Some almost live action shots (from the last five or so minutes):
An explanation for the series. I turned around and saw him cleaning himself and decided to take a picture or two. He then noticed that I was paying attention to him, stood up and shifted himself and proceeded to stare me down.
At any rate, what are the big Friday night plans for you all?
valdivia
thanks John. I love tunch, though that picture makes it look like he could devour me in about one gulp.
gnomedad
Fixt.
Ned R.
The Mighty Tunch (that is the name of the Dylan song, surely)
As for me, meeting with friends at one of the best restaurants in the universe, the Avanti Cafe. Trust me on this.
JenJen
What up, Tunch?! Lookin’ good!
I’m making chicken cacciatore (the sauce is simmering now), I have a lovely bottle of Montepulciano D’Abruzzo, and I’m going to watch Bill Maher later. :-)
Zifnab
Objects in frame may be surlier than they appear.
Just Some Fuckhead
I plan on getting drunk and abusing you in the comments.
SpotWeld
…we may have to make Tunch our new kitty overloard.
Anyone else with me?
Andrew
I’m planning on coming down with the norovirus that my girlfriend caught. Top that!
Ninerdave
Cat’s aren’t clean, they’re just covered in Cat spit.
gwangung
This makes a whole lot more sense than many another blog posts (not from this blog, but you know what I mean….).
Hm. He does look to be a bit sleeker….
Fraud Guy
Going to a b-day dinner for my friend’s wife. Big 4-0
Josh Hueco
He’s really looking slimmer, John. Good job on keeping him on diet. Now if I could only do the same for myself. :)
OT, but I’ve finally seen the new Star Trek trailer. My inner nerd just peed itself. Is anyone planning on going?
PS – Svensker, if you’re reading this, I just got in the mail that ‘Flashback’ book you were telling me about last Friday. I’m looking forward to reading it this weekend.
Shinobi
While I respect Tunch, my personal kitty Overlord would probably not appreciate it. And by "not appreciate" I mean vomit in my underwear drawer.
The Cat Who Would Be Tunch
@valdivia: Just be glad that you’re not within a 200 mile radius of John’s cat. Otherwise, he just might swallow you as a way of showing his appreciation for you.
@SpotWeld: I’m down with that.
Punchy
I’m guessin the yawn and paw lick count as exercise for the Adipose Assisted One?
I’m planning a nite of poker. Cards, not hookers.
Punchy
Why is my comment in jail? What word could have possibly provoked the proverbial prose pokey?
Comrade Darkness
We’re going to go hang on Mission Beach. Any recs from people who know the area?
media browski
Tunch is big and beautiful! Pippin spent the night repeatedly wedging herself between my legs and giving me cramps.
Tonight is Boddington’s, tandoori chicken, and watching stewart make cramer cry on the tivo.
Dork
Must be Punchy’s first day on the Intertubes.
Comrade Darkness
@media browski, if you go up to thedailyshow.com you can see the full uncut version. Much better and about three times as long.
No, I’m not thinking about sex tonight at all… why do you ask?
Gay Veteran
paging Captain Ahab, paging Captain Ahad, your white whale has been sighted
LOL. Seriously, that is one beautiful kittie.
Face
Celebrating the undefeated season, eh?
valdivia
@The Cat Who Would Be Tunch:
yes I count my blessings on not being devoured by John’s cat. One less thing to worry about eh?
amorphous
Who else is packing!?!?!?! YAY!
Lola
I live in Austin and tonight is the start of the SXSW film fest. I have a pass but it is 45 degrees outside, rainy, and I have a bad cold so I’m not sure I can make it out.
Comrade Darkness
Hey John, can you make up shirts with that third picture and a caption like "Thnx but I’ve given up politics for my sanity" or "eat sleep bathe eat sleep bathe"
AhabT'Pooner
Yes? You Rang?
Face
More importantly, did your best friend have it first?
Bada BING
AhabT'Pooner
@Face: Should I try the veal? Will you be here all week? Should I remember to tip the waitress?
Wile E. Quixote
A short bike ride and then I might go see Watchmen.
@Josh Hueco
Oh God yes! I thought I was going to have to go somewhere private and touch myself after I saw the first trailer.
media browski
Comrade darkness (sorry, can’t get the nifty reply fxn on my handheld),
Thanks, I had no idae stewart would be so cruel! Lesson of the day: fools should not f*ck with clowns.
Carrie
I plan on drinking some wine and settling in for a night of watching a brand new show (well, new to me) that my son downloaded for me.
2 seasons worth.
Sooo excited!!!!
Ash
I’m going to sit at home by myself, eat some pizza, and pray for another 6-OT madhouse to entertain me for the night. AWESOME!
JenJen
Off-topic, but Glenn Beck’s brand of hysteria is starting to concern me. I’m sitting here, but aside from my two doggies, I’m not surrounded. I thought we were supposed to be surrounded today? I see a lot of people at a barbecue in Utah, but so far, everybody in my southwestern Ohio neighborhood is doing yard work. By themselves, and not surrounded.
His "special" is on right now, promoting some new website called The912Project. Can’t get it to work but I’m sure it’s revolutionary and Democrats should be very frightened of its awesome power.
This Glenn Beck character is a certifiable nutter. Oh, how I wish The Colbert Report were on tonight!
Zifnab
@Lola: Boo! Down a few shots, grab your jacket, and get the hell out there. Austin does not tolerate that limp-ass shizzle.
Laura W
I plan to get drunk and watch Fuckhead abuse you in the comments.
And wait for TattooSydney to show up. Maybe play with JenJen some.
And probably devote my entire Friday Night Music Link Wars to one band.
What does it mean when youtube was crankin’ earlier but now it’s all about those spinning wheel delays? Is it my connection or does youtube have a wee bit more traffic at 5:00EST Friday nights?
Also. John, does Tunch get dental cleanings? His teeth look a bit brown. I’ve had cats who have naturally brownish teeth, so I know that is not necessarily an indicator. But it is important to their overall health and inner organ functioning. Just FYI and all.
KRK
Love the Tunch photo series.
Friday night plans include washing dishes, giving my cat subcutaneous hydration, and setting up my new printer. Wild, wild times.
Zifnab
@JenJen:
Little known fact. Conservatives? Also super sneaky ninjas.
Ricky Bobby
Going to tour a soon to be shuttered restaurant and buy up some of their kitchen equipment. Vulture capitalism at its finest! Then meet with a local organic grower to discuss some specialty crops he’ll be planting for me this year and then off to see WATCHMEN.
Halteclere
Tonight my wife and I will eat at our favorite mexican restaurant, then go home and finish the conversion of my office into a nursery.
But before heading out to dinner our two dogs, or as I like to call them "the welcoming committee", will swarm me when I get home, jumping up and licking me like they haven’t seen me in three days. Which they haven’t because my wife has been out of town with them due to the bathroom renovation that was completed today.
All-in-all a very good evening is in store for me.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Laura W: There ya go John, something to do between his twice daily grooming: teeth brushing. Does aquafresh come in tuna flavor?
Josh Hueco
@Ash:
That game is part of the reason why I love college basketball instead of the NBA. My Baylor Bears are playing the Texas LongWhorns at 6 tonight. We’ve lost to UT 25 times in a row. It would be all kinds of awesome if BU pulls the upset.
@Wile E. Quixote:
Just the music alone on that latest trailer makes me want to see it. As a Trekkie I hope it’s good, considering how awful Enterprise and the last couple TNG movies were.
Just Some Fuckhead
Hugh Hefner is selling his house next door to the playboy mansion for $28 million. Get this:
If that floats yer boat, consider that all of the walls are handpainted in the fuckhead mansion. I may have to speak to someone about my low assessment value.
Jay
Chris Matthews got tongue-tied a little while ago on word I can’t remember and it came out "a penis".
Svensker
@Josh Hueco:
Excellente magnifico! You don’t mess around. I went to a talk the author gave a few weeks ago at the Quaker church — very powerful stuff.
My plans for the weekend? Watch the plumber tear out the upstairs bathroom fixtures. Try not to murder my father-in-law. That should fill up the time purdy good.
AhabT'Pooner
I think T’Pooner was the name of the fat Vulcan that got picked on
alotmany times.Max
What’s the opposite of surrounded? That’s what I am.
Laura W
@KRK:
How often do you do this? My 17y/o has had kidney issues for years, but nothing that required treatment. Last vet visit, I learned that you can do this sort of proactively, ie, once a week or so when they first start showing certain signs in their blood tests, as opposed to waiting until it’s too late and they are on their last 20% of kidney function, or whatever it is when it finally manifests and it’s too late.
For now I’m supposed to be giving him more liquids (tuna juice), but I expect soon it’ll be subQ on a regular basis just to keep him hydrated, or flushed, or whatever the goal is. (The vet would not stop talking at me. I confess I gazed over at some point and started daydreaming about being elsewhere in parts of his dissertation.)
Edit: I do have subQ experience, having done it 2x/day with a very young cat that ended up dying anyway from sudden and inexplicable kidney disease. So that part is not daunting.
Colette
I’m going to eat a big piece of the chocolate cake someone left in the office kitchen and then go for a run around Lake Merritt. What could possibly go wrong?
Michael D.
Going out for sushi with a 2 for 1 coupon!
Yay recession!! Lots of coupons from which to choose!!
Comrade Darkness
@Just Some Fuckhead, I assumed that meant "…with orgiastic murals." But that might just be me, leaping to conclusions.
cleek
BSG!
CH3-CH2-OH!
Brian J
I’m going to try to finish, or at least make a bigger dent in, one of the economics books I’ve been reading. There are others that I want to buy, but I don’t think it’s wise to keep buying them only to never finish, if for no other reason than finishing something feels like an accomplishment which will hopefully make me do it more. I also have some laundry I need to do. I’ll probably finish off the night with Bill Maher’s show. I probably should call friends from college I haven’t spoken to in a while, but people in general are starting to piss me off again, so I guess it’s best if I continue my hermit-like patterns.
On the plus side, I think I have a better idea of what I want to do with my life. For a long time, I thought I wanted to be a college professor in history (specifically, presidential politics), but a few months after I graduated, I became interested in being a lawyer. I’m still not absolutely certain it’s for me, but it seems like a good way to combine something that can be financially lucrative and intellectually stimulating. As I was checking out some different blogs this week, I realized a good way to combine my interest in law and economics and finance is to become a bankruptcy lawyer or work in structured finance or something like that.
Who knows if I will end up there, but right now, I’m pretty pumped about the thought of learning more about this stuff. Of course, the fact that I’d rather read than go out and socialize with people could just be further proof that I am a dork.
mr. whipple
just got the pizza dough started.
will have the pizzas ready in time for keef. then, basketball.
amorphous
@Just Some Fuckhead: This is disgusting.
@Colette: This is delicious.
@cleek: This would be more fun with one fewer (CH) group.
Comrade Stuck
Two new BSG DVD’s came today for a finito of SEason 2. That, after walking the bird.
passerby
I just GOTTA do the dishes tonight or I’ll never enjoy my Saturday. I’ve been ignoring them all week because I bought a new car**, a mini cooper, oxygen blue. I splurged on a nice bottle of champagne (produit de france) to celebrate my new wheels but I may use it to celebrate a clean kitchen.
I’ll be re-working my budget tonight. If I quit smoking, I could save a lot of money (the house would smell better) and I could cut down on my grocery bill (and perhaps lose weight). If push comes to shove I could cut down on beer but I’ll not give up my Netflix. I haven’t had a car note in seven years (+ increased insurance bill + increased gasoline (premium only, yipes!) ). I feel kinda skittish.
**I was surprised I got $1250 on my 12 year old Jetta trade-in.
I’ll also be furminating the cat cuz the new stuff is growing in and he won’t shut up about needing to be brushed. Tunch looks like he wouldn’t care about missing a brushing…as long as he doesn’t miss dinner.
It’s a big weekend.
Laura W
@cleek: Do you take suggestions for your music contests? I thought of a fun one but you might have done it already.
I really regret not playing last time. I would’ve come in second to last, which I could totally live with.
It ain’t "Hey 19", but it’s way better.
ABMcC
Sir Tunch, like Sir Tuck (my Maine Coon cat) is gorgeous! Magnificent!! Verily a cat king!!! We’ll just be hanging out and shedding tonight. P.S. Thanks for your blog.
robertdsc
Tunch iz king(sized)!
passerby
Tunch is a cream puff. Makes me want pastry.
Or, lemon meringue pie.
Montysano
Getting our daughter ready to go off on Spring Break with her high school art class. They’re wandering down through LA (Lower Alabama) to home base in Fort Morgan, with day trips to Dauphin Island, and to the Anderson Museum in Ocean Springs.
Then….. days of peace and quiet to work my way through Cormac McCarthy’s "Suttree".
travels w/ charley
Relaxing with two poodles (one big, one small)…providing chaperonage for two adolescent girls watching "Charmed" (!!!)…enjoying the blogs!
gex
Well, Casey (cone dog from previous post) just got back from the dog park. This is to tire him enough so he can learn something tonight when we take him to advanced dog obedience class. Then some Dollhouse and BSG.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the gay agenda! Rather duller than you’d expect.
big woo
I’m hoping BSG finally redeems itself after some serious suckage this season.
I might also finish Mass Effect after a final buying spree on upgrades for Liara and Tali.
Clutch414
I’ll be watching my exhausted Syracuse Orange take on your West Virginia Mountaineers in the BET. I hoping beyond hope that it doesn’t go as late as last night’s EPIC 6OT game. I’m watching the replay on ESPNU as I type.
LET’S GO ORANGE!!
JL
John, Tunch brings you such joy, that you should consider buying him the over the door cat climber. According to Hammacher Schlemmer, it’s only 169.99 it allows cats to exercise their feline propensity for climbing, stretching pouncing and lounging. Best of all, the cat climber does not list a weight limit so it would be great for Tunch.
JenJen
@Laura W: I’m game! I’m bummed, because I just finished blogging about a local hotel that announced today that it will close at the end of the month. Used to work for that hotel management company, and I can attest to one thing: my former employer excels at running hotels into the ground! 100 of my former colleagues just found out the hard way. :-(
Sigh. So, how’s every little thing?
srv
@Lola: At least rent out your pad for a week and go somewhere nice. You can always say you knew some worthless band before they were nothing.
SXSW’ers.
Lawn.
Off.
Me, I’m studying weather projections for Tahoe.
KRK
@Laura W:
When he was first diagnosed it was 150mL every day for a bit, and then every other day until the bag of fluid was done. Now it’s on an "as needed" basis, which is kind of a pain. When I was in high school I had a cat who needed SQH and took it with stoic patience. Not Gus. He hates it, and it really throws him off his game for the rest of the day. Because he’s lost so much weight, I’m trying to get him to eat as much as possible, and the sulking after SQH interferes with that. So my inclination is to err on the side of "not needed." But I don’t want to go too far with that either. It’s been a few weeks, so we’re starting a new bag tonight. And since I don’t like to let the bag sit too long once it’s started, that means every third day until it’s gone.
TenguPhule
Foolish mortals, the Tunch-Rancor devours all that it surveys!
The Cat Who Would Be Tunch
This is what I would call a ‘proper’ TunchCam. Although since the device would be focused on whatever it is that catches Tunch’s attention, I’d bet it’d be more accurate to call it a ColeCam at that point. And from John’s description of himself, we should be glad that we’re spared of such imagery.
@Lola: I will probably get abused for this but oh well. Is there anything worth watching at the fest? Yeah yeah, I’m lazy…
Just Some Fuckhead
Youtube is really sucking tonight. Anyway..
Wile E. Quixote
Uh, oh, the "establishment" is becoming upset with Obama
http://www.newsweek.com/id/188565/output/print
It must be true because it’s a "Newsweek Web Exclusive!" When do the impeachment proceedings start?
firebrand
Good lord, that cat is fat.
mgordon
In the second picture it looks like a fat walrus at feeding time.
Just Some Fuckhead
John, seems like the cat is always sitting in the same place. Any way we could get a picture or two of him on yer bed?
zipppppp
Litlebritdifrnt
I am going to finish this bottle of Yellow tail Cabernet/Shiraz blend that I am drinking. Then I am probably going to surf here, Rumproast/Wonkette/YTD/Politjab and then go to Youtube and get all sniffy over various videos that I search out. Make my DH dinner, feed the kittehs and the goggies and then collapse in an alcoholic stupor into bed. This weekend I am planning on doing more work on my veggie garden (Weeds are sprouting WEEDS I HATE WEEDS!)
Although some of them are edible, which you know, in really hard times (ie the coming of the greatest depression ever) might be really good to know.
http://www.wildfoodadventures.com/
JenJen
@Litlebritdifrnt: Sounds pretty delightful, Litlebritdifrnt. So, you get boozy and then seek out YouTube videos that tug on emotions?
Please share them with us later! ;-)
Laura W
@JL:
LOL, JL!
Svensker
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Pink Floyd… Somehow, I missed them almost entirely in the 60s/70s. Must have been the state of my consciousness at the time (or lack thereof). I do actually have an original Dark Side of the Moon, but don’t think I’ve ever listened to it. And now no turntable. Don’t know if I like them or hate them, but thanks for sharing — I think. They make me feel all bent and scrunchy.
Martin
Rejoice! Twitkitteh is now available for your iPhone. Now your cat can twitter along with the GOP (with probably better results, I might add). I demand that Tunch get a channel put in the sidebar.
That One - Cain
I will be studying for my final exam on wednesday. Yay. But I will drink tonight, oh yes I will.
cain
Josh Hueco
Ugh. It’s not looking good for my Bears.
srv
For those of you haven’t seen it, some guy crawled into a cave, sampled the youtubesphere and came out with these.
Tattoosydney
@Laura W:
Hello! It’s morning again in Australia.
Laura W
@JenJen: Things are OK here, thanks, for the most part, I think, but how about you? Are you still looking for work? How are you surviving (if that’s not too personal a question for such a public forum)?
srv
@Laura W:
Watch your hands.
Laura W
@Tattoosydney:
Back Off! Teh Tim Tams Iz Mine!
Tattoosydney
@Laura W:
Iz mai box of bubble wrap. U gets your own.
Tattoosydney
@Laura W:
I’m just having Riesling, ginger and lime jelly on toast. I thoroughly recommend it.
A sunny summer day in Sydney… off to have yum cha with friends. Life is pretty good.
Laura W
@Tattoosydney: As was previously divulged here on BJ, Annie has a bit of a packing materials fetish.
It’s a poorly-kept family secret.
South of I-10
I’m having a glass of wine, having finally finished my email to my congressional delegation, the President and Capital One, complaining about Capital One arbitrarily raising my interest rate 5 points. It involved immediately instituting the consumer protections set to go into effect in 2010, repealing the 2005 changes to the bankruptcy law and banks screwing consumers while accepting billions in TARP funds. Probably won’t do a thing, but I feel better.
Tattoosydney
@Laura W:
I hope the Tim Tams are safely hidden away!
Laura W
@srv: I can’t believe that youtube is so fuxxed up tonight. Does it not know that Friday night is Link Whore Night at BJ? I shall watch your offering in the morning over coffee.
And here’s one for you.
Betsy
Just got home from taking my sweetie to the Roving Mars IMAX (he loves all things space-related, plus he’d never been to an IMAX movie). Now we’re about to get some takeout and and settle in on the couch with our kitty to watch bad TV (me with a a nice bottle of Trader Joe’s finest).
Just Some Fuckhead
@South of I-10: Protip: don’t put sugar in yer tea while yer mailing letters to Congress.
Shell Goddamnit
I must say that is one impressive cat. I was not understanding the Tunchmania but now I see.
smiley
@South of I-10: I’m sure Vitter and Jindal will be all ears. Good luck with that. BTW, I have it on good authority that the republican party in Louisiana is in disarray. Not sure why, because northern LA is solid red, but it is. Go figure. Keep up the good fight.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Shell Goddamnit: John brushes his pussy twice a day to keep it looking and smelling good.
JenJen
@Laura W: Oh, you know, hanging in there, but I’ve been better. I imagine we’ve all been better. Yes, still looking for work. Supplementing with freelance writing, mostly trade industry stuff, but obvs. it’s not enough.
I know it’s not the same everywhere, but trust me when I say Ohio is feeling the pain right about now…
Still, though… Economy, Unemployment, Economy! Fiddle-dee-dee! I have chicken cacciatore simmering on the stove. :-)
Tax Analyst
My plans for this Friday night? Well, I tried to ‘copy & paste’ the picture of Tunch yawning, but it didn’t work (didn’t really think it would). Anyway, since I’m coming off two days in bed with some miserable cold or flu, my plans are to get plenty of rest, since I have to work tomorrow (Saturday). But thanks for asking.
Hope all you lazy, good-for-nothing suckers who get Saturday off enjoy yourselfs – but at least feel guilty for enjoying yourselfs while I have to suffer.
South of I-10
@Just Some Fuckhead: Solid advice JSF! Note to self, no pesky white powder in the envelopes.
@smiley: Landrieu, Vitter and Boustany. I am sure they will be all smiles to read my message! Aren’t you originally from N.O.? Have you been following the Nagin/city council email release debacle?
smiley
@South of I-10:
No. I’m from north of I-20.
Edited.
Tattoosydney
@Laura W:
I’m trying to find a track for you to convey the voice of Ms Jeanie Tracy, but having trouble finding the right one…
Found it.
South of I-10
@Smiley: If you get bored, go read up in the Times Picayune – Feds raided Nagin’s sanitation director’s office and took her computer. Never a dull moment.
srv
@Betsy:
Probably not recyclable like anything else they make. My garbage man is unimpressed by TJs.
WTF is up with that? I’m going to starting going through their isles, picking up random stuff, and loudly asking "Here’s something else that isn’t recyclable!"
Laura W
@Tattoosydney:
@Just Some Fuckhead:
I will never speak to youtube again after what it has done to my well-planned-in-advance Friday Night Open Thread Music Whore Fest.
Here is something special for you two lucky guys.
I look forward to listening to all of tonight’s links over my French Roast in the morning.
pppppfffffttttttttttttt
zircon millionare
Big Friday night plans? Hitting the reload page every few minutes hoping for a new batch of Tunch pictures.
When is Tunch getting his own web site? I want Tunch junk from the Tunch Store. Will you please carry Tunch Brand Catnip Flavored Kitty Litter?
Josh Hueco
OT, but I’m flingin’ my green and gold hellafar tonight.
PurpleGirl
What a beautiful cat. Nice pictures, too.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Laura W: That was awesome. Did I ever mention what a huge disco fan I am? And I’m straight, swear to God.
Just Some Fuckhead
Not that there’d be anything wrong with it if I wasn’t..
Carrie
I’m dissapointed…
watched show 1 of the first season and then the rest of the files were different d/l of the same episode.
oh well, at least i now know what i’m missing…and it’s shaping up to be a really good show.
Shitty McShittums..
Cain
Man, I thought it was some kind of strip tease.. whew.
cain
les
Josh, don’t get too crazy–but that’s nice work by the Bears. I’m workin’ on a few nice ‘Murkan brews (Left Hand Brewing, Milk Stout at teh moment), J Geils in the background, probably switching to pub. radio’s Fish Fry after that–blues, zydeco, jumpin jive and soul. If it weren’t such an obvious envy move, I’d say fuck you Austinites. But, of course, it is. Damn fine fat cat, there.
Cris
I love the new mobile site template!
Betsy
@srv: Well, it’s glass, like most wine bottles, so I think it passes the test. :) I hadn’t noticed that TJ’s was particularly recycling un-friendly. But I don’t usually get their freezer dinners or anything like that – I can see how those might be not ideally packaged.
I just heard a huge crash from the kitchen. My cat had somehow gotten into the high cabinet and knocked out all my baking supplies. Sigh.
Josh Hueco
@Cain: @les:
Haha…I’m not getting too crazy. Still one more game to go. But we’re delirious to see our Bears finally playing the way we knew they could.
BTW, if any y’all are ever in Waco, look me up and I’ll buy you a Big O of Shiner Bock from George’s.
Wile E. Quixote
Well I’ve had a couple of PBRs and V-8. Now that I’m fortified I’m going to climb up on a step-ladder and do some wiring. Don’t worry, it was payday so I just donated another 100 bucks to the Harborview Trauma Center and Harborview Burn Center funds.
AhabT'Pong
When did your tongue kill itself, and do you miss it?
AhabT'Pong
No offense, but god I hope not. Please.
Steeplejack
As usual, way, way late on this blog. Are there no other night owls out there?! Worked a rare Friday early shift at my part-time job, spent the evening sucking down rum and tonic and alternately surfin’ the Web and DVR speed-watching, in a car-wreck-can’t-look-away way, the 1998 U.S. Godzilla (Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno). Wretchedly bad. Wretchedly, wretchedly bad. So bad that I forgot my usual pity for Hank Azaria for having been married (albeit briefly) to Helen Hunt.
Now (semi-)watching UEFA Cup soccer (Manchester City vs. Aalborg BK) in an effort to calm down before going to bed. Got to be back at the part-time job at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow. (Reminding myself: health insurance. Health insurance!)
I saw on another thread that Brick Oven Bill got put in the penalty box for a week. Wish I knew what he said, but I understand the concept that one gets put in the penalty box and one’s comment is erased because it is heinous and should not be promulgted.
That is all.
AhabTRuler
@Steeplejack: Nah, it’s just that we cut the lights and hide when we hear your key in the lock. Shhhhh!
Tattoosydney
@Just Some Fuckhead:
@Laura W:
That was all sorts of win (although I do have a soft spot for the Amii Stewart version (despite or because of its sheer awfulness).
Tattoosydney
@Steeplejack:
I heard a rumour that Bob was speculating on relative levels of intelligence between races, but can’t swear to that or provide details.
I find Bob very amusing (much more so than our other spoof trolls like Atanutjob) – If Bob is not a real (and moderately disturbed) person, then he’s a hell of a spoof.
Steeplejack
@AhabTRuler:
Why, I oughta . . . [breaks chair over AhabTRuler’s head].
Actually, I’m delighted that anyone is still up. I have been developing a paranoid theory about Balloon Juice, i.e., that it is an East Coast-only blog (or East Coast hours only). Don’t know how you would rig that on the Intertubes. But I come home from the part-time job–I typically work a late shift and get home about 11:00 p.m. Eastern time–and start reading the threads (and drinking) because I’m wired and it takes me an hour or two for my brain to stop arcing and sparking so I can go to sleep. The comment threads are a bit cold, but I think, "Hey, no problem, the West Coast peeps will be weighing in soon." But then they never do. Go figure. It’s like the Balloon Juice sidewalks roll up at 1:00 a.m. EDT and that’s it, thanks, nothing to see here, folks, move along, please. Just sayin’.
In closing, I would like to say that I likes me some pictures of the manly, full-figured cats, and I will be sending Cole some new ones of teh Boomhauer.
valdivia
That Fineman article from Newsweek is retarded. How many times can they say the same Obama is already a failure bs?
TenguPhule
Actually we’re here, you just must know the super secret password to get into BJ after dark.
Tattoosydney
@Steeplejack:
Try being on the other side of the world – by the time I get to look at BJ after lunch, you’re all in bed yesterday!
Steeplejack
@Tattoosydney:
I think of Brick Oven Bill more as a harmless garden gnome than a troll, although sometimes he does veer close to the troll dark side. E.g., his veneration of Hyman Rickover has a creepy overtone, because he can’t bring it up without mentioning prominently that Rickover was a Jew. (Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, I presume.)
Steeplejack
@Laura W:
I’m in love! With you and your chosen band. I think they are my all-time favorites after those four Liverpudlian lads who are truly the Flying Spaghetti Monster of rock music, blessed be their name and their memory.
Back at you–and I know you likes the live versions:
I sometimes think of this song when I am reading Brick Oven Bill.
Johnny Pez
My Friday night? At work, behind the front desk of a hotel. This weekend, with extra added noisy drunks.
Steeplejack
@TenguPhule:
So how much time do I have to put in reading this goddamn blog before I get the secret password?
(I tried peak wingnut, but that didn’t work.)
. . . Ooh! Ooh! I know: Tunch. No, that didn’t work either. Damn it. Stupid elitist password-protected blog.
Steeplejack
@Tattoosydney:
But at least you’re ahead of us and you know what’s going to happen ahead of time. That’s got to be some consolation.
By the way, another night-owl consolation here is Australian rules football. I think I am finally beginning to understand it, although the first few years I kept watching mainly because I liked the team names. Footscray. I think my cat had that once, but they cleared it up with antibiotics.
Steeplejack
Once again my theory is proven correct. I thought I had some late-night contact going, but nobody else has posted in the last half-hour. I feel like such a ‘tard. Fuck all of you. I’m going to bed, and–holy shnikeys, I’ve got to get up in four and a half hours! Jee-bus. At least I got some good Steely Dan videos out of this.
Tattoosydney
@Steeplejack:
Sorry about that – I was off having a life away from the Balloon Juice Super Adventure Club! Sad I know…
I don’t think anyone actually understands AFL – that’s part of the fun as far as I can tell. That, and the buff boys in little shorts.
Laura W
@Steeplejack: Nothin’ like being told you are loved (for your musical selections) on a rainy Saturday morning.
I know you revisit the dead threads, so here is another super favorite that I had locked and loaded before youtube decided to "harsh my mellow" last night.
Laura W
@Tattoosydney:
I am shocked to learn that this version calls to you! Shocked.
But it gives me the chance to link my final selection…
She serves the smooth retsina
She keeps me safe and warm…
R-Jud
My Friday night was spent catering to the whims of a small friendly human. Today I will venture to the gym, mostly to use the sauna. That’s the only pleasure forbidden during pregnancy that I really missed. That and the meth.
Difference between babies and cats: if you turn on the vacuum next to a cat, he runs away. If you turn on the vacuum next to a baby, she shoves her entire fist in her mouth and goes to sleep. At least mine does.
2th&nayle
@Laura W: What a hoot! I was sort of scanning this thread and didn’t take time to check out your musical selections for the night. Then I got down to Steeplejacks post with the lyrics and it was, "Damn! I know that one! That’s Steely Dan!" Funny, ever since our current economic dilemma, I keep gettin’ "Black Friday" roamin’ around in my head. Bet you do too. Thx
Laura W
@R-Jud: I must’ve missed the birth announcement post. When was she born? Is she fat? All is swell?
@2th&nayle: Yes, "Black Friday" is on my iPod and when it comes on during my walks, the "upbeat" vibe it used to carry for me is a little different now. Glad you liked the links. (I usually post drek that seems to appeal to just Steeplejack and me.)
2th&nayle
@smiley: Didn’t know there was anything N of I-20 in La. except Bayou D’Arbonne and the Bodcaw Bottoms, unless you count Homer. JK
2th&nayle
@Laura W: Yeah, I suspect that song carries a different connotation for a lot of folks these days. In my case, to quote an old Allman Brothers song, "Can’t Lose What You Never Had".
Steeplejack
@Laura W:
Fix’d. For the record. Because I know no one is coming back to this cold, dead thread.
P.S. Thanks for additional Dan-age this morning. Off to listen.
Laura W
@Steeplejack: OK, as our President would say: "I love you back!"
Shell Goddamnit
It is all you people’s fault that I spent MY Friday night and part of Saturday reading all the Girl Genius comics currently extant. Bastards.
gwangung
@Shell Goddamnit:
What?! You only got to them NOW?!?!?!
2th&nayle
@Shell Goddamnit: Where?? What post? I thought I linked to GG from a LGM thread about names for kittehs. Did I kdream kthat? To be honest, I’d never, ever heard of ‘Girl Genus’ before. But I liked it!