I don’t know about you, but my day needed some much welcome puppy relief today. So was glad to get a bunch of new photos from my friends and their foster brood.
My heart still belongs to Lolly. She had her checkup last week and besides being extremely underweight, a lot of her teeth are broken from gnawing at wood, wall board and other things while locked in the abandoned house. It looks like she’ll be with LFern until she’s ready to leave foster care, so I’ll get to see her again with any luck. She’ll be fully recovered and healthy in no time.
The puppies are all doing well and are 7 weeks old. They are weaned and four have gone on to another foster home so everyone gets lots of personal time in order to help them socialize. I know it was difficult for the Fern family, but important for puppy development, so they were happy to do what was best for them.
Again I couldn’t get the pup photos to just copy over here, so you’ll have to click here to see all the puppies.
Open thread.
Shana
Yeah puppies! Getting ready to head out to the Nats game. Thanks for that before I go.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
Alexandra Petri is a National Treasure: Every Story I Have Read About Trump Voters in the Past Week.
kindness
In these trying times of Trump puppies are a very good thing. Thanks,
Major Major Major Major
Oh thank god, I really needed puppies. I just had a mini (~10 minutes) panic attack, who knows why.
ETA: @Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: Hoo boy, do not read the comments.
wormtown
want one :)
The Moar You Know
I haz a puppy. A stunningly lovely golden retriever. He’s so much work (Goldens mature very slowly and are very…mischievous, let’s say) but he keeps me sane.
Miss Bianca
SCREAMING CUTENESS!!
Julie
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: I write for a living, and this is a) hilarious and b) a little too close to home. ?
ETA: The puppies are also adorable.
Miss Bianca
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: OK, *I* laughed. But that’s just more evidence that I am one of the world’s greatest monsters.
Lizzy L
@The Moar You Know: A friend of mine in SoCal breeds golden retrievers.
rikyrah
The little one is so cute ???
Major Major Major Major
@Miss Bianca: Speaking of being the world’s greatest monster, I’m finally starting on that bit of Wolfheads you sent me lo so many months ago :)
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
Anybody have any idea where the “Voyeur” on Tania Raymonde’s shirt here is from? My google-fu is drawing up blanks and a Twitter query ended up similarly fruitless.
Also: Would TaMara (HFG) happen to have a weblog series, by any chance?
Yutsano
PUPPEHS!!!
Waldo
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: Brilliant!
japa21
The first picture is wonderful. The puppy looking at Mom is just the way my sons would look at me. Of course I may be misremembering things.
Baud
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: Damn, that’s brutal.
hedgehog the occasional commenter
PUPPEHS!!!! Needed some adorableness today..thank you!
Hal
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: That sounds like a Harry Potter book.
debbie
Even though he’s the editor of Foreign Policy, David Rothkopf had some very choice (and pretty funny) things to say about Trump in this interview (hint: he’s not a fan).
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: The narrator for the HARD! POWER! BUDGET!!!!! video that comes with the linked story sounds like Trey Parker.
Miss Bianca
@Major Major Major Major: Be still my heart! I still haven’t got to the second part of your fish story – but the crash of my laptop and its subesequent two months sequestration (!!) at the repair guy’s place is my excuse.
Speaking of which…I’m supposed to pick it up this afternoon, and I’m kind of PO’d at how long it’s taken to get it back. Guy has just been hard, hard, hard to get hold of. I really feel like getting into it with him on whatever he’s prepared to charge me – is it wrong?
Quinerly
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:
Thanks! I needed this.?
debbie
@Miss Bianca:
Hold off until after you’ve picked it up and confirmed it’s working as expected. Then send him a letter.
Major Major Major Major
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): I just watched it, and when they show their masthead at the end, their new motto really makes an impression. Democracy dies in darkness indeed.
@Miss Bianca: Cool if I send you an updated version?
Did you sign anything with the repair guy, or a written agreement or anything?
Gin & Tonic
@debbie: My son went to an admitted students’ open house at Tufts U’s Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy the other day, and then adjourned to a pub with the same group. He reported encountering no Trump supporters.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Major Major Major Major: Indeed.
BTW, directing to a comment upthread: Do you have any idea what VOYEUR refers to? I’m guessing it might be some California (likely local LA) outlet.
debbie
@Gin & Tonic:
i would think he’s safe as long as he stays north of the Charles.
ruemara
Thanks. Every day with Prez Turd is a day that needs puppies.
Mnemosyne
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G.
The puppy too tired to keep walking in the last picture is killing me. I am ded.
Major Major Major Major
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): No sir(?) I do not.
Mnemosyne
@Major Major Major Major:
‘Cause your brain is messing with you. I only say these things because, I, too, am a member of the Trick Brain Club.
It’s probably worth noting and mentioning to your brain doctor next time you see him/her.
Miss Bianca
@Major Major Major Major: sure!
I had something, but honestly it’s been so damn long ago that I can’t remember what I even did with it!
Mnemosyne
@Major Major Major Major:
I am also horrendously behind on reading Miss Bianca’s pages. I need to do that this weekend.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Major Major Major Major: Why, it is sir, thank you very much. (Though I would have also accepted “inquiring jackass.”)
SiubhanDuinne
@Mnemosyne:
Old Jeopardy! injury, right?
MomSense
I want all the puppies (not in a weird Cruella DeVille way). Actually I really want to spoil Lolly and treat her like a princess.
Sadly my pup will not share us, not even with her best friends for an hour.
La Caterina (Mrs. Johannes)
@Major Major Major Major: I find that reading a good funny post here or at Wonkette can nip that right in the bud. It’s better than a tranquilizer!
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne: Oh, don’t worry, we’re both quite aware of them. But it couldn’t hurt to bring up!
Mike J
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): morton salt logo parody in google image search gets you a lot of great images, but not that one.
humboldtblue
A group of young journalists at a Kansas high school researched the credentials of the newly hired principal. She then quickly resigned after they printed what they had found.
Oh, and the Washington Post had another “why won’t Democrats listen to poor white people in rust belt states?” article up as well.
WereBear
Those puppies are so gosh darn cute!
But I don’t get puppy cravings in my present situation: on the third floor with severe winters.
I just get kitten cravings :)
Yarrow
Puppies! So cute!
Major Major Major Major
@Miss Bianca: I just emailed you parts 1 & 2 (in case you wanted to refer back).
Baud
@humboldtblue: Why won’t poor white people listen to Democrats?
Roger Moore
@Baud:
I’m gonna go with racism. SATSQ.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: I’ve been thinking about taking up writing. Probably won’t though.
Baud
@Roger Moore: That answers the original question too.
humboldtblue
@Baud:
I’m poor and white and I listen to Democrats, even vote for them and when I’m lucky I get kisses and stuff from a real Democrat lady.
Why doesn’t anyone listen to ME? That’s the real mystery.
If motherfuckers listened to HumboldtBlue we wouldn’t be in this goddamn mess, but do they heed my wisdom and knowledge? Nooooooooooooooo.
I have no clue why the text went all sideways and shit, I didn’t do nuttin.
LAO
My dog maybe stuck in adolescence (which is very trying) but honestly, some days she’s the only reason I get out of bed. Mainly, to make sure she’s not eating my couch.
debbie
@humboldtblue:
NPR interviewed the paper’s editor about this. Good on them for not backing down.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
Baud
@humboldtblue: You should email the Washington Post.
BTW, you are a credit to your arbitrarily designated demographic grouping.
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: Eh, give it a shot, it’s not like it costs anything. I like reading your short-form stuff!
laura
@Major Major Major Major: oy, panic attacks, me too, but now rare instead of frequent.
Try to keep this in mind when one hits: lay down and elevate your feet and legs higher than your heart for a couple of minutes. It may help in short order.
Also, puppies are the high point of my tough day. I wish I was in that pile on the coach.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: Only cost is to my emotional health.
Maybe I’ll compile my comments in to an anthology. Shit Baud! Says
Lizzy L
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:: I wonder who’s left? I saw a list last night when the withdraw number was 18.
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: Whatever you write, just make sure it passes the hip new test the kids are using nowadays: would it still work if the second sentence was “and then the murders began”?
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: Oh wow. That seem like a first sentence to me. I have a lot to learn.
jacy
I’ve tried to convince The Boyfriend he needs one of the pups. If it wasn’t so far, I might have had an argument. Too much cuteness!
Princess Leia
What part of the country are they in. Sure look adoptable- esp Mom.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
@Lizzy L: ….
Ashley Madison?
humboldtblue
@debbie:
I will have to look that up, thanks.
@Baud:
It’s a very, very small caucus, noisy, tiresome and unusually ineffective outside of a righteous drunken rant or two, but it’s home.
Mnemosyne
So, since we have a small quorum of the writer’s group: when I create my author blog, should I use a fancy name for the URL, or just my pen name? I was considering a fancy name, but now I’m thinking the pen name would be better for future marketing (i.e. would help potential readers find the damn thing).
WereBear
@jacy: Good work! You tried.
To me, there’s nothing so much fun as a puppy road trip.
Mnemosyne
@humboldtblue:
This is California. It’s actually a pretty good-sized caucus. I’ve even heard general contractors explaining how Obamacare is the shiznit and we need to keep it.
humboldtblue
@Mnemosyne:
I think you should include the word motherfucker in the name it will really ring out, really catch some eyes and needed (motherfucking) attention. Motherfucker is simply the most useful and wonderful word in the (motherfucking) language and I think you’d really get that (motherfucking) point across to whomever visits.
So that’s my (motherfucking) two cents.
Baud
@humboldtblue: Ironically, that is, in fact, her pen name.
Aleta
@Major Major Major Major: That sounds like a good way to wrap up when the characters aren’t working out.
Mnemosyne
@humboldtblue:
I think that might give the wrong impression about what type of romance novels I write. ? But, believe me, out there somewhere is a person who writes in a romance niche where that would totally work. You don’t even want to know.
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne: The last part’s really really important. Just use your pen name. Readers are dumb, even when they’re smart!
@Baud: Well, as (somebody) once said, every story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
@Aleta: If your characters aren’t working out on sentence two you’re either Stephen King or something (else) is very wrong.
humboldtblue
@Baud:
Weird that, huh?
@Mnemosyne:
“And in next week’s essay we will delve into the online romance world of family love and all the shit you didn’t want to know about but that you googled anyway. Ya sick bastard”
Now that’s a catchy title.
Mnemosyne
@humboldtblue:
Oh, it’s out there. It’s underground, because it’s not even as respectable as threesome romance, but it’s there.
Iowa Old Lady
@Mnemosyne: I vote for pen name. You want a search to lead readers to your site.
MoxieM
Is there anything more yummy than spotted puppy belly?
Steeplejack
@Mnemosyne:
Just go with the pen name. When interested people Google “Jane Waterford,” JaneWaterford.com will be one of the first things to come up, even without a lot of SEO (search engine optimization) on your part.
Miss Bianca
@Mnemosyne: would that be the incest niche?
(Yeah, I went there.)