Still 90 and 30 mins away, respectively, but thought I would throw this up anyway.
Given the play of the Mountaineers and the Steelers, I’m beginning to wonder if I picked the wrong football season to quit drinking. Plus, the Pirates are tanking.
Awesome.
*** Update ***
Rosie is still in command of the couch:
I love that I have turned a Jack Russell Terrorist, one of the most hyper breeds of dogs on the planet, into a total couch potato worthless layabout.
JPL
You picked the perfect time because football means parties and beer. You won’t have to worry about parties and beer cuz ain’t no one gonna throw a party for those guys. . just sayin..
Keith P
Pet peeve #43: Spending an afternoon running back and forth to the laundromat (broken home washing machine), and on the last load, I find a single dirty sock on the floor. Dammit.
WereBear
Catching up on the last few episodes of Boardwalk Empire in preparation for the premiere.
It’s puzzling that I don’t mind the mayhem in this series, but can’t handle Game of Thrones. I think the percentage of tormented innocents is higher in the latter… that’s probably it.
cathyx
There will always be a reason to drink.
gogol's wife
I’m going to try Last Tango in Halifax, because it sounds just lame enough for me.
SarahT
@WereBear : Think you nailed it.
lamh36
Congratulations Serena Williams!!!
Oh and Saints beat the Falcons!!! WHO DAT!
muddy
@Keith P: That’s called “seed for next time”.
Honus
Oh, so you finally mentioned the Pirates only to say they were tanking. Nothing over the past six weeks when they moved into first, won 4 of 5 from the cardinals at PNC, carried the best record in baseball into September. Last weekend when we were taking two of three from the cardinals at PNC, you ignored them and put up a thread about the Clemson-Georgia game. but now they’ve let you down. They’re “tanking.” Meanwhile, the Steelers continue to step on their dicks repeatedly, we had a thread about every exhibition game. I’m beginning to think you’re really from Ohio.
raven
This is my 20th season sober. The first couple we a little tough when I had to walk through the zoo that is Athens on Gameday but then it became just normal. That said two days are enough, the Empire for us tonight!
Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader
It’s never a good time to quit drinking, John Cole.
Brendan in Charlotte
John, if it makes you feel any better – I’m a lifelong Buffalo Bills fan who just knew we’d find a way to lose to the Patriots. I always do well in my football pool because i never pick us to win. Heck, I’ll probably pick the J-E-T-S to beat us.
mellowjohn
look on the bright side: you could be a white sox fan like me. (and even tho the bears squeaked one out this afternoon, i’m not expecting much from them, either.)
lamh36
Wow! Michael Jackson has sold over 50million albums since he died and is still like the nubmer one selling artist on Itunes…DAMNNNNN. I see why people including MJ family are fighting to have custody of them kids. Shittt!!!
JordanRules
Nice traditional mold game by Kaep.
I’m just not gonna comment on my Steelers right now. Ugghh. And a horrible injury to boot.
lamh36
Alongside His Family, Bill de Blasio Denounces Bloomberg Comments
SIA
Don’t quit drinking. Just don’t have the first drink today. Simple (but not easy).
Anyone watching Silk?
ETA 5 days till vacay! Woohoo!
raven
@SIA: The reviews were so bad we bailed. You like it
?
JordanRules
@SIA: Haven’t watched it yet, but I might start. Mom told me at lunch today that she’s enjoying it. You?
Dead Ernest
@Keith P:
You’re a lucky man Keith P since that is as high as #43.
Congratulations!!
;-)
Honus
@Keith P: just wash it in the sink at home. Takes about two minutes. Learned how to wash my socks like that in Paris hotels.
max
I’m beginning to wonder if I picked the wrong football season to quit drinking.
You know nothing, John Cole.
Plus, the Pirates are tanking.
Penguins! Er, Penguins. Yeaahhhhh.
max
[‘How would you spell Steelers with a ‘P’?’]
mainmati
Steelers looked pretty shitty today, especially considering it was their 1st game and on own turf. Don’t rule out the Buccos though. First time they have made a statistically winning season in more than 20 years. Haven’t been following the Mountaineers but in any event my son is a senior at UMD sooooo…
SIA
@raven: @JordanRules: I like the female lead a lot. I think they remind me too much of American cut throats. But she’s really good and makes it watchable.
Did either if you see The Lady Vanishes? It got horrible reviews but I liked it.
max
@lamh36: McCray (deBlasio’s wife) responded sharply. “Do I look like an inanimate object? I walk, I talk, I make my own decisions,” she said…
Michael Bloomberg: ‘That’s the problem, sweetheart!’
max
[‘C’mon, Leader Bloomberg has a legacy and shit to create here.’]
Dead Ernest
Upon further consideration…
Occurred to me, you may only have 2 socks.
[hangs head. Shamed by his presumption]
raven
@SIA: Missed it.
raven
@Dead Ernest: If you are missing any socks let me know, Bohdi the dog swipes them all the time!
muddy
@efgoldman: It’s like mentioning your same-sex marriage is ramming homosexuality down their throats.
Patricia Kayden
Laying about doesn’t make Rosie “worthless”. She’s conserving her energy for an emergency. Cute photo.
Pete Mack
Man, the Steelers just stank today. No ground game at all, not much throwing game either. 190 Yards, 1 TD and 1 INT does not make for a good QB rating. But Ben had nobody to throw to.
raven
Did someone say “sock”?
Ben Franklin
Jesus H. fooking drunk-on-wine Kee-riced !
Southern Beale
I just found out my next-door neighbor was the quarterback for Ole Miss in the early ’70s. That’s kinda a big deal around here.
I don’t follow football so what do I know. But I was like, “well, whatdyaknow?”
Yatsuno
ROSIE LAZERZ!!! PEW! PEW! PEW!
That’s what you get for calling her lazy you magnificent bastard.
Omnes Omnibus
@SIA: I am. I like it.
the Conster
And the Cole photo FAIL parade continues. Worst.photographer.ever.
Omnes Omnibus
@the Conster: To be fair, Rosie was moving quite quickly… Oh wait, never mind.
opiejeanne
I am having a civil conversation (trying to keep it that way) with a friend who told me that Obama has violated the 4th amendment (NSA, probably) and that he thinks it warrants impeachment, and that he wanted W impeached for the same violation.
Has Obama willfully violated the 4th amendment?
jl
Despite repeated public insults and defamation from Cole, Rosie loves her master and emulates him in all the important things in life.
But Cole better not start trying to pass Rosie off as the Laziest Dog in the History of the Multiverse. My family owned that dog when I was a kid.
The last two pictures of Rosie on the couch has brought back fond memories of that dear departed unbelievably lazy dog (snif sniff!, boo hoo).
lamh36
DAMN! Micheal Jackson’s representatives were cuththroat in regards to music publishing rights. DAMN!!! Jackson’s portion of the publishing is worth upwards of billions of dollars!!!
Wait a minute!! That Micheal Jackson concert doc “This Is It” made upwards of $500 million!!!! Say what now?
Well damn. Now I want to get custody of those Jackson kids.
Uncle Ebeneezer
@lamh36: I know from experience that there GOAT discussions are so tough that they almost always feel futile (I get roped into the Fed/Nadal debates regularly.) First deciding on the metric for judgement. Then comparing between different eras. Then accounting for health, career length, who the players rivals were etc. Then between genders. Any comparison you make inevitably ends up being apples/oranges. It’s a little easier to compare contemporaries but even then.
That said, Serena is as good a tennis player as I’ve ever seen and she absolutely belongs on the short-list of the discussion. But saying she’s better than Graf, Evertt, Navratilova, Court, Seles is not exactly an open-and-shut case. Not to mention adding Federer, Nadal, Sampras, Laver, into the mix.
I was really impressed by Azarenka’s fight in this match. She had Serena cornered but then Serena raised her game in her usual fashion. Then Vika fought back and Serena raised her level again. Amazing. Hats off to both of them. And tomorrow’s men’s final may be even better.
jl
@the Conster:
Hey wait, you didn’t give me a chance at all, did you? I’ll submit some photos to Cole.
Don’t make no difference what I try to take a picture of, the usual question is ‘what kind of soup is that?’. Or, ‘boy it sure was foggy huh’.
Honus
@Southern Beale: You live next door to Archie Manning?
raven
@lamh36: A buddy of mine from high school wrote “Ain’t Nobody” and Quincy wanted it for Thriller but he had already promised it to Chaka and Rufus (he was the keyboard player”. Listen to it and see if you don’t think Michael would have smoked it.
JordanRules
One day John will take a glorious, impeccably executed picture worthy of publication and endless praise.
He used to be a Republican yall, anything can happen. JGC keeps the hope floatin.
lamh36
Apparently, Jackson was indebt over 1/2 billion dollars and it’s been already erased. Since debt the estate has made over 600 million dollars!!!
lamh36
@raven: shoot, “Ain’t Nobody” is my jam. Love Chaka and Rufus.
MJ was good, but dang, I just can’t imagine MJ singing it at all.
the Conster
@jl:
It’s like, you have to try to suck at taking pics on everything that takes pics these days to take such bad pictures. Everything autofocuses, without doing anything at all. There’s distortion in the electro-magnetic field around the Cole household – even Tunch’s spirit exerts gravitational force.
raven
@lamh36: Well, when something has been in our heads for that long it’s probably not a surprise. This is a pretty long interview with the Hawk and he has an interesting perspective on Michael.
raven
Under the Boardwalk. . .
SIA
@Omnes Omnibus: Is it realistic?(asking someone who is, I believe, “in the business”).
Belafon
@opiejeanne: That would be the rub. While we can argue all day about whether the NSAs actions are constitutional, the NSA appears to be following currently established law. Even at worst, the NSA would be told by the Supreme Court “don’t do that again.”
(And yes, it’s a little convoluted to be talking about a law being enforced before we decide it’s constitutional, but that’s how it works here.)
SIA
Damn. Rosie is one cute little piglet.
Redshirt
@Honus: Total burn on Fairweather Cole. Too bad he’ll never read it.
Omnes Omnibus
@SIA: I don’t know enough about British practice to say for sure. It does seem to comport with what I saw on Rumpole.
ETA: I’m going to watch it now.
SIA
@Omnes Omnibus: :)
opiejeanne
@Belafon: Thank you. I knew I was missing something actually pretty simple. Duh.
Linnaeus
Lions could have collapsed, but clamped down and beat a team they haven’t beaten in two years. That Reggie Bush ain’t bad…
Svensker
@raven:
Seriously? That is my favorite all time song ever. Chaka just nails it and I’m not a huge Chaka fan. The longing just THROBS. Love it. That said, it would have been fun to hear Michael do it.
Give your buddy a big thumbs up and thank you from me.
gogol's wife
@Omnes Omnibus:
My problem with it is that it isn’t Rumpole. I keep waiting for the jokes.
Ah, Chateau Thames Embankment!
MomSense
I’m enjoying a whiskey sour, watching football while my dog is sleeping on my feet, and I’m winning my fantasy match so far. Pats won (hooray!) but Brady didn’t do well enough to cost me my first match. This fantasy football thing does make watching games strange.
Oldest son made delicious black bean and chorizo quesadillas with homemade salsa and a salad so I didn’t even have to cook.
Randy P
@Southern Beale: I just found out my next-door neighbor was the quarterback for Ole Miss in the early ’70s. That’s kinda a big deal around here.
I just found out a friend of ours is an old buddy of Billy Joel, used to hang out and ride motorcycles with him back in Levittown.
Similarly mind-boggling.
Another friend of ours has a close connection to Stephen King. Or more precisely, to one of King’s childhood friends, the ones immortalized in The Body (which became the movie Stand by Me)
burnspbesq
@lamh36:
Which suggests that the IRS is going to kick the estate’s ass in the U.S. Tax Court. The estate’s valuation of his back catalog is a joke.
opiejeanne
@gogol’s wife: And She Who Must Be Obeyed!
Mr Stagger Lee
Was that Chris Christie with Jerry Jones? Two peas in a pod. Assholes!
Thoroughly Pizzled
@Mr Stagger Lee:
And Reince Preibus behind them. For once, Jerry Jones isn’t even the second worst person in the room.
burnspbesq
@Mr Stagger Lee:
Christie’s a Jets fan.
burnspbesq
The Pirates are pretty close to a lock for the playoffs. They are eight games ahead of Wahington in the wild card race.
Liquid
So the gist of your post is that you molded this trusting beast in your own image?
Phoenix Woman
@Thoroughly Pizzled: Considering Jones cut his scumbaggery teeth in Arkansas, where secretly taping your politician lovers is a fine art (just ask Jerry), that is saying something.
The Clintons were relieved as hell to be going to DC because they didn’t think it could be anywhere near as bad as Arkansas. Little did they know that the Scaife and other right-wing zillionaire money was paying to have right-wingers flown into Arkansas to learn from the masters.
cckids
@Keith P:
This sort of thing also bugs me all out of proportion to the small nature of the actual problem. It should ALL BE CLEAN AT ONCE.
FlipYrWhig
@burnspbesq: Are you sure you’re not confusing Chris Christie with Rex Ryan? I mean, two irascible, obese New York-area loudmouths beloved by the media despite their disappointing records are easy to mix up.
Bob In Portland
How about those Niners?
Radio One
I wouldn’t give up on the Pirates just yet. They’re in a tough division, but they’re in a league where all the teams in the other two divisions besides the Dodgers and the Braves are brutally awful. They’re a lock for a wild card spot even if they finish behind the Cards and Reds.
fidelio
Not only does Pittsburg have an excellent chance at the wild card. there’s always the chance that the Cardinals will slip, collectively, on something and fall on their faces, or that some hillbilly who’s seen his family’s SNAP benefits vanish will shoot and kill the Rally Squirrel to feed his starving children.
Besides, Detroit is mad enough over the last Series we faced them in that I’d just as soon see the Buccs have to play them.
kindness
Needs thought balloon over Rosie:
‘Give me tummy rubs or the world gets it!’