It is 70-75, breezy, with blue skies, and it is just beautiful. If only every day were like today. Every window is open, and the house has this amazing cool breeze and I am happy as a pig in shit. Took some pics for you all. New flag:
Picked up a piece of slate with a little note and a peacock for 2 bucks at a yard sale:
And some of you were questioning the sign in the front yard last time so I embiggened it (well, the picture. The sign is the same size):
It’s from the Mennonites.
Lily and I are going to take a nap before we start cooking dinner.
Jim Parish
What role does Lily play in cooking dinner? Purely supervisorial, I trust.
schrodingers_cat
@Jim Parish: Official taster.
HeleninEire
Naps. Naps are good.
rikyrah
The House looks beautiful, Cole :)
SiubhanDuinne
House looks great! I love both signs, and the flag is flying proudly. Very nice.
What is Lily cooking you for dinner?
Mary G
You can’t call it “Home Crap Home” now, JG.
guachi
To be persnickety, the Arabic says “it doesn’t matter where you were born, but we are happy you are our neighbor.”
ArchTeryx
Well, I’ll leave some positive news: Because of my job, I’m about to give the person who took me in when I was penniless and without health insurance, a huge gift. I’m getting him a brand new variable-speed pool pump.
debbie
More and more of those yard signs are popping up in my neighborhood, though not in the three homes that had Trump/Pence signs last year.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
That is a great-looking house. I have a nice enough patio, but there’s something about a front porch like that I really love
RoonieRoo
I think this is the first pic I’ve seen of the outside of the house since you moved in. It looks beautiful and I love the flag.
schrodingers_cat
I has porch envy.
Nicole
Gorgeous! Love the pics. Happy Sunday evening, all. I spent the day doing my son’s birthday party. The parents were pleased the goody bags were rainbow colored. I was glad folks noticed.
Ryan
Looks like the beginning of Black Hole Sun.
Suzanne
Your house looks awesome. I’m glad you have a flag flying. While I understand why some lefties have turned away from flying it, so as not to embrace the AMURIKA FUCK YEAH jingoism of the right, I also don’t like to cede semiotic ground. They don’t get the flag, they sure AF don’t get the cross. They can have the sandals-with-socks.
I called Senator Flake and left a message with his staffer. I tried multiple times to call Senator McCain, but no answer, and every mailbox was full. But tomorrow is another day.
Mike in NC
@ArchTeryx: Pools are just like boats: a pain to own and maintain but great if you know somebody willing to share theirs with you. We’ve been enjoying our friends’ pool here in Tampa for the past few days but must head home in the morning.
Suzanne
Other thing I am excited about: Mr. Suzanne and I got tickets to two great concerts. Rise Against with the Deftones is in two weeks, and U2 with Beck is in September. I was hoping to go travel to see the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 40th Anniversary tour this summer, but we also want to get our floors redone, so that may not happen.
MelissaM
Beautiful, Cole. I love porches. Ours is deep, but I do love the wrap-around like you have. Gives you two spaces there.
debbie
Corny, but it goes with the photo up top.
Chris Whitehead
What a great house!
ArchTeryx
@Mike in NC: Yeah. I’ve been his unofficial pool boy for years, keeping his rickety pump and filter going and keeping his pool clean. When I first moved here, it was an algae-filled mess. Took me most of a summer to clean it up and get the chemistry stabilized, and it’s mostly run like a top since then.
But the filter cracked last summer, so we’re replacing the whole megillah. He buys the filter, I buy the pump, and the other housemate pays for the new electrical line to the pump. We all pitch in, and we’ll all have a great pool afterward.
Major Major Major Major
That turned out really well!
It’s nice out here too, but I’m staying in playing video games and drawing since I don’t really do things on Pride Sunday so much.
Greg Ferguson
Just. Fking. Beautiful,
Bless you, Cole.
Suzanne
@Mike in NC: So true about the pool. They are such a colossal PITA. Every once in a while, I get tempted to put one in the backyard, and then I remember why we specifically looked for a home without one in the first place. We have a community pool and a city aquatic center nearby, but I do like swimming naked.
Sorry, I know this is a family blog.
ArchTeryx
@Suzanne: I’ve suggested on more then one occasion to just fill the damn thing in and make a garden out of it, and got told in no uncertain terms it ain’t going to happen. Least he’s putting his money where his mouth was.
raven
@Suzanne: That’s why I have a Vietnam Veteran plate on my car and wear my shit to events like the Women’s March. I drag my flag out on appropriate days too.
rikyrah
I just noticed the porch swing….awe…how sweet
JPL
@Suzanne: Decades ago, when we moved to Dallas, I was a firm no to a pool. The children were small. Then you learn that everyone has a pool, and they had better been able to swim. The second year, I called to get quotes for a pool, but only a lap pool. One very honest salesman said you are not ready. If the pool is not deep enough for diving, it’s not safe. The following year we put in a pool and a spa. It was glorious, and well worth the money, since you tend to get the investment back there.
jl
Thanks for very pretty house pics.
I didn’t know it had such a great porch. I love porches like that.
Edit: Also (gritting teeth until the almost crack and fall out), I thought that Manchin did a very good job today during his segment on Faceplant Nation.
Nelle
I’ve got the same sign in my front yard and they are all over Lawrence, KS (confession – I am a Mennonite).
When you can’t get a call into your senator, I suggest you look for his/her other offices in your state. Last Friday, I called Hays, Kansas for Senator Moran and Dodge City for Senator Roberts. Those are pretty quiet places on the most conservative side of the state. They picked up eagerly – I don’t think they get many calls. They didn’t even ask me what part of the state I was calling from. I kind of thought that maybe my call about the health care bill might stand out a bit more. If their radar starts pinging with calls in those areas (instead of the “liberal Lawrence” area), that might get their attention just a bit. In our state, each senator has at least six offices scattered around the state. It gives me a different angle to play with and maybe some new people to “befriend.”
Nelle
Oh, and in Lawrence, one of the hardware stores stocks those signs so they are easy to get.
JR in WV
@Suzanne:
Oh, cool. We saw Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers with Bob Dylan opening for and playing with the G’ful Dead in the Rubber Bowl in Akron, or as our friends who lived there at the time, Planet Ak-Ron. Better than I expected, Tom Petty I mean, the Dead were always the Dead.
And John, man the house is great looking now. I remember the beginning, oh man what a change.
And it is a beautiful day today in the green rolling hills !!
Chyron HR
@Mike in NC:
Pools are like, reverse boats, man.
Woah, I just blew my mind.
ArchTeryx
@Chyron HR: More like inverted boats. ^.^
JPL
@ArchTeryx: It depends on the location.
JPL
John, I love your home!
Diana
@Nelle: That’s a good point for those of us in Liberal land with a capital “L.”
I suspect John’s hometown is a bit like the reaction of Emma Goldman’s father’s synagogue to all the newstories about her in the NYTimes of the era: they hated her but mostly they were just mystified as to why she was so famous to the rest of the world and therefore seems to have so much public support. What is this all about anyway?
Mnemosyne
I ended up taking an unintentional nap with our kitty Charlotte this afternoon and missed lunch, so I’ve already had dinner. Doing laundry and then maybe I’ll try to do some work on my novel’s outline that I’ve been putting off. I definitely have to create a master list of all of my projects because I’ve been getting paralyzed on which one to do first and spending all my time here.
And I still owe Schrodinger’s Cat an essay on Some Like It Hot, too.
SiubhanDuinne
@jl:
I was just in the car for a few minutes and caught a bit of the rebroadcast of today’s Meet Depress. Dear lord, how I detest Chuck Todd! He had Saint Bernard on, and of course had to ask him why the Democrats can’t win special elections like GA-6. As soon as Bernie started mentioning that the Democrats can’t win special elections, House, Senate, White House, governorships or state legs, I arrived at my destination and, with a sigh of pure relief, turned the radio off.
MomSense
Looks so inviting and lovely, Cole.
ThresherK
@Mnemosyne:Fell asleep with the cat? Well, nobody’s perfect!
Pangloss
Hundreds of those yard signs are all over Bloomington/Normal Illinois as well.
WaterGirl
Talk about curb appeal, the house looks amazing! I have always wanted a wraparound porch, so I’m a bit envious, but in the good way.
Cole, it’s inspiring to look at your life. If you build it, they will come. You got sober, you made some plans, you bought a house, you saved Walter, you gave the house new life, you have ABC and her kids in your life and you have a lovely home for your new life that is much bigger than you imagined. Or at least much bigger than I imagine you imagined.
So happy for you, Cole.
Not being able to see what was to come, you took a bunch of steps that brought you to this place.
CaseyL
Wonderful house, wonderful home. I like the peacock plaque – maybe elevate it somehow so it’s easier to see?
I’m supposed to go to my neighbors for dinner. Made a Trader Joe run to buy stuff for a big ol’ Cobb salad, about the only thing I could think of that was substantial enough to be a meal yet requires no cooking. It hit 95 today in Seattle. We don’t get that kind of heat this early in the summer; I’m dreading August.
SuzieC
Great house! My blue oasis neighborhood in Columbus is absolutely festooned with those signs. Makes me happy. I hit most of those houses with the anti-gerrymandering petition. Our weather is about the same as yours oh blogmaster,
Mnemosyne
@ThresherK:
I know! I feel guilty for being a slacker.
But I would probably wait until after Pride Sunday to publish because I’m in the camp that thinks Jerry/Daphne is not gay (though Osgood could be) and I’m not sure I want to stir up that hornet’s nest on this particular day.
jharp
I like the sign a ton.
But I’d like something a little more permanent looking for my yard or garden.
Edit. And I’d like to add that another line in Hindu might make it even better. Especially here in the Midwest.
dance around in your bones
The “country we’d love to retire to” has changed over and over …. we loved the Netherlands when younger but shit it’s cold there. Living on houseboats is neat when you’re in your twenties, but later …..
Afghanistan was fantastic back in the 70’s but has been in a continual war since ’79… Canada was real and stable but since Americans went crazy and elected the Pusillanimous Persimmon Putz There was a sudden influx of immigration inquiries that caused doubt….Mexico is nice ( you need money ) and that was good til my husband died.
Now I’m in Texas wondering WTF. Life happens while being busy making other plans, ya know. Sheesh.
dance around in your bones
Shit, maybe this is wrong thread for that comment. Dang iPhone and it’s itty bitty screen/ keyboard ?
( Yup – last thread better. Never mind. )
schrodingers_cat
@jharp: You mean Hindi, right? Because Hindu is the religion, Hindi is the language.
/pedant.
JMG
@dance around in your bones: There are a lot of nice places in Texas. My daughter lives in Bordeaux, and that strikes me as a place I could settle down in. Medium size city that’s lovely, obviously wine and food are aces, they even have nice golf courses. Maybe Macron will try and lure American retirees the way he’s luring climate scientists.
SuzieC
@JMG: That would be incredible.
john fremont
@raven: I’m a lurker, and a jarhead, and an 80’s peacetime Cold War vet , and I just gotta say Semper Fi! You Nam vets get a lot of respect from me. I enlisted in the USMC in the n80’s and served under Nam and Beirut veterans and no one gave them much thanks. There was no “Thank you for your service” back then. Thanks for fighting the good fight , that government by the people, for the people, and of the people shall not perish from the Earth.
divF
I’m about to get to work preparing a dinner for a group of 25 or so for tomorrow night. It’s become a post-Pride thing: I hate parades and crowds so I don’t don’t go across the bay on Sunday, whereas everyone who has been doing the Pride thing today is wiped out and appreciates having dinner prepared for them on Monday night, while still extending the celebratory experience.
satby
@WaterGirl: what you said!
dance around in your bones
@JMG: True, I shouldn’t disparage Texas. It’s just hot as hell and I miss the ocean in Santa Barbara (spoiled, am I? Why, yes – how did you guess? ?)
I miss rain once in a while as well ☔️ ?
Ruckus
@Mike in NC:
A boat being like a pool means the water is on the wrong side.
Pool = water inside, boat = water outside. Yes it is true that they both may sink but there is still a difference when that happens.
schrodingers_cat
Has Amir Khalid been around since after the Id feast? Indian Muslims usually celebrate with biryani, the rice dish of Gods! For desert there is vermicilli pudding (kheer).
Another Sufi classic by ARR, Kun Faya Kun, shot at one of Delhi’s famous dargahs (tombs of Sufi saints). Apparently, Aurangzeb’s sister used to worship there.
Mnemosyne
@dance around in your bones:
I honestly don’t think I could be happy too far away from a very large body of water, like the ocean or a Great Lake. There are parts of Texas that are on the Gulf of Mexico, at least.
jl
@SiubhanDuinne: I suffered through a clip of the interview (edit: thanks to you!!). Todd asked every single question from GOP framing. And worse, went out of his way to shy away from talking substance after Sanders called him on it over the first two questions on health care.. Sanders should have been more on alert to pushback on that last brain dead question on ‘Democrats in disarray/ as hard as he did on the first two about health care. But, Sanders has a hard time resisting peddling his standard boilerplate.
But, I don’t want to spark the feud, so yeah, Sanders did not do well on that last question.
Let’s be positive as possible in honor of Cole’s beautiful house.
Baud
@jl: Being positive in honor of Cole seems sacrilegious.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Being curmudgeonly would be more appropriate.
Mnemosyne
@divF:
The Penzey’s Spices Facebook page just reminded me that Monday is the actual anniversary of marriage equality being decided by the Supreme Court, so you’ll have an extra-special celebration.
For those who don’t know, Internet spice seller Penzey’s are good people who have been very vocal about supporting the resistance to Trump, so when you need more spices, keep them in mind!
Virginia
@WaterGirl: exactly what WaterGirl says. This is a wonderful and amazing place for you, YOU, John Cole, to be in now. I am envious and glad to be along to observe.
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl:
WG, you make me cry for happy.
ThresherK
@Mnemosyne: I really take a hands-off approach. Plus in my other life (secret Tumblr feed, different name) I see a lot of stuff from the youngs, and as an introvert I can just sit back and absorb things.
Beats whatever Conservetarian shit South Park is putting out.
HeleninEire
Hey all. Did you see the last thread? Baud has agreed to appoint me to his cabinet as “Special envoy to Ireland’s Pubs”
Very excited.
Will not be renouncing my American citizenship anytime soon.
jl
@Baud:
” Being positive in honor of Cole seems sacrilegious. ”
It’s a beautiful summer day. Cole will have to deal with it.
And, we are still positive about your political career. Well, I’m not, but most of the commentariate is.
Edit: and isn’t being sacrilegious on this blog considered a plus?
dance around in your bones
@Mnemosyne: I agree about the ‘large bodies of water’ ….. I’m currently dependent on my older sister for housing; we’re in El Paso.
Might rain tonight though! Whoopee ;)!
mai naem mobile
Your house looks very Norman Rockwell ish . You just need to be out there with a rocker and the animals.
SiubhanDuinne
@jl:
One does what one can. As I said, I listened to only a couple of minutes of the clip, but it was just enough to piss me off.
I do fully agree with you about Cole’s beautiful house! The pictures, and the entire saga, are both in- and aspirational.
(Edited to unfuck a fucked-up blockquote tag.)
jl
@HeleninEire: Congrats.
But, remember, the Baudministration will keep careful tabs on how much beer you drink, and demand it gets just as much during state visits.
Steve
Well, I am happy for you that you are having nice weather. While here in Las Vegas “It can’t be more than 114 degrees!”
At least we don’t freeze in the winter.
SiubhanDuinne
@HeleninEire:
SIP?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@dance around in your bones: What is this “rain” you speak of?
dance around in your bones
Baud gets me laughing and steamy all at once. I admit it. I know I’m last in line, ah well ?♂️
jl
@SiubhanDuinne: I had to edit the ‘thanks to you’ heavily after a first try. I want to be positive today. Even said a good word about Cole’s man in DC, Manchin.
But, it was a good reminder of how awful much of the media is. Todd’s every question was pitched with GOP framing, and every one was from a BS ‘meta’ political Kabuki viewpoint. But, I want to stay positive today.
I love Cole’s porch.
dance around in your bones
@?BillinGlendaleCA: some mythical substance that appears at whim. SAD.
HeleninEire
@SiubhanDuinne: OMG I love you. At first I was like, what?
Yep that be my title: SIP.
HeleninEire
@dance around in your bones: Yeah. Back off.
chris
@Mnemosyne: Agree about the water, Hope you agree it has to be saltwater.
Here’s where I spent the afternoon. About 15C/55F and breezy, T-shirt weather for me. Tired now and Bert has been done since we got home.
dance around in your bones
@HeleninEire: ???
jl
@HeleninEire: I don’t think a mere ‘sip’ of booze will be allowed in the Baudministration. Considered bad form. You need to discuss the conditions of your appointment with the Baud’s Secretary of Party Time (which I think is Baud himself, how is that for nepotism?).
Sab
@jharp: I think there is version with Hindi and Mandarin. Check the Immanuel Mennonite church website (I’ m not so good with links).
tybee
It was a beautiful day, the sun beat down,
I had the radio on, I was drivin’
dance around in your bones
Ok – continuous rolling thunder and splattey raindrops like nickels and quarters. And that’s the weather currently in Ol El Paso ??⚡️?
Omnes Omnibus
@Sab: I like this sign.
WaterGirl
@HeleninEire: Okay, that made me laugh. If spending time with Baud was being auctioned off, I am pretty sure there would be a LOT of bidders.
divF
Also, congrats to our bloghost. It *is* a beautiful day in WV, and the house looks every bit as pristine.
The first thing that went through my head when I saw the title was this . Note the similarity of the album jacket to the photo here.
I’ve been having some fun exposing the younglings around here on some of the finer details of the 60’s San Francisco music scene, it being the summer of love 50th anniversary and all.
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
Me too.
Sab
@Omnes Omnibus: I do too. I complimented a neighbor up the street for her sign, and the next week she and her little boy brought me one from their church.
I checked the Mennonites’ site. You can actually buy a sign like John’s from them. They also have different combinations of languages that you can download the pdf and take to a printer.
japa21
@Mnemosyne: Just placed an order with them today. They go beyond being good people. They are not afraid yo speak loudly and clearly about their distress at the current administrations both in DC and in WI. Plus they are calling out the GOP without mincing words.
JMG
Congratulations on your beautiful home, John. You put in enough sweat and $ equity to reap the rewards. The good things that seem to be happening in your life are lovely to hear about.
SiubhanDuinne
@jl:
I absolutely won’t argue with you. Positive is good, and Cole’s porch is inviting.
Mnemosyne
@chris:
Doesn’t have to be saltwater if it’s big enough. People who’ve never experienced a Great Lake don’t seem to realize exactly how ginormous they are. They are essentially freshwater seas.
chris
Congratulations on your fine abode, John Cole. And I really like both signs, well done!
glory b
@dance around in your bones: Gee, my SO was in Afghanistan around the same time! Primarily in Kabul. Section 7 in the Carte Seh neighborhood.
Sab
@Mnemosyne: Can’t surf in a Great Lake, but I don’t surf. Otherwise I prefer the freshwater. Even little bitty Lake Erie is so wide you can’t see the other side.
In my mis-spent youth, a couple of friends and I swam in all five great lakes on the same day. We started in Michigan and ended up at sunset in Toronto.
Villago Delenda Est
Mennonites: actual Christians
Evangelicals: not so much
eclare
@Omnes Omnibus: Love that sign.
DanR2
House looks awesome. What’s with the third world coax cable running diagonally from the upstairs window into the attic wall? Our cable installer dude was bad, but I don’t think he would have tried to pull that one. (I would have made him at least follow the siding… and I’m sure he still probably would have put a 2 foot drip loop in it right there in front)
chris
@Mnemosyne: Indeed. I was born and raised in southern Ontario and have been on and in four out of five Great Lakes. But the ocean, from the first time I saw it, always calls me back. It just… smells right.
dance around in your bones
@glory b: Cripes, we probably know each other. Small world and all ?
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: Had never seen that, but I love it. Just ordered. thanks
Omnes Omnibus
@Sab:
You are wrong.
Sab
@chris: You have a point there.
Steeplejack
“Sidney is conflicted about his feelings.” Oh, that episode. Right.
Mnemosyne
@chris:
That makes sense — Lake Michigan and the Pacific Ocean definitely smell very different. But I love them both. It’s the sight of the water itself I find soothing.
Sab
@Omnes Omnibus: That’s neat. Where did you surf?
Sab
@Omnes Omnibus: That’s neat. Where did you surf? Wisconsin?
chris
@Sab: Went bodysurfing once in Superior after a storm. In early June, we were frozen in ten minutes. Just like where I now call home.
ETA: Cool video, OO
trollhattan
@Villago Delenda Est:
My only Mennonite joke:
Q-Why aren’t Mennonites allowed to have sex?
A-It might lead to dancing.
Mnemosyne
@Omnes Omnibus:
Heh. And the water wasn’t that much colder than it is in So Cal in the winter.
eclare
@Omnes Omnibus: Just ordered. The weird neighborhood pet lady is stepping things up.
mai naem mobile
@Suzanne: Call McCains Tucson office. I can’t remember if it’s Flake or McCain who has a Prescott office but I’ve called that office too when oi haven’t gotten through to the Phx or DC office. I just tell them I can’t get through the other offices.
Omnes Omnibus
@Sab: @Sab: I don’t surf, but I once worked worked with a guy from Cleveland who did. He and some of his surfer buddies made a documentary about it.
trollhattan
Reason #543 I believe BBC is the world’s best news-gathering and journalism organization: stories like this.
Sab
@Sab: @chris: God that looks cold!I agree with Chris. That’said amazing.
Morzer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeXCU8cjIlw&feature=youtu.be
SiubhanDuinne
@trollhattan:
I always thought that was a (Southern) Baptist joke, but it’s still funny.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
chris
@Mnemosyne: When I was kid Lake Ontario often smelled bad but, dog help us, we swam in it and had algae fights. Think green slimy snowballs. We used to fish in it too even though we knew there were no fish except the occasional carp. Now it’s famous for it’s salmon and trout fishing.
I like to think about that when things look grim. Change will happen, all we can do is try and steer it in the right direction.
Mnemosyne
Also, too, I’m doing laundry and made sure to wash this t-shirt so I can wear it on the 4th of July.
Steeplejack
@JMG:
For a second I thought there was a town called Bordeaux, Texas.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: There is a Paris, TX, so why not a Bordeaux?
Sab
@Omnes Omnibus: Isn’t that a big ore-boat on the horizon?
SiubhanDuinne
@Mnemosyne:
I LOVE that t-shirt! May well order myself one, if I can get delivery in time. It is awesome! Thanks for sharing.
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: I’m clearly missing something because I thought that’s what they WERE saying.
Omnes Omnibus
@Sab: Probably.
D58826
@schrodingers_cat: And does the one of the three pre-wash cleanup before the dishes go into the dishwasher
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
There’s a Paris, Ontario, too. And Rome, Athens, and Cairo, Georgia.
Antiquity REPRESENT!
efgoldman
@Omnes Omnibus:
Pronounced “bird-DEW”
Mnemosyne
@SiubhanDuinne:
They also have a very adorable “Thanks, Obama!” shirt that I own, but I’m not sure I want to be partisan on the 4th. I might do it if I lived in a more red area.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: I once dated a girl from Versailles (ver-SAILS), Ohio.
No One You Know
It is a beautiful day. 105°, and we spent most of it lazing on the porch, watching dragonflies, frogs, and hummingbirds go about their business. Tomorrow may be Monday, but today is right now.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
It’s such a beautiful Pride Sunday in San Francisco that even the rainfall intensity bar on the weather page is a rainbow today. (It’s normally green-to-yellow only.)
Omnes Omnibus
@No One You Know:
Huh?
Sab
@chris: When we did our five lake swim in 1982, when we got to Toronto they had a big e coli warning posted at the beach. We went in anyway but didn’t put our heads underwater. Fortunately we didn’t get sick. Probably there was e coli on the American side but they just didn’t bother to warn peopke.
No One You Know
@ArchTeryx: (Joyful applause)
chris
@Sab: That still happens every few years. I don’t like to think what we might have ingested back in the early 60s.
Sab
@Omnes Omnibus: Ghent Ohio is pronounced “jent”. And Russia Ohio is pronounced “roo-see-ah”
ArchTeryx
@No One You Know: *bows*
This is the reason I like having money. It’s not to surround myself with “things”. It’s mostly to pass it out those that need and want it among my circle of friends and loved ones. To give back to them what they’ve given me all these years. I’ve been wanting to replace his pool pump for years but never had the means to do it before. With a stable job, many things are possible that I have never had the luxury of doing before.
AliceBlue
It’s all beautiful John.
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
“Maybe Macron will try and lure American retirees the way he’s luring climate scientists” was a slight tell, and I think JMG has mentioned before that his daughter lives in France.
joel hanes
@divF:
some of the finer details of the 60’s San Francisco music scene
apropos this AND Cole’s post title:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD14t_rlk4A
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I’m surprised that town’s name didn’t get freedom-fried in the 50s.
debbie
@Sab:
Don’t forget Rye-o Grand-day!
Omnes Omnibus
@joel hanes: Linked to in the comment to which you are replying.
Sab
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I believe they changed it from Berlin during one of the WWars
joel hanes
@Sab:
Can’t surf in a Great Lake
They surf in Sheboygan, even in winter: warm-water outflow from a big-ass power plant keeps the area ice-free and warm enough to tolerate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HvzgxF7mEY
Granted, it’s no Mavericks
joel hanes
@Omnes Omnibus:
I’m confused. I can see the URL in my comment; it’s youtube.
divF
@joel hanes: That is what I linked to. Highlighting “this” might be too subtle.
Anyway, it good to see that someone else is sufficiently old-school to get this association…
?BillinGlendaleCA
Klondike, Siberia, and Bagdad are all towns(more like a wide spot in the road) in CA.
Origuy
I saw the Summer of Love 50th Anniversary exhibition at the DeYoung Museum last week. One of the album covers in the show was the famous one from It’s A Beautiful Day’s first album. White Bird was written 50 years ago, although the LP came out two years later.
Sab
@debbie: We could go on all night just on Ohio, and there are 50 other states. Though I do believe we are particularly awful. Don’t a bunch of states have Cairo (kay-row)?
joel hanes
@divF:
Highlighting “this” might be too subtle.
D’oh!
Nah, it’s not the subtlety on your part; it’s the muzzy-headedness on my part.
I’m fighting a virus and I’ve been stupid all week.
(Not that I’m gaffe-free when perfectly healthy …)
Origuy
@Sab:
Which is the pronunciation in Russian.
ETA Probably coincidental
Aleta
Maybe this was posted already. It’s the tail end of an article by David Harris, about going to prison for resisting the Vietnam draft. (And about being politically active in opposing the war before he went and after.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/opinion/vietnam-war-draft-protests.html
Steve in the ATL
@SiubhanDuinne: shit, Tennessee has Paris, Milan (my-lan), Athens, Carthage (hometown of Al Gore!), Normandy, Medina, and of course Memphis!
Sab
@joel hanes: I stand corrected. See Omnes’ video at comment #104. So Great Lakes are equal to oceans in everything but tangy salty air smell.
Patricia Kayden
@ArchTeryx: That’s wonderful news. Hope he loves it.
Sab
@Steve in the ATL: Medina in Ohio sounds like dining room table, not like me Deena as it is pronounced in the Middle East or Hispania.
We used to have a talented reporter from Canada named Ann or Anne Medina who who do her reports from mah-dine-ah ohio, and then sign of Ann Me-deena.It was weird.
efgoldman
Florida, MA
Jerusalem and Galilee, RI
divF
@Origuy: That’s three :-).
Seriously, I’ve been making this point to people for the last few weeks. All of the new music that was swirling around the bay in 1967 didn’t appear on vinyl until 1968 or 1969.
Just for fun, I put together a Summer of Love playlist, trying to stick with music with local connections and that was a little less well-known. What I ended up with was mostly what was blasting out of Berkeley college dormitory rooms when I arrived in 1969.
mai naem mobile
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: we should all insist that Dolt do a forum on AHCA. Hell, he might learn something. I am serious about the forum. There really should be a push for this. He can even have his pal Mitchie there. Two disgusting old white men explaining the AHCA.
Steve in the ATL
@Sab: well I’m sure Tennessee gets it just right….
glory b
@Omnes Omnibus: There’s a North Ver-SAILS Pennsylvania too.
Sab
@Steve in the ATL: I am absolutely sure they do. Why name a city after somewhere in Europe and Asia when you can name it Chattanooga?
No One You Know
@Omnes Omnibus: ‘Tis, in my section of the Pacific Northwest.
JCJ
@Sab:
The Great Lakes
Unsalted and Shark Free!
Sab
@Sab: Does Tennessee have a Medina?
Sab
@JCJ: @JCJ: Worst I ever had was a bass nibbling my toes. Atlantic stepped on sharks (old days, no bites) and many zaps from skates.
Omnes Omnibus
Anyone watching Prime Suspect: Tennison? Looks to be for Prime Suspect what Endeavour was for Inspector Morse.
Patricia Kayden
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Can you imagine Trump doing a substantive healthcare forum? Lol. What a downgrade.
He could do a two-hour forum on how great he is though.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Patricia Kayden: well, give him half an hour and he’d probably promise single payer
frosty
@Mnemosyne: We brought home a sticker from Indiana Dunes: Great Lakes: unsalted and shark free!
No One You Know
@Aleta:
This. I’m looking for work, and I think, “Give me your tired mission statement, your corporate values on every wall, and in less than thirty minutes of interviewing I’ll know exactly how much hypocrisy or delusion you’re invested in.”
I hope for wisdom on separating these things, as paying bills and being authentic appear to be a Venn diagram with no overlap. I guess I should return to contract work. It seems to involve less pretension…
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: I am disappoint.
Jay Noble
Cairo (Kay Row) Nebraska
frosty
@JCJ: Beat me! I need to read all the comments first.
No Drought No More
Yours is a beautiful house, Cole. Permit me, please, to suggest something you might find interesting. Or not- it’s just something I did.
By the looks of it, it appears your front door, like mine, happens to be a short hop & step from the road. I desired more privacy, and so sank a dozen or so posts along the property line, on which I strung a few rolls worth of inexpensive green wire fencing. It was as cheap a solution for a fence as could figure out how to build, and I think it looks great. The star jasmine plants I first spaced and planted along that fence line 5 years ago proved too slow in filling the wire, so I also planted 2 other vines in addition at various points. The passion flower vine that I planted last year has thrived, and is doing beautifully. It alone has already afforded me far more cover than I’d expected to see after just a year; and the few trumpet vines that I planted just this month should prove ample in covering the rest of the fence in no time flat..
Again, great house and the best of luck with it..
SiubhanDuinne
Just looked again at the photo of John’s house, and when you consider that he hasn’t even had it for quite a year yet, it is just fucking amazing what he’s done with it! Such a welcoming house. The neighbours must be thrilled to have John G. Cole in their midst after the piece of unmitigated shit who abandoned Walter. I hope the house and John (and ABC and her kids and John’s parents and his siblings and menageries and fraternity brothers and everybody else in John’s ambit) all thrive and bloom for many years to come.
Gregory
We have one of those very same signs in our yard here in Indianapolis. And there are several others in the neighborhood in a red, black, and white color scheme. Welcome, neighbors!
Norm
@guachi:
Thank you for the translation. I have one of these in my yard, and since the Spanish version is phrased a bit oddly, I’ve been wondering about the Arabic.
I’m always a bit surprised to find it still there when I get home from work. I live on a state highway with lots of traffic, a fair amount of collegiate foot traffic, and political signs have not fared well in the past. There is a deep sea of wingnuttia around here.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Omnes Omnibus: when I saw the title I thought maybe Helen Mirren’s DI was coming out of retirement for a special case, but I’ll take what I can get. I’ve really like Endeavor and Lewis.
SgrAstar
@Sab:
Ahem. Orcas? No. Humpbacks? No. Sea Lions? No. Starfish? No. Urchins? No. Sea Otters? No. Blue Whales? No. Great Whites? No. Abalone? No. Green Flash….???
normal liberal
@Pangloss:
Like mine, right on, I kid you not, Main Street.
James Powell
@Sab:
@Omnes Omnibus:
But there’s no surf in Cleveland.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Got embroiled in some stuff IRL, so I’m going to watch it tomorrow afternoon. Like you said, Endeavor for Prime Suspect. Could be good.
Peale
@SgrAstar: we got lamprey eels and barnacles galore, though
jl
@SgrAstar:
Lake Whitefish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_whitefish
Left Coaster here, who grew up considering the Pacific Ocean as The Ocean. But the Great Lakes are great Hence the name, Great Lakes.
Amir Khalid
@schrodingers_cat:
I think he has.
joel hanes
@jl:
smoked whitefish is a wonderful picnic/brunch food.
NotMax
So you put up new house numbers on the post and then placed the flag exactly where it will block them unless the wind is blowing?
Dan Garfinkel
John–Having lived through the trials and tribulations of making a house a home (and spending oodles of dough doing it), congratulations on what appears to be a job very well done. I hope you have a lifetime of happiness in the upgraded digs. Also, Go Pens!
manyakitty
@JR in WV: I was at that show!