me.
wmd
Hey, you’re a prime number!
Happy Birthday.
birthmarker
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…
Cay
Happy happy joy joy!
A Humble Lurker
@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.
artem1s
Happy birthday JC, thanks for an interesting interweb place to check into everyday and all the animal picts!
Alex S.
Happy Birthday!
WaynersT
Happy Birthday Cole –
I was happy to finally find a picture of you the other day – that’s a great looking 41!
CatHairEverywhere
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.
eemom
happy birthday asshole.
You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
Betty Cracker
Birthday greetings!
I am so going to try that homemade pasta thing. Sounds fabulous!
slag
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!
JCT
Wait, where’s the pic of Tunch with a party hat on?
srv
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.
Lori
Happy birthday, John! Pretty impressive achievements at 41, including the beautiful homemade pasta. Thank you for what you (and your friends here) do.
shortstop
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.
Jane2
Happy birthday!! Enjoy your dinner,your refreshments, and your day.
Denali
Happy birthday to my favorite blogger. And enjoy the ice cream!
Ecks
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.
opie_jeanne
Happy Birthday, John.
I’d sing but it would end badly.
Wilson Heath
Same birtday well-wish is already there, but may Tunch not decide to kill the fat man in his sleep.
John O
Sincere Happy Birthday, John, and thanks for giving voice to me at the price.
Steeplejack
@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.
pete p
happy birthday john! thank you for doing this blog. i know it may seem a thankless task sometimes, but thank you.
pete
Pinacacci
Reading nothing of the above thread; I LOVE YOU JC!! Happy birthday!
Americanadian
Happy birthday! May you retain your natural snarkiness for many years!
WaterGirl
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.
karen marie
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?
Teddy Salad
Happy Birthday, John Cole!
Really like what you’ve done with the place.
Yutsano
O-TANJYOOBI O OMEDETO GOZAIMASU!!
(as they say in parts of the other side of the Pacific)
AxelFoley
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.
Steeplejack
@AxelFoley:
No, I’m the 59-year-old grouch. Fuck you, and get off my lawn. Satisfied?
drunken hausfrau
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.
Comrade Javamanphil
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.
birthmarker
Hmmm…how many of us share a birthday with someone who called us an asshole, (at least publicly, I presume…)
Paul in KY
Best wishes, John! Hope you & your brood have a wonderful time celebrating your 41st.
Deb T
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.