Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

“But what about the lurkers?”

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

Republicans do not trust women.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

The lights are all blinking red.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

Disappointing to see gov. newsom with his finger to the wind.

I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

You are here: Home / Pet Blogging / Dog Blogging / Almost there

Almost there

by | 79 Comments

This post is in: 

Another couple of hours and then beer.

For you Jewish commenters, the ninth day of Tishrei ends at sunset. That means that today’s the day to make amends! If any of you think that you’re pure as driven snow then you can start by apologizing for that.

I might as well lead off. It sucks that my blogging tapered way off in the last year or two. I can’t promise that I will do a lot better – work. life. yadda. – but I will try to write stuff more substantial than pics of my dog once in a while.

Speaking of which.

Couch potato

I could replace this with a live! Maxcam!, but the main difference is that you could hear him snore.

Reader Interactions

79Comments

  2. 2.

    trollhattan

    You should call Colbert on the AtonePhone. I’m certain you’ve wronged him in some way, during the last year. We all have.

    re. Max: Now that’s low-key lighting.

  3. 3.

    Trinity

    Max…FTW!

    Also, for those interested, Dogfish Head Brewery’s long awaited next batch of 120 IPA is now out. Hubby and I snatched up 4 bottles yesterday.

  8. 8.

    Tom Levenson

    Ten days of awe are hardly enough to handle my reflection and atonement needs. Therefore, I start off atoning for all that which I failed to atone for.

    Oh, and from tomorrow’s haftorah: Isiah 58 v. 6-7. I strive for same; rarely achieve it with whole mind, and take atonement for that lapse as the challenge to improve on my performance over the next year.

  9. 9.

    chopper

    For you Jewish commenters, the ninth day of Tishrei ends at sunset. That means that today’s the day to make amends! If any of you think that you’re pure as driven snow then you can start by apologizing for that.

    i’m sorry you’re such a jerk! eh, just getting it all out of the way before sundown. also, have to load up on dinner, cause i aint eating til saturday night.

  13. 13.

    dopealope

    Another great Max pic !!!

    My mother informed me the other day that their Vet’s (a doberman fanatic) doberman is having a litter in a month. She was wondering if I would be interested in a puppy. I am in all states of indecision. A Doberman, A German Shepherd Dog, and a Siamese Cat would make quite an entourage.

    Here’s my Parent’s Doberman and my German Shepherd Dog, a couple years back:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/dopealope/367678378/in/set-72157594496994793

  15. 15.

    Anya

    Tim F. – you can also apologize for that one time when you became a full-fledged hair on fire panicky firebagger. The worst part is that you interfered with the blog balance. If I remember correctly, DoughJ has to step in and do a thoughtful post. You need to keep the blog balance. This is how I see the bloggers here: (Tim F: sensible, thoughtful, and responsible for organizing when an issue is before the congress. DougJ (or whatever he’s called this week) is for trolling and doom and gloom scenarios with amusing titles. John: disappearance, drunk posts, GG imitation (meant to create the maximum flame wars) , pet porn with occasional thoughtful posts. Kay: local organizing and issues focused.

    I’d like to atone for …… it’ll come to me.

  18. 18.

    zmulls

    I’m not a religious person, haven’t been for years.

    And I am not a big sports fan either, even though Philly is a huge sports town.

    But…can anyone explain why Major League Baseball would schedule a playoff game on Yom Kippur? It’s not like it was an unavoidable error — everyone can easily check when Yom Kippur is going to occur.

    It just seems…..rude….

  19. 19.

    WaterGirl

    @jeffreyw: I’m sorry, I may have misunderstood, but don’t you have to be even a little bit sorry in order to atone for something? :-)

  21. 21.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @zmulls:

    No one at the head office being a religious Jew?

    They ignore things like Good Friday as well. They’re secular.

  26. 26.

    Corner Stone

    @Paul in KY:

    Can we stipulate the manner of your atonement?

    Certainly. I’ll pay for the Dominatrixes. Or is it Dominatrices?
    Can never remember.

  27. 27.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    the ninth day of Tishrei ends at sunset.

    That sounds like one of those things someone says to you to which you’re supposed to respond with some set phrase like “Yes, and it seems longer every year” after which you do the drop and exchange briefcases.

  29. 29.

    Corner Stone

    @jeffreyw: Dude, that is some righteously funny shit.
    I knew you had a sadistic streak by the way you taunt people here, but that’s good salami.

  30. 30.

    Corner Stone

    @chopper:

    well, there will be a whip involved.

    As long as you wear the same crotchless leather getup you had on last time, I am all in.

  32. 32.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @Corner Stone: I think the plural is dominoes. There’s a theory along those lines anyway.

    Or dalminatrixes, for those into being dominated by animals.

  33. 33.

    4jkb4ia

    Thanks, Tim F. I ask forgiveness from everyone I offended in the last year, especially the person who said “If I ever find out who you are, you’ll regret it” after I posted the spoiler that John had to delete.

  36. 36.

    Sentient Puddle

    @Trinity: Any word on how widely they’re distributing it? Last I heard, they weren’t shipping it nation-wide, and that’s one I’ve been really wanting to try for a while.

  38. 38.

    chopper

    aw, that was mean. so not in the spirit of yom kippur. CS, i’d like to apologize for you being a moron.

  40. 40.

    4jkb4ia

    @zmulls:

    “Display for us a sign for good, that we may see it and be consoled, for You, HASHEM, will have helped and consoled us”. That is the way I always think of it. Playoff baseball is a sure token of sincere prayer for me. It’s like a crutch. That said, when Green refused to play on Yom Kippur he became an instant hero to me even though he wasn’t very religious for most of the year.

  42. 42.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @chopper: Ah. Good point.

    I’m sort of assuming that Tim meant that this sunset was when the ninth day ended, that is, the sunset about to occur. Though actually sunset has already come and gone here so now I have no idea.

  44. 44.

    Three-nineteen

    A friend went on a Three Floyd’s run this past weekend. Three hours until Zombie Dust.

  50. 50.

    R-Jud

    @Tom Levenson:

    “[The Lord] says:
    Build up, build up a highway!
    Clear the road!
    Remove all obstacles
    From the road of My people!”

    Tax-and-spend Deity!

  51. 51.

    harlana

    OT, but I just heard that Westboro BC tweeted on their iphones that they would be picketing Steve Jobs’ funeral.

    ::headdesk::

  52. 52.

    J. Michael Neal

    @zmulls:

    But…can anyone explain why Major League Baseball would schedule a playoff game on Yom Kippur?

    The time is still listed as TBD, but I’d say that there’s a pretty good chance that it will be a night game, and so most of it will be after sundown.

    I’m torn. Tomorrow, I could go to the Gophers/St Cloud hockey game followed by a reception for the team (a lot less formal than it sounds) or go to the Second Annual Nerd Fest, thrown by Single Nerds at Heart. I’m steamed that they are at the same time.

    Edit: Gah. Once again, I post to a thread just as the next one is going up.

  53. 53.

    burnspbesq

    The bees have won Round One.

    The hive turns out to be inside a metal box embedded in the ground (probably an old irrigation control box that wasn’t removed when the neighborhood was developed in the 1960s). The best way to get it open is to remove a number of bolts that have a half century of rust on them. If that doesn’t work, it may be necessary to get in their with a power saw and cut off the top of the box.

    The invaders have withdrawn behind their lines to plot strategy and to bring up their most formidable siege-works. For the moment, the indigenous population remains in its ancestral stronghold.

    Stay tuned.

  55. 55.

    Roger Moore

    @zmulls:

    But…can anyone explain why Major League Baseball would schedule a playoff game on Yom Kippur? It’s not like it was an unavoidable error—everyone can easily check when Yom Kippur is going to occur.

    And you’d think that Bud Selig, of all people, would be aware of Jewish holidays. But MLB has never tried especially hard to avoid Yom Kippur, which is why there are famous stories about Jewish players sitting it out. To wit:

    Come Yom Kippur–holy fast day wide-world over to the Jew-
    And Hank Greenberg to his teaching and the old tradition true
    Spent the day among his people and he didn’t come to play.
    Said Murphy to Mulrooney, “We shall lose the game today!
    We shall miss him in the infield and shall miss him at the bat,
    But he’s true to his religion–and I honor him for that!”

  58. 58.

    trollhattan

    @Roger Moore:

    Yeah, I guess it’s as simple as that. And if bikers and Marines can’t get rid of them I don’t know what the mighty nerd armies can accomplish, other than sweet, sweet mockery.

    What am I saying? Let’s start a rumor that WBC has a prototype iPhone5. That kind of trouble they’ve never imagined.

  59. 59.

    Roger Moore

    @trollhattan:
    I think sweet, sweet mockery is the right way to go. Remember that WBC is basically a bunch of grifters who make money by provoking people into attacking them and then suing them for damages. Things that make them look evil help to provoke the attacks and thus help the grift. Mockery just makes them look stupid and pathetic, which is the exact opposite of their desired effect.

  60. 60.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Southern Beale:

    Chuck Todd just Tweeted that Sarah Palin is speaking at the “World Knowledge Forum” in Seoul next week.

    I’d stay away from that place, as you might be drawn into the singularity if you’re anywhere near it.

  61. 61.

    RSA

    It sucks that my blogging tapered way off in the last year or two.

    Blog about your microscopes! :-)

  66. 66.

    4jkb4ia

    John showed absolute good sense not being around today. But in his general direction, I send David Gray’s Babylon, if only because I had this thought on Tisha B’Av.

    G’mar v’ chatima tova to the Jewish commenters and posters–4jkb4ia out.

  67. 67.

    A Humble Lurker

    @Corner Stone:

    I suppose it is worthless effort. As has been said many times here before, nothing get’s through to people like the 27%. No matter how many times you tell them the sky is not green, freedom of speech does not mean you won’t get fired, or that they are almost always wrong when they believe they are always right.

    Ah well. Eternal optimist, me.

  68. 68.

    Corner Stone

    I just wish that for one time, one god forsaken time, people intent on insulting me weren’t so fucking boring about it.
    Damn people, I’ve given you everything I can to work with.

  69. 69.

    slag

    @Corner Stone:

    I just wish that for one time, one god forsaken time, people intent on insulting me weren’t so fucking boring about it.

    Perhaps you should consider the possibility that they’re rubber and you’re glue.

  73. 73.

    Corner Stone

    @chopper: Yeah, you and Humble Lurker both came up with stunning ripostes of “sad”.
    I await Uriel to stop by about 4:30am this morning to chime in as well with something so awesome it knocks my socks off. Then eemom can applaud it or co-sign it as earning her respect.
    Just brutal.

  74. 74.

    burnspbesq

    @ Corner Stone:

    You’re just not interesting enough for me to waste time or creativity on. I’d rather post transactions to my general ledger, or work on my taxes, or clean up my Outlook contact file that got corrupted when I moved it from the old firm’s server, or roll coins so I can deposit them.

    Yes, you are more dull than the dullest menial tasks I know of.

  75. 75.

    Corner Stone

    @burnspbesq: burnsy, you are about the worst liar on this board. The fact is that if it doesn’t have to do with music files normal human beings can’t hear, or indignations big corporations have suffered at the slander of the little man, you have no eyesight for it.
    The fucking day you bring an insult to me that is creative, insightful, funny or any combo is the day I never post here again.
    And I can say that with confidence because you have the biggest platinum rod shoved right up your 1% ‘er ass.
    So fuck you, and bring it. Or don’t. Wevs.

    Motherfucking Duke Alumni, Yankee Fan For Life.

  76. 76.

    chopper

    @Corner Stone:

    ugh. you’re about as funny as a retarded kid desperately trying to tie his shoes while getting dressed for his mom’s funeral. seriously, just quit now.

  77. 77.

    Corner Stone

    @chopper:

    you’re about as funny as a retarded kid desperately trying to tie his shoes while getting dressed for his mom’s funeral.

    Just to get this out there again. This is your rejoinder?

  78. 78.

    chopper

    you know, your posts actually come off as entertaining if you imagine them spoken in tucker carlson’s voice.

Comments are closed.