Is that a warning that we’re about to see a billion posts from you, starting tomorrow?
3.
schrodinger's cat
Caption for latest photo of his Tunchness:
Mannerful kitteh coughs very discreetly in himz paw
4.
Warren Terra
Tunch is looking beautifully cylindrical in that picture
By the way, I have a question for all the Cookie Monsters posting quondam, content-free comments to fix their display problems: I sympathize, really, but might it also work if you posted in an older, inactive Balloon Juice thread?
5.
Trinity
Yay! Tunch rulz.
6.
beltane
For any of you taken aback by Andrew Sullivan’s descent into Larry Johnson territory, you can rest assured that the pile-on has worked, and that he has returned to covering the Iranian protests. He says that doing a few shots of Jaegermeister brought him back to his senses. Whatever it takes, Andrew. Whatever it takes.
Please, someone, fix the site. I know it will look OK after I finish commenting, but getting from here to there is aesthetically unpleasing.
It really is a jungle out there. I think it’s a diabolical Right Wing plot to drain us of our precious blogety fluids. and it seems to be working. There is a fail safe point to where Peak Wingnut Event Horizon can be contemplated, where the stupid meets our limit to resistance, and well……
Anyways, yesterday received BSG disc two of season 4.5 and it’s really very good. So I’m going to watch the second half of the coup and leave this cruel world for awhile.
9.
schrodinger's cat
BTW, my new ice-cream maker arrives tomorrow. First ice-cream I make will be mango.
@beltane: We are working on the site. I talked to the blogmistress and I may just hold another fund raiser and rebuild the site from the ground up. I’m tired of dealing with complaints. Patience, please. I’ve spent the last day approving 700 comments from delurking commenters, and am about a couple complaints away from blowing up the site and redirecting you all to the 4chan anime section.
11.
bayville
Pleeze. Can Brittany Spears throw-up on someone or Lindsay Lohan give the finger to a papparozzi chucklehead so that we can actually get some different stuff on these cable news channel.
Better yet, when Tunch is done licking himself, can you have him fill-out an application for “Executive Producer” at one of those Cable News channels.
(Warning: I think he is overqualified for CNBC, though.)
12.
schrodinger's cat
Patience, please. I’ve spent the last day approving 700 comments from delurking commenters, and am about a couple complaints away from blowing up the site and redirecting you all to the 4chan anime section
John, if I send you a batch of my fresh homemade mango ice-cream will that improve your mood?
Led. First story. “Now, from Washington, here’s Katie Couric.”
“Tonight, at the White House…”
Unbelievable. It’s a good thing we aren’t at war or anything.
16.
cbear
Just checked out photos from the “Beer Summit”—and WinTF is Biden doing there?
I can just hear him telling the guys the latest Indian-buys-a-7-Eleven joke.
What a attention-seeking putz.
Oh well, I guess Michael Jackson wasn’t available.
17.
Paulie Chestnuts
Looks to me Tunch is about to pounce on that snail he’s been chasing for the past hour.
18.
Dulcie
@cbear: Matthews mentioned that the Prez asked Biden for “racial balance”.
NO, I think Biden was there to add one more witness to the conversation, just in case. And, also so the police officer wouldn’t feel like he was being ganged up on by the guy he arrested and the guy who called the actions “stupid.” They aren’t taping it.
Schrodinger’s cat, after your first batch please post an equipment review (if you don’t gorge yourself to unconsciousness on the fruits of your labors). One of the things I miss most in the Bahamas is ice cream–it just can’t survive the ferry ride from the grocery store–and have been considering an ice cream maker for my return. There are people who are convinced that I go to Jazzfest not for the music but for the mango freezes. In the interim I think I’ll hit the freezer for a pale commercial version–Edy’s does a pretty good job. Lawd, it’s too hot and humid here in New England.
I cannot explain why, but for some reason I have come to “need” regular pictures of Tunch and Lily to feel some comfort that all is relatively well with the wider (no reference to Tunch intended) world.
Yah know I hate to point this out, I really do, but yah know, Tunch is not looking any better for his diet, in fact I think he may have gained weight since we started talking about his weight. Not that there is anything wrong with that, I have a couple of overweight cats myself, so I am hardly one to talk, but Tunch is looking a little bit “chunky” and all… just saying.
@shelley matheis: Lily is mad at me. We did not do the rails to trails today- it was raining, so she is on the couch pouting.
As a side note, I was wrestling with Lily yesterday and rolling around the carpet trying to get her wound up, and I was halfway through a “good doggie” and she slipped me tongue. I was kinda weirded out at first and then I just rolled with it. Screw it. Tunch just scratches me.
34.
REN
It’s stressful to look at the’ news’ in this country and wonder how many sane people are left. Seems to be a rapidly shrinking population.
ditto, Tunch and Lily pictures reassure us that all is right with the world, in John’s land at least, just as me watching my dogs and cats play in the yard and the butterflies hatching in my garden convince me that all is right in mine.
am about a couple complaints away from blowing up the site and redirecting you all to the 4chan anime section
LOL. Can we send you to a beer summit? I’m sure everyone would chip in.
37.
Demo Woman
@John Cole: Moxie was trained that we don’t do kisses. She kisses my friends but not me… ick! Recently I met a gal who trains rescue dogs for adoption and one thing that they look for in adoptive parents is whether the dog gives them kisses. Needless to say I have been trying to retrain the mutt but we both decided it just doesn’t work.
You know, John, in the hospital we try to turn our immobile patients at least every two hours to avoid pressure ulcers. You might want to try that on Tunch.
39.
Dulcie
@Ella in NM: Ella, are you a nurse? I’m in the middle of a career change, and I plan on becoming a nurse.
40.
Jon
I’m told that simply making a comment will add a cookie and keep the site’s ugliness from making baby Jesus cry.
41.
General Winfield Stuck
I was halfway through a “good doggie” and she slipped me tongue. I was kinda weirded out at first and then I just rolled with it.
Christ, you’ve gone complete hippie now. There’s no turning back.
42.
Comrade Darkness
Yay Tunch!
I will happily look at pictures of anything not drinking a bud light. I need to keep dinner down.
@Demo Woman: One of the funnier things Lily does is when we are playing on the floor, I will lie on my back and say in a high-pitched voice “Oh, Lily! Woe is me! Oh, make it all stop! Oh, Lily dog!” and she will come start licking my face and lie on my neck. It is really funny.
She has also figured out how to balance herself on my stomache when I am on the couch, lying on her back with her head on my chest.
You think I want to train that out of her. No way. Love that dog.
The other thing that is funny is now that she is surgically attached to me, Tunch is more affectionate.
44.
SiubhanDuinne
@
On top of a futon
All covered with Tunch
The kitteh is thinking
Of breakfast and lunch.
The futon is lovely,
The blanket is warm,
If I don’t get dinner
I’ll chew off your arm
I’ll screw up Balloon Juice —
I won’t give it back.
Just give me a cookie
Or Lily’s a snack.
I’ll wash her down quickly
With one or two beers.
Then I’ll resume washing
Behind of my ears.
At this point I have to think that Tunch is just “big boned” and I know that is a silly thought, but if he is down to half a cup of food a day and he is still that size then he is just meant to be that way, you could starve him and he would still look like a doorstop. Don’t get overly silly on his food John, if he is down to half a cup a day and he is still overweight what we are seeing is a podgy kitteh, it is the way he was made, starving him is not going to help anything. Personally I like him podgy, it makes him so much more adorable. I have a tabby who is a fixed female and believe me she looks like she is about to give birth to eleventy kittens tomorrow, she does not overeat, in fact when I put down the wet food at night she tends to turn her nose up to it, she does not go overboard on the dry food which is available all day, she is just a big girl. Sometimes you just have to accept that your kitteh is a big kitteh. Starving them is not going to help.
47.
shelley matheis
she will come start licking my face and lie on my neck. It is
That’s hard-wired dog instinct. Puppies lick their mother’s faces for food (not going any further into that description) and for reassurance. But I agree, it is a bit surprising when your dog seems to slip you the tongue.
48.
ET
Why blog when watching the cat is ever so much more restful.
ARghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! There was just a repub ad on my tee vee saying bullshit like “the healthcare plan would pay for abortions but would not pay for my cancer screening” WHAT THE FUCK! What the fuck are they talking about? I have never heard of this stuff. I am going to go postal on these people, I truly am.
I will, a puppy will lick its mother’s face to encourage her to engorge the food in her stomach into the puppy’s mouth. Standard thing. Lily is acknowleging you as her Mom (or pack leader) and is expecting you to engorge food to her. She thinks you are mommy.
52.
CynDee
@ John Cole:
John, the core followers and commenters of the wonderful community you have created just care about you. I hope you take your time and don’t let sourpuss comments spoil things for you. Your real friends and audience will wait. I’m sure that’s oversimplifying everything you’re going through, but let the jerks go; they don’t matter.
Technology problems are deadly on one’s good spirits and health. Do not get caught up in a Hurry mode to please the demanding and the mean-spirited. People in this country need to learn how to wait.
I understand some of what you may be feeling. I quit my 20-year career as a technical writer because the authoring tools and even basic applications (all of Microsoft) became so needlessly complex that trying to keep using them and the goofball upgrades was totally undermining my health. Microsoft destabilized the bullets in 2000, and made them “smart” and they haven’t worked since. The one thing a tech writer needs is stable bullets. But Microsoft has never fixed them, just added tons of junk code for stupid options no one needs
Hundreds of options on one screen instead of nice dropdown, sensible categories. Trying to see and click on a tiny bizarre icon about 1 pixel in size to get the rollover text to display so you know what in the world it represents, then having the rollover text staying in front of what you’re trying to work on.
I don’t know web technology, but I hope you find basic solutions and let all the fancy trash go down the drain with its human counterparts.
53.
Demo Woman
@Litlebritdifrnt: It’s easy to feel that way. I pissed at Harry and Louise ads saying why don’t we have health care reform.. Every time that comes on TV I yell at the TV and say because of you.
54.
Demo Woman
Darn, I am pissed… not that I piss that often..
I need the edit function.
55.
General Winfield Stuck
) and is expecting you to engorge food to her. She thinks you are mommy.
Here it is Cole. In for a penny in for doggie pound. Time to go native and be the best mom in the whole wide world. Nolo video please.
Oh, there’s the Tunchinator. He’s looking slimmer to me!
57.
Demo Woman
@John Cole: The unfortunate thing about bonding with a rescue can be separation anxiety. I’m not talking about ordinary fits because they want to go for a car ride, which are easily corrected, but longer term departures. Moxie has been known to howl and cry for hours on end. She’s at least 9 if not older and at this point, I would not leave her in a kennel.
Fortunately, she’s okay with the sons for a few days but certainly not longer.
I’m not planning a long cruise or a trip to Paris, so it’s fine, but make sure Lily’s okay with your departures.
58.
Warren Terra
John, the core followers and commenters of the wonderful community you have created just care about you.
True, if not as much as we seem to care about Tunch and, now, Lily.
Oh, there’s the Tunchinator. He’s looking slimmer to me!
Than what?
59.
Violet
Hope it gets better soon, John. Darkest before the dawn, and all that.
I could use a little bit of good news myself, as we are in the midst of moving hell and things have just gone from stressful to bad. I am beyond angry at the people who were going to sell their house, then changed their mind, essentially in breach of contract…but not quite. Contracts were signed and checks were in transport to the title company, but not yet officially there nor cashed. Wishing I could get some sort of compensation for “pain and suffering” as these people were beyond unbelievable in how they’ve behaved.
So now we’re almost homeless and will have to figure out what to do and where to live. Ugh. Some people.
Wishing a quick recovery from your broken heart. I miss the loud mouth, cynical, insightful JGC.
64.
RedKitten
She thinks you are mommy.
No wonder — from the sounds of things you’re about thisclose to trying to nurse her. (And for those of you who just got a disturbing mental image from that statement — all I can say is “you’re welcome.”)
It’s cute, though — I have never in my life seen someone so besotted with their new dog. That’s the beauty about rescue dogs, though — they’re like little love sponges.
65.
LD50
Caption for latest photo of his Tunchness:
Mannerful kitteh coughs very discreetly in himz paw
‘Coffs’ would work better.
And misspell ‘discreetly’ somehow.
66.
LD50
I am about a couple complaints away from blowing up the site and redirecting you all to the 4chan anime section
Jeez. I thought you loved us more than that…
67.
LD50
@General Winfield Stuck: “You guys asked for it, here it is. I’m barfing chewed-up kibble into Lily’s mouth. I actually kind of enjoyed it. Tunch just glared at me the whole time.”
68.
AJ
gettin the cookie (mmmm…..cooookies)
69.
hal
For any of you taken aback by Andrew Sullivan’s descent into Larry Johnson territory, you can rest assured that the pile-on has worked, and that he has returned to covering the Iranian protests. He says that doing a few shots of Jaegermeister brought him back to his senses. Whatever it takes, Andrew. Whatever it takes.
Boy, he flipped super fast. I really wish he would enable comments on his blog. I wonder how many emails he received about this?
BTW, the blog is fine for me at home, using Chrome, Firefox, or IE, but at work using IE, it looks almost like text-based. I haven’t tried the comment thing at work yet though. And my version of IE at work is an older one.
70.
Anne Laurie
Why did Biden show up at the “beer summit”? Cause it’s like 120 degrees and 98% humidity in DC, and they told him there would be beer there!
Now, if you asked “Why wasn’t the Secret Service warned to keep him away from the comestibles?”…
How’s your garden doing, John? Especially the tomatoes?
Many dogs will try to, as we say around here, Share the Love by Licking Your Tonsils, but toy dogs in particular seem to have an exaggerated propensity for the trait. Some papillons — including our guy Zevon, who is otherwise rather self-contained, especially for a rescue — automatically start “kissing” when they’re being rubbed or skritched. He’ll be three-quarters-asleep, and I’ll rub his belly, and his tongue will start lolloping in & out… then he wakes up, pulls himself together, and gives me a glare for taking advantage of his genetic programming. Hee!
I’ve known people who trained their Paps not to lick peoples’ faces, but the tongue-impulse seems to be almost impossible for the little guys to override, so you end up petting a happy wriggling pom-pom-wagging bundle with his head turned away from you, industrially licking at nothing. We prefer to remember that dogs’ saliva is actually mildly anti-bacterial, and besides, that’s what mouthwash is for, right?
73.
RedKitten
@Anne Laurie: Yep, it does seem as though small dogs are more kissy. Axel (the Boston in the bukkit that was posted here recently) is a big kissy-face.
74.
Molly
@Ash Can: As said by others, I’d be happy to pitch in some wampum for a site redo, John.
The boys probably won’t understand this, but the ladies will get it…
I got bangs cut into my hair today and was told by multiple people that I look over 5 years younger with them! I was nervous to cut the hair I had been growing out for years, but I love them. A client even told me I look better than I ever have.
I thought at 38 that I was too old to rock bangs, but I’m glad I went for it.
Okay, on to a serious subject… anyone hear how the beer summit went? I can’t seem to find any coverage on the tubes or cable nets. /snark.
77.
RedKitten
@Max: Nah, you’re never too old to rock bangs, depending on how they’re cut. I’m glad they turned out well — there’s nothing that beats the feeling of getting a great haircut and walking around knowing you look awesome.
I had the opposite experience recently. I usually get my hair cut at a high-end place about 2 hours away. I only get it cut twice a year, so the distance and expense aren’t an issue. Well, I was due for a cut, and due to my advanced state of pregnancy, didn’t dare make the 2 hour drive by my lonesome, and so went to a cheapie place, thinking that at the very least, they could follow the lines of the original cut, right? Hardly. The girl was worse than useless. And nothing makes you feel quite as…yucky…as a bad haircut.
78.
Max
@RedKitten: Bad haircuts are the worst! But soon, you’ll have your bundle of joy, be back in your normal clothes and it won’t matter what your hair looks like…
Anyway, this site looks fine. I have not had a problem with this site.
81.
RedKitten
@Max: my hair will always matter. ;) I’m pretty vain about it, sad to say.
82.
Andrea
she slipped me tongue
Lily’s a French dog?
Old Mac, old OS X, latest Camino and the site looks fine. I never even saw the Pamela Anderson ads.
83.
Betsy
@RedKitten: That’s awful! I hope it’s still long enough that you can go in soon and get a better one.
84.
YellowJournalism
@RedKitten:Cheapie places always end up costing me more than the expensive place because you end up eventually going back to the expensive place and have to get it “fixed”.
I got a short cut for the end of the summer/end of pregnancy so if I don’t get back to the good place, at least I won’t sweat to death in the heat and humidity. I hadn’t had my hair cut in a while. The place where I get my hair done does these long scalp massages at the beginning when you’re getting your hair washed. I could feel the tension lifting out of my head the entire time.
Glad to see Tunch. You just want to give him a squeeze, but you know you’d lose an eye if you did.
85.
ellie
Nice Kitty! I agree with a previous poster. He looks like a giant furry tube.
schrodinger's cat
New species found: Futon seal
The Cat Who Would Be Tunch
Is that a warning that we’re about to see a billion posts from you, starting tomorrow?
schrodinger's cat
Caption for latest photo of his Tunchness:
Mannerful kitteh coughs very discreetly in himz paw
Warren Terra
Tunch is looking beautifully cylindrical in that picture
By the way, I have a question for all the Cookie Monsters posting quondam, content-free comments to fix their display problems: I sympathize, really, but might it also work if you posted in an older, inactive Balloon Juice thread?
Trinity
Yay! Tunch rulz.
beltane
For any of you taken aback by Andrew Sullivan’s descent into Larry Johnson territory, you can rest assured that the pile-on has worked, and that he has returned to covering the Iranian protests. He says that doing a few shots of Jaegermeister brought him back to his senses. Whatever it takes, Andrew. Whatever it takes.
Please, someone, fix the site. I know it will look OK after I finish commenting, but getting from here to there is aesthetically unpleasing.
JackieBinAZ
does that cat EVER leave that futon?
General Winfield Stuck
It really is a jungle out there. I think it’s a diabolical Right Wing plot to drain us of our precious blogety fluids. and it seems to be working. There is a fail safe point to where Peak Wingnut Event Horizon can be contemplated, where the stupid meets our limit to resistance, and well……
Anyways, yesterday received BSG disc two of season 4.5 and it’s really very good. So I’m going to watch the second half of the coup and leave this cruel world for awhile.
schrodinger's cat
BTW, my new ice-cream maker arrives tomorrow. First ice-cream I make will be mango.
John Cole
@beltane: We are working on the site. I talked to the blogmistress and I may just hold another fund raiser and rebuild the site from the ground up. I’m tired of dealing with complaints. Patience, please. I’ve spent the last day approving 700 comments from delurking commenters, and am about a couple complaints away from blowing up the site and redirecting you all to the 4chan anime section.
bayville
Pleeze. Can Brittany Spears throw-up on someone or Lindsay Lohan give the finger to a papparozzi chucklehead so that we can actually get some different stuff on these cable news channel.
Better yet, when Tunch is done licking himself, can you have him fill-out an application for “Executive Producer” at one of those Cable News channels.
(Warning: I think he is overqualified for CNBC, though.)
schrodinger's cat
John, if I send you a batch of my fresh homemade mango ice-cream will that improve your mood?
shirt
Tunch is good but http://icanhascheezburger.com/ has additional comments to offer.
(I think they’re are ausies so forgive them for they know not what they do…)
Crikey!
General Winfield Stuck
sounds like a winner.
Is there anime porn? Just askin’/
joe from Lowell
The “Beer Summit” led the CBS Evening News.
Led. First story. “Now, from Washington, here’s Katie Couric.”
“Tonight, at the White House…”
Unbelievable. It’s a good thing we aren’t at war or anything.
cbear
Just checked out photos from the “Beer Summit”—and WinTF is Biden doing there?
I can just hear him telling the guys the latest Indian-buys-a-7-Eleven joke.
What a attention-seeking putz.
Oh well, I guess Michael Jackson wasn’t available.
Paulie Chestnuts
Looks to me Tunch is about to pounce on that snail he’s been chasing for the past hour.
Dulcie
@cbear: Matthews mentioned that the Prez asked Biden for “racial balance”.
freelancer
Personally, I would have gone with Hamsterdance.
Old School. Infectious. Maddening.
But, you’re the ABD.
moe99
NO, I think Biden was there to add one more witness to the conversation, just in case. And, also so the police officer wouldn’t feel like he was being ganged up on by the guy he arrested and the guy who called the actions “stupid.” They aren’t taping it.
Lev
Comrade John, I sympathize. The last few weeks have left me politicked out.
Bad Horse's Filly
@John Cole: xoxo It will get better. Really.
robertdsc
Look up the word “hentai” and be amazed.
King Tunch of Futon iz king!
Skepticat
Schrodinger’s cat, after your first batch please post an equipment review (if you don’t gorge yourself to unconsciousness on the fruits of your labors). One of the things I miss most in the Bahamas is ice cream–it just can’t survive the ferry ride from the grocery store–and have been considering an ice cream maker for my return. There are people who are convinced that I go to Jazzfest not for the music but for the mango freezes. In the interim I think I’ll hit the freezer for a pale commercial version–Edy’s does a pretty good job. Lawd, it’s too hot and humid here in New England.
jenniebee
Retweet @feliciaday: cutethingsfallingasleep.org
And from my personal stash of oddities: Stealth Cat and I don’t know what to call this.
Trinity
@joe from Lowell: Sweet Jeebus. This is exactly why I don’t watch broadcast M$M anymore. Christ.
The Dangerman
Looks like The Tunch is working on a tiny beer mug in honor of The Beer Summit. Actually, that would explain some things.
Linkmeister
@JackieBinAZ: Exactly what I was thinking.
TuiMel
I cannot explain why, but for some reason I have come to “need” regular pictures of Tunch and Lily to feel some comfort that all is relatively well with the wider (no reference to Tunch intended) world.
Litlebritdifrnt
Yah know I hate to point this out, I really do, but yah know, Tunch is not looking any better for his diet, in fact I think he may have gained weight since we started talking about his weight. Not that there is anything wrong with that, I have a couple of overweight cats myself, so I am hardly one to talk, but Tunch is looking a little bit “chunky” and all… just saying.
shelley matheis
John Cole
@Litlebritdifrnt: I was just going to say he was looking thinner. He is down to a half a cup of food a day.
John Cole
@shelley matheis: Lily is mad at me. We did not do the rails to trails today- it was raining, so she is on the couch pouting.
As a side note, I was wrestling with Lily yesterday and rolling around the carpet trying to get her wound up, and I was halfway through a “good doggie” and she slipped me tongue. I was kinda weirded out at first and then I just rolled with it. Screw it. Tunch just scratches me.
REN
It’s stressful to look at the’ news’ in this country and wonder how many sane people are left. Seems to be a rapidly shrinking population.
Litlebritdifrnt
@TuiMel:
ditto, Tunch and Lily pictures reassure us that all is right with the world, in John’s land at least, just as me watching my dogs and cats play in the yard and the butterflies hatching in my garden convince me that all is right in mine.
ominira
@John Cole:
LOL. Can we send you to a beer summit? I’m sure everyone would chip in.
Demo Woman
@John Cole: Moxie was trained that we don’t do kisses. She kisses my friends but not me… ick! Recently I met a gal who trains rescue dogs for adoption and one thing that they look for in adoptive parents is whether the dog gives them kisses. Needless to say I have been trying to retrain the mutt but we both decided it just doesn’t work.
Ella in NM
@JackieBinAZ:
Dulcie
@Ella in NM: Ella, are you a nurse? I’m in the middle of a career change, and I plan on becoming a nurse.
Jon
I’m told that simply making a comment will add a cookie and keep the site’s ugliness from making baby Jesus cry.
General Winfield Stuck
Christ, you’ve gone complete hippie now. There’s no turning back.
Comrade Darkness
Yay Tunch!
I will happily look at pictures of anything not drinking a bud light. I need to keep dinner down.
John Cole
@Demo Woman: One of the funnier things Lily does is when we are playing on the floor, I will lie on my back and say in a high-pitched voice “Oh, Lily! Woe is me! Oh, make it all stop! Oh, Lily dog!” and she will come start licking my face and lie on my neck. It is really funny.
She has also figured out how to balance herself on my stomache when I am on the couch, lying on her back with her head on my chest.
You think I want to train that out of her. No way. Love that dog.
The other thing that is funny is now that she is surgically attached to me, Tunch is more affectionate.
SiubhanDuinne
@
On top of a futon
All covered with Tunch
The kitteh is thinking
Of breakfast and lunch.
The futon is lovely,
The blanket is warm,
If I don’t get dinner
I’ll chew off your arm
I’ll screw up Balloon Juice —
I won’t give it back.
Just give me a cookie
Or Lily’s a snack.
I’ll wash her down quickly
With one or two beers.
Then I’ll resume washing
Behind of my ears.
Comrade Darkness
@schrodinger’s cat: Definitely try Rosemary ice cream. Best flavor I’ve ever had.
Litlebritdifrnt
@John Cole:
At this point I have to think that Tunch is just “big boned” and I know that is a silly thought, but if he is down to half a cup of food a day and he is still that size then he is just meant to be that way, you could starve him and he would still look like a doorstop. Don’t get overly silly on his food John, if he is down to half a cup a day and he is still overweight what we are seeing is a podgy kitteh, it is the way he was made, starving him is not going to help anything. Personally I like him podgy, it makes him so much more adorable. I have a tabby who is a fixed female and believe me she looks like she is about to give birth to eleventy kittens tomorrow, she does not overeat, in fact when I put down the wet food at night she tends to turn her nose up to it, she does not go overboard on the dry food which is available all day, she is just a big girl. Sometimes you just have to accept that your kitteh is a big kitteh. Starving them is not going to help.
shelley matheis
ET
Why blog when watching the cat is ever so much more restful.
Litlebritdifrnt
ARghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! There was just a repub ad on my tee vee saying bullshit like “the healthcare plan would pay for abortions but would not pay for my cancer screening” WHAT THE FUCK! What the fuck are they talking about? I have never heard of this stuff. I am going to go postal on these people, I truly am.
gnomedad
Amusing video spots from WebVet here.
Litlebritdifrnt
@shelley matheis:
I will, a puppy will lick its mother’s face to encourage her to engorge the food in her stomach into the puppy’s mouth. Standard thing. Lily is acknowleging you as her Mom (or pack leader) and is expecting you to engorge food to her. She thinks you are mommy.
CynDee
@ John Cole:
John, the core followers and commenters of the wonderful community you have created just care about you. I hope you take your time and don’t let sourpuss comments spoil things for you. Your real friends and audience will wait. I’m sure that’s oversimplifying everything you’re going through, but let the jerks go; they don’t matter.
Technology problems are deadly on one’s good spirits and health. Do not get caught up in a Hurry mode to please the demanding and the mean-spirited. People in this country need to learn how to wait.
I understand some of what you may be feeling. I quit my 20-year career as a technical writer because the authoring tools and even basic applications (all of Microsoft) became so needlessly complex that trying to keep using them and the goofball upgrades was totally undermining my health. Microsoft destabilized the bullets in 2000, and made them “smart” and they haven’t worked since. The one thing a tech writer needs is stable bullets. But Microsoft has never fixed them, just added tons of junk code for stupid options no one needs
Hundreds of options on one screen instead of nice dropdown, sensible categories. Trying to see and click on a tiny bizarre icon about 1 pixel in size to get the rollover text to display so you know what in the world it represents, then having the rollover text staying in front of what you’re trying to work on.
I don’t know web technology, but I hope you find basic solutions and let all the fancy trash go down the drain with its human counterparts.
Demo Woman
@Litlebritdifrnt: It’s easy to feel that way. I pissed at Harry and Louise ads saying why don’t we have health care reform.. Every time that comes on TV I yell at the TV and say because of you.
Demo Woman
Darn, I am pissed… not that I piss that often..
I need the edit function.
General Winfield Stuck
Here it is Cole. In for a penny in for doggie pound. Time to go native and be the best mom in the whole wide world. Nolo video please.
asiangrrlMN
Oh, there’s the Tunchinator. He’s looking slimmer to me!
Demo Woman
@John Cole: The unfortunate thing about bonding with a rescue can be separation anxiety. I’m not talking about ordinary fits because they want to go for a car ride, which are easily corrected, but longer term departures. Moxie has been known to howl and cry for hours on end. She’s at least 9 if not older and at this point, I would not leave her in a kennel.
Fortunately, she’s okay with the sons for a few days but certainly not longer.
I’m not planning a long cruise or a trip to Paris, so it’s fine, but make sure Lily’s okay with your departures.
Warren Terra
True, if not as much as we seem to care about Tunch and, now, Lily.
Than what?
Violet
Hope it gets better soon, John. Darkest before the dawn, and all that.
I could use a little bit of good news myself, as we are in the midst of moving hell and things have just gone from stressful to bad. I am beyond angry at the people who were going to sell their house, then changed their mind, essentially in breach of contract…but not quite. Contracts were signed and checks were in transport to the title company, but not yet officially there nor cashed. Wishing I could get some sort of compensation for “pain and suffering” as these people were beyond unbelievable in how they’ve behaved.
So now we’re almost homeless and will have to figure out what to do and where to live. Ugh. Some people.
Tunch is lovely. Love him. Miss seeing Lily.
Cookie!
Cookie!
suzib
Your cat is cute.
Ash Can
@John Cole:
Say the word. We’ll kick in a simolean or two. This site is a bargain at twice the price.
@SiubhanDuinne: LOL!
MMM
Wishing a quick recovery from your broken heart. I miss the loud mouth, cynical, insightful JGC.
RedKitten
No wonder — from the sounds of things you’re about thisclose to trying to nurse her. (And for those of you who just got a disturbing mental image from that statement — all I can say is “you’re welcome.”)
It’s cute, though — I have never in my life seen someone so besotted with their new dog. That’s the beauty about rescue dogs, though — they’re like little love sponges.
LD50
‘Coffs’ would work better.
And misspell ‘discreetly’ somehow.
LD50
Jeez. I thought you loved us more than that…
LD50
@General Winfield Stuck: “You guys asked for it, here it is. I’m barfing chewed-up kibble into Lily’s mouth. I actually kind of enjoyed it. Tunch just glared at me the whole time.”
AJ
gettin the cookie (mmmm…..cooookies)
hal
For any of you taken aback by Andrew Sullivan’s descent into Larry Johnson territory, you can rest assured that the pile-on has worked, and that he has returned to covering the Iranian protests. He says that doing a few shots of Jaegermeister brought him back to his senses. Whatever it takes, Andrew. Whatever it takes.
Boy, he flipped super fast. I really wish he would enable comments on his blog. I wonder how many emails he received about this?
BTW, the blog is fine for me at home, using Chrome, Firefox, or IE, but at work using IE, it looks almost like text-based. I haven’t tried the comment thing at work yet though. And my version of IE at work is an older one.
Anne Laurie
Why did Biden show up at the “beer summit”? Cause it’s like 120 degrees and 98% humidity in DC, and they told him there would be beer there!
Now, if you asked “Why wasn’t the Secret Service warned to keep him away from the comestibles?”…
RedKitten
Sweet:
http://failblog.org/2009/07/30/spelling-fail-9/
Anne Laurie
How’s your garden doing, John? Especially the tomatoes?
Many dogs will try to, as we say around here, Share the Love by Licking Your Tonsils, but toy dogs in particular seem to have an exaggerated propensity for the trait. Some papillons — including our guy Zevon, who is otherwise rather self-contained, especially for a rescue — automatically start “kissing” when they’re being rubbed or skritched. He’ll be three-quarters-asleep, and I’ll rub his belly, and his tongue will start lolloping in & out… then he wakes up, pulls himself together, and gives me a glare for taking advantage of his genetic programming. Hee!
I’ve known people who trained their Paps not to lick peoples’ faces, but the tongue-impulse seems to be almost impossible for the little guys to override, so you end up petting a happy wriggling pom-pom-wagging bundle with his head turned away from you, industrially licking at nothing. We prefer to remember that dogs’ saliva is actually mildly anti-bacterial, and besides, that’s what mouthwash is for, right?
RedKitten
@Anne Laurie: Yep, it does seem as though small dogs are more kissy. Axel (the Boston in the bukkit that was posted here recently) is a big kissy-face.
Molly
@Ash Can: As said by others, I’d be happy to pitch in some wampum for a site redo, John.
Betsy
@RedKitten:
That rocks.
Max
The boys probably won’t understand this, but the ladies will get it…
I got bangs cut into my hair today and was told by multiple people that I look over 5 years younger with them! I was nervous to cut the hair I had been growing out for years, but I love them. A client even told me I look better than I ever have.
I thought at 38 that I was too old to rock bangs, but I’m glad I went for it.
Okay, on to a serious subject… anyone hear how the beer summit went? I can’t seem to find any coverage on the tubes or cable nets. /snark.
RedKitten
@Max: Nah, you’re never too old to rock bangs, depending on how they’re cut. I’m glad they turned out well — there’s nothing that beats the feeling of getting a great haircut and walking around knowing you look awesome.
I had the opposite experience recently. I usually get my hair cut at a high-end place about 2 hours away. I only get it cut twice a year, so the distance and expense aren’t an issue. Well, I was due for a cut, and due to my advanced state of pregnancy, didn’t dare make the 2 hour drive by my lonesome, and so went to a cheapie place, thinking that at the very least, they could follow the lines of the original cut, right? Hardly. The girl was worse than useless. And nothing makes you feel quite as…yucky…as a bad haircut.
Max
@RedKitten: Bad haircuts are the worst! But soon, you’ll have your bundle of joy, be back in your normal clothes and it won’t matter what your hair looks like…
JackieBinAZ
@Jon: what if we want to make baby jesus cry?
jnfr
@freelancer:
OMG hampsterdance! I loved that site so much!
Anyway, this site looks fine. I have not had a problem with this site.
RedKitten
@Max: my hair will always matter. ;) I’m pretty vain about it, sad to say.
Andrea
Lily’s a French dog?
Old Mac, old OS X, latest Camino and the site looks fine. I never even saw the Pamela Anderson ads.
Betsy
@RedKitten: That’s awful! I hope it’s still long enough that you can go in soon and get a better one.
YellowJournalism
@RedKitten:Cheapie places always end up costing me more than the expensive place because you end up eventually going back to the expensive place and have to get it “fixed”.
I got a short cut for the end of the summer/end of pregnancy so if I don’t get back to the good place, at least I won’t sweat to death in the heat and humidity. I hadn’t had my hair cut in a while. The place where I get my hair done does these long scalp massages at the beginning when you’re getting your hair washed. I could feel the tension lifting out of my head the entire time.
Glad to see Tunch. You just want to give him a squeeze, but you know you’d lose an eye if you did.
ellie
Nice Kitty! I agree with a previous poster. He looks like a giant furry tube.
asiangrrlMN
Yo, Cole. I am more than willing to kick in to keep this fabu site running smoothly.
Lesley
Tunch is the spitting image of a James Thurber pet in that photograph.
MarkusB
@SiubhanDuinne:
On top of a futon
All covered with Tunch
The kitteh is thinking
Of breakfast and lunch.
Bravo. Inspired. Also makes me want spaghetti.
Wile E. Quixote
Mmmmmmmm. Negro Modelo, Spicy Hot V-8, green Tabasco sauce, lime juice and Worcestershire sauce. I don’t know what you call it but it’s damned tasty.
Ella in NM
@Dulcie:
Hi–I’m actually getting ready to do my precepting semester this fall, but I’m a mid-life career changer too, so any help I could be, just let me know!