It is my 37th.
And like all single dorks, my big plans include watching some movies this afternoon while lying on the couch and then having a big dinner and probably watching some more movies.
I think I am going old school today:
I was seven-eight when SW IV came out, and I think I saw it 8 times in the theatre.
Also, a quick shout out to my younger brother and sisters:
The eldest children in families tend to develop higher I.Q.’s than their siblings, researchers are reporting today, in a large study that could settle more than a half-century of scientific debate about the relationship between I.Q. and birth order.
That is right, Devon, Seth, and Anne. I got the looks, the sense of humor, and the brains. Suck it.
Devon Cole
I’ll remember that when you are in diapers and it comes time to decide whether you should live with me or in a home….
Just Kidding. Happy birthday!
-Your younger, wiser sister
Jake
This day will live in infamy … oops, wrong one.
Beware the Ides of … damn.
Many happy returns of the day!
Ya little whippersnapper.
Zifnab
haha. That YouTube video is freak’n fantastic!
But no Chewbacca roar?
Tony Alva
Holy shit! You’re only 37?! Now it all makes sense. A 37 year old unmarried college professor, lives alone with his cat, who left the military for unknown and suspicious reasons.
I think we now know why you’ve left the Republican Party, not that’s there’s anything wrong with that.
Long time reader, infrequent commentor, who shares your disgust with it all wishing you a happy birthday. Too be so young…
I’d say this occasion calls for some cat blogging!!!
The Other Steve
Don’t tell my little brother about this. He’ll be insufferable.
norbizness
I’m a few years behind you, John, and I remember being scared shitless by Star Wars (none of this episode crap) at age 4 or 5; namely “WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO BEN KENOBI!!”
I was also traumatized by the bald chick getting electrocuted in Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Superman screaming after finding Lois Lane dead in the first Superman.
Desargues
Happy birthday, JC. Sounds like a good plan to spend today. That’s what I do on my B-day, when I’m single. Ain’t nothin’ wrong with movies and a good dinner.
ThymeZone
Happy Birthday John. Thanks for another year of putting up the best blog in town.
You’ll be happy to know that both of my siblings, born when I was in high school, are older than you are.
Rome Again
Oh yeah? Well, I’m the youngest, and all my (much) older siblings are all Limbaugh-listening Republican wingnuts. I think this study is a bit presumptuous, personally.
John, you’re another year older, congratulations! ;)
Rome Again
I qualify for that statement as well. Hmmmmm.
DougJ
Just like Clinton did while Osama was planning 9/11.
Mary
Happy Birthday, John!
You’re HOW old?
Star Wars Bloopers
Dorks with lightsabers
Rex
In the author’s own words:
Happy Birthday, John!
Dreggas
Happy Birthday John!
Stu in VA
Great youtube clip although I would have ranked Vader’s breathing/voice #1.
They also left out the best Vader line: “Impressive, most impressive” (from the duel with Luke at the end of Empire)
Happy Birthday John.
jg
Happy B-day John.
I agree with Rome. Its the youngest who are smartest. I refuse to believe any of my older brothers are smarter than me.
Cherub
Happy Birthday, John. Don’t post much but try to read everyday. GOD, my life is so depressing. lol
Gregory
Many happy returns of the day.
Tony J
Happy Birthday, John. And remember, 37 is the new 26. It said so on the Evening News.
OTOH, I just found out today that my Dad, who for many years was nicknamed ‘Saddam’ by my friends (lookswise only, of course) now qualifies for a bus-pass.
Shit. My Dad’s a frikkin’ pensioner! That makes me feel remarkably old. Damn you, El Residente! Your insane lust for glory has clouded my best years with gloom.
Tsulagi
Okay, that will make for a birthday to remember when you’re in the diapers stage your sister mentioned, but another option could be to carry out the president’s plea for true Americans. Follow orders one more time on your birthday. Go shopping. Maybe there’s a Madame Palfrey’s store in your area. Would beat Hola Fruita all to hell. ;-)
Happy Birthday.
Wilfred
Happy Birthday, John.
After, maybe.
ThymeZone
If you were older and smarter, you’d understand it.
Wisdom takes time.
Pooh
No, no, the oldest are definitely the smartest. The youngest are the achievers…
Rome Again
Uhhh, TZ, are you SURE you want to go there?
semper fubar
Sigh. I saw SW I in the movie theatre, the first week it came out. With my date. Whom I met in college several years earlier.
Happy Birthday John, from a well adjusted middle child.
John Cole
What is wrong with all you Dobson wannabees? Just because I am single, in my 30’s, have a cat, drink wine, and eat Hola Fruta doesn’t make me gay.
I am also going to sneak in some Warcraft this afternoon, too!
Rome Again
That’s reversed in my family. They’re all homeowners who drive BMW’s and have powerful corporate jobs. They’re also Clinton hating right-wingers.
I’m not any of those things.
Of course, my family could be totally backwards, had it not been for a nasty teacher my oldest brother had in grammar school, my parent’s children would rate as 3 left-handers and 2 right. The left handers are the oldest – who was physically punished for using his left hand, and now has a stutter as a result…. and the two youngest, including me.
If I had a scale of which ones I get along better with, the other left-hander and almost left-hander would win hands down! The two right-handers live on the planet Mars as far as I’m concerned.
ThymeZone
Where else can I go? I’m the oldest guy here.
If you got it, flaunt it.
Caya
Happy, happy birthday!
Tulkinghorn
Happy Birthday!
May the Schwartz be with you.
The Other Steve
When I grow up, I want to be James Dobson.
Buck
In the words of the immortal George Costanza, “but it doesn’t help.”
Not that there is anything wrong with that.
Happy Birthday.
Rome Again
Self-interested asshole, that’s not what you tell me in private.
ThymeZone
Well, I’m a persona. I have no actual life.
demimondian
I haven’t decided what I want to be if I grow up.
Faux News
Happy Birthday John! Enjoy
“Poggle the Lesser” in #7 reminds me of a gay bar in Hartford, CT (Nick’s Cafe)circa 1987. On a good night. If you put Poogle in a lime green polyester leisure suit he would have fit right in with the rest of the crowd.
TZ you aren’t the old timer on here. I got John beat by 10 years.
Faux News
Happy Birthday John! Enjoy
“Poggle the Lesser” in #7 reminds me of a gay bar in Hartford, CT (Nick’s Cafe)circa 1987. On a good night. If you put Poogle in a lime green polyester leisure suit he would have fit right in with the rest of the crowd.
TZ you aren’t the old timer on here. I got John beat by 10 years.
Rome Again
Well FN, TZ’s got me beat by about a decade and a half, I and I got John beat by over 7 years myself. Care to reconsider that?
jg
If you knew my older brothers you wouldn’t say that.
In my family I was the first to own a home (even before my parents) plus I have a corporate job and I drive a BMW. That whole study is full of shit.
No it doesn’t. It just gives us ammo to fling at you for the fun of it. We can have a 40 Year Old Virgin scene with all your habits. ‘You know how I know you’re gay?” “You eat Hola Fruit with your wino cat.”
Rome Again
Well, then I guess you have no actual opinions, and no actual plans and no actual beliefs, and no actual tastes or distastes… hey this is a fun game, I could play this all day long. ;)
Fe E
Bad news for Balloon Juice
Happy birthday–from another 37 year old.
Rome Again
OMG, well, it’s the Onion, of course it’s not true, so laugh way John, it’s okay. :)
ThymeZone
I am 60. Do I get the “old timer” prize?
Please send my winnings forthwith!
(that means “right away” for you young whippersnappers)
Rusty Shackleford
Happy Birthday, John Cole!
From,
Another 30-something, thin, well-groomed, cat owning, computer game playing, Star Wars loving bachelor.
Vladi G
It’s my brother’s 38th today. My 34th was last week. Happy birthday, John.
Dave
Happy Birthday John!
I got you a present, just need to know where to send it.
Rome Again
No you aren’t, you’re a persona, you don’t HAVE an age! Get it? You don’t exist, hahahahaha!
Blue Neponset
Happy Birthday John!!!
Let me know if the Cindy Sheehan t-shirt I sent you doesn’t fit. I still have the receipt.
Mr Furious
Happy Birthday, John!
I am the oldest of four, and I will say, if nothing else, I am the most battle-hardened and paved the way for my three sisters… My parents were barely even making an effort by the time my sisters were in high school.
I can remember coming home from NY and seeing beer splatter stains on the wall and gardens strewn with butts from my sisters parties and they never got nailed for it once. Whereas I spent most of my teen years grounded for the slightest infractions…
No, I’m not bitter or anything. ;-)
I turned 39 in May, and while I’m not a guy caught up in the number (I think of myself as perpetually 35), 39 is almost 40, and all of a sudden that is fucking old!
YellowJournalism
Holy shit, John! You’re a Spiderman-comic-collection-in Mom’s-basement away from being a full-fledged fanboy geek.
What am I saying? One of my best birthdays as a single gal was a night of old black and white movies and Chinese take-out.
I’m glad I’m married now.
Happy birthday, John. Thanks for a great read every afternoon.
ThymeZone
Off topic, but this story just blew me away.
Time to reinvent the “medical” profession?
When healthcare is about profits and millions can’t get it, and individual care is about religion and people can’t get appropriate services, isn’t it time to throw away this dysfunctional pile of shit and start over?
If the healthcare industry and medical practices can’t do better than this, then we don’t need them.
demimondian
Um, Faux? I have Cole beat by ten years, too.
And TZ has both you and me beat by about 13…
Third Eye Open
Coming from a (relative) youngin’, I wish you the best, and can only hope that I am single, over-educated, and burdened with a plethora of felines when I hit 37!
-CHEERS!
Fledermaus
Hoch soll Sie leben, John!
Prost!
Rome Again
Come to think of it TZ, you don’t have a yard man either. LMAO… Oh, this is killing me, I could take this sooooooo far! Best fun I’ve had in… gosh, I can’t remember when!
whatsleft
Happy Birthday John! And many happy returns. You seem awfully young for a professor! Congratulations child genius.
Lucky to have a summer birthday for this whole total self-indulgence day too. Good for you and good on you mate.
The Disenfranchised Voter
Happy birthday, John.
Wishing a great birthday for a great man. Hear, hear!
DougJ
Didn’t you just lose a lot of weight as well? I’m just saying…
Jake
Oh what I would give for a bunch of doctors to declare it is against their religion to touch a patient.
(And what champion class fuckwit thought it was a good idea to have a male examine a rape victim? HELLO?)
I say it’s time for consumers (that’s us) to stop this nonsense before it gets worse. I have a friend who got a new doctor because the receptionist at her old one was spewing homophobic crap. She walked out of another’s offices because they provided Chick Tracts as reading material.
So from now on, before you make an appointment, ask your doctor if he or she has any religous beliefs that prevent him/her from providing or recommending all available medical options to a patients. If they say yes, hang up and tell your friends. Trust me, 4 out of 5 doctors love their cash more than they love their God. They’ll figure it out.
mrmobi
Congrats on another turn around the sun, John. Thanks for this place, I like it here.
When the first Star Wars movie came out, my wife and I took a friends’ 10-year-old to see it on opening day. Aside from loving it, it was terrific seeing it with a kid, who was so jacked afterward that we stayed and watched it a second time. One of my favorite movie experiences of all time.
TZ, I completed my farewell to the fifties tour in April, so you may be older than me, but not by much, probably.
I think I’m going to celebrate John’s birthday by playing “Knights of the Old Republic” tonight.
God bless light sabers.
Faux News
You win TZ! I am a mere 47 years old. 3 years away from my AARP card :-)
Faux News
You win TZ! I am a mere 47 years old. 3 years away from my AARP card :-)
ThymeZone
Shoot, who doesn’t?
Give me all your cash. I promise I will say a prayer for you.
Beat you by just a few months. So far I am liking 60, compared to the alternative :)
Kirok
Happy Birthday, John, from another June 22 baby and WVU grad. I’ve turned 44 today. I saw SWIV in a theatre in Buckhannon, WV, when it first came out. God that was along time ago…
mrmobi
YES.
Tom Hilton
Happy birthday, John!
For some reason, the AARP sent me a solicitation including a sample membership card when I was about 25. Naturally, I carried the sample card in my wallet. The last time I was ever carded buying liquor (a couple years later), I whipped out the AARP card.
Sri Ramkrishna
Happy Birthday, John! I’m 1 year and a little over a month older than you. :) Been enjoying your site and all the myriad of personalities here. Righteous anger rocks!
sri
over it
Count me as another born on June 22nd!
Happy Birthday….enjoy your movies, your dinner and whatever else you get into today! :)
May your next year on this silly planet be filled with laughter. ;)
mrmobi
Hey John!
One more thing. Movies. Have you seen Pan’s Labyrinth yet? Very, very good. Also, Children of Men. Not really birthday movies, but good. One final choice, Flags of Our Fathers, by Clint Eastwood. Just terrific.
Mr Furious
I’ll second Children of Men. Fantastic. And I think you already saw the last Bond, flick—not that it wouldn’t be worth a re-watch…
John Cole
There needs to be a third.
ATS
Good for you John.
Puberty, better late than never.
Jay C
Happy Birthday, John! Mazel Tov!
Yet another of your devoted BJ followers who shares June 22 as a b’day (albeit I DID get there first. Punk kid.)
Maybe one day I can boast that I share my natal day with the famous blogger John Cole! Or not.
Many happy , etc. Hope its a good one.
airmail
happy birthday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iERSmdUMNXM
Halffasthero
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction (rebuttal).
There is some seriously sharp teeth in that response. Your household sounds frightening! (j/k)
And I am glad to see other openly geek gamers out there. I passed on Warcraft for too long and won’t get in now.
demimondian
Third, nothing — there needs to be a second! The thing which posed as KOTOR II was clearly an impostor foisted upon us by the Bush Administration.
(Although a third would be a true bonus.)
George B.
Happy birthday, John!
Brian Linse
Happy B-Day, John, you young punk! Enjoy those end-30 B-days, cuz the 40-sumpins bring aches and pains. For now, you are wise beyond your years, but don’t worry, it won’t last.
xoxo,
Baddude
empty
So young and so wise! Happy birthday John and thanks for the place and the company.
DonkeyKong
Oh C’mon John. We all know you will celebrate with a muslim call to prayer, followed by chant’s of “Hugh Hewitt is a pooperface.” topped off by unmentionable acts with your cat before aborting it.
Michelle Malkin can see right into your soul, you godless fister of home schooled children.
Other than that, Happy Birthday.
AkaDad
I’m a little late to the party.
Happy Birthday JC!
TAX ANALYST
“ThymeZone Says:
I am 60. Do I get the “old timer” prize?
Please send my winnings forthwith!
(that means “right away” for you young whippersnappers)”
Got me beat, dude…I’m a mere 57.
I’m a day late to the party, but Congrats, John Cole on reaching political maturity at 37. I knew a bright lad like you would see through the current shit-for-brains and zip-for-morals crew currently running things sooner or later.
Krista
Happy (now belated) birthday, John! I hope you had a very enjoyable day indeed.
By the way, how is birth order calculated when you bring half-siblings into the mix? If I count my half-brother, then I’m the middle child. If not, then I’m the youngest. Oh, the confusion.
TAX ANALYST
Krista, not that I really know the answer to your question, but did you grow up with your half-siblings in the household? I think that would make a difference in how this sort of thing was calculated. For instance, I “gained” 2 step-brothers and a step-sister, but never lived in the same house with them…my own 2 brothers were adults and long-gone from the house and the “stepper’s” were also gone from the nest when my Dad remarried. Lucky me, I was still 16, so I was subject to the ruthless, weird, rule-laden step-mother for a couple of years before I could safely flee and get my own pad. Anyway, no matter how I sliced it I always ended up the youngest, either of 3 or of 6…