The godson sports a new costume:
I just rented Magic Mike and tried to get the lady friend to watch, and she said “No” and went back to killing murlocs. I did a little booty dance, she choked on an oreo (not sure if it was out of disgust, laughter, or suppression of the gag reflex), and she said “really, no. I’m ok.”
If dad is wrong about this movie being fun, I may throw his other hand into the wood chipper.
*** Update ***
Looks like I need to fire up the wood chipper in the morning. This ain’t Boogie Nights.
Alison
GIANTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry :) Cute baby! :P
Corner Stone
There ain’t a god damned thing you could have done there that would have been a “little booty dance”.
Frankensteinbeck
Waiding iz wot bwings us togezza today.
arclite
Well, to be fair, any ladyfriend hanging with you prolly doesn’t care THAT much about washboard abs.
Just sayin’
arclite
@Frankensteinbeck:
I thought The Waiting is the Hardest Part?
The Dangerman
Mark it; power’s still up in WV.
Irene was a disappointment (Come on, Irene!); Sandy may make up for it. Getting a nasty vibe on this one. Good luck, NorthEast Coasters.
jl
Thanks for cute cuddly kid pic.
Looks like he is sporting one GIANT ORANGE AND BLACK killer dinosaur rabbit (?) costume for Halloween. Looks like a total winner to me.
(maybe Cole don’t know, SF is too scary for Cole)
Dee Loralei
Cute baby is adorable.
The Dangerman
@jl:
Fine observation on the colors, though it also kinda looks like the Steelers throwback uni’s today (which were hopefully burned afterwards).
slag
Kid got eaten by, what appears to be, a dragon. I had expected Tunch to get to him first.
TheMightyTrowel
It’s not fun. It’s f’ing awful. And I’m someone who appreciates nude men, dancing and queer subtexts.
RUN AWAY!!!
TheMightyTrowel
(Confidential to the blog hosts: Why does WP eat my exclamation points? If I use more than one they all disappear) (3 exclamation points –>!!!)
Anne Laurie
Cole, for the sake of every commentor who’s asked:
HOW’S YOUR OLD MAN DOING?
P.S. Rhino baby is adorbs.
P.P.S. Seriously, post an update on the Paternal Cole, people are worrying.
trollhattan
@TheMightyTrowel:
You may use two. !! Three’s right out. !!! Also, too, applies to combinations of exclamation points and question marks. ?!? Except when it doesn’t.
It’s how they do.
trollhattan
Also, also, too. I feel sorry for anybody in SF who has to get up for a 4:00 a.m. shift. Town’s not sleeping, tonight.
Nikolita
I’m getting caught up on all the old Tunch posts on this blog. He reminds me a lot of my tuxedo cat, Cat (long story).
Cacti
A hearty boo to the San Francisco Balcos, err, Giants.
Dirtiest team in MLB wins the World Series.
Cheaters not only prosper, sometimes they win the biggest prize of all.
Alison
@Cacti: Um. You do realize he’s not on the team anymore, right? Also, fuck you.
Roger Moore
@TheMightyTrowel:
It’s one more element of the eternal mystery that is FYWP. I think it’s because some people overuse the ! in a way they don’t overuse other punctuation. FWIW, it will also eat combinations of ! and 1, which some people use as a humorous way of expressing over excitement. You can get around this by using the character map/key caps feature to get the double exclamation point character (‼, Unicode point 203C or html escape &8252;) which FYWP treats like an ordinary character. ‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼
scav
@TheMightyTrowel: It is to remind us mere sub-lunar mortals that the ways of FYWP are mysterious and not to be trifled with or questioned, nor are those of its meaty avatar, TUUUUUUNNNNCH.
(Might also just be a fortune cookie like reminder to chill out, or a weird artfact of come text search and replace the coders thought it would be clever to include. But I choose to see it as a reminder that the world makes very little fucking sense sometimes . . . quite often . . . )
handy
@Cacti:
Bonds hasn’t played on the Giants for several years.
Still, was pulling for the Tigers. Sucks how it went down, sucks that Miggie had to be the last out–with the bat on his shoulder. That’s baseball though, the team that’s hottest at the end wins. The one that’s not–well that would be the Texas Rangers. El. Oh. El.
ReflectedSky
I don’t know what kind of civilian would find Magic Mike fun. Not enough naked hot guys for those those wanted it — but enough to make any straight guy run screaming from the room, I would think.
GREAT directing, though, on a craft level — very ’70s, like a smarter, better composed Altman. So I guess your dad’s a auteurist.
Villago Delenda Est
Baby Cole is just SQUEEEEEEEE!
As for murlocs, there are no murlocs in Pandaria…except, it seems, for one race that is, best I can tell from Loremaster Cho’s story…evolved from murlocs. They do not go MRRRRRRRGL, either.
Cacti
@Alison:
Hello person who pays attention to baseball 2 weeks out of the year.
Google Melky Cabrera and Guillermo Mota, and get back with me.
Kthxbai.
Joel
@Cacti: the Yankees lose! The Yankees lose!
handy
@Villago Delenda Est:
They got rid of the Murlocs? What kind of lame ass expansion is that? What else, they made a playable race out of a stupid inside joke?
scav
@Roger Moore: ok, that was eerie, right down to the timestamps. I tend to use strings of the & # 33 ; trick when I can be bothered, but yours is fun if I can cram another number into working memory.
Cacti
@handy:
Hello other person who pays attention to baseball 2 weeks out of the year.
Google Melky Cabrera and Guillermo Mota, and get back with me.
Kthxbai.
Alison
@Cacti: Hello asshole who doesn’t know anything about me. I watch every game, thanks. Cabrera has been gone for two months, and Mota was out for what, 100 games too? And it’s not like the whole team was relying solely on those two (certainly not Mota much of the time). This is a team of players who have all stepped up and gotten shit done, so because a couple of guys fucked around doesn’t mean shit. And please, do you fucking think they’re the only ones? I’d bet my life every damn pro team has a couple guys doing this shit. Is it right? No, but don’t get all fucking high and mighty, and don’t act like the team isn’t deserving of something they won WITHOUT those players.
gwangung
@Cacti: OK, I admit it. I forgot about Mota.
handy
@Cacti:
I don’t need Google to tell me that the Giants didn’t win because a guy who hit 11 home runs and another guy who pitched a couple innings in relief.
Cacti
@Alison:
I’ll just get over it, Justice Scalia.
Bush won the election fair and square, 5-4.
Alison
@Cacti: The fuck does that even mean?
Look, are you seriously saying that the entire rest of the team didn’t do anything to get them here? That it was ALL THANKS to Cabrera and Mota, even when both of them were gone? Posey, Pence, Sandoval, Romo, Cain, Vogelsong, Pagan, none of those guys did fuck all? If you really think that, you’re a damn fool, and maybe you’re the one who needs to pay more attention to the games.
Cacti
@handy:
Is this your way of saying you’re ignoramus for mentioning Barry Bonds in the first place.
Bruce Bochy has dirty players wherever he goes. His best years in San Diego were made possible by the artificially enhanced bat of the late Ken Caminiti.
Bnut
People, people, settle down. Alabama is still #1 in the BCS. The world is still a good place.
handy
@Cacti:
You’re seriously suggesting that a couple of benchwarmers who were on the sauce at some point in their careers equals SF cheating to the WS?
Cacti
@Alison:
I’m saying that with two PED cheats busted just this season, one of them for the second time, a manager with a history of benefiting from PED cheats, and years worth of propping up the biggest PED cheat in MLB history, the Giants organization is d-i-r-t-y.
Alison
@handy: To be fair, Cabrera wasn’t a benchwarmer, but even still, he’s been gone for two months and they continued winning and kicked ass in the postseason without him, so Cacti can go eat a whole truckload of lightly salted poisoned rat dicks garnished with sour grapes.
4jkb4ia
Bruce, Leap of Faith because I am cranky that “Single Ladies” is actually a breakup song. Pink’s “So What” is the same situation with a ring.
If the Giants were all Melky Cabrera they would have fallen apart when he got suspended back in August.
Cacti
@handy:
Again, google is your friend.
Cabrera was leading the NL in batting average, and was among the league leaders in hits and runs scored before his vacation.
Mary G
It’s odd that Romney ads come up on almost every left wing site I read. For a while Obama was asking for a $13 donation and Romney was asking for $12, then a couple of weeks ago it went down to $8 and just now on LGF I saw one for $5. He’s going to repeal Obamacare, won’t you just contribute a little bit? Ha!
Ads in all the wrong places and putting yourself on sale like a loaf of day-old bread: awesome job there!
JordanRules
ROIDZZZ! ROIDZZZZ! ROIDZZZ!
Teee hee hee.
Congrats San Fran.
Alison
@Cacti: What teams do you support? Are you so completely certain all of those players are perfect angels? Do you think a whole team can be blamed for what a couple of dumbfucks do? Because if so, then I guess we ought to just shut down every sport’s professional league at this point.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Cacti: if you really want to get all high and mighty about a manager and cheaters, perhaps you should look at one Tony LaRussa and his buddy Mark McGwire, of the St Louis Cardinals.
MikeJ
@Mary G:
Bumper sticker seen today: “I *like* Obamacare!”
Cacti
@Alison:
Because we can safely assume that every other member of the Giants were clean as a whistle.
Just ask Alison. And if you don’t think so, you can eat a bag of dicks, fuck off and die!
Cacti
@The prophet Nostradumbass:
Two wrongs do make a right!
I’ll have to call my mother and tell her that she misinformed me!
handy
@Cacti:
So the guy who we are to be so outraged about who was so crucial to his team winning–was sitting on the bench for the last month or so of the season.
Cacti
@Alison:
Your argument might have some merit, if 2x busted cheater Mota wasn’t added to the post season roster.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Cacti: Who said that? I’m not a Giants fan.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Cacti: cough it up. Which team do you support?
Cacti
@handy:
First you assumed I was talking about Barry Bonds.
Then you said that the guy who was leading the NL in batting was a bench warmer.
Now it’s, well he wasn’t that important because he was sitting on the bench after serving out his suspension.
Is that your final answer sparky, or do you need another lifeline?
Alison
@Cacti: Why does his being added back to the roster after serving his suspension mean anything? Was he supposed to be drawn and quartered on the field instead?
Cacti
@The prophet Nostradumbass:
I thought you’d already figured it out.
Cacti
@Alison:
Nope, repeat PED offenders should be welcomed back to the clubhouse. It’s baseball, right? You’re only out after the third strike.
JordanRules
@Cacti: D’backs perhaps?
Cacti
@JordanRules:
Nyet.
I’m not an AZ native.
The Other Chuck
They’re all juicing, ok? All the teams. Dumbass fuckwad troll, did a Giant knock up your sister or something?
Cacti
@The Other Chuck:
My, my. Are all of the Giants fans off their meds this evening?
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Cacti: under normal circumstances, your level of douchebaggery would suggest Yankees, Red Sox or Cardinals, but after tonight I suppose you’re a sore loser Tigers fan.
As someone who doesn’t like the Giants, and wanted the Tigers to win, suck it up, jackass.
Cacti
@The prophet Nostradumbass:
Meds, prophet. Meds.
jl
Everyone knows only the Giants have players busted for doping.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_players_suspended_for_performance-enhancing_drugs
And Cabrera is not back on the roster.
The Other Chuck
@Cacti: I’m not even a fan, you’re just the kind of loser with true crossover appeal who could get Quakers lining up to punch you in your miniscule junk.
jl
I think the jackass is a Rockies or a Mariners fan.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Cacti: meds, for what? I’m not the one whose team lost in the World Series and can’t accept it. Hell, my team lost to the Tigers in the ALDS.
gwangung
@jl:
Not an Ms fan. Too bitter, not pathetic enough.
And, um….Mike Morse.
Cacti
Merely pointing that the Giants led MLB in PED suspensions, have a manager who has dirty players wherever he goes, and have an organizational history of overlooking dirty players who benefited them financially, makes me…
An asshole douchebag jackass, who should eat a bag of dicks.
I’m disappointed. No one’s insulted my ancestry, spouse, or family yet.
YellowJournalism
So much for the zen aspect of this post. It’s supposed to be about cute babies and making comments about John needing to tear up his man card or “you tube video or it didn’t happen” in regard to the booty dance. Priorities, people.
Also, dragon so cute!
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Cacti: nobody likes a sore loser.
Cacti
@The Other Chuck:
Asshole douchebag jackass loser, with miniscule junk, who should eat a bag of dicks.
Keep em’ coming.
Cacti
Originality points for Chuck for mentioning my penis size.
Asshole/douchebag/loser, etc. don’t take much thought.
JordanRules
This ‘roids argument is soooo 90’s. Can we have a row about replacement refs?
Yutsano
@gwangung: Do we even bother to mention Bret Boone? I mean, when you’re twice the body size of your brothers who are also playing…yeah. Subtle that ain’t.
The Other Chuck
@Cacti: Try a few more verbs next time. They really do tend to distinguish actual sentences from spittle-flecked grunting.
Yutsano
@YellowJournalism: Yes, this causes much excitement.
gwangung
@Yutsano: Well, I was thinking currently active players since Cacti was sticking to that….
Cacti
@The Other Chuck:
Do try and keep up, Charles. I’m just keeping a running tab of all the colorful adjectives aimed at me by such literate and intelligent folks as yourself, as a means of expressing their disagreement.
So, with your latest entry, that brings me up to…
Grunting spittle-flecked asshole douchebag jackass loser, with miniscule junk, who should eat a bag of dicks.
TheMightyTrowel
@The Other Chuck: Verbs are also overrated. Spittle flecked grunting for the win.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Cacti: you forgot “sore loser”.
Yutsano
@gwangung: Bonds got brought up. I figured Bret was fair play in these circumstances. To be honest, though, most of the active Ms roster are skinny runts. If I have suspicions about anyone it’s Millwood, and that would just devastate my little brother.
Cacti
@The prophet Nostradumbass:
Meh.
Just a variation of “loser,” which came first in the insult chronology. Chuck gets the most originality points for insulting the size of my member.
4jkb4ia
Cacti is a Cardinals fan, if I remember from last year.
Mark McGwire–I thought prophet Nostradumbass was talking about his being the hitting coach, to which I was going to respond that the Cardinals also have John Mabry as a second hitting coach for people who are not going to hit home runs. This is not a sign that McGwire is getting them all to dope.
If I accept that the Giants championship isn’t legitimate, I have to accept that neither of the Red Sox ones were, because we don’t know how long Ramirez or Ortiz were using drugs.
Narcissus
Hey everybody baseball sucks and its boring
It’s watching grass grow only there are tired guidos playing catch on it
the grass I mean
Cacti
@4jkb4ia:
You have quite the memory for random internet commentary.
I thought prophet had it figured out with his McGwire comment, but it turned out just to be a shot in the dark.
Now go ahead everyone, bring on the comments about how I’m just bitter about the NLCS, how I love Mark McGwire, etc. Neither is true.
Cacti
@4jkb4ia:
The Giants are hardly alone in having a dirty organization. Boston and New York were both dirty as hell during their title runs.
JordanRules
I thought people were cool enjoying their stepped on baseball. Didn’t know there were still pearl clutchers looking for that pure uncut. Me thinks that ship sailed long ago.
Another Halocene Human
@Narcissus: It’s watching grass grow only there are tired guidos playing catch on it
Go back to Hell, whatever circle you crawled out of.
JordanRules
I’ve got a custom made asterisk I’m using for the Miami Heat. I’d be happy to loan it out.
Cacti
@JordanRules:
Even though one of the principals of the PED era played for my team of choice, I smelled bullshit the moment we went from two 60-HR seasons in 70+ years, to 3 or 4 guys making it an annual event. I figured the truth would come out eventually, and it did. I’m embarrassed to have Mark McGwire associated with the Cardinals. The face of the franchise when I was a kid was Ozzie Smith. He was unwelcome around the organization during the entire reign of Tony La Russa, for the unforgiveable sin of disagreeing with “the Genius” when he first came on board in 1996. Meanwhile, dirty ass cheater Mark McGwire, got to be the hitting coach after embarrassing himself, the franchise, and the city of St. Louis during his pathetic congressional testimony.
What a game.
Anne Laurie
@YellowJournalism:
Cute, yes, but two facial horns and floppy ears: I say it’s a rhino.
Let’s start a pointless brawl that isn’t about sports :)…
Yutsano
@Anne Laurie: I see scales, I say dragon. I win. :)
Cacti
@Anne Laurie:
I say dinosaur, because horns + scales + orange and yellow.
I’m sure I’ve never seen a scaly, orange rhino.
suzanne
@The Other Chuck:
Are you in a position to know?
Narcissus
@Another Halocene Human: Oh yeah well you stink and baseball stinks
suzanne
@Cacti: Have you ever seen an orange dinosaur? I have not.
Cacti
@suzanne:
I’ve never seen a dinosaur or a dragon.
Cacti
@suzanne:
I can answer that one.
NO!
TheMightyTrowel
@suzanne: I have. IN MY MIND. I am #TeamDino.
Comrade Mary
I’m taking this as a “Dad’s OK and fuck off you nosy losers” message.
suzanne
@Cacti: LMAO. I always laugh when cock dimensions come up as an insult. It’s like I never left junior high.
Cacti
Speaking of Magic Mike (have not seen), I was surprised to see ex-wrassler Kevin Nash as one of the strippers. Dude is 53.
Benno
John Cole, you must stop this. You’re killing me! Not only is my daughter now 15 and hardly this cute anymore (sorry, dear), but she’s 9,000 miles away, together with my nieces and nephews (who are, I should note, currently of this approximate cuteness).
Villago Delenda Est
@handy:
You misunderstand.
There are still murlocs all over the place, being as annoying, almost, as troggs.
It’s just on the continent of Pandaria there are no murlocs.
Well, they do have some annoying races. The Virmin, for example, which are sort of bunnies on steroids. Then there are the Hozen, who can be annoying, or not.
Then there are the Grummles, who I really like. They’re like Sherpas, sort of. Expert explorers and logisticians.
The less said of the Mogu, the better. Not nice people. An entire race of Dick Cheneys and John Yoos.
HobbesAI
@arclite: I thought the hardest part was letting go, not taking part.
asiangrrlMN
‘Lil Cole’s so gotdamn cute, he makes my ovaries, um, well, nothing, really, but he’s still gotdamn cute!
TheMightyTrowel
(Watching the latest episode of Downton Abbey on the intertubes. I want to strangle Julian Fellows for how badly he treats my poor beleaguered Footman/Valet Thomas)
Odie Hugh Manatee
I rate that kid at one and a half thumbs up.
Too soon? ;p
That’s one cute little monster!
I hope your Dad is doing well JC.
Ash Can
More squeee! I too vote dinosaur on the costume, especially since there are far more dinosaur products for kids than rhino or dragon products.
And I assume since Cole is able to joke about it that his father is doing OK.
P.S. Booty dance? Pics/vid or it didn’t happen.
Narcissus
When I was a kid I had a little rubber novelty pirate hook that fit over your thumb
Maybe he’d be interested in something like that
Frankensteinbeck
@Ash Can:
It’s not a dinosaur. No feathers.
(Disclaimer: Technically, we’re only sure the cool predatory dinosaurs had feathers, like T-Rex and the raptors and birds.)
Debbie(Aussie)
Boy that is one hell of a storm you have brewing! Best wishes and thoughts are with east coast BJs. Take cover & take care.
Lojasmo
@Anne Laurie:
Come ON people! If old man cole were dying from a bloodbourne MRSA infection, John would tell us. Old man cole is FINE.
Death Panel Truck
When Li’l Cole sees these pictures as a teenager, he’s gonna flip out and start killin’ some serials…
PsiFighter37
Just woke up in Manhattan and getting ready to WALK to work (since all of public transportation was stopped). Probably will be the quietest morning I’ve ever seen in NYC except for the morning after the huge blizzard in 2010 that dumped 2+ feet of snow and Bloomberg was vacationing in Bermuda.
Cassidy
Speaking of dinosaurs: Hevisaurus.
They’re a Finnish childrens band that plays heavy metal and dresses up as dinosaurs. A metalhead friend of mine posted about this yesterday and I thought it was pretty cool.
Paul in KY
I think the costume is a Dinoroceras. Very rare they are.
Young Cole carries it off very well.
drew42
That’s an unfair comparison. No other film on Earth can stand up against Boogie Nights.
Raven
@drew42: You wouldn’t want Dirk to catch his unit in the chipper!
arguingwithsignposts
Weather channel live stream of Sandy coverage
gnomedad
@Anne Laurie:
Since John is, despite occasional indications, not a sociopath, I have to assume that this implies Cole Senior is doing OK.
TheMightyTrowel
@arguingwithsignposts: American weather pr0n! it’s been ages!
gnomedad
Boing Boing:
R-Jud
Compare Irene vs. Sandy here. Whoa.
arguingwithsignposts
@gnomedad:
What does a chicken processor have to do with the weather.
@TheMightyTrowel: At least since the last possible major storm. If you’ve got a Jim Cantore on hand, might as well put him to use standing in some high winds!
Southern Beale
Memory Hole, 2011:
Etch-a-Sketch!
geg6
Well, my friend who works at Yale says that New Haven officials have asked them to pack up and leave if they can. She’s going to her mom’s in Rhode Island. Not that it should be any better there, but at least mom lives a little further inland.
Cole is supposed to get dumped on in a big way. They are saying the two storms will come together in a direct hit on WVA, leading to possibly 2-3 feet of snow. Hope he, his parents, and his lady friend are all stocked up on supplies because it may be a while before they can dig out.
Mark S.
@Southern Beale:
I’m dying to hear how privatized disaster relief would work. I also love how it’s immoral to spend money on disaster relief but it is godly to spend 4% of GDP on the military. You know, that agency that fucking kills people.
Punchy
Day’um!
cmm
@The prophet Nostradumbass:
From cacti’s level of aggression I would have guessed Phillies fan, but if anything Phillies fans get mad that their team doesn’t play dirty enough.
Yes, that was gratuitous but I am just a small person given to small pleasures.
jibeaux
@Mark S.: Halliburton, silly. Just $300 an hour plus a cost-plus 20% contract for all equipment and materials. Imagine the efficiencies!
Punchy
That’s the over-powering stench of a sore loser, folks.
News flash: you’re team didn’t just lose a few close ones, they lost their fucking bats, likely up their 5-hole, and got smoked.
Suffern ACE
@Mark S.: not that difficult to privatize. Instead of a loan from FEMA, some guy offers your town six cents on the dollar to buy your town’s broken sewage system.
Chris
“Looks like I need to fire up the wood chipper in the morning. This ain’t Boogie Nights.”
Not every film can have a frequently naked Julianne Moore, unfortunately
patrick
I take movie suggestions from my father with a huge grain of salt. My dad thinks the “fast and furious” franchise are great action flicks….
ThresherK
If anyone’s keeping score: This is the one year anniversary of the freak snowstorm which shut down much of CT, and resulted in 75% fewer leaves and acorns for me to remove this autumn.
We’re plenty inland from the surge but wary of the wind.
LanceThruster
That’s some mighty fine kid squee there, John.
For your severed thumb amusement…http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/halloweenie/
Ryan
The costume is a triceratops.
Arthur
@Cacti: To be fair, they were lightly salted dicks.