Sorry I dropped off the face of the earth again, but it is homecoming weekend here and I had a bunch of commitments to deal with, and lots of people staying at my house, and fraternity stuff, so I just said to hell with it and let the other 85 people writing here take over. Made a killer Italian dinner, some sexy baguettes from scratch, and then there was drinking. This happened to one of my brothers:
I remember my first beer. Also, some of you have been pining for Rosie pics, so here you go. She is quite the life of the party these days, just so happy and wanting to be with anyone.
I’ll leave you with this:
I’ll probably be kind of awol again tomorrow because I have 40 people coming for a BBQ and about 15 lbs of ground beef, 10 lbs of chicken, and more kielbasa and hot dogs than I know what the fuck to do with.
General Stuck
Since it’s past midnight there in West Virginee, I do believe this is the first time I can remember John Cole going 24 hours, or a day, without posting a thread. Could be wrong about that, but not to worry, the zoo is being run by corner stone and mclaren, and assorted other characters of ill repute.
middlewest
MN Lynx are 2011 WNBA champions.
demz taters
Hey it’s that guy who used to write for this blog.
suzanne
@General Stuck:
LMAO.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
The Dangerman
Go back to sleep, Tunch.
Thank you Tigers and Cardinals; two of the best teams money can buy are already out of the playoffs. There are no Yankees, no Phillies, and FOX must be mortified about eyeballs for the World Series.
Alison
Don’t know if you saw, but Drum took you up on your challenge:
http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/10/friday-cat-blogging-7-october-2011
As much as I like Kevin and his cats, I think Tunch wins the Purring Gold Medal.
Alison
[Edited to delete repeated comment b/c FYWP took like nine years to post it and I got impatient, rawr.]
Short Bus Bully
John Cole, man of many talents whose house is apparently turning into the very center of West Virginia.
40 people for a BBQ? Rock on baby.
Chris from Arlington, VA
Kielbasa, or as we (former) Pittsburghers say, “Kolbossi.”
Uncle Clarence Thomas
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I remember my first beer.
If only President Obama were fiercely powerful enough to go back in time and arrest himself for smoking marijuana. Or at least go back in time and take back his promise not to persecute medical marijuana patients and their physicians. But I guess it’s for the best since he’s a good man and those losers need to suffer.
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amk
Will the american voters go back to being this stupid again?
http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/politicalcartoons/ig/Political-Cartoons/The-Rationale.htm
Bill E Pilgrim
Hmmm. If “the Balloon Juice blog” = “the face of the Earth” then all I can say is that Earth desperately needs a face lift.
But then we knew that.
I think would have chosen another body part. No, not that one. Sheesh. Maybe, I don’t know, the elbow? A small patch of skin on the lower back, sort of toward the left but extending to the center also? “Balloon Juice, the bunion of the blogosphere!” Hmm, no….
Yutsano
@amk: Apparently Dubya taught us nothing.
Alison
@Yutsano: You mean, our children wasn’t learning?
Kristine
Fucking having a life–how does it work?
Quite well, apparently.
Have fun, Cole.
SRW1
Somebody’s gotta look into all that feeding and liquoring of ‘people coming for a BBQ’! Has that Cole guy got a license to do that?
Corner Stone
@General Stuck: “I’ve thought about purple, until such time as I did not. Then those other times I considered rebuilding a diesel engine hair gel. We, here, know that chopsticks can sew goldfish. But other times they can not. Par 5s are a part of the stuffed animal scam, except other gold coins the mint didn’t make for hot tubs.”
amk
@Yutsano: That was twice. So the third time will be as unlucky ?
Probably Daily Mirror still has that front page photo from seven years ago. They don’t even have to change the picture.
Corner Stone
@demz taters:
Hey Look! It’s Enrico Pallazzo!
sfinny
It is so nice of John Cole to provide both a couch to sleep on, and a foot warming pooch. Really, does life get any better?
Anne Laurie
Truly, Balloon Juice is no longer the sawdust-on-the-floor place I virtual-walked into back in 2008. The phrases “fraternity stuff” and “sexy baguettes” appear in consecutive sentences, and nobody’s made any prurient jokes after a whole 45 minutes…
Corner Stone
@Anne Laurie:
It’s not that I didn’t want to AL. It’s just that in this New Era of Civility it’s sometimes difficult to draw the line on where making fun of Cole is OK and where it crosses over into derivative bashing of our differently oriented sexual brethren.
licensed to kill time
“It’s alive! It’s aliiive! It’s aliiiiiiiiiiiiiiive!
amk
governator opens his own museum in austria.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/1011/Schwarzenegger_inaugurates_his_museum.html
Isn’t a museum supposed to be for dead things ?
Guess arnie scores well on that front based on his (dead) ethics .
Corner Stone
And personally, I am soooo happy Roy Oswalt is not going to ever get a WS ring.
My ONLY regret is that the fucking Cards are still alive this season.
Corner Stone
Fuck You Roy Oswalt!!
scav
John Cole.
John.
Cole.
JohnColeJohnColeJohnColeJohnColeJohnColeJohnColeJohn ColeJohnColeJohnColeJohnColeJohColeJohnCole.
does sound familiar.
Or am I thinking of Juan? Nat King?
Amir Khalid
@Anne Laurie:
Gentrification. It happens to all the cool neighborhoods.
Anne Laurie
@Amir Khalid: Well, don’t blame me! :)
Amir Khalid
@amk:
Schwarzenegger’s hometown, Graz, used to have a football stadium named after him. One day, Governator Arnold made a public statement endorsing capital punishment. The city decided to take his name off the stadium.
Mnemosyne
I got a flu shot today and now I feel like crap. Just felt like sharing.
Yutsano
I find it astounding that Rosie has totally abandoned JC and no one else noticed. We must be off our game tonight.
asiangrrlMN
Rosie looks very comfy, Cole. I’m glad she’s feeling more secure and happy.
Bnut
The greatest photo thread of all time. Enjoy. Have to open the cafe at 9, and i’ve had too much wine. Roll Tide.
MGB
Yeah, sometimes ya come home after being out and about with friends. You check your internet device of choice and then come to this blog. And after all the yelling and screaming at one another in the comments, you come to a post like this, and it makes you just chuckle. Yeah, that’s why I stick around.
@Corner Stone:
You know…this lurker disagrees with you many a time…but you’re like the cool geek that gets to talk to the cool kids between classes at high school (cuz clearly this blog is adult high school)
MGB
Because a Rick James song sung by Eddie Murphy is several types of awesome
Yutsano
@Bnut:
Get a Maneki neko. You’ll thank me later.
Impossible. You survived Parris.
Go Broncs. :)
THE
@Yutsano:
One of the intriguing things about Windows 7 is that a lucky money cat is one of the log-on picture options for the individual user accounts.
Jason Stokes
Whenever John Cole blogs about his apparently eternally enduring piss-drunken Republican gay-bar crawling frat-boy persona I have to remind myself that this is a man who I otherwise respect enormously.
Just promise me: when you hit fifty, you’ll have grown out of this crap?
Ash Can
Shorter Jason Stokes: “How come I never get to do fun stuff??”
Omnes Omnibus
@Jason Stokes: I am sure John Cole soon will be posting a front page apology for not living his life exactly as you want him to live it.
Svensker
@MGB:
Love that song. Rick James, so good. All the good ones go too young.
quannlace
With all the past posts of all the mayhem Rosie has caused, I’m always amazed at how tiny she is!
CynDee
” . . . some of you have been pining for Rosie pics, so here you go. She is quite the life of the party these days, just so happy and wanting to be with anyone.”
This made my weekend! I don’t worry in the night anymore about the four Cole critters. Glad you all had a great time!. Cole Castle, WV is the place to be.
Linda Featheringill
Yay, Rosie.
Thanks, John. :-)
burnspbesq
ESPN.com is reporting that Al Davis has died.
Svensker
@burnspbesq:
Wikipedia confirms.
Are You Kidding Me
An elderly man that willingly refers to baguettes as sexy needs to get laid or some serious help.
dyz
@The Dangerman: As someone who has lived and died by the Phils since the days of Rick Wise, I’m quite sad today.
Corner Stone — now you know how Philadelphia feels about Curt Schilling.
MikeInSewickley
When someone asked Disney about his job, he said he didn’t do the hard work of actually drawing but was now acting like a bee – going from person to person and pollinating ideas.
Even if John goes AWOL for a while, the site he manages is still one of the best and I get my fill of news and links as needed from some of the best writers.
Besides, I get so sick of seeing the massive hypocrisy in America lately, I need the home aspects of the site. And I’m so glad to see Rosie becoming a real member of the Cole household – shows hope for humanity :-)
Corner Stone
WTF is wrong with you?