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There Can Never Be Too Many Open Threads

by John Cole|  June 6, 20121:11 am| 58 Comments

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I’ve now officially spent the whole night running around playing with the pets- I guess the exhaustion of the early morning news about dad which led to a nice hour long nap this afternoon has me especially wired. At any rate, I chased Lily around the house singing my newest Lily song, which is “OH LILY YOU’RE SO FINE, YOU’RE SO FINE YOU BLOW MY MIND, HEY LILY!” She really loves it if you use falsetto:

I understand that “HEY LILY” is not quite as catchy as “My blood runs cold, my Lily is the Centerfold” or “Lily, Lily, Why ya buggin” or many of thr other catchy songs I sing to the notorious D.O.G., but you work with what you got. I am white and have no singing talent, folks.

And before the haters start with the “WHAT ABOUT ROSIE?” crap, she is outside stalking rabbits. It’s 70 degrees here, so I left the back porch open, and she is out guarding the yard.

*** Update ***

As sad as it seems, I’ve also sung this to Lily (WHILE SHE LICKED MY FACE, SO IT WAS NOT ALL FOR NAUGHT):

Flame away.

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  1. 1.

    Spaghetti Lee

    June 6, 2012 at 1:13 am

    LILY, DON’T BE A HERO, DON’T BE A FOOL WITH YOUR LIIIIIIIFE…

    ….OK, sorry. I’ll leave now.

  2. 2.

    slag

    June 6, 2012 at 1:17 am

    A man with too many open threads never knows what subject he’s on.

  3. 3.

    YellowJournalism

    June 6, 2012 at 1:18 am

    SWEET LILY MINE! BAH! BAH! BAH!

  4. 4.

    freelancer

    June 6, 2012 at 1:19 am

    Careful you don’t unintentionally get a Moore Award nom for this post.

  5. 5.

    Mnemosyne

    June 6, 2012 at 1:20 am

    I don’t do it quite as often, but I used to sing, “Bedtime for kitties …” to the tune of “Springtime for Hitler.”

    The wife of one of our managers stopped by with their new dog today, and we all swarmed outside to say hello. They just got him a few weeks ago, but he seems to be settling in well. He fell in love with one of the staffers and literally flung himself down at her feet so she could rub his belly. (The dog, not the manager, obviously.)

  6. 6.

    Yutsano

    June 6, 2012 at 1:24 am

    LILYPUPPEH!!

    How many are you + now JC? You almost never lavish this much attention on us.

  7. 7.

    freelancer

    June 6, 2012 at 1:24 am

    She really loves it if you use falsetto

    Cole, I bet you sing just like Geddy Lee or Claudio Sanchez and your doggies just wag their tails with shit-eating grins.

    You’re a good man, Charlie Brown.

  8. 8.

    freelancer

    June 6, 2012 at 1:27 am

    Also this cover of The Outfield’s “Your Love“. You’re welcome.

  9. 9.

    David Koch

    June 6, 2012 at 1:29 am

    In Wisconsin:

    3 million voted in 2008

    3 million voted in 2004

    2.4 voted tonight.

    Thats a significant 25 percent difference

  10. 10.

    Mark S.

    June 6, 2012 at 1:32 am

    @Spaghetti Lee:

    I’ll see you and raise you:

    OH NOW LILY, LILY DON’T YOU LOSE MY NUMBER
    CAUSE YOU’RE NOT ANYWHERE THAT I CAN FIND YOU

  11. 11.

    taylormattd

    June 6, 2012 at 1:42 am

    John. I love this post. That is all.

  12. 12.

    trollhattan

    June 6, 2012 at 1:43 am

    Daughter feeds dog tonight and leaves the food can open–something she’s done dozens of times with no consequences. Dog decides tonight’s the night she’ll continue to eat after the food dish is empty, lowering the food can level several inches. By the time I find her mid-crime, dog’s middle looks like she’s swallowed a comedy-size football.

    At some point tonight she’s going to need to go out…NOW…and I sure hope we’re awake enough to let her out. Damnit, I hate it when they surprise us with a new trick.

  13. 13.

    David Koch

    June 6, 2012 at 1:52 am

    I predicted it.

    bloggers are already screaming that Tom Barrett lost because “he didn’t listen to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee” he wasn’t liberal enough. Something about offerring single-payer would have kicked turnout to 3 million.

    Sigh. It’s getting harder and harder to parody these people.

  14. 14.

    Linnaeus

    June 6, 2012 at 1:55 am

    Via Amanda Terkel on Twitter: Lehman defeats Wanggaard in Wisconsin state senate recall. Dems control.

  15. 15.

    Yutsano

    June 6, 2012 at 1:57 am

    @Linnaeus: I’ll take it. It wasn’t the big prize but it will do. Now we sit back and wait for the John Doe case to move forward.

  16. 16.

    canadian shield

    June 6, 2012 at 1:57 am

    pictures of Lilly?

  17. 17.

    canadian shield

    June 6, 2012 at 1:59 am

    pictures of Lilly? Lilly oh Lilly (the Who)

  18. 18.

    Dee Loralei

    June 6, 2012 at 2:01 am

    Dammit, I left a long post down on the last thread about my day.

    John, I’m glad your father is more well than you guys feared.

    My 21 year old son was held up at gunpoint early yesterday morning at the restaurant where he works. Everyone is ok. Thieves only got like $100 and a cash register. He called me about 3:30 AM to tell me he was OK. Then he had to drive downtown to the main police station in Memphis to sign his statement and look through their book of felons, the original FaceBook, perhaps?. He finally got home at around 10 AM and I finally got a nap. But I’m still a wee bit agitated 21 hours later. I also told him that that phone call better be the worst phone call I ever get from or about him. Because Lord knows, it could have been much worse.

    The rest of my post was just happy family gossip, LOL. Y’all don’t have to read it now, since the thread is dead.

  19. 19.

    Dee Loralei

    June 6, 2012 at 2:02 am

    @Linnaeus: Woohoo, that’s at least some great news!

  20. 20.

    Linnaeus

    June 6, 2012 at 2:05 am

    @Dee Loralei:

    It is, though I should say it’s not official yet. Lehman has declared victory, but Wanggaard hasn’t conceded. Don’t want to get ahead of myself.

  21. 21.

    Hill Dweller

    June 6, 2012 at 2:07 am

    @Linnaeus:

    Via Amanda Terkel on Twitter: Lehman defeats Wanggaard in Wisconsin state senate recall. Dems control.

    That will mitigate the inevitable damage from a Walker win.

    A Walker indictment would also be good news.

  22. 22.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    June 6, 2012 at 2:14 am

    Whoever Elizabeth Emken is, she’s going to have her head handed to her by Dianne Feinstein.

  23. 23.

    Hillary Rettig

    June 6, 2012 at 2:17 am

    What a great post – thank you John!

    My late, great Orbit was a papillon, so I used to dance him around singing “Love is Like a Butterfly” by Dolly Parton and the Non Piu Andrai aria from Figaro, the first line of which is:

    Non più andrai, farfallone amoroso
    No more fooling around, you little butterfly of love

    And let’s not forget:

    We will, we will, WALK YOU.

  24. 24.

    Joey Maloney

    June 6, 2012 at 2:18 am

    To the tune of the Howdy Doody theme I sing to my kitties, “It’s fucking tuna time, it’s fucking tuna time, it’s fucking tuna time, it’s fucking tuna time…”

  25. 25.

    taylormattd

    June 6, 2012 at 2:19 am

    @David Koch: Don’t bother. They’re self-absorbed psychopaths. Close the GOS, pour yourself a glass of wine, and sing to your pets or something.

  26. 26.

    Jewish Steel

    June 6, 2012 at 2:20 am

    When I walk the basenjis I walk ♫The Hounds…Of Silence♫♫.

  27. 27.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    June 6, 2012 at 2:20 am

    It’s still amazing to think of how Lily looked when you first adopted her, then look at her now, John.

  28. 28.

    Sloegin

    June 6, 2012 at 2:23 am

    Seattle Times has discovered the King of the Libertarians.

    Amazing article.

  29. 29.

    David Koch

    June 6, 2012 at 2:27 am

    Lehman defeats Wanggaard in Wisconsin state senate recall. Dems TAKE control.

    This means DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM for the Dems!

  30. 30.

    taylormattd

    June 6, 2012 at 2:28 am

    @Sloegin: Ugh.

  31. 31.

    taylormattd

    June 6, 2012 at 2:31 am

    @David Koch: No, no, you are doing it wrong.

    None of this matters. They are all conserva-vichy-corporate-dem-whores. They will cave. No difference. Tweedle-dee, tweedle-dum. Linus Lucy football. Slap in face. Hippypunch. Shit sandwich. Throw under bus.

  32. 32.

    John M. Burt

    June 6, 2012 at 2:35 am

    Walker won? Too bad.

    GOPers will be emboldened.

    The DLC will say, “See? Money really is all that matters.”

    The Democratic legislature will neutralize at least some of Walker’s agenda of ruin.

    The trial will be more interesting, anyway . . . .

  33. 33.

    Jewish Steel

    June 6, 2012 at 2:35 am

    @Sloegin: Mercy! What an asshole.

  34. 34.

    bjacques

    June 6, 2012 at 2:56 am

    Nixon was forced to resign after his landslide victory. These punks always overreach themselves.

    And flipping the State Senate seat is indeed good news.

  35. 35.

    JoyceH

    June 6, 2012 at 4:08 am

    @John M. Burt:

    GOPers will be emboldened.

    So will every friendly neighborhood billionaire crackpot – ‘hey, money really CAN buy elections’.

    The general election campaign is going to be like raw sewage delivered via fire hose.

  36. 36.

    asiangrrlMN

    June 6, 2012 at 4:20 am

    Aw, who’s a pretty girl? Lily is, that’s who! I’m glad your dad’s OK, Cole. And, I can haz another Tunchie pic?

  37. 37.

    Citizen_X

    June 6, 2012 at 4:42 am

    @canadian shield: (Slaps forehead) Doh! The obvious choice. It even has a falsetto part!

  38. 38.

    Citizen_X

    June 6, 2012 at 4:42 am

    @canadian shield: (Slaps forehead) Doh! The obvious choice. It even has a falsetto part.

  39. 39.

    Citizen_X

    June 6, 2012 at 4:43 am

    Lily made me post twice.

  40. 40.

    toschek

    June 6, 2012 at 4:54 am

    @David Koch: Whatever the outcome was, the reaction was going to be bullshit. I’m glad the Dems have a WI State Senate majority now, that should prevent Walker from doing much more damage to the state until he gets indicted in the next couple of months.

    FWIW, I think recalls are stupid having lived through the Schwarzenegger circus in CA. WI voters for the most part were disgusted with the recall, not pro-Walker as evidenced by exit polls in WI showing Obama up 53/37 among likely voters in November. I’m glad he stayed out of this, no matter what Hamsher says.

    Also, Lily is too cute for words and looks exactly like my own four-legged best friend in the whole world.

  41. 41.

    harlana

    June 6, 2012 at 6:25 am

    well awesome, Nikki Haley is doing her little victory dance right now. >:(

  42. 42.

    Scott

    June 6, 2012 at 6:42 am

    Your wrong, John. Everyone is a great singer in their own home!

  43. 43.

    harlana

    June 6, 2012 at 6:48 am

    go to @nikkihaley and she haw many times she pimps her book for $50 – i retweeted a bunch of them but i lost count

  44. 44.

    harlana

    June 6, 2012 at 6:49 am

    i sing to my cat alla time – i make up songs about how beautiful and wonderful she is, it’s the least i can do + regular servings of tuna

  45. 45.

    WereBear

    June 6, 2012 at 7:10 am

    Cats love to be sung to

  46. 46.

    Elizabelle

    June 6, 2012 at 7:15 am

    @Dee Loralei:

    Dee: I loved your post last thread, and I think you should copy it to a busier thread once people are up and about.

    And maybe post the part about working for change weekly.

    Too much doom and gloom here over past few weeks.

    There are concrete things we can do, even in the face of a sewer torrent of rightwing money.

  47. 47.

    Violet

    June 6, 2012 at 9:06 am

    I love this post. Lily is such a gorgeous girl! Didn’t get to say in your previous post about your dad, but am glad he’s okay. That’s scary stuff to deal with and can really wear you out.

  48. 48.

    Hillary Rettig

    June 6, 2012 at 9:35 am

    @Joey Maloney: OK, that was worth this month’s Comcast bill. :-)

  49. 49.

    gogol's wife

    June 6, 2012 at 9:47 am

    Lily is adorable.

    I sent you this in an e-mail, but just in case: Wiley Cash’s book got a nice mini-review in the NYTimes Book Review two Sundays ago:

    http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E04E0DC143CF934A15756C0A9649D8B63&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

  50. 50.

    Hillary Rettig

    June 6, 2012 at 9:47 am

    @Elizabelle: Exactly. People need to look at what’s happening, which is a second Renaissance much bigger and badder than the first. Our emerging technologies fundamentally support democracy and freedom, and no matter how much the fascists try to control them those technologies will always empower individuals more than organizations. I see positive social change happening all over the place, and at a fast rate.

    Almost exactly 20 years after the Web is born, we get the Arab Spring. Sure there were other causes – the dictators were all aging – but can anyone deny that the tech was a huge catalyst, esp. after Wael Ghaenim (sp?) of Egypt himself said the uprising was conducted mainly over Facebook and Twitter?

    In other words, the technologies are steepening the incline of MLK’s arc of justice, which to quote our pithy VP is a big fucking deal.

    Not to mention the bad taste of harshing a perfectly good thread about the puppehs and kittehs with gloom and doom.

  51. 51.

    gogol's wife

    June 6, 2012 at 9:52 am

    @WereBear:

    Mine is a medley of hymns with the cats’ names inserted: “All cats bright and beautiful, All felines great and small,” etc., etc.

  52. 52.

    CaseyL

    June 6, 2012 at 10:00 am

    My cats don’t like it when I sing to them: they think I’m trying to warn them of danger, or something. I don’t know if my singing voice is that bad, or anything with variegated modulation sounds like a strange long growl.

    I had a horse who loved to be sung to during trail rides. Used to perk his ears back to hear me better :)

    I missed the post about John’s dad, but am happy to hear he’s OK.

    And politics in the US has such an overwhelmingly high horseshit factor I’m thoroughly sick of the subject.

  53. 53.

    Hillary Rettig

    June 6, 2012 at 10:35 am

    I forgot a dog song, “I want the ball,” to the tune of Queen’s, “I want it all.”

  54. 54.

    The Red Pen

    June 6, 2012 at 11:22 am

    I couldn’t figure out why this wouldn’t compile:
    do {
    os.print(buffer);
    } catch(IOException iox) {
    log.error(iox);
    }

    I asked Yoda and he said, “There is no try, only do.” That guy is so smart.

  55. 55.

    Hillary Rettig

    June 6, 2012 at 11:48 am

    here’s a great dog video:

    http://youtu.be/Gy0LClDatI0

  56. 56.

    someofparts

    June 6, 2012 at 11:49 am

    Well that’s just the cutest dog tummy I’ve ever seen. How unfair! You post the picture but I can’t scritch that adorable little tummy! Too cute.

  57. 57.

    stinger

    June 6, 2012 at 12:06 pm

    Mr. Cole, you just make me so happy sometimes.

  58. 58.

    Allen

    June 6, 2012 at 4:34 pm

    As followup the the Tunch/Robin post, the following morning my cats were outside and the cat that fits Tunch’s stature was doing a “good” job of stalking a Robin. She got to within about a yard and a half of it. The new cat, T.C., got to within about five yards of it and made a sudden dash for it. Flushed it (good), but Kitzel, the older cat cat just turned around and gave T.C. at WTF look and walked away.

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