This is a particularly unflattering picture of Tunch from an angle that makes him look fatter than he is (hey- EVEN HEIDI KLUM HAS BAD PICTURE DAYS YOU ASSHOLES), but I felt the need to post it anyway:
I just love that fat cat of mine.
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Yutsano
I shall alert the proper authorities. In the meantime:
TUNCHKITTEH!!
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
“I just love that fat cat of mine.”
I hear Winona Ryder’s voice in Beetlejuice with that line.
Eljai
In all fairness to Tunch, I do not look good from that angle either.
eastriver
Which way is he facing? It’s hard to tell with him sitting in that white ottoman.
Abstruse
Get that cat on a diet, it’s sad.
Dead Earnest (a physician, btw)
@ JC,
I do recall, after you posted (and lamented) the picture of your own dear self, that was the content of about every third post, encouraging you to not be so tough on how you thought you looked.
Your cat looks endearing.
danielx
He does look particularly rotund in that picture, but then most of the cats who have been gracious enough to allow me to share their living quarters have looked the same way. With the exception of the Oriental Shorthair, who you’d be hard pressed to say was even of the same species. Poetry in motion.
danielx
Also, too: Tunch does look seriously relaxed in that full meatloaf position.
Dead Ernest
Whoa. Where did editing option disappear to?
The ‘physican btw’ was only intended for a prior medically related comment.
Not quite that quick to admit, let alone appear to be bragging about it.
Cheers.
satanicpanic
Looks like a big comfy pillow
robertdsc-PowerBook
I wonder if Venus could ever make a transit of Tunch.
Mister Papercut
I somehow missed the pre-photo explanation and legit wondered, before the scrolldown, “Why is Cole posting a picture of a white ushanka?”
@eastriver:
That’s it: he’s a Necker Cat!
ellie
Kitteh!
Joey Maloney
Wow, that looks like a bleached-out photo of the late, great Pinkwater Bonaduce, Twenty-Plus Pounds Of Hot, Snarling Feline Love. She was probably my favorite cat ever. She adopted us one cold Christmas morning by plastering herself against the kitchen bay window while I was making pancakes. She was living rough in a rural area, declawed, starved down to less than 7 pounds. (We found out later that she had belonged to a family who had a little boy die of leukemia and in their grief and chaos the cat was just forgotten.)
She did pretty much nothing but eat the first six weeks we had her, sometimes pausing to puke right next to the bowl before she resumed chowing down, eventually ballooning to the size you see. She had a tortie voice and a tortie personality – she’d jump onto the bed (a sight to see in itself) and press herself against me, then spit and snarl the whole time I petted her. “I hate this! I hate you! I hate everything! …Ooh, keep doing that.”
Among her many accomplishments was winning a prize in the masquerade of our local science fiction convention: Best Costume By A Non-Human for her portrayal of Pyanfar Chanur (in sparkly red trousers and a drop earring).
She died as she lived, bizarrely, contracting some kind of intestinal cancer even the specialty vet had never seen before. He misdiagnosed it as benign, which is the only reason we spent the equivalent of half a used car on surgery, which gave her another six months before it recurred. But Pinkwater lives on, both in my memories and in the form of some cell culture slides somewhere deep in the bowels of the Tulane vet school.
Pinkwater
robertdsc-PowerBook
Ryan Cooper at WaMo (Benen’s old place) is firebagging it up and it really irritates me.
freelancer
OMFG. It’s an albino version of the proverbial Twinkie referred to in Ghostbusters!
Any fourfold cross-rips happening in WV?
Spaghetti Lee
That cat’s got giant pixels on his back! You should really see a vet about that.
srv
I don’t think he’ll make a good catcopter when he passes on to kitteh heaven.
Roger Moore
FTFY.
PurpleGirl
Tunch kitteh is fluffly and looks, oh so, cuddily.
PurpleGirl +1 rum&coke (waiting for the vibrations to stop)
Dead Ernest
@Joey Maloney:
A well told and heartwarming story Joey.
Caused me to reflect on sweet lost feline pals.
Enjoyed the pic as well. thx.
Amir Khalid
As I write this, I have a much skinnier (and black) cat sleeping on my bed. They look so cute, don’t they, when they’re not biting your shin to demand attention.
slag
Mmmm…giant marshmallow.
Just now finished watching Sherlock per people’s recommendations. Question: Are we, at this point, supposed to be thinking the brother’s behind it all and truly is Holmes’ arch enemy? I can’t decide.
jl
Thanks. That pic is a keeper. Pure relaxation and contentment.
He must be fluffy not fat, since I understand Tunch has been on a healthful slimming diet for quite awhile now.
Whether he is fat or fluffy, I don’t understand “he looks fatter than he is”. Is that come kind of idiom like “bigger than everything”?
And the pic is very blurry. I assume the intense graviTunchinal waves distorted the lens.
Joe Max
Catloaf!
Rich C.
@srv: catcoptur?
More like http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/PointMugu2004/Highlights/C130jBanking.jpg
YellowJournalism
From this angle, Tunch looks like a Pope hat.
SamR
That is a solid amount of cat right there.
YellowJournalism
So I’m watching The Daily Show with Gary Johnson as the guest. Johnson says he’s a libertarian, but I say he’s a liar. Anyone who calls Dems the “Democrat Party” is really a Republican.
Or an asshole.
Yutsano
@YellowJournalism: I maintain these are not mutually exclusive.
Alison
@Yutsano: I’d go so far as to say one necessarily implies the other, more often than not.
Dee Loralei
@Joey Maloney: that was a great story. And what a lovely fluffy kitty Pinkwater was.
@robertdsc-PowerBook: Thank you. When I was reading WaMo today, I got mightily irked with his writing. Dear God, how does Ed Kilgore get a guy like that to be him for a day?I don’t like Kilgore nearly as much as I love Benen, but Ryan Cooper is the total opposite as those two gentlemen.
For Kilgore, I hope his dual family medical emergencies end soon with everyone re-cooperating. And For me, I hope he never asks Cooper to stand-in for him again.
In personal news, my son was held up at gun point last night at the restaurant where he works. He said it only lasted like 8 seconds, chick pointed a gun at him and told him to sit back down, when he got up to seat them. Guy grabbed the cash register, ripped it out of the wall, and they both left. He called me at 3:45 to tell me he was OK. And then he had to head to downtown Memphis main police station to sign his statement and look at mug shots. He got home around 10 AM, and I finally took a nap for a few hours. 21 hours later, I’m still a bit agitated. He’s off for the next few days. This all happened on a pretty busy main thoroughfare in a nice ‘burb.
I told him that was the worst phone call about him I better ever receive. Because it surely could have been much more devastating.
My oldest niece graduates HS this Friday and got a full-ride scholarship to Washington and Lee. She got others, but that’s the one she accepted. My oldest nephew just finished his first year at West Point and is now at Fort Benning in Georgia for a few weeks undergoing Ranger training. He’s having fun jumping out of planes. He’s on the West Point Crew Team with Justice Scalia’s grandson. My Sis met Scalia at some race a month ago. She was thrilled. (Yes, my sister is a far-right-wing Christian Conservative.) My folks are off to PA on Thursday for graduation festivities. And I turn 50 the following Thursday. And I was really hopeful about the re-call today. So it’s been a damned weird few weeks over-all.
Don’t despair folks, get out and join your local OFA group. Sign up at BarackObama.com your local group will call you. Or if you go to find an event near me, you can get clued in that way. Help your local Dem party. Offer to man the phones, or drive voters to polls, or even to stuff envelopes. We can win this thing again. We can hold the Senate, we can re-take the House. In 2008 I did poll watching and had a blast on election day. Protecting the rights of voters to actually vote on election day is a very important job, especially in red states. They really want lawyers to help with election integrity.
Don’t let the Wisconsin vote get you down. Remember the joy and awe you felt when those Cheeseheads were out there day after day in the rain and sleet and snow, they showed real democracy in action during their protests 15 months ago.
They over-reached, tried to take down a Gov with 50% approval state-wide. Yea it was dumb of the 16% of Dems who are Obama voters to have gone for Walker. And yea it was really sad when 38% of Union households voted for him. And it absolutely totally sucked when the fire and police unions decided to re-endorse Walker. And what the hell were the Dems thinking re-nominating the guy who lost to Walker less than 2 years ago?
That said, the liberals and Dems in Wisconsin are mostly all awesome and inspiring.(So methinks John Cole will be eating crow on that comment soon, too.) When you despair, the Repugs win. Carry with you all those photos of those self-same people protesting in the frigid winter. Much good was gained by the state Senate Dems leaving the state, much strength can be found in those months long protests at the WI statehouse.
Maybe the Dems over-reached, maybe they forced one too many votes on the state. I have no idea why they lost, I imagine it was a bunch of different reasons and each one whittled a teeny-tiny percentage fraction of a point off the outcome.
But what the hell do I know? Stay engaged, volunteer and donate as if your life depends on it, because it does!
sophronia
From that angle he looks like he ate an iPad.
Enjoy the fat cat. My 18-year-old feline has dropped to four and a half pounds these days, but is still eating like a horse and astonishing the vets at each visit. Still enjoys her hobbies of glaring out the window and throwing things off our desks also.
Hill Dweller
@YellowJournalism: Johnson is a charlatan. I saw him on Chris Hayes’ show months ago, and he was awful when trying to answer a legitimate question.
Stewart has become a massive douchebag recently. The show also sucks more often than not these days. It is starting to become like SNL. A great place for new talent before moving on to bigger things, but the show just can’t maintain its quality.
Nellcote
@Hill Dweller:
He actually had Mann and Ornstein on the other night and spent the show insisting that “both sides do it”. Considering how little media time they’re getting, it was just infuriating.
Mister Papercut
@Joey Maloney:
So, was this some sort of interpretive dance depicting the relationship of the Teabaggers to the GOP?
She sounds like an in interesting beastie. The ones that keep us on our toes are always the best.
Hill Dweller
@Nellcote: I’ve watched that show religiously since Stewart took over for Kilborn, and could count on two hands how many episodes I’ve missed. But in the last few months, I’ll only watch it if the guest is good; even then it’s usually just the interview.
The Other Chuck
Got a new beanbag chair I see. Where’s the cat?
Liquid
Does Tunch share his portfolio with you, John?
Ed Dane Defender of Donuts
Sumo Cat Wrestling … Enter Tunch against another cat …
asiangrrlMN
TUUUUUUUUUNCHIE! There’s my boy! He’s not fat – he’s big-boned. Plus, that’s a bad angle for anyone. Regardless, thanks for the Tunchie pic, Cole!
SectarianSofa
Blog adds 20 pounds.
Pat In Massachusetts
I’m waiting for Lady Gaga to pop out of him!
harlana
Mr. Staypuft takes a nap
harlana
…preparing for his solar transit
BD of MN
I realize I’m probably trolling a dead thread, but we too have a fat cat, and we like to call that pose “The Supertanker”…
Ben Cisco
That is one seriously big-boned cat.
Maude
@Ben Cisco:
And floofy.
Patricia Kayden
Tunch could pass as a white rabbit.
gnomedad
He looks like a toaster cozy.
brantl
That’s not a cat, that’s a concrete block, covered in fur.
Trinity
He’s square.
Awesome.
chopper
@SectarianSofa:
how many blogs does this cat have then?
Fester Addams
Satellite imagery of Trunch sitting around the house.
AnnaN
Ohhh, a cat head stuck on round bath rug.
schrodinger's cat
Jabba the Tunch says, bring me Solo and the Cookie. I have 2 kittehs, they both eat the same food, one is slim and lithe and the other one looks like an orange Tunch, go figure.
muddy
@schrodinger’s cat: I have the same situation here. The black cat is slim and lithe, the Russian Blue tuxedo cat has the exact same body style as Tunch. Different personality though, he is afraid of most everything. You’d think the constant nerves and skittering off would keep him slim, but no. I told him his stress levels probably affected his cortisol and that was why he was so enorm. I’m sure that made him feel better about himself.
gogol's wife
@muddy:
That sounds like my black-and-white enormous tuxedo cat Louis. He is scared of his own shadow. I love him so much.
muddy
@gogol’s wife: Mine seems to be afraid of the sky. He likes the porch but rarely goes off it. Then he is looking up over his shoulder at the sky and you can just see the mental shudder. Once he went to the end of the front path, and then would not even use the porch for a week while he recovered from that.
Good mouser though.
Sour Kraut
That’s no cat. That’s a space station.
gogol's wife
@muddy:
Louis won’t go near the front door! Although he spent his first months outdoors, until we trapped and adopted him, he shows no desire to go outside any more. Been there, done that.
muddy
@gogol’s wife: Yes, it’s best not to go near the door, you never know when they will shove you out and lock it behind you.
My AIlill was born across the street from me, the other day I saw his bio-mama outside and I carried him over to see her (oof, grunt, so heavy). She was interested in him, and her nose was twitching mightily. I don’t guess she knew it was her 6 year old kitten, but there was some kind of familiarity because she is not a friendly cat in general, but seemed very interested in him.
He panicked and flew back across the street without greeting, it was quite comical because she is about 1/4 the size he is.
gogol's wife
@muddy:
That’s hilarious!
SectarianSofa
@chopper: Ha! Also, Leave Tunchy Alone!
asiangrrlMN
@Joey Maloney: I meant to say how pretty Pinkwater is, but I got carried away with his Tunchieness. She sounds like she was a great cat.
@schrodinger’s cat: I have two brothers who eat the same food. One is long and lanky (Raven) – the other is round and chubby (Shadow).
@muddy: Shadow is my skeerdy-cat, too. Weird.