By the way, did I ever tell you that I got sent to this blog by an online friend when I got banned from another site for bitching about the mean girl commenters at that site on my own blog? I still laugh when I think about it.
Delicious homemade chicken curry soup. Or a Trader Joe’s pizza. I haven’t decided which, since I’m kind of tired of the soup, even though the recipe is definitely is a keeper.
John, you can eat what you want, I’m not your doctor or your mom…
But Dungeness crab…ah, that’s real nectar of the gods.
32.
J. Michael Neal
I’m headed to my first Asperger’s support group meeting this evening, as suggested by someone here. (Mnemosyne? Ailuridae? I can’t remember. Regardless, thanks.) We’ll see how it goes.
33.
ruemara
Sushi. I’m contrarian.
@Mike:
Uh, wow. Maureen will not be insulted, based on the sample drawing. Her special powers are obviously that body.
@Billy K: A nice PC vs. Mac flamewar should set things right around here.
What about Linux? Then the old timers can bring up MVS. Or OS/2. And for real fun, a Unix vs VMS war. or vi vs emacs.
36.
Anne Laurie
Dude, in your eagerness to set up a really sparkling house party, you gave a set of keys to a candyarse who won’t either sack up or GBCW. We all make mistakes, but pretending DougJ is the one at fault is like kicking the dog because you left the gerbil cage open and the little rodents are shitting everywhere and chewing through the electrical cords.
No pizza, no tacos — soup and an early bedtime for you!
John, if you could ever get a date, you could get some fish tacos.
Yeah, I said it.
Sadly, I was thinking it. I was going to tie in the circle-jerk to wanting to munch on a taco. I couldn’t figure a way to make it work so I wisely walked away.
Dude, in your eagerness to set up a really sparkling house party, you gave a set of keys to a candyarse who won’t either sack up or GBCW. We all make mistakes, but pretending DougJ is the one at fault is like kicking the dog because you left the gerbil cage open and the little rodents are shitting everywhere and chewing through the electrical cords.
I’m going to respectfully disagree with my colleague Anne Laurie. Although she’s a fantastic person and I have much respect for her work as a reporter, I feel the need to carefully clarify my feelings on her previous post.
With respect, it’s not that he’s a candyarse but rather he’s a twit.
I hope you’ll still continue to consider inviting me to your quail BBQ’s.
Sincerely and with much affectionate respect for my honorable collegial colleague,
Corner Stone
51.
BombIranForChrist
I will vote for a taco, but only because Palin is wacky and must be stopped!
52.
duck-billed placelot
Anne Laurie x2.
DougJ is great. Even his emo posts are better than Kain’s.
I see four suggestions for Taco Pizza (which presumably is a pizza topped with Mexican-spiced ground beef, diced tomatoes, cheddar cheese and shredded lettuce) but none for Pizza Tacos, which could be a taco shell (or fried pasta) containing pepperonis, marinara sauce, and mozzarella.
A nice PC vs. Mac flamewar should set things right around here.
Sorry, it will be a PC vs Linux Vs Mac.
cain
57.
kindness
@El Tiburon: No Biting! Ouch…. He won’t get a second date that way.
58.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@New Yorker: I carry around a portion of the Texas declaration of secession to point out that it was about slavery. I guess I’ll have to make a shirt about it.
59.
schrodinger's cat
Also, pizza or tacos?
Depends on my mood, I made some pizza this Sunday, with
some homemade ground turkey kebabs, sun-dried tomatoes, homemade pesto and fresh mozerella and red onions.
60.
jl
What has happened to this sanitary landfill crisis blog?
It’s run by a brutal minded gluttonous arrogant white fat cat, so what do people expect, anyway?
Another arts and crafts fair will fix everything. When has Atlantic every had an arts and crafts fair?
Edit: on second thought, the real identity of this blog is its hatred of good old fashioned all American Xtianity. Tacos and pizza? It’s Christmas time. You can’t even bend as far as tamales? No, you can’t.
This miserable lefty blog will never call off it’s War on Christmas, and will always be a tool of Satan.
Which reminds me, I am in the mood for Christmas tamales, and need to start making arrangements. Piss on tacos and pizza until January.
With respect, it’s not that he’s a candyarse but rather he’s a twit.
With (no) respect, I got called worse things than twit when I started posting here, as did every other new front-pager since, not excepting Randhino. The problem is that He Who Must Not Be Tweaked keeps running to tell daaaaaaddddy… when he’s not badmouthing all of us elsewhere. Own yer shite or lose it, that’s the Balloon Juice motto.
People were trolling World Cup posts? God I love this place.
69.
Fuck! A Duck
Anne Laurie: SRSLY, I love you.
Have you ever considered dating waterfowl?
70.
Just Some Fuckhead
Much as I love Anne Laurie and one, maybe two of the commenters, I really can’t get on the Kill ED Kain bandwagon. He and his ilk may be responsible for most of the problems in the world but Balloon Juice was sucking wind way before he showed up.
Other than that, the only thing that grates on me is the completely nepotistic/insidery method by which jobs are awarded around here. I never even saw a posting for Balloon Juice Ombudsman. Not that I was interested, of course, but you still interview for everything. Just good practice.
I should have spoken up then because my dream job of Angry Black Lady was just cavalierly handed over to someone of dubious qualifications.
71.
eemom
Thus endeth the circle jerk.
Weeeeellll! Aren’t WE the it’s-my-blog bully-pulpiters…..
72.
BGinCHI
@Cris: I made him cry and had to apologize at one point.
I think it was because he was saying nice things about Arsenal.
@New Yorker: The Civil War sesquicentennial is going to be an orgy of neo-confederate bullshit, sadly. Ms. Redshift works at a museum in Alexandria, VA, so I’ve been hearing from the staff there about the kind of assholes who are coming to the meetings to plan local events (not the only people there, just to be clear.)
At the most recent meeting, one of the staff from the Black History Museum was presenting ideas for including the history of African-Americans and women in the events (Alexandria was Union-occupied, making it the southernmost location for slaves to escape to, so there’s lots of Civil War African-American history there.) Next, a woman stood up who had pretty obviously not been paying any attention to the previous speaker, and declared, “Your sort wouldn’t have been very comfortable here in those days!”
The one saving grace, I suppose, is that her sort are not especially comfortable in this area now.
but pretending DougJ is the one at fault is like kicking the dog because you left the gerbil cage open and the little rodents are shitting everywhere and chewing through the electrical cords.
Huh. I thought John Cole was kidding.
No?
OK.
Well, in that case…Go fuck yourself, Cole, I’m on Team DougJ.
More sad pet news. My bestest buddy Al was put to sleep today. He started acting like he was sick yesterday – no appetite and he seemed kind of weak. I took him to the vet today and she said she thought he had a tumor. His red blood cell count was really low, probably the result of internal bleeding, which must have started yesterday. She found blood in his abdomen. She said he might last another 2 weeks, although it might be much quicker. I decided to have her put him to sleep today rather than wait for him to die from the blood loss. I’m really going to miss him. He was seldom more than 5 feet from me throughout the day and slept beside my bed at night. The house seems awful empty tonight.
92.
wmd
pizza or tacos
You some kind a furner? Chili cheese dogs or hamburgers? Or steak if you want to get all elitest or sometin.
@4tehlulz: Pizza in Rome is a wonderful food. Tacos in Baja are, if not wonderful, certainly a very enjoyable food. I refuse to get rid of either such food.
Tacos at Taco Bell, and Pizza at Pizza Hut, on the other hand, can be skipped.
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Redshirt
Taco Pizza, clearly.
taylormattd
Answer: taco pizza.
kdaug
Then he’ll fit right in.
taylormattd
@Redshirt: Damn you.
Edgar Allahu Akbar Poe
Pizza and tacos. Duh.
Nellcote
Fresh dungeness crab! We’re having a good season this year. Yay!
Zandar
Show me on the collective blog where John Cole just punched you.
Sean
Pizzacos!
fouro
Tacos wrapped in pizza. DougJ can sit with us at the kids table.
Bnut
@Nellcote: Mmmmmm, fresh dungeness with garlic butter. That was a good vacation to SF.
Sue
I respectfully disagree.
Spiffy McBang
@Redshirt:
We sell this where I work. I don’t know how anyone eats it.
Cap'n Phealy
Sourdough with brie, motherfuckers!!!1!
Redshirt
@taylormattd: Yes! And a tasty damnation it is!
Seriously, though – crumble tortilla chips on top of the cooked piece of pizza, dip in a little salsa, mmmm-mmm: Taco Pizza.
Zandar
pizzaco?
taizza?
Billy K
A nice PC vs. Mac flamewar should set things right around here.
Rosalita
Definitely tacos… good ones, from SoCal…oh the memories
freelancer
I don’t believe it, I’m surrounded by assholes!
geg6
Yeah, but he’s OUR asshole.
By the way, did I ever tell you that I got sent to this blog by an online friend when I got banned from another site for bitching about the mean girl commenters at that site on my own blog? I still laugh when I think about it.
catclub
@Billy K:
Not when Linux rulz, newbie!
Midnight Marauder
Oh, the jerking has only just begun in the circle, John Cole.
It has only just begun…
geg6
@Redshirt:
That’s so disgusting that now I’m put off my dinner.
I really don’t think that’s what is meant by the foodie term “fusion.”
Very Reverend Crimson Fire of Compassion
You say that (asshole) like it’s a bad thing.
t jasper parnell
Taco pizzas, obviously. Kumbiya also too
ETA: He said proving his redundant redundancy
Peter VE
Risotto alla seppia nera. Mac already won the war.
numbskull
Nah, Mac v PC is so 1990s.
And iPhone v Droid is so mid-aughts.
Teh reel discushun is: Incredible v X…
Keith G
Anchovy tacos.
Bob Loblaw
Your blog is bad and you should feel bad.
Mike
Tough call. I had tacos Saturday night, so pizza.
This looks incredible:
http://traditionalcomics.blogspot.com/2010/11/benjamin-marras-incredibly-fantastic.html
General Stuck
I hate everyone
Pizza please!
martha
Delicious homemade chicken curry soup. Or a Trader Joe’s pizza. I haven’t decided which, since I’m kind of tired of the soup, even though the recipe is definitely is a keeper.
John, you can eat what you want, I’m not your doctor or your mom…
But Dungeness crab…ah, that’s real nectar of the gods.
J. Michael Neal
I’m headed to my first Asperger’s support group meeting this evening, as suggested by someone here. (Mnemosyne? Ailuridae? I can’t remember. Regardless, thanks.) We’ll see how it goes.
ruemara
Sushi. I’m contrarian.
@Mike:
Uh, wow. Maureen will not be insulted, based on the sample drawing. Her special powers are obviously that body.
Sentient Puddle
@numbskull: What about 2?
qwerty42
@Billy K:
A nice PC vs. Mac flamewar should set things right around here.
What about Linux? Then the old timers can bring up MVS. Or OS/2. And for real fun, a Unix vs VMS war. or vi vs emacs.
Anne Laurie
Dude, in your eagerness to set up a really sparkling house party, you gave a set of keys to a candyarse who won’t either sack up or GBCW. We all make mistakes, but pretending DougJ is the one at fault is like kicking the dog because you left the gerbil cage open and the little rodents are shitting everywhere and chewing through the electrical cords.
No pizza, no tacos — soup and an early bedtime for you!
qwerty42
@Mike: Jesu Christi. MoDo?
The Dangerman
Well, that ending was rather anticlimactic.
Women have a lot to complain about, but they should be thankful for the inability to get blue balls.
El Tiburon
No duh. Not really. DougJ is cool.
Not where I’m sitting.
Go to Taco Bell as I believe they serve both. Then visit toilet to re-visit your dinner.
slag
You forgot to mention how much you respect his work.
Alex S.
I can’t decide.
Punchy
John, if you could ever get a date, you could get some fish tacos.
Yeah, I said it.
El Tiburon
@Bob Loblaw:
Bad as in ‘bad-ass’ or just ‘bad’?
demkat620
I had pizza for lunch so, Pasta with Chicken Sausage.
Cole Moore Odell
I’m at the Pizza Hut. I’m at the Taco Bell. I’m at the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ8ViYIeH04
New Yorker
Via Little Green Footballs:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/us/30confed.html?ref=us
Ah yes, “states rights”, well, except for the rights of northern states to ignore fugitive slave laws….
Anyway, maybe while they’re having their “secession ball” in Charleston, I’ll have a little “torch Atlanta” party with my Yankee friends.
kdaug
As soon as this recent spate of blogospheric navel-gazing passes, I’m going out for BBQ.
I’m a contrarian. Just how I roll.
BGinCHI
I like DougJ, but I think we’re back to recasting him as Timothy Spall when the BJ movie goes into production.
El Tiburon
@Punchy:
Sadly, I was thinking it. I was going to tie in the circle-jerk to wanting to munch on a taco. I couldn’t figure a way to make it work so I wisely walked away.
Glad you stuck with it.
Corner Stone
@Anne Laurie:
I’m going to respectfully disagree with my colleague Anne Laurie. Although she’s a fantastic person and I have much respect for her work as a reporter, I feel the need to carefully clarify my feelings on her previous post.
With respect, it’s not that he’s a candyarse but rather he’s a twit.
I hope you’ll still continue to consider inviting me to your quail BBQ’s.
Sincerely and with much affectionate respect for my honorable collegial colleague,
Corner Stone
BombIranForChrist
I will vote for a taco, but only because Palin is wacky and must be stopped!
duck-billed placelot
Anne Laurie x2.
DougJ is great. Even his emo posts are better than Kain’s.
Nellcote
We need a Tunch pic as a palate cleanser.
Cris
I see four suggestions for Taco Pizza (which presumably is a pizza topped with Mexican-spiced ground beef, diced tomatoes, cheddar cheese and shredded lettuce) but none for Pizza Tacos, which could be a taco shell (or fried pasta) containing pepperonis, marinara sauce, and mozzarella.
Unless that’s what a “pizzaco ” is.
Corner Stone
@Punchy:
He had a “date” with a Brazilian but when she casually dropped how much it would cost him he decided to go back to his room and blog away his angst.
Cain
@Billy K:
Sorry, it will be a PC vs Linux Vs Mac.
cain
kindness
@El Tiburon: No Biting! Ouch…. He won’t get a second date that way.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@New Yorker: I carry around a portion of the Texas declaration of secession to point out that it was about slavery. I guess I’ll have to make a shirt about it.
schrodinger's cat
Depends on my mood, I made some pizza this Sunday, with
some homemade ground turkey kebabs, sun-dried tomatoes, homemade pesto and fresh mozerella and red onions.
jl
What has happened to this sanitary landfill crisis blog?
It’s run by a brutal minded gluttonous arrogant white fat cat, so what do people expect, anyway?
Another arts and crafts fair will fix everything. When has Atlantic every had an arts and crafts fair?
Edit: on second thought, the real identity of this blog is its hatred of good old fashioned all American Xtianity. Tacos and pizza? It’s Christmas time. You can’t even bend as far as tamales? No, you can’t.
This miserable lefty blog will never call off it’s War on Christmas, and will always be a tool of Satan.
Which reminds me, I am in the mood for Christmas tamales, and need to start making arrangements. Piss on tacos and pizza until January.
Catsy
Well, yes. But we appreciate that.
That’s not the same thing as being a tedious hack.
Cris
@schrodinger’s cat: Am I the only one who likes to pronounce “sun-dried” as though it is the past participle of “sundry?”
trollhattan
Spaghetti tacos?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/dining/06tacos.html
Having an 8 YO of the grrl persuasion, I swear to bog they exist.
Poopyman
I see Levenson has stepped on The Boss’s post. Time to go upstairs and wreck the joint.
Anne Laurie
@Corner Stone:
With (no) respect, I got called worse things than twit when I started posting here, as did every other new front-pager since, not excepting Randhino. The problem is that He Who Must Not Be Tweaked keeps running to tell daaaaaaddddy… when he’s not badmouthing all of us elsewhere. Own yer shite or lose it, that’s the Balloon Juice motto.
fourlegsgood
Tacos. Always.
specialed5000
I prefer wieners.
Cris
People were trolling World Cup posts? God I love this place.
Fuck! A Duck
Anne Laurie: SRSLY, I love you.
Have you ever considered dating waterfowl?
Just Some Fuckhead
Much as I love Anne Laurie and one, maybe two of the commenters, I really can’t get on the Kill ED Kain bandwagon. He and his ilk may be responsible for most of the problems in the world but Balloon Juice was sucking wind way before he showed up.
Other than that, the only thing that grates on me is the completely nepotistic/insidery method by which jobs are awarded around here. I never even saw a posting for Balloon Juice Ombudsman. Not that I was interested, of course, but you still interview for everything. Just good practice.
I should have spoken up then because my dream job of Angry Black Lady was just cavalierly handed over to someone of dubious qualifications.
eemom
Weeeeellll! Aren’t WE the it’s-my-blog bully-pulpiters…..
BGinCHI
@Cris: I made him cry and had to apologize at one point.
I think it was because he was saying nice things about Arsenal.
I just couldn’t stand it.
freelancer
@Fuck! A Duck:
What you have in mind probably isn’t considered “dating”, I suspect.
Matt Mangels
Circle Jerk? Why don’t we just keep talking about politics and keep our dicks in our pants?
Fuck! A Duck
freelancer: I suppose it all depends on precisely how free you are with that lance.
Jeff
I went through a similar dilemma for years, only mine was pizza vs. nachos. I settled on pizza, and I have absolutely no idea why. hope that helps.
New Yorker
@Belafon (formerly anonevent):
A number of commenters at LGF mentioned that every state that seceded mentioned slavery in the secession document.
This whitewash of history angers me even more than the attempt to make the founding fathers into Jesus freaks.
Redshift
@geg6: I won’t tell you about Szechuan Pizza, then…
matoko_chan
you are all assholes.
J.W. Hamner
I just had some tacos al pastor and a pupusa from the Salvadorian place up the street. First time going there… good stuff… and cheap.
So you could have tacos, but then you would totally be copying me.
Suck It Up!
Pizza! Pizza!
Redshift
@New Yorker: The Civil War sesquicentennial is going to be an orgy of neo-confederate bullshit, sadly. Ms. Redshift works at a museum in Alexandria, VA, so I’ve been hearing from the staff there about the kind of assholes who are coming to the meetings to plan local events (not the only people there, just to be clear.)
At the most recent meeting, one of the staff from the Black History Museum was presenting ideas for including the history of African-Americans and women in the events (Alexandria was Union-occupied, making it the southernmost location for slaves to escape to, so there’s lots of Civil War African-American history there.) Next, a woman stood up who had pretty obviously not been paying any attention to the previous speaker, and declared, “Your sort wouldn’t have been very comfortable here in those days!”
The one saving grace, I suppose, is that her sort are not especially comfortable in this area now.
arguingwithsignposts
@Redshift:
Maybe Cole should change the color of the blog banner to represent, or something equally active and bloggy like.
Nellcote
@Matt Mangels:
As they say on L&O, “assuming facts not in evidence”.
4tehlulz
Your dinner would improve significantly if you got rid of two of those foods.
I have two in mind, but it would be impolite to say which ones.
geg6
@Just Some Fuckhead:
I’m assuming I’m one of those. And no one said they wanted him killed. Maimed would be fine with me.
slag
@Anne Laurie:
Huh. I thought John Cole was kidding.
No?
OK.
Well, in that case…Go fuck yourself, Cole, I’m on Team DougJ.
Jay in Oregon
@Midnight Marauder:
…did not need that mental image…
Corner Stone
@Anne Laurie: Personally I enjoy it when you wake up with the cranky pants on.
MattR
In sad news, Tunch’s big brother Prince Chunk has passed away.
John - A Motley Moose
More sad pet news. My bestest buddy Al was put to sleep today. He started acting like he was sick yesterday – no appetite and he seemed kind of weak. I took him to the vet today and she said she thought he had a tumor. His red blood cell count was really low, probably the result of internal bleeding, which must have started yesterday. She found blood in his abdomen. She said he might last another 2 weeks, although it might be much quicker. I decided to have her put him to sleep today rather than wait for him to die from the blood loss. I’m really going to miss him. He was seldom more than 5 feet from me throughout the day and slept beside my bed at night. The house seems awful empty tonight.
wmd
You some kind a furner? Chili cheese dogs or hamburgers? Or steak if you want to get all elitest or sometin.
Steeplejack
@John – A Motley Moose:
My condolences to you. It’s tough when they go. Remember the good times.
slag
@John – A Motley Moose @MattR: So sad for both of you. Deepest condolences.
Left Coast Tom
@4tehlulz: Pizza in Rome is a wonderful food. Tacos in Baja are, if not wonderful, certainly a very enjoyable food. I refuse to get rid of either such food.
Tacos at Taco Bell, and Pizza at Pizza Hut, on the other hand, can be skipped.