Taking it easy this Saturday night, although I am sorely regretting ordering a pulled pork platter for dinner. Way too much food.
On the bright side, have basically got wedding invitations nailed down – one of the last big-ticket items before focusing on the fun nitty-gritty stuff like what flowers should be at the center of each table.
2.
gogol's wife
We love you, Tunch.
3.
RuhRow_Gyro
People who get no attention in society, and then seek it be engaging cashiers in conversation while they are checking out, while there is a line of people behind them, piss me off.
4.
WaterGirl
Now you’ve gone and made me cry. Love that photo, with all that attitude and one eye partially closed. I still love you Tunch, you magnificent bastard.
Ten years ago, I came into possession of a mama cat and her five, 1 day old kittens. Hilarity ensued.
Feeling very nostalgic today. Anyone else? (I mean besides our blogmaster)
6.
Tommy
Oh how I love cats. I put a new desk in the other day. My little girl is confused. Well totally redid my entire office. Where spent almost all my time. So where she spends most of he time.
a relative of mine has a young flame point siamese and the coloring is very similar to His Largeness’ markings: slight orange tail, some markings on the head and ears….
12.
WaterGirl
@jeffreyw: What a vixen! (Except I think that’s a boy, right?)
Edit: a vixen like that, I hope they don’t call her bad names and try to take away her birth control!
Edit 2: Do you have a current photo of Homer? I still think of him as “home and the bee”, where he was such a sweetie.
Edit 3: my puppy, Tucker, went through a teenaged phase where he basically flipped me off and said “you’re not the boss of me”. Thankfully, it passed. And now he is such a sweet boy.
17.
The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik
I will have to say, and I’ll say it now since I missed the morning open thread: there are few ways worse to wake up in the morning than to a phone call from your mother informing you that your father has Multiple Myeloma, a.k.a. bone marrow cancer.
@raven: Not at all! I was raised on bad puns, so puns are always welcome. I am still chuckling over the joke about the guy who thought he was a moth from Betty Cracker’s joke thread earlier this week. My dad would have loved that one.
Thanks. I didn’t get a chance to talk to him today since he’s working, and he’s going in for treatment come Tuesday, I think. It’s first stage, so it’s early, but everything I’ve read on that kind of cancer is that it’s basically a death sentence.
@schrodinger’s cat: Thanks. My neighbors still talk about me walking around the hood like some temptress with a basket full of kittens. But a girl’s gotta do what a girls gotta do.
@schrodinger’s cat: I was reading and he was on the chair next to me and pissed off I would not pay attention to him. He kept jabbing me with his paw to pay attention to him, so I snapped the pic.
My sister-in-law took the initial test tonight at my grandfather’s 94th birthday celebration. Needless to say my mom is ECSTATIC! And I now have spoiling plans! MUAHAHAHA!
@jeffreyw: I never realized that. Just checked my framed photo of Homer and the bee. The spot on his ear in the photo isn’t black at all, and it doesn’t seem very large. I guess that must have changed as he grew up?
@The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik: That’s just a kick in the gut. I am so sorry. Isn’t that the same cancer Robin Roberts had (Good Morning America/ESPN)?
If it comes to a bone marrow transplant, I’ll test (I’m too old to be in the regular database, I don’t even want to discuss that). I bet a lot of people here would.
Similar in they’re both bone marrow diseases, but still different. And I think my dad is too old to consider a transplant, even if it’s still in the early stages.
EDIT: I want to thank you for the thought though, and everyone else as well. I’ve just been waffling between numb and nauseous all day. Distractions can only do so much.
@raven: That’s what she had 5 years ago. Last year she got diagnosed again. The chemo gave for Multiple Myeloma (I just googled it to be sure). It’s a rare side effect of some chemo treatments.
@The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik: Yeah, bone marrow transplants seem pretty drastic, so I can imagine age would be a consideration. I’ll keep you and your family in my thoughts.
@raven: No biggie, I had to google it, I knew it was some kind of bone marrow cancer…but that was about it. It’s been a big couple of years for cancer in my family/friends, so I checked into being on the marrow donor list, so I didn’t feel so helpless. Her diagnosis and push for donors was why.
@WaterGirl: At certain angles it isn’t very noticeable.
64.
raven
@TaMara (BHF): Me too, my buddy has had MM for 5 years. Two co-workers with breast and a close friend with brain cancer.
65.
WaterGirl
This thread is kind of amazing. In 50 comments, we have love and loss, and change, new life, music, beauty in nature, the wonder of science, generosity, humor, community and family.
An dear friend was diagnosed with the same thing – stage 4 – 2 years ago. They found it in his spine. He had a clinical trial stem cell treatment at Dana Farber and is doing really well. It’s a very treatable kind of cancer. It’s incurable but manageable.
He was a fine, fine kitty and gone far too soon. I don’t blame you, feeling nostalgic. Living with and loving an animal changes you, they become as much a natural part of the home as anything. I still expect to open the door and find my boys waiting to greet me. Little shadows of movement make me check to see if a cat is wandering by. Pets fill up a space in the home and the heart. When they’re gone, it’s not that you can’t get another pet that does that, it’s just that the holes are custom shaped. I miss these little guys more than I can enunciate and I can enunciate a lot.
71.
Hill Dweller
It’s a shame that such a good game will likely be decided by a ref who thinks it’s about him.
72.
the Conster
That after market tail kills me every time.
73.
WaterGirl
@ruemara: that second video is so sweet. Seeing that video must be bittersweet for you. Still hoping they can be with you again in the future.
74.
Hill Dweller
Thankfully the shady offensive foul call and out of bounds reversal didn’t ultimately play into the final outcome.
75.
Suzanne
ARRRRGH, my Cats lost. SHIT.
@Yatsuno: YAAAAAY THAT IS AWESOME!! Congratulations! Yay for babies!
Test on Tuesday. April Fool’s Day. FREAKING THE FUCK OUT.
76.
ruemara
@WaterGirl: Ditto. But I can take comfort that they’re safe and housed, while I bust my butt to make things better for them.
77.
GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)
Great pictures.
Day 42 of abstinence. I get out of treatment on Tuesday.
I have watched a grand total of 20 minutes of television while I’ve been in, and a couple of movies with the crew here. I have exercised every day but a couple.
Feeling pretty damn good. Looking forward to being home.
78.
danielx
Re Kage Enjoying Sofa – the phrase that comes to mind is “full of piss and vinegar”.
I hope you are still here. I mentioned this before in a thread a few weeks ago about someone else with multiple myeloma – the outlook now can be significantly better in the past. The best example is Geraldine Ferraro. She lived about 12 years after her diagnosis of myeloma. The results used to be much worse, but derivatives of thalidomide have been quite effective in treating this disease. Lenalidomide (brand name Revlamid) is expensive as sin but quite effective.
85.
trollhattan
Number of missing in the Washington State slide has been lowered to 30, with 18 confirmed dead. Not relief but at least not as bad as was believed a few hours ago.
And we’ve had California rain all day, so there’s that.
86.
trollhattan
@Redshift:
Whoa, that’s a name I’ve not seen since the ’90s. Sounds like a good night!
87.
LookingForACanadian
Probably way too serious for a Saturday night, but does anyone have recent or otherwise experience with school consolidation issues? Family members live in a geographic area puzzling through the issue, and I’m curious whether anyone that has gone through it has thoughts.
These Tunch pictures are just to distract us from Benghazi.
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Amir Khalid
News site MalaysiaKini quotes Der Spiegel saying that former PM Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, while in that office, was at the top of a list of national leaders targeted for spying by the NSA.
Oh, come on. Abdullah was to Dr Mahathir twelve years ago what David Moyes is now to Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United: a likeable enough successor, but relatively ineffectual because he lacked his predecessor’s overwhelming (and, to be honest, often excessive) force of character. Only one thing could put Pak Lah at the top of a list of people to spy on: alphabetical order.
Awwwww, Cole. There’s my handsome Tunchie larger than life. I miss him still. <333
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jl
thnx for TunchPix.
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Suffern ACE
@Amir Khalid: I’m going to guess that he made his way up the list due to analyst embellishment. If he’s anything like John Major, the poor analyst had to be bored senseless. As a leader, major was known for never giving an interesting speech. Pretty much always saying what you’d expect him to say in every situation. So as an analyst, your Berlitz Malay training course is just wasted. But none of your supervisors at the Agency speak it anyway. So you write reports to make him an interesting man. No one could be that conventional, you tell your bosses, his proper speech is just riddled with code words targeted to activating sleeper cells.
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Teddy Salad
@WaterGirl:
Me too. Look at the unconditional love emanating from that portrait. Even now, Tunch is larger than life.
98.
Amir Khalid
@Suffern ACE:
There wouldn’t be much for an analyst to embellish. The first (Musa Hitam) and third (Anwar Ibrahim) of Dr M’s four Deputy PMs were charismatic and ambitious men; Anwar still has both qualities. The second (Abdul Ghafar Baba) and fourth (Pak Lah) he raised up from has-beendom because he found their lack of ambition less threatening. Pak Lah’s time as PM was like — well, imagine if Dagwood Bumstead were POTUS.
Yes, but it was after 9/11 and Badawi was a scary, scary Muslim, so clearly he needed to be kept under close surveillance in case he, you know, went all Muslim-y or something.
Have I apologized lately for my country losing its goddamned mind after 9/11? Because it was embarrassing enough at the time, and it’s even more embarrassing to have it keep coming back like a hangover.
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YellowJournalism
I never thought I’d miss an animal that I haven’t so much as snuggled with as much as I miss that mound of fluffiness and fat. If there is a Heaven, I hope Tunch and my fat kitty are comparing “spread” sizes right now. Love a big, fat cat.
101.
MonkeyHawk
I started to read this blog thanks to Tunch. I especially like the “Feed” poster.
And I dropped a tear when he died,
Bid ol’ fat bastard,
He sitteth on the right hand of God,
God’s gain, My loss.
102.
Carol Ryan
I miss him too, John.
103.
Betty Cracker
Sweet, floofy Tunch. What a good boy.
104.
Bob In Portland
I haven’t seen much in the Western Press about WHY specifically Erdogan banned Facebook.
PsiFighter37
Larger than life.
Taking it easy this Saturday night, although I am sorely regretting ordering a pulled pork platter for dinner. Way too much food.
On the bright side, have basically got wedding invitations nailed down – one of the last big-ticket items before focusing on the fun nitty-gritty stuff like what flowers should be at the center of each table.
gogol's wife
We love you, Tunch.
RuhRow_Gyro
People who get no attention in society, and then seek it be engaging cashiers in conversation while they are checking out, while there is a line of people behind them, piss me off.
WaterGirl
Now you’ve gone and made me cry. Love that photo, with all that attitude and one eye partially closed. I still love you Tunch, you magnificent bastard.
TaMara (BHF)
Tunch you were one fine feline.
Ten years ago, I came into possession of a mama cat and her five, 1 day old kittens. Hilarity ensued.
Feeling very nostalgic today. Anyone else? (I mean besides our blogmaster)
Tommy
Oh how I love cats. I put a new desk in the other day. My little girl is confused. Well totally redid my entire office. Where spent almost all my time. So where she spends most of he time.
schrodinger's cat
Why is Tunch giving us the stink eye?
raven
@TaMara (BHF): Yea, my dad became a die-hard Arizona fan in his last years and he’d be going nuts about right now. . .probably is.
Angela
Thank you for these; I love seeing pics of Tunch.
jeffreyw
“You know how to whistle, don’t you, Tunch? You just put your lips together and… blow”
tybee
a relative of mine has a young flame point siamese and the coloring is very similar to His Largeness’ markings: slight orange tail, some markings on the head and ears….
WaterGirl
@jeffreyw: What a vixen! (Except I think that’s a boy, right?)
raven
@WaterGirl: Betty Bcat.
Nicole
Tunch’s eyes look like mine in the morning. The worst part about aging is the asymmetry of the process.
jeffreyw
@WaterGirl: That’s a girl, Miss Bea. Homer is the teenaged terrorist.
WaterGirl
@jeffreyw: Of course!
I must have lost my mind for a minute.
Edit: a vixen like that, I hope they don’t call her bad names and try to take away her birth control!
Edit 2: Do you have a current photo of Homer? I still think of him as “home and the bee”, where he was such a sweetie.
Edit 3: my puppy, Tucker, went through a teenaged phase where he basically flipped me off and said “you’re not the boss of me”. Thankfully, it passed. And now he is such a sweet boy.
The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik
I will have to say, and I’ll say it now since I missed the morning open thread: there are few ways worse to wake up in the morning than to a phone call from your mother informing you that your father has Multiple Myeloma, a.k.a. bone marrow cancer.
jeffreyw
@WaterGirl: OK, but be more careful in the future.
raven
@WaterGirl: Jeff’s line “blow” is from To Have and Have Not. (screenplay by William Faulkner) Lauren Bacall was known as “Betty”. Hence, Betty Bcat. Bad pun but what the hell.
max
It occurs to me that the right song for this sort of thing is Fat-Bottomed Girls by Queen.
max
[‘This makes perfect sense. Especially with the essential oils involved.’]
schrodinger's cat
Tunch in the top pic:
All your mustard are belonging to me.
WaterGirl
@jeffreyw: I didn’t ask for a photo of Demon Homer. Do you perhaps have something less frightening? :-)
jeffreyw
@WaterGirl: Homer, hiding from Toby. Seeing the coast was clear, Homer slowly emerges.
WaterGirl
@raven: Not at all! I was raised on bad puns, so puns are always welcome. I am still chuckling over the joke about the guy who thought he was a moth from Betty Cracker’s joke thread earlier this week. My dad would have loved that one.
raven
@WaterGirl: Reminds me of our Owl.
Suzanne
@The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik: Hugs to you and your family. That is absolutely brutal. I wish you and your family all the best.
WaterGirl
@jeffreyw: Do I have to come over there and have a talk with Toby?
jeffreyw
@WaterGirl: That was Queen Bea, being all haughty and shit. Homer has a black spot on his ear.
WaterGirl
@raven: Yikes! I think that would freak me out of I saw him at night. Double yikes.
raven
Here comes Bucky.
schrodinger's cat
@max: Mama, I just killed a man
WaterGirl
@The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik: Oh, Kryptik, that’s awful. I’m so sorry. Hoping it’s not as bad a diagnosis as it sounds.
raven
@WaterGirl: Our neighbor shot this video, we’re not sure if it’s the same dude but it’s just a block away.
Garbo
Oh, we miss you, Tunch. A prince of a cat.
The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik
@Suzanne:
Thanks. I didn’t get a chance to talk to him today since he’s working, and he’s going in for treatment come Tuesday, I think. It’s first stage, so it’s early, but everything I’ve read on that kind of cancer is that it’s basically a death sentence.
Steeplejack
@The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik:
Yeow, that sucks. My prayers are with your father.
TaMara (BHF)
Well this made me smile. Neil Patrick Harris and Jason Segel singing.
No talent there at all.
schrodinger's cat
@TaMara (BHF): Kitten post is full of win and awesome.
raven
@TaMara (BHF): I watched that whole show this morning, very good.
jeffreyw
@WaterGirl: Go ahead, talk. Toby will hear you out, no problem.
TaMara (BHF)
@schrodinger’s cat: Thanks. My neighbors still talk about me walking around the hood like some temptress with a basket full of kittens. But a girl’s gotta do what a girls gotta do.
John Cole
@schrodinger’s cat: I was reading and he was on the chair next to me and pissed off I would not pay attention to him. He kept jabbing me with his paw to pay attention to him, so I snapped the pic.
TaMara (BHF)
@tybee: That tail is aftermarket, though Tunch would never admit it.
WaterGirl
@raven: Wow. Absolutely stunning. So peaceful, I could feel my breathing slow as I watched the video.
John Cole
@The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik: Well, shit. That’s all I got, man.
TaMara (BHF)
@raven: I love that picture.
Yatsuno
Open thread? Open thread.
I’M GONNA BE AN UNCLE!!!
My sister-in-law took the initial test tonight at my grandfather’s 94th birthday celebration. Needless to say my mom is ECSTATIC! And I now have spoiling plans! MUAHAHAHA!
raven
@TaMara (BHF): Here he is looking at me and then a crow trying to get him to move. Shaky cam alert.
WaterGirl
@jeffreyw: I never realized that. Just checked my framed photo of Homer and the bee. The spot on his ear in the photo isn’t black at all, and it doesn’t seem very large. I guess that must have changed as he grew up?
TaMara (BHF)
@The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik: That’s just a kick in the gut. I am so sorry. Isn’t that the same cancer Robin Roberts had (Good Morning America/ESPN)?
If it comes to a bone marrow transplant, I’ll test (I’m too old to be in the regular database, I don’t even want to discuss that). I bet a lot of people here would.
NotMax
It’s awake!
TaMara (BHF)
@raven: That was great and made all my cats crazy, for added fun.
raven
@TaMara (BHF): No, breast.
RobertDSC-Power Mac G5 Dual
May your iron paw rule over this forsaken world, O lord and savior. You are greatly missed. Team Tunch for life.
WaterGirl
@NotMax: I had no idea. That’s amazing!
raven
@TaMara (BHF): Bohdi was barking when I made the noise to get it to turn it’s head. He’s so jealous!
The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik
@TaMara (BHF):
Similar in they’re both bone marrow diseases, but still different. And I think my dad is too old to consider a transplant, even if it’s still in the early stages.
EDIT: I want to thank you for the thought though, and everyone else as well. I’ve just been waffling between numb and nauseous all day. Distractions can only do so much.
TaMara (BHF)
@raven: That’s what she had 5 years ago. Last year she got diagnosed again. The chemo gave for Multiple Myeloma (I just googled it to be sure). It’s a rare side effect of some chemo treatments.
raven
@TaMara (BHF): I see, sorry.
TaMara (BHF)
@The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik: Yeah, bone marrow transplants seem pretty drastic, so I can imagine age would be a consideration. I’ll keep you and your family in my thoughts.
notorious JRT
@The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik:
Very sorry to hear this. I will hope for the best for your dad.
TaMara (BHF)
@raven: No biggie, I had to google it, I knew it was some kind of bone marrow cancer…but that was about it. It’s been a big couple of years for cancer in my family/friends, so I checked into being on the marrow donor list, so I didn’t feel so helpless. Her diagnosis and push for donors was why.
jeffreyw
@WaterGirl: At certain angles it isn’t very noticeable.
raven
@TaMara (BHF): Me too, my buddy has had MM for 5 years. Two co-workers with breast and a close friend with brain cancer.
WaterGirl
This thread is kind of amazing. In 50 comments, we have love and loss, and change, new life, music, beauty in nature, the wonder of science, generosity, humor, community and family.
notorious JRT
Tunch – so marvelous – even for a dog person.
raven
OT in Anaheim.
the Conster
@The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik:
An dear friend was diagnosed with the same thing – stage 4 – 2 years ago. They found it in his spine. He had a clinical trial stem cell treatment at Dana Farber and is doing really well. It’s a very treatable kind of cancer. It’s incurable but manageable.
notorious JRT
@efgoldman:
Oopsie
Even to this dog person
ruemara
He was a fine, fine kitty and gone far too soon. I don’t blame you, feeling nostalgic. Living with and loving an animal changes you, they become as much a natural part of the home as anything. I still expect to open the door and find my boys waiting to greet me. Little shadows of movement make me check to see if a cat is wandering by. Pets fill up a space in the home and the heart. When they’re gone, it’s not that you can’t get another pet that does that, it’s just that the holes are custom shaped. I miss these little guys more than I can enunciate and I can enunciate a lot.
Hill Dweller
It’s a shame that such a good game will likely be decided by a ref who thinks it’s about him.
the Conster
That after market tail kills me every time.
WaterGirl
@ruemara: that second video is so sweet. Seeing that video must be bittersweet for you. Still hoping they can be with you again in the future.
Hill Dweller
Thankfully the shady offensive foul call and out of bounds reversal didn’t ultimately play into the final outcome.
Suzanne
ARRRRGH, my Cats lost. SHIT.
@Yatsuno: YAAAAAY THAT IS AWESOME!! Congratulations! Yay for babies!
Test on Tuesday. April Fool’s Day. FREAKING THE FUCK OUT.
ruemara
@WaterGirl: Ditto. But I can take comfort that they’re safe and housed, while I bust my butt to make things better for them.
GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)
Great pictures.
Day 42 of abstinence. I get out of treatment on Tuesday.
I have watched a grand total of 20 minutes of television while I’ve been in, and a couple of movies with the crew here. I have exercised every day but a couple.
Feeling pretty damn good. Looking forward to being home.
danielx
Re Kage Enjoying Sofa – the phrase that comes to mind is “full of piss and vinegar”.
satby
@The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik: So sorry about this news. It does suck.
trollhattan
Awwwww. Tunch.
Jewish Steel
@The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik: My ex-wife’s father made it another 7 years after his diagnosis, if that’s any consolation. Like @the Conster: says above, very treatable.
muddy
I’m loving the Tunch retrospectives. Thanks, John! What a fine figure of a cat.
Redshift
Just got back from seeing Johnny Clegg in DC. It was awesome, as always. What a joyous experience!
JCJ
@The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik:
I hope you are still here. I mentioned this before in a thread a few weeks ago about someone else with multiple myeloma – the outlook now can be significantly better in the past. The best example is Geraldine Ferraro. She lived about 12 years after her diagnosis of myeloma. The results used to be much worse, but derivatives of thalidomide have been quite effective in treating this disease. Lenalidomide (brand name Revlamid) is expensive as sin but quite effective.
trollhattan
Number of missing in the Washington State slide has been lowered to 30, with 18 confirmed dead. Not relief but at least not as bad as was believed a few hours ago.
And we’ve had California rain all day, so there’s that.
trollhattan
@Redshift:
Whoa, that’s a name I’ve not seen since the ’90s. Sounds like a good night!
LookingForACanadian
Probably way too serious for a Saturday night, but does anyone have recent or otherwise experience with school consolidation issues? Family members live in a geographic area puzzling through the issue, and I’m curious whether anyone that has gone through it has thoughts.
Roger Moore
@TaMara (BHF):
No. She had myelodisplasia, a non-cancer bone marrow disease.
Steeplejack
@GHayduke (formerly lojasmo):
Congratulations! Keep on keeping on.
GregB
These Tunch pictures are just to distract us from Benghazi.
Amir Khalid
News site MalaysiaKini quotes Der Spiegel saying that former PM Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, while in that office, was at the top of a list of national leaders targeted for spying by the NSA.
Oh, come on. Abdullah was to Dr Mahathir twelve years ago what David Moyes is now to Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United: a likeable enough successor, but relatively ineffectual because he lacked his predecessor’s overwhelming (and, to be honest, often excessive) force of character. Only one thing could put Pak Lah at the top of a list of people to spy on: alphabetical order.
Amir Khalid
@Amir Khalid:
A more
topicalapt comparison:the Conster
Black death not spread by rat fleas.. It was pneumonic plague, and it’s still alive and could kill us all again if antibiotics don’t work any more.
Have a nice day!
asiangrrlMN
Awwwww, Cole. There’s my handsome Tunchie larger than life. I miss him still. <333
jl
thnx for TunchPix.
Suffern ACE
@Amir Khalid: I’m going to guess that he made his way up the list due to analyst embellishment. If he’s anything like John Major, the poor analyst had to be bored senseless. As a leader, major was known for never giving an interesting speech. Pretty much always saying what you’d expect him to say in every situation. So as an analyst, your Berlitz Malay training course is just wasted. But none of your supervisors at the Agency speak it anyway. So you write reports to make him an interesting man. No one could be that conventional, you tell your bosses, his proper speech is just riddled with code words targeted to activating sleeper cells.
Teddy Salad
@WaterGirl:
Me too. Look at the unconditional love emanating from that portrait. Even now, Tunch is larger than life.
Amir Khalid
@Suffern ACE:
There wouldn’t be much for an analyst to embellish. The first (Musa Hitam) and third (Anwar Ibrahim) of Dr M’s four Deputy PMs were charismatic and ambitious men; Anwar still has both qualities. The second (Abdul Ghafar Baba) and fourth (Pak Lah) he raised up from has-beendom because he found their lack of ambition less threatening. Pak Lah’s time as PM was like — well, imagine if Dagwood Bumstead were POTUS.
Mnemosyne
@Amir Khalid:
Yes, but it was after 9/11 and Badawi was a scary, scary Muslim, so clearly he needed to be kept under close surveillance in case he, you know, went all Muslim-y or something.
Have I apologized lately for my country losing its goddamned mind after 9/11? Because it was embarrassing enough at the time, and it’s even more embarrassing to have it keep coming back like a hangover.
YellowJournalism
I never thought I’d miss an animal that I haven’t so much as snuggled with as much as I miss that mound of fluffiness and fat. If there is a Heaven, I hope Tunch and my fat kitty are comparing “spread” sizes right now. Love a big, fat cat.
MonkeyHawk
I started to read this blog thanks to Tunch. I especially like the “Feed” poster.
And I dropped a tear when he died,
Bid ol’ fat bastard,
He sitteth on the right hand of God,
God’s gain, My loss.
Carol Ryan
I miss him too, John.
Betty Cracker
Sweet, floofy Tunch. What a good boy.
Bob In Portland
I haven’t seen much in the Western Press about WHY specifically Erdogan banned Facebook.
Joy in FL
Tunch. Always magnificent.
LT
Such an überwesome cat. The face – gah.
Tummyscratch for Tunches.
kindness
Look at that Royal Hunk of Chunk in all his glory.
My Truth Hurts
RIP big guy. I never even knew you and I cried like a baby when you died.