For the Tunch fans:
Hhe has really been ornery lately. Not sure what is up.
by John Cole| 57 Comments
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For the Tunch fans:
Hhe has really been ornery lately. Not sure what is up.
This post is in: Cat Blogging, Dog Blogging, Open Threads
Some pet pics:
Claim your kids.
Does the second picture count as a Godwin violation?
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I may need to rethink my position on taser usage, because I was cheering for them to break out the taser and they never did.
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Not to turn this blog over completely to my dyspeptic rantings about coffee, although at this point, that may be a noticeable improvement over the rest of my posts, but on the suggestion of many, I was set to have a cup of Dunkin Donuts medium roast while waiting for the Community Coffee I’m ordering to show up. Sadly, I fat-fingered the mug and dropped it, smashing my new favorite mug into a thousand pieces on the kitchen tile and shooting hot coffee everywhere. It smelled great.
I’m back to drinking coffee out of a measuring cup again, it seems. I really need to find a coffee mug I like and order 100 of them. Or install rubber floors.
Here is a picture of Abby, who belonged to commenter Polish the Guillotines, and had to be put down yesterday after 18 years:
Not that it makes it any easier, but eighteen years is a pretty solid run. The most awesome cat ever, the cat we had as a kid, Mr. Purr Puff (my sister named him), lived for close to twenty years, and at one point my father’s only goal in life was to “outlive that God damned cat.”
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Just got back from the vet, and Tunch’s weight is down slightly from the last visit. In a completely pleasant change, Tunch actually behaved and did not turn into a spawn of Satan and bleed every nurse and vet that tried to check him out. The vet was actually shocked, since we are used to holding him down with multiple towels.
At any rate, the fat bastard is apparently healthy and has a couple more pounds to lose.
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At some point today while I was trying to get work done, a certain cat stood behind me and yowled for an hour and a half straight. I tried to pet him. He yowled more. I checked his food. It was fine. He yowled more. I tried to play with him. He yowled. I shot him in the face with a squirt bottle. He yowled and ran out of the room, and came back in and starting meowing again. I shut him out of the room and he stood by the door and scratched at it while meowing.
Finally, I grabbed him and rolled him up in a towel like a dead person in a carpet:
Oddly enough, he stayed there like that for a half hour and seemed to like it. We have a really weird relationship.
This post is in: Cat Blogging, Cooking, Open Threads, Politics, Popular Culture
Some quick things of note but not worth entire posts:
1.) Tomorrow’s fauxtrage today– GM CEO, who ran the company into the ground the last decade, steps down before Obama administration will give auto industry more money. Expect the Santelli groupies to be screaming socialism or liberal fascism or waving Atlas Shrugged signs tomorrow.
2.) The Listserv Kaus Conundrum: Invite Mickey Kaus to your email list, and have him selectively publish private conversations whenever he wants to screw someone over and get a link from Instapundit. Or, don’t invite him, and have him publish the contents anyway. Why? Because he is an insecure jackass driven to madness that he was not a part of someone else’s email group. Also, goat sex.
3.) I can’t decide if I like Pad thai so much because it is delicious, or because it provides a vehicle for consuming more cilantro. I vote both.
4.) Capitalism!
5.) No matter what happens next weekend, a #1 seed will be in the NCAA championship. How boring. Wrong. For some reason I got it into my head that UNC was playing UCONN next weekend.
6.) The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency on HBO tonight.
7.) All your base are belong to… China.
8.) World’s dumbest criminal.
9.) For whatever reason, I went back and read the Cogent Provocateur’s “Operation Snipe Hunt” post from 2003. Still one of the best blog posts ever written.
10.) Overton Window My Eye- DougJ and others yesterday approached the elevation of Paul Krugman to the role of chief Obama critic as an opportunity to shift the Overton window to the left a little bit. Others shared my belief of what would happen:
Krugman will simply weaken the actual left by giving cover for the Blue Dogs. it doesn’t matter if Krugman is attacking from the left or from the right, he gives credence to the idea that “even the left thinks Obama is wrong.”
Krugman seems more and more like an ideologue who has no clue about how politics works and doesn’t care.
when it’s perfect vs good, nobody wins.
CNN’s “Your Money” segment earlier today featured them reading two paragraphs of Krugman trashing the bank plan and then spent the next five minutes letting wingnut WSJ economist Stephen Moore trash the plan. This is working out well.
And might I point out that after we all have trashed the President from every angle, the American people aren’t going to say to themselves “the socialist black muslim guy kind of sucked, let’s give Dennis Kucinich and Bernie Sanders and Russ Feingold a shot.” Not going to happen. Standing in the on-deck circle are Mr. Sanford, Mittens, and the Wasilla wingnut.
11.) An almost live action shot:
You are on your own. Behave.
This post is in: Cat Blogging, Open Threads
I have been informed there have not been enough pet pictures this week, and it is true. I have been preoccupied with other stuff. Here are a few for you:
Not sure what I am going to do this weekend.
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BTW- the PJ adds come down next Wednesday, and google adsense is killing me. It refuses to accept my existing google account info when I try to fill out the damned form. Going through this and trying to figure out blogads again reminds me of why I liked PJ ads in the first place.
Also, the easiest way to support this website is if you use Amazon, to click through before you shop.