Have you ever looked at your pet’s nose? I mean really, really close. It may be my favorite part of the piglets, because it’s just so delicate and refined, and the patterns in the hairs/fur are so amazing. I spend hours sitting and petting Tunch and just looking at his perfect little nose and the crazy design of all the little hairs and whiskers:
The hairs are just so fine and almost purposely placed. Everything about it is perfect and amazing, and while staring at it, you can briefly forget about the fact he sheds all over the god damned house, shits in a box you need to clean daily, sits on your chest and chirps when you don’t want to get out of bed, and harasses you multiple times throughout the day, weaving in and out of your legs, whether you are sitting at the computer or trying to walk down the damned stairs.
But if you look just close enough in the few seconds he is sitting still, it’s pretty beautiful, and worth it all. And don’t get me started on wet dog noses, which I think are the greatest things on earth. A wet dog nose is a happy, healthy dog. And usually in my armpit at 6 am.
Comrade Mary
I — I don’t recognize this Smiths song.
But that’s a lovely picture of Tunch. Wet dog noses are pretty damn awesome, too. Also.
Oh man, I need a pet.
WereBear (itouch)
It’s a funny thing though; any time I’ve lived without the fur and the harassment, the house is definitely missing something.
Living with other beings. Whatcha gonna do.
Omnes Omnibus
@Comrade Mary: It is a B-side from an import. It was mistakenly pressed on a few issues of “There’s a Light That Never Goes Out” on a reissue in 1992. It is very rare.
jeff
I’m fostering a small girl cat that was initially so freaking hateful I couldn’t believe she had any good in her. It took more than a few weeks, but she’s just…adorable and lovely.
All along, though, it was her perfectly pink nose that made me want to risk scratches just to get at that freaking nose!
Now she realizes she’s in a good place, I get to pet her above her perfect nose whenever she hops on my lap–which is often.
The world is full of meaninglessness, but a cat’s nose is what it is: adorable.
Evolving Deep Southerner
First thing I thought of was Pet Sounds. Or Pet Smells in this case.
ramalamadingdong
I was just playing with some whiskers, but it’s the little pink paw pads that do me in. My calendar arrived today so all is good.
Violet
Are you doing coke? Eight posts in seven hours? You gotta be on something. No posts for days and then this.
Your pets are adorable.
John Cole
I’ve been working out and eating healthy and not drinking and had green tea at 6 pm. Welcome to the sober healthy me, where the energy levels skyrocket, the blood pressure plummets, and the ADD goes through the roof.
Villago Delenda Est
The noses keep getting into things. The rest of them follow.
Comrade Mary
@John Cole: Gabba gabba hey! One of us! One of us!
@Omnes Omnibus: You are lord of the music nerds.
Omnes Omnibus
@John Cole: Okay, maybe add the drinking back in? Balance is key. And buy a car with decent seats.
ETA: To correct the typo because balance is key.
John Cole
@Comrade Mary:
This may be one of my favorite comments ever. LMAO. That was awesome. You just accidentally conflated a Ramones song “Gabba Gabba Hey” with Freaks “Gooble Gobble.”
I’m giggling. Just to keep the G thing going.
MobiusKlein
Magnets, how the . do they work?
Violet
@John Cole:
Why does all that good, healthy stuff make your ADD go through the roof? Seems like it would make you calm.
Omnes Omnibus
@John Cole: Okay, it is “Gabba gabba, we accept you, we accept you, one of us.” It is late.
freelancer
@John Cole:
@Omnes Omnibus:
Seconded. Glad you are letting the clutch out, but the no drinking thing? That can be eased off of without wreaking havoc on your health. A nice glass of white that I’m enjoying right now just told me so.
P.S. I’m jealous of your pets. They are awesome.
PPS: NBC just released the pilot of their new show called “Awake” with Jason Isaacs. It is awesome and I hope that NBC doesn’t pull a Firefly, because it’s definitely something I want to see more than 13 episodes of.
Cheers
Anne Laurie
I was told that every dog’s noseprint is as individual as a human’s fingerprint. At least, that’s why the Canadian Kennel Club claimed it needed two certified noseprints when I wanted to dual-register my first dog to claim his CKC Companion Dog (basic obedience) title. However, since getting a second noseprint from a newly wised-up dog was almost as complicated as finishing the three qualifying trials, it may just have been another form of that dry Canadian humor…
John Cole
@Violet: I dunno. I’ve got no explanations, I’m just saying how it is.
GG
The Most Beautiful Cat Ever* (srsly, not just us, but the unsolicited opinion of people who only tolerated other ppl’s cats) had a nearly-perfect dark heart on her otherwise-pink nose.
I’ve got to also appreciate the dark ring around our only surviving** cat’s nose: it’s the first thing I see many mornings, because she’s perched on some part of my anatomy, staring at me.
That little cold wet nose thing is good, in the health of the beastie sense, but there are times (like 5 am) when I’m less than happy about it.
*It’s fine to disagree, but if you’d seen her… she was also the most intelligent cat I’ve ever known. Not the cuddliest.
**We had as many as 5 at a time for 10+ years – all rescues. Most of them died from old age. (The other died from natural causes, too, but waaaay too young.)
Comrade Mary
@John Cole: There are no accidents, John. Anyway, Wiki kind of mostly backs me up as conflating two different parts of the same Ramones song, which was inspired by Freaks:
Smiths to Ramones in one night AND I get to let my librarian out to play? Works for me.
John Cole
@Comrade Mary: Ok, you win. I concede I was quick to judge. I’m just used to the freaks reference. I’ll cook you dinner sometime.
amk
Will be on a long haul flight to africa shortly. Any good latest thrilla/spy/courtroom drama trash on kindle ?
Comrade Mary
@John Cole: Aw, but it made you giggle! Be as quick to judge as you like.
I like cilantro. No, I LOVE cilantro. Just so you know.
Jewish Steel
Heartily agree about the wet dog nose. Fills me with contentment when the hounds are healthy.
Weird that the tornado sirens would go off today.
cmorenc
@efgoldman:
Better to get stuck contemplating your cat’s lovely nose in that condition than to be stuck sitting in your car contemplating the deep meaning of the words lit up in front of you “the door is a jar”.
sfinny
Mostly I contemplate my cat’s nose when he is shoving it up my nose to wake me up and feed him.
Omnes Omnibus
@cmorenc: No, the door is open.
Roger Moore
It’s the claws that really amaze me, especially the pieces that flake off the side. The idea of a constantly growing, self-sharpening claw is just too cool for words. Too bad indoor cats don’t wear them down enough so you have to trim them. Not fun.
Yutsano
@Comrade Mary: Stop making me wuv you more. :)
Comrade Mary
@Roger Moore: I wonder if unicorn horns would self-sharpen the same way, if unicorns were real. (Not that I’ve been in any shape to catch one and check for myself since Muskrat Love was on the charts.)
Ed Dane defender of Doughnuts
If my cat doesn’t think I’m paying enough attention, she’ll try to chew on the monitor. Good luck with that cat.
Roger Moore
@John Cole:
I’m surprised. Stimulants are supposed to work differently on people who genuinely suffer from ADD. Instead of making them jittery and hyperactive the way they do to the rest of us, they make them calmer and more focused. That’s why they treat ADD with a drug that’s a close relative of meth, though caffeine is supposed to have some of the same effect.
krazeeinjun
Newbie here, but longtime reader.
Cat lover, cat owner. I hear ya Cole.
My day isn’t completely tranquil unless I find my Chico in the morning clinging claws deep 5 feet up on the screen door screeching to be let in. It’s a cat owner’s life and you’re either cut out for it or you’re not.
Comrade Mary
@Yutsano: Don’t make me choose between you and the green stuff, boyo.
Omnes Omnibus
@Comrade Mary:
Damn. You are only a year or so older than me, but you had a goddamned multi-year headstart.
burnspbesq
@amk:
New Walter Mosely (it’s a Leonid McGill book). Recent Tom Clancy, Patricia Cornwell, and Dale Brown’s Dreamland.
Or this. The decline and fall of moderate Republicanism, told from the moderates’s side. A very useful counterpoint to Before the Storm and Nixonland.
http://www.amazon.com/Rule-Ruin-Moderation-Destruction-Development/dp/0199768404
Comrade Mary
@Omnes Omnibus: I’m from Québec. We have standards to live up to.
John Cole
@cmorenc: Or finding yourself in a bathroom with a mirror or, gasp, spending three hours looking at… your hands.
Yutsano
@Comrade Mary: Chimichurri. Awesome stuff that.
@Comrade Mary: Holee cwap. We could be distant cousins!
Roger Moore
@Comrade Mary:
I doubt it. Horns are structurally different and serve a different purpose. They don’t have to be super sharp, just kind of pointy and strong enough to survive being jabbed into something with the full weight of a charging animal behind them. If stuff flaked off them when they were rubbed hard, they’d never be able to survive that kind of abuse.
Omnes Omnibus
@Comrade Mary:
So is my mom’s family 100 years ago and then way back…
Ruckus
JC
That’s some classic shit right there.
Comrade Mary
@Yutsano: Holy fuck — WANT! Is this canonical? I can pick up the herbs tomorrow, because I really was planning on steak anyway.
Roger Moore
The best part about pets is that they still love you even when you’re not the best human. I’ve been early to work and late home every day this week, and tired and in a bad mood when I have been there- fucking FDA audit- but my cat still looks happy to see me every day.
freelancer
@cmorenc:
“Why would they put a jar on a car?!”
“Oh shit. The freeway’s melting!”
“Put it in the jar!”
@John Cole:
Been there. I’d think “Smile!” and what seemed like hours later, a grin would break out, and I’d be gobsmacked. I’m assuming you read the site through the Dashboard most days and as such you fished me out of inexplicable mod hell. Tip o the deerstalker to you.
Yutsano
@Comrade Mary: Swap half the parsley for coriander. Trust me. Your mouth and your steak will thank you forever.
(Wifey doth not like the fine herb. I’m half-torturing her here. :)
Ruckus
@cmorenc:
It sounds like there is a story buried in there somewhere.
trollhattan
@Comrade Mary:
Tunch schnoz!
Devo worked “We accept you, one of us…” into some versions of “Jocko Homo” back, back in the day (’75 or so). Also, too, Mark Mothersbaugh does bits for “Yo Gabba Gabba” on Nick Jr. and scored Laura Dern’s very quirky “Enlightened” on HBO.
Anne Laurie
@Roger Moore:
Nicotine, too also. At least one ADD researcher claims you can graph the rise of Starbucks-culture and the diagnoses of ADD in adults as a lagging indicatorof anti-smoking initiatives.
amk
@burnspbesq: Thanks. Will check them out.
Comrade Mary
Sweet and soppy appreciations of pet noses, detailed rationales for mythical pointy things, lyrics and film history, recipes, flashbacks (of all sorts) — aaaaaaand I’m done. Nighty-night, mes gars!
amk
il papa orders 22 new “princes of the church”.
Their goal ? “new evangelisation” with “a smile, not a frown”.
just what we need, more old guyz in garish dresses ‘smiling’ at us.
WereBear (itouch)
@Roger Moore: Cats don’t wear them down; they pull off the claw sheath to reveal the new sharp claw beneath.
asiangrrlMN
TUNCHIE’S NOSE! *Swoons* Love that little guy. Glad you’re feeling good, if a bit ADD, Cole. How’s Papa Cole?
@Yutsano: By ‘does not like’, you mean, ‘fucking hates’, which is absolutely true.
@Omnes Omnibus: Commas, comma, are also, comma, key.
@freelancer: Oh my fucking god! Thank you for this! It’s one show I actually WANT to watch, and not just because Jason Isaacs is hawt. I am intrigued by the premise and, squee!
How y’all doing? I’m about to have lunch.
Roger Moore
@amk:
I’ve got a suggestion: stop protecting child rapists and telling women what to do with their bodies. If the church wants people to pay attention to what it says, maybe it should say something worth listening to.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: :: points one thread up ::
U still wuv me. Don’t even try to deny it. :)
GG
I haven’t got the hang of this Pacific time zone I’m in. It’s only been 3 years. But my “internal clock” gave up in horror long before that.
Comrade Mary: Je me souviens. So, how about Beau Dommage, or are they too only Montréal?
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: ::smothers you in my bosom::
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Yes, all you straight men out there may hate me. For indeed I get all the tits.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: All mah tits are for you, hon! ::giggles::
Comrade Mary
@GG: I should SO be in bed, but my hair is still drying.
LOVE Beau Dommage. I used to play this all 20 minutes of this on 8-track over and over again — even with the abrupt cut and merge in the middle — before I got it on vinyl. Ah, I could love Costello and full-cheese Québec prog all at the same time back then.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: All ur tits r belong 2 us.
kyle
god made kitty!
freelancer
@asiangrrlMN:
Hey there. Missed you ’round these parts. The pilot was so good that I actually wrote NBC and told them to keep the show going.
http://www.nbc.com/contact/general/
Select Upcoming shows and pick Awake and just write a blurb. I work for a big company which shall not be named, but we do take individual customer’s feedback fairly seriously so from my big giant corporate conglomerate experience, I can tell you that it can’t hurt.
asiangrrlMN
@freelancer: Aw, fanks. I’ve missed you guys, too. Am watching pilot naow. So stoked.
ETA: B.D. Wong! FTW!
@Yutsano: Only to you, hon!
asiangrrlMN
@freelancer: First segment watched. I’m hooked!
freelancer
@asiangrrlMN:
I know you’re not big on TV, but try not to like the show just ’cause you’re hooked on handsome British actors.
BTW, if you haven’t seen BBC’s miniseries The State Within, it’s on Netflix through 2015 and you are missing out if you don’t give it a go.
asiangrrlMN
@freelancer: Just finished the whole episode. Loved it. Which means it’ll be cancelled shortly. And, ha! You funny in that you tell me not to watch something ‘coz it has handsome Brits, and then you link to something with same handsome Brit! But, I do love Jason Isaacs as an actor, so I will check out The State Within as well.
freelancer
@asiangrrlMN:
Glad to hear. I have a poster of The State Within hanging in my place (among many other posters, btw). I have it on DVD, saved on a hard drive, and available on Netflix. I ran through the show on Netflix 2 years ago and was blown away. The BBC pwns the US in terms of chutzpah with the risks they’ll take. There’s that and the fact that the British have us dead to rights on smart, intelligent dramas that keep you hooked and don’t draw out a production until it’s so diluted that the viewer decides to pull the plug.
Glad you liked it and good to see you here again. Sheesh, you’re gonna make me nostalgic!
Kristine
@freelancer:
I watched Isaacs in “Case Histories” on Masterpiece Mystery. He is a damn good actor.
Lavocat
Dude, lay off the acid.
Andree-Anne Desmedt
Perfect cat noses make up for the throwing up on the rugs, endless vacuuming of cat hair, cleaning up of litter boxes, and constant search for food that the royal felines consent to eat…
I love them dearly as I’m definitely a complete sucker for their infinite attractiveness. I’m their happy servant.
Andree-Anne Desmedt
Perfect cat noses make up for the throwing up on the rugs, endless vacuuming of cat hair, cleaning up of litter boxes, and constant search for food that the royal felines consent to eat…
I love them dearly as I’m definitely a complete sucker for their infinite attractiveness. I’m their happy servant.
Paul in KY
One of the visible differences between Pantera felines & others (besides the size & big teeth) are that on a member of Pantera (lion, tiger, etc.) the hair on top of nose extends over the edge that seperates top of nose from front of nose. In other cat species the front pad of the nose extends up to the very front of the top of nose.
Next time you are face to face with an angry leopard or Jaguar, you will see what I’m talking about.
Paul in KY
@Roger Moore: I agree. Think cat feet are very interesting. How long does it take for retractable claws to evolve?
Paul in KY
@Roger Moore: Wonder what ideas the Galgomex Cardinals have…
Sasha
My corgi-retriever mix had an adorable brown cow nose.