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Open Thread: Happy Birthday, Zevon

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He’s eight years old today, and has been living with us for the last three. When the Spousal Unit picked him up from the nice breed-rescue foster family in Pennsylvania, they told him [name redacted] was the “perfect” Papillon — good-looking, not noisy, reliably housebroken, used to leashes & crates, friendly with cats and other dogs. They couldn’t understand how his original family could ever have given him up! Forty-eight hours after arriving at our house, the New Guy jumped out an open window into a cold, drizzly November twilight, landed on gravel six feet below, and disappeared before I could get out the door after him. I spent the night searching the neighborhood, wondering how I’d tell the Spousal Unit I’d let his new dog get killed; said dog spent the night, warm and full of a second supper, with the nice couple who picked him up on the wrong side of the third-most-dangerous intersection in a state full of dangerous drivers.

That’s when he got rechristened, after the late great Warren Z, writer of such classics as “Mr. Bad Example”, “Excitable Boy”, and “Werewolves of London.”

P.S. Zevon agrees: FTFY!

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  6. 6.

    Keith G

    Truly a pup with a demonic grin.

    I was heart broke the day Warren Zevon passed. The man could write a song.

  8. 8.

    Ed Drone

    Sounds like he might be a candidate for a future date with “Lawyers, Guns, and Money,” too.

    Ed

  9. 9.

    Yutsano

    PUPPEH!! Now I want one dagburnit! Wonder if I can somehow talk my brother into allowing one of those in the house. Of course the dog will have to be taught to be chicken-friendly, but that’s not as tough as it sounds.

  12. 12.

    WyldPiratd

    nice looking dog and great name.

    sucks that warren z. had to leave us early as well. he had more he didn’t get to tell us.

  13. 13.

    madmommy

    What a cute pup, though he does have a bit of a devilish look about him! Had a cat ride a window screen down from a second story window, land in the bushes and proceed straight to the front door, yowling to be let back in.

    She was a Siamese, of course.

  17. 17.

    Comrade Mary

    Zevon is wicked cute! (I may be missing a comma there.) I love his namesake, too. I just found out Warren Zevon’s last appearance on the Letterman show is on YouTube, starting here.

    Ahab, that’s a great shot of Momo playing with her favourite birthday present. Also: bats.

  19. 19.

    Ash Can

    I’d rave about this lovely doggie but I’m still dead from cute after seeing that photo of RedKitten’s little sweetie in the teddy bear costume.

    Actually, I’m dead, period. After getting together with a few of the parents and trick-or-treating with our sugar-buzzed kids yesterday afternoon (an experience which gives one the sensation of being dragged by a truck), we all ended up at the neighbor’s house for a big house/yard party. The grownups played bags and drank beer while the still-sugar-buzzed kids ran around like maniacs till all hours. Good times. Then I had to do volunteer work for a few hours this afternoon, helping serve food at the annual fall benefit dinner at a local assisted-living place where my mother lives. Hard work, but more good times. And I’ll likely have Bottle Rocket home from school tomorrow since he came down with a raging head cold today (after running around with no jacket in freezing cold weather last night till 11PM with a mob of kids — imagine that). Not-so-good times, but as long as it’s just a head cold, it’s not too bad.

    I think I’m going to go crack open a brewski, watch the Phils-Yanks game, and see if I can stay awake until the final out.

  21. 21.

    ellaesther

    @Comrade Mary: I just watched that the other day — it’s quite something, isn’t it? A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about going off to visit someone I love who has leukemia, and I posted “Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-li-li-lo.” Every once and a while now, as I write a post, I just listen to it — it’s so beautiful and loving. “I’m tied to you like the buttons on your blouse” — it just kills me. When the clip reached the end the other day, I just went ahead and clicked on the interview, and — man. Just: man.

  23. 23.

    kommrade reproductive vigor

    @Comrade Mary:

    The video is sexually explicit and was edited and soundtracked by the researchers.

    I am totally disappointed by the lack of saxophone & heavy bass. I hope the sexually explicit line is snark because they’re BATS for cryin’ out loud. I’m not sure I would’ve known it was two bats fucking if the article hadn’t stated it was about bats fucking.

    Both the duration of an individual copulation, and the overall time a mating pair spent copulating, were increased if the female performed fellatio.

    Duh. They may be bats, but they’re not crazy. [rimshot]

  24. 24.

    Comrade Mary

    @kommrade reproductive vigor: (God, what an appropriate name for this topic.)

    Ahem.

    Anyway, yeah, there was a total lack of boom-chicka-wow-wow on that soundtrack. Why do those researchers hate the seventies so much?

    Kids. Lawn. Will shake fists.

  26. 26.

    Steeplejack

    Oh, dearie me. Things are getting dreadfully tight in the Phillies-Yankees game. Tied up in the top of the ninth, Johnny Damon at bat with two out. FTFY.

    . . . Damn it! Damon with a base hit just as I was about to press “Submit.”

  31. 31.

    Steeplejack

    @Martin:

    Yes, especially for a GEICO caveman.

    Disastrous ninth inning. Now they’ve got to face Rivera down three runs. Damn, damn, damn.

  34. 34.

    Steeplejack

    Holy shnikeys! I barely get back into my chair at the TV and there are two outs already. God, I hate rooting for the Phillies (Braves fan here), but FTFY.

  38. 38.

    Yutsano

    @robertdsc: May you be cursed with all of the idiotic clients who insist on calling me three minutes before I get off work with absolutely inane questions. Also.

  42. 42.

    Irony Abounds

    The Yankees win, the Yankeessssssssss Winnnnnnnnnnnn

    Take that you haters of the pinstriped ones.

  45. 45.

    parksideq

    I plan on going out to the bars tomorrow night, just in case the Yanks win the World Series. I’m not sure my wallet can handle the Series going beyond Game 6 (in case there’s a cause for celebration, I’d rather not watch from home from here on out).

    Damon for MVP. That is all.

  46. 46.

    parksideq

    @burnspbesq: That’s no fair! The only thing the Yanks have tortured in recent memory are Phillies fans’ bleeding hearts. Well, that and I guess any non-Yankee fan of baseball, but that’s just collateral damage on the road to WS win #27.

  47. 47.

    Martin

    non-Yankee fan of baseball

    No, all fans of baseball are non-Yankee fans. Yankee fans are only fans of throwing money at problems, steroids, milking fans for money, and other crimes against humanity. Basically, they’re fans of winning, not fans of baseball.

    When one team out of 30 is credited for over 1/4 of all championships, something isn’t right with the game structure. No fan of the sport should desire that to continue. That holds true for all other sports as well.

  48. 48.

    bago

    OT: but W. T. F. I was watching Hulu and some ad for “drug control” came on and showed a mother using a drug sniffing dog to check her child. The kid walked by without incident and then the screen said “Don’t be a patsy””

    What. The. Hell.

    Is it supposed to be normal for a parent to sic dogs upon their children, Or is a dog’s sensitivity too low for snifing out drugs?

    It’s like the ad literally calls for you to throw your kid in jail if there is any hint of a suspicion of a clue of a trace of evidence that there might be drugs in this world.

    What the hell?

  49. 49.

    Martin

    @bago:

    They’ve been running a series of ads like that. Basically they’re reminding parents that law enforcement will be using dogs, drug tests, etc. and the least that parents can do is ask their kids, confront them when they suspect, etc. They aren’t telling parents to throw their kids in jail, but reminding them that others will do that if they don’t watch out for them.

    It wasn’t supposed to be literal.

  50. 50.

    Andy K

    O Great Balloon Juice Powers That Be,

    I do hope you’ll forgive me if this question has been asked and answered earlier in the day, but is anyone going to reset the site’s clock to standard time?

    FTFY. FTFV. Also.

  51. 51.

    MelodyMaker

    WordPress can do that. otherwise it’s up to the hosting co. maybe in Arizona! mwahaha. oh, Halloween was 2 days ago.
    Cute Dog!! crap! that’s a cute dog.

  52. 52.

    JK

    @Martin:

    Perfectly stated. The NY Yankees are a cancer on baseball. Their fans are the worst sports fans in America.

    They were the only team that could afford the top 3 free agents during the off season and their jackass fans are acting as if they have accomplished a fucking miracle.

    Fuck the Yankees now and forever.

  56. 56.

    Andy K

    @JK:

    Their fans are the worst sports fans in America.

    Demanding of their team? Check. Maybe just a bit spoiled by a long history of success? Yep. Obnoxious? Definitely, but I can think of a team a few hours drive to the northeast whose fans are just as obnoxious.

    But you know what? The average Yankee fan is loyal and passionate, even though the teams ownership has priced that fan out of the stadium.

    So who are the worst sports fans in America? Easily the bandwagoners who live in metropolitan Atlanta. Funny how they show up when their teams are pretty good, but then blame the crappy network of roads for their absence when the local teams are average or worse.

  57. 57.

    Yutsano

    @Keith G: Has it been a week already or is BoB gonna end up shown the door again?

    So got those guac fixings and it’s now aging in the fridge. Unfortunately I have to run an errand tomorrow before work and won’t have time to get any chips. Such is life.

  59. 59.

    freelancer (itouch)

    @JK:

    Good to see you posting. How’ve you been?

    Ftfy.

    Mad men is a solid lead. I can’t thank you enough. Now pick up the wire on DVD and give friday night lights a chance.

    Right now I’m midway through Jericho for the 2nd time. As far as cancelled series go, IMHO, it matches Firefly in terms of entertainment value.

  60. 60.

    parksideq

    @Martin:

    Basically, they’re fans of winning, not fans of baseball.

    Exactly. In fact, I quit being a Yankees/baseball fan after the biggest choke in history in the 2004 ALCS. /snark

    When one team out of 30 is credited for over 1/4 of all championships, something isn’t right with the game structure.

    Complain to Commish Selig about it then; any other team with the same circumstances under the current structure would do the same thing. Your complaint sounds more systemic to MLB than to the Yankees organization, who obviously would have to change their MO if MLB implemented things like salary caps for example.

    As for the money thing, Yankees fan /= Steinbrenner fan. If anything, I’m still pissed over the way they got rid of Joe Torre. That aside, even without the payroll people would still bitch, just because it’s the Yankees. I’m over people bitching about that.

  61. 61.

    Blue Raven

    As for the money thing, Yankees fan /= Steinbrenner fan.

    Beg your pardon, but the Yankees were famous for buying the best team in baseball instead of, say, TRAINING their players back in the 1920s. It’s endemic to the fucking franchise. Yawn. Snore. Get back to me when reality strikes the pinstripes.

  62. 62.

    SiubhanDuinne

    G’morning, everyone. I’ve been trying to get in here for about 90 minutes (maybe more like 2-1/2 hours if BJ is still on daylight time) — and I see (now that I am finally able to read the thread) that nobody has posted for a couple of hours. Is it just me or has the site been down for a while?

  63. 63.

    CynDee

    @Yutsano: Just get a herd dog. Our bearded collie took to herding the neighbor’s ducks, and loved having the job he was bred for. Everybody was happy.

  64. 64.

    CynDee

    @Ash Can: You’re doing all the Good Things (of course they often have to be done mostly at once), that will become The Good Old Days.

  66. 66.

    Deb T

    My Schipperke ran off as a puppy and ended up 30 miles away. She had run to an office parking lot and a very nice lady had rescued her and taken her home. I found her through the local missing dog rescue (she didn’t have her collar on).

    The second time she ran away was the hottest day of the summer that year. I spent and hour traipsing around the neighborhood, catching glimpses of her running down an alley, between houses until she disappeared. I went home to regroup and drink some water. The phone rang. She’d gone down to a local hotel and walked right in. She was sitting in the lap of air conditioned luxury with folks oohing and ahhing at her cuteness. She did have a tag with my number. When I went to pick her up. When she saw me, she ran the other way not ready to leave her new digs. Sigh.
    She’s gone now and oddly, I miss her.

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