So glad to be home with the animals, but it is hard to get anything done with Rosie around. I’d forgotten about the laser-like stare:
The master is busy resting, however:
Lily is asleep under the comforter, so I didn’t disturb her.
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Comrade Mary
Not — not under the comforter under Tunch? Dear Lord, tell us that isn’t true.
JenJen
Awwww, Rosie!! My little Strider, while not being a Jack Russel or anything, used to give me the laser-stare, and now that he’s an older guy and a little sickly, I can’t tell you how much I miss it.
Life is weird.
Warren Terra
If you squint at that last picture, you can see a cat head attached to that enormous gelatinous mass of white fur.
Violet
Oh, that’s a gorgeous picture of Tunch! And, look…you can still see the spots where they cut off his devil horns. Heh.
Rosie looks like such a handful. And she’s lost a lot of weight. Being with you is good for her, John!
General Stuck
I am ready for the fall cooldown. That is all.
gnomedad
Jabba the cat.
Chyron HR
Is Tunch eating your dogs’ food, too?
demimondian
My God, John! Seriously — doesn’t the sophomoric joke of hiding Tunch’s body under a giant white throw pillow ever get old with you? I mean, when are we going to see a picture of a cat, not a sofa with Tunch’s head attached?
JenJen
@General Stuck:
This.
I can’t remember the last time I was ready for summer to be over as early as July. In fact, after watching fireworks on the 4th, I was pretty ready for the leaves to start falling the next day. Considering SnOMG, you’d have thought I’d be more welcoming of this hot, muggy Ohio River Valley summer of 2010. You’d be wrong about that.
Hof Football tonight, with my beloved Bengals, just drives the point of “autumn” home. Enjoy watching the “Don’t Hurt Me Bowl!”
Keith G
Why is Tunch’s head so unnaturally small?
demimondian
@Chyron HR:
FTFY
Morbo
Ye gods, are you sure she wasn’t eaten by the other two?!
vtr
I was avoiding commenting on your cast iron skillet tragedy because of the on-going serious discussion of the Afghanistan conflict. This open thread offers an opportunity to ask you not to worry. I’m a confirmed cast iron utensil user for many decades. I wash the stuff with soap every time I use it. (I dislike lower gastro-intestinal distress – it’s like a storm inside me, as the tv spot says.) Put the skillet on the stove. Get it fairly hot – not so it glows in the dark, though. Put a bit of oil on a paper towel, rub it on the skillet, let it cool, and put it away, in full confidence that it will present a nonstick surface the next time you require one. You’re welcome. I’l have a gin and tonic now, and take a nap to prepare for the Red Sox’ impending loss at the hands, arms, and bats of the Yankees.
P. S. My cats are better than yours.
Libby
Imagine Rosie still has some abandonment issues so the laser stare is to lock you into place so you don’t leave her with that “other guy” again.
And is it me, or is Tunch actually smiling?
Violet
@General Stuck:
Me too. I detest summer. By this point in the summer it’s all about hanging on until the first cool breeze of fall. Unfortunately, it’s another 6 to 8 weeks away. Stupid heat and humidity. Today we had a passing shower, but it’s gone now, so it’s truly sauna conditions outside as all that previous rain evaporates. I guess it’s good for one’s skin.
Cat Lady
I don’t think the stare is “I will make you walk me using my force of will”, I think it’s “I will make you pay and pay and pay with my turds, cuz I’ve been saving ’em ALL til you got home”.
Good luck. You’ll need it.
demkat620
Tunch ate Lily didn’t he? And you just don’t know how to tell us.
eemom
Ah……that vast white expanse of cat, stretching as far as the eye can see, puts one in mind of a snowy meadow on a cold winter day…..
suzanne
Every week, I get these weekly newsletters from BabyCenter telling me All About My Fetus. Invariably, when discussing the size of the baby, they compare it to a fruit or vegetable; this week, it’s the length of a banana, last week, it was the size of an heirloom tomato, before that, an avocado.
I’m wondering what fruit or vegetable could compare to Tunch. Durian?
demimondian
@suzanne: A world champion pumpkin?
SIA
1. What is it about JRTs? They always look so maniacal.
2. That’s a good color background for Tunch, the Zen wizard.
3. I bet Lily didn’t sleep well the whole time you were gone.
Also too. Nothing happens around here until we get some cool weather. I. Am. Over. It.
freelancer (itouch)
@demimondian:
What do the Yankees have to do with anything?
trollhattan
@gnomedad: r
Yup!
JabbaTunch, he say:Turgidson
@General Stuck:
Summer? Here in the wretched hive of DFH pinko commies known as San Francisco, it’s barely been warmer than 60 for the past 2 months.
I love living in SF in almost every conceivable way (the cost is one thing I don’t love), but the “summer” weather really has a way of sapping one’s morale.
demimondian
@freelancer (itouch): Like Tunch, they are large, self-regarding, and the rulers of their world.
SIA
I’m still seething over M Dowd’s stupid f**king column. For relief, I read the comments. Wish they hadn’t deleted the ones that were abusive.
ETA: The PUMAs are well represented though. As in, “Hillary, Line 1”. On 2nd thought, don’t read the comments either.
FoxinSocks
Re: Tunch
So that’s what sank the Titanic!
bkny
uh, not to be rude, but … is tunch expanding?
demimondian
@bkny: No, no, of course not. The rest of the universe is merely shrinking in comparison.
Bob Loblaw
That thing’s not a cat, it’s a butterball turkey with fur.
MTmofo
John Cole: Just an FYI. Your paragraphs are disrespecting the margins again, requiring multiple F5s to make posts and comments readily readable.
mai naem
Rosie’s going to be smaller than the Tunchmeister soon.
The Dangerman
@General Stuck:
Yes, Tunch has reminded me of fattening up a Christmas Goose for the Season.
Omnes Omnibus
Has anyone read “Eaarth” by Bill McKibben? I just finished it. Depressing yet motivational at the same time. Jesus’ General just did a little review as well.
The next to last samurai
Thanks for the laugh, Bob L. Also, please add me to the Autumn Now faction. I have been prone to heat rash since I was a baby and this year I can barely take out the trash without developing itchy red spots.
eemom
@SIA:
they’ve definitely upped the censorship of comments on MoDo’s columns. A couple of years ago after the Edwards scandal broke I put up one telling her to pause once in a while and wipe the blood off her chin before sinking her teeth back into the carcass, which was well received by other commenters — but I doubt it would get through today.
Maybe the NYT rented Jane Hamsher’s goon squad of “Mods” just for MoDo……
srv
@Turgidson: Oh, just move to Napa.
SF was nice yesterday afternoon.
jeffreyw
reluctance, I haz it
QuaintIrene
Egads. Tunch looks like he’s been swallowed up by that giant alien Blanche-Mange from that old Monty Python sketch.
General Stuck
@Turgidson: I think Mark Twain agreed with you.
Turgidson
@srv:
Napa is boring. Fine to visit occasionally, but no interest in living there.
And someone else said it was nice yesterday, but when I was outside it was maybe 60 degrees and windy. Maybe I missed a 1 hour window of nice weather. That happens sometimes.
Usually September and October are beautiful. Hope that is the case.
Comrade Mary
@QuaintIrene: Blancmange!
(Sorry, I’m in an 80s video mood.)
RedKitten
Yeah, it’s cooled off here as well, but is still quite nice. However, it is calling for rain for SamKitten’s 1st birthday on Saturday, which is NOT a good thing. So please send your mojo and good wishes for fine weather on the 14th.
And yes, I will get John to post photos of SamKitten enjoying/shampooing with cake.
PurpleGirl
@jeffreyw: Doggie is cute but I love the afghan he’s laying on.
trollhattan
@Turgidson:
Been a weird year. Sac has been amazingly nice (coolish) this summer. Your misery is linked to our lack of unprompted sweating (or something like that). Have hardly had to run the A/C, which almost seems like a commie plot, yet the tomatoes thrive.
Yutsano
@RedKitten: Wow it’s been a year already! Hopefully SamKitten has gotten wise to the ways of the world and will ask for a chocolate cake. Gotta start em young you know.
QuaintIrene
Rosie’s thoughts- “So you up and leave us for two or three days? That’s the thanks I get for jumping in your car.”
bemused
John, I want to know if Rosie warmed up to the sitter and stopped being snarly. Those laser stares are telling you to never, ever leave again.
SIA
@eemom:
Oooh. I like it!
farmette
Tunch looks like he was calved from an iceberg. Rosie’s eyes are saying ” Where the hell were you?” Lily is sweetly smart chilling under the comforter. All is right with the world.
dww44
Just testing to see if this comment will cause my computer to stop bleeding all of BJ’s posts and comments to the right in an entirely unreadable fashion. Had this problem a couple of months back, but it cropped up last evening late and has done this all day.
Is there something I should do on my end to correct the issue?
frosty
@Turgidson: Yes, but.
September and October are beautiful everywhere in North America. April and May also, too.
Beej
Okay, that’s quite enough of the “it’s so cool here” stuff. 98 degrees with 72% humidity. Heat warnings. 115 degree heat index. That’s what we had today and that’s what we’re going to be living with this entire week. Nebraska in August. The corn is happy. Everything else is wilted and soggy..
MeDrewNotYou
All right! Animals! And “Tunch is fat” jokes! A really cute fat, though. I’m usually not big on cats, but the especially rotund ones are the best. Also, let me add to the jokes with an old South Park classic.
Tunch has such a fat ass that we he walks down the street, people say, “Goddamn! That’s a big fat ass!”
Resident Firebagger
Tunch is a big boy. Sitting like that he looks like a fuzzy slipper that could fit Andre the Giant…
Svensker
That is one laser-like stare. Eeeeps.
I got nothing. I’m going to bed. If it’s hot again tomorrow I may shoot myself. Either that or bloat out on more choc ice cream to console myself for being so fucking hot. Decisions decisions.
Yutsano
@Svensker: That’s not even a Hobson’s choice. If the choice is death or chocolate, chocolate wins every time.
Svensker
Oh, one last bit of cheer:
My friend who has been homeless and unemployed for almost a year after losing the two stores that he owned — he has an MBA, had a BMW and a sweet condo, in his mid-50s — just got his FIRST interview since he started looking. (He’s sent out 100s of applications). He would be managing a small retail store. Salary? $20K. He’s pretty sure he’ll take the job. America, fuck yeah!
NOW I’m going to bed.
Bill H
@gnomedad:
If San Diego has a “fall cooldown” ice will form on the fucking bay.
That's Master of Accountancy to You, Pal (JMN)
@Beej:
Here in Minnesota, it was about four degrees cooler, with an extra four points of humidity. The low tonight is supposed to be 74 degrees, which is easily ten too many, and even more humid.
Cain
This is a hilarious obit. Check out the last line.
obit
cain
LiberalTarian
@Turgidson: Come on over to Sacratomato. It has been lovely–warm weather and light cool breezes. Not the usual hotter than shit stuff we usually get during August. You should see my tomatoes and peppers, not to mention my wealth of egg plants. And my basil? Nary a one gone to seed. Between drip irrigation and the mild summer weather, I’ve had *such* nice basil.
Cain
@Violet:
Us folks in the northwest require more summer. We’ve only had about 5 weeks of sunshine and we require more!
cain
Ash Can
So when you found out the house sitter used soap on your skillets you fed the sitter to Tunch, eh? You’re a mean one, Mr. Cole.
General Stuck
@Cain:
Here in the southwest, we got more sunshine than we can use. Maybe a trade for some of your cool running streams and rivers. You can keep the all day drizzles though.
Litlebritdifrnt
There will be no more outside activities for me either until it cools down a bit. Even hanging out laundry results in rivers of sweat running from the forehead and down the end of the nose. I am sort of in a panic right now cause my mother arrives in 3 short weeks, and if the temps are the way they are right now, she will not leave the house for a month. On a happier note, last year when she left she said her goodbyes to Lucky, thinking that it would be the last time she saw him. As we speak Lucky is going strong, and is looking forward to the annual Gramma and Norman visit. He is a little blinder, and a little deafer, and a little more ancient, but I am sure as soon as Mum and Norman arrive he will perk up to no end.
Alice Blue
I’ll add my 2 cents’ worth of bitching about the weather. The heat and humidity are about what one would expect in west central Georgia, but we aren’t even getting the afternoon thunderstorms anymore. The fruit and vegetable stand up the road from me closed for the season two weeks ago. “Everything’s drying up and burning up” said the owner.
srv
Behold, the interons found Tunch worthy of their photoshop skillz:
http://i.imgur.com/PyIz1.jpg
Litlebritdifrnt
@Alice Blue: But there isn’t any global warming cause it snowed in DECEMBER eleventy!
FoxinSocks
@srv:
Bwahahaha! Thanks, I needed the laugh.
Litlebritdifrnt
@Litlebritdifrnt:
ETA – this heat is really pissing me off. Normally I look forward to the summer as a time when I can get out into the garden and potter, this heat has stolen that from me. I have never known it so hot in Eastern NC, never. We are setting records all over the darn place. I have plants that I bought on July 14, 2010 that are still in their pots on the driveway cause the heat is so unbearable that I cannot get out there to plant them. I have oak trees growing in my flower beds that I cannot get out there to cut down. It is utterly unbearable and I am getting ever so slightely pissed at these global warming deniers.
srv
@FoxinSocks:
h/t some redditor.
Alice Blue
It’s been two weeks since we’ve had any rain, everything is dying except the STUPID grass and the STUPID weeds.
SIA
@Litlebritdifrnt: I think I need a photo of Lucky, please?
ETA: @srv: That caused a howl on my part and now my cats are freaked.
Cain
I see someone came up with a new byline:
“A refuge for a snarling mass of vitriolic vicious jackals”
Well played, sir. Well played!
cain
Cain
@General Stuck:
That’s too bad because the all day drizzle was pretty much what I had to endure while camping this past weekend. We were waiting to go see Rush up near Seattle, and the whole damn day it was a drizzle.
Of course, after the 4 manhattans and two beers, I think we were ready to rock out and didn’t really give a shit about the weather by then! hah
BTW Rush was awesome.. They are so badass.
Litlebritdifrnt
@SIA:
I can do better than that, I can do a video of Lucky who had followed me out to the front yard (via the patio and the vegetable garden he is a houdini of the first order) enjoying the song of the Mocking Bird.
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v641/MsNick40/?action=view¤t=HPIM1401.mp4 He will be 15 this October.
SIA
@srv: @Litlebritdifrnt: Aw! I love Lucky! Groovin’ to the sounds of nature. What a sweetie.
That's Master of Accountancy to You, Pal (JMN)
@Cain:
I get to see them on the 27th, at the State Fairgrounds, which is a smaller venue than I’ve ever seen them in. Moving Pictures wouldn’t be my first choice for the album to hear all the way through, but it should be fun.
I do hope that there’s not too much from Snakes and Arrows in the set list. I really like the album, but they butchered most of the songs from it the two times I saw them on their last tour; it just looks like it’s too damned intricate to play on stage. Alex was so busy trying to work the pedals that the playing was off.
Regardless, I’ll enjoy them, even if I’m going with my ex-wife.
Calming Influence
Jaba the Tunch.
machine
Tunch looks ready to drop someone down to the rancor.
Devon
What the hell are you feeding Tunch? When I saw this picture I got the same feeling I get when I see an obese kid waddling out of Mcdonalds with a bad of fries clutched in his chubby fingers. Do I need to stage an “auntie” intervention????
licensed to kill time
Aw, Tunch looks like a big fluffy marshmallow with a cat head stuck on. S’mores!
asiangrrlMN
TUNCHIE! I luuuuuuuuurv that cat (and once again, Cole posts the pic when I’m incommunicado. Why do you hate me so, Cole?) Rosie is cute, too, though she does seem to be glaring at you.
@Litlebritdifrnt: Awwwww! Lucky is adorable!
It’s been beastly hot here. My AC conked out yesterday, and I was freaking out until I realized it was just a tripped circuit-breaker. Once I pushed it back in, ahhhhh! Sweet, cold relief.