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by John Cole|  January 22, 20121:41 am| 33 Comments

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Was in my pajama bottoms at 10 pm, got summoned to a gathering, now I am cooking for people and listening to Bowie.

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33Comments

  1. 1.

    hhex65

    January 22, 2012 at 1:44 am

    and still…no shirt

  2. 2.

    ruemara

    January 22, 2012 at 1:44 am

    You live a very wild life for a shut in with a blog. Now post some Tunch and food porn pics, please. And fix the fucking edit button.

  3. 3.

    Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn

    January 22, 2012 at 1:48 am

    Best. Status update. Ever. (Saturday night category)

  4. 4.

    Villago Delenda Est

    January 22, 2012 at 1:51 am

    I am cooking for people and listening to Bowie.

    All well and good, but any update on the status of the edit button?

  5. 5.

    Elizabelle

    January 22, 2012 at 1:53 am

    You do get around.

  6. 6.

    cmorenc

    January 22, 2012 at 1:54 am

    You’re cooking for people who just showed up just after 10pm at your home with you in pajama bottoms, or did you get bored and decide to invite them over to watch you cook in your pajama bottoms and listen to Bowie? BTW: I didn’t think there were too many people left who listen to David Bowie, or is this some avant-garde new Asian musician named Bo-Wie?

  7. 7.

    PeakVT

    January 22, 2012 at 1:54 am

    ‘Tough audience’ doesn’t begin to describe the crowd around here.

  8. 8.

    Gwangung

    January 22, 2012 at 1:56 am

    @PeakVT:

    ‘Tough audience’ doesn’t begin to describe the crowd around here.

    Indeed.

    Where’s my edit button, Cole??

  9. 9.

    cmorenc

    January 22, 2012 at 1:57 am

    OK, so you did say you were “summoned” to a gathering to cook for some other people. Or did they call to summon you to your kitchen to cook for them?

  10. 10.

    Sasha

    January 22, 2012 at 1:58 am

    Just occurred to me:

    Maybe Barney Frank lived a good enough life after all …

  11. 11.

    Martin

    January 22, 2012 at 1:59 am

    Huh. I wouldn’t take Tunch as a Bowie fan.

  12. 12.

    Villago Delenda Est

    January 22, 2012 at 2:01 am

    got summoned to a gathering

    OK, so someone hit the guild summon button and whisked you away to a kitchen, where you were put to immediate work chopping onions.

    Do I have that right?

  13. 13.

    cbear

    January 22, 2012 at 2:04 am

    …got summoned to a gathering..

    WTF?
    A “gathering” of what?
    Did you join a coven?
    Are you now part of some paramilitary group?

    Jeebus, with your record of being accident-prone, one can only hope they didn’t put you in charge of the dynamite or something.

  14. 14.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 22, 2012 at 2:05 am

    What Bowie? It matters.

  15. 15.

    MikeJ

    January 22, 2012 at 2:08 am

    @cbear: You make those things sound as if they’re mutually exclusive. I think it’s a paramilitary coven.

  16. 16.

    MikeJ

    January 22, 2012 at 2:09 am

    @Martin: Tunch is the fat white duke.

  17. 17.

    David Koch

    January 22, 2012 at 2:09 am

    ♫♫♫

    Put on your red shoes and dance with me…

  18. 18.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 22, 2012 at 2:11 am

    @Martin: Roxy Music?

  19. 19.

    Ripley

    January 22, 2012 at 2:15 am

    Queen bitch.

  20. 20.

    Satanicpanic

    January 22, 2012 at 2:18 am

    The best thing about Bowie was Mick Ronson

  21. 21.

    noodler

    January 22, 2012 at 2:19 am

    “was in pajama bottoms” and then what? cooking in flannel? sounds like a garage band.

  22. 22.

    yet another jeff

    January 22, 2012 at 2:23 am

    This too is a good day to be alive.

  23. 23.

    dead existentialist

    January 22, 2012 at 2:44 am

    Sleep deprivation or alcohol consumption.

    Or both.

    I do both.

    Don’t we all?

  24. 24.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 22, 2012 at 2:46 am

    @dead existentialist: I am just waiting for my cod to bake.

  25. 25.

    newhavenguy

    January 22, 2012 at 2:52 am

    Holy shit! Did anyone else notice that Newt’s ‘favorables’ are at… 26.9%?

    See “Crazification Factor” in the lexicon if you have any questions.

    http://polltracker.talkingpointsmemo.com/contest/us-favorability-gingrich

  26. 26.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 22, 2012 at 2:56 am

    @newhavenguy: No, really, it is time to panic. See earlier threads…

  27. 27.

    Bnut

    January 22, 2012 at 3:03 am

    I’d like to meet a history major from West Georgia College. Ask them if Newt the Gooch ever told them to pursue a different avenue of study, since the current GOP makeup (and the douches on comment sections on associated websites) have decided that the soft sciences are a bunch of malarkey. I’d then ask the old gasbag if he would have chosen a different path himself in his studies. My guess is he would dance around the question like fucking Baryshnikov while indicting me for being part of the liberal media and then try to screw my girlfriend after consulting his current wife to make sure she was ok with him sticking his half flaccid newt in her.

  28. 28.

    freelancer

    January 22, 2012 at 3:04 am

    “Kramer John Cole goes to a fantasy camp. His whole life is a fantasy camp. People should plunk down $2,000 to live like him for a week. Do nothing, fall ass-backwards into money, mooch food off your neighbors, and have sex without dating. That’s a fantasy camp.”

    Sorry to be engaging in the politics of envy.

  29. 29.

    freelancer

    January 22, 2012 at 3:15 am

    Also, is it a Godwin to note that if you end up siding and apologize on behalf of the Confederate States of America and say that your reasons have nothing to do with the moral issue of human slavery, is it then beyond the pale to consider the Nazi’s beef with Jews a simple matter of intolerance of non-Christians taking advantage of Biblical rules regarding Usury? After all, what’s being debated is monetary policy within the societies that are being discussed, it’s not a moral issue! Everyone knows gas chambers and slave owners’ whips are a moral affront, and now that those times are past, it’s time to let bygones be bygones!.

  30. 30.

    kindness

    January 22, 2012 at 3:21 am

    Are you still in your pajama bottoms?

  31. 31.

    Yutsano

    January 22, 2012 at 3:24 am

    @Bnut:

    then try to screw my girlfriend after consulting his current wife to make sure she was ok with him sticking his half flaccid newt in her.

    At which point you drop her like an MMA fighter on a roid binge.

  32. 32.

    beckya57

    January 22, 2012 at 6:26 pm

    I’m still waiting to hear which Bowie, and I do still listen to him, so knock off the snark.

  33. 33.

    virginia

    January 22, 2012 at 7:14 pm

    If the guy is gonna be a shithead from now until the end of time, can we not say, Newtonian, wanna talk about and be about the Ataturk now? A youthful Calista moment no doubt.

    The diff. betw. R and L. is that the right has no problem at all bringing up BS to grind the motherfucker down down and down.

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