Cole went rogue tonight. There may or may not have been a lady involved. It’s after 3 a.m. and his status is unknown.
Dunh dunh dunnnnnnnh.
Here are a couple shots from an on-air segment I did for HuffPostLive with Zach Carter and Jason Linkins.
You’ll have to CLICK THIS LINK, for the full post and more photos.
Peace.
*** Update ***
John here.
My liver hurts, my atm card is smoking, I have blisters on my feet the size of Chris Christie’s ass, and I am dreading tomorrow morning.
Also too, all unauthorized photographs of fat boy will become Rick Rolls. I will tame this woman, and I will use the force of the commentariat to do it.
Yutsano
As I already done tole you, little peeps. Forget us not. :)
ABL
BWAHAHAHAHAHA.
COLE, FTW.
ABL
(Cole removed the photo and replaced it with a rickroll.)
ABL
As he so eloquently explained in the update.
Do your worst and shame him, commentariat. I’m taking the photo down from my blog because he asked nicely.
freelancer
ABL, you look smashing!
Cole, you know the rules, and so do I.
MonkeyBoy
@ABL: “BWAHAHAHAHAHA. “COLE, FTW.”
For those who weren’t quick enough he-who-shall-not-be-photographed changed ABL’s posting of a photo of hwsnbp to a rickroll.
However the photo still exists at ABL’s site, and it is in the BJ RSS feed, which is what made me grasp the switcheroo.
Batocchio
Oh lord, leave the poor boy alone and stop trying to photograph him.
Other than that, have fun! TWiB Radio all the way!
ABL
@Batocchio: I officially give up. :)
freelancer
@ABL:
You have a twitter account and a hashtag for this hilarious, omnishambles, slapdash Roadtrip. Use it!
Also, CoughCross-posted at ABLCCough!
If ever there was a time for that, it’s now.
Another Halocene Human
A little too late for the photo–damn!
Why do you hate fun, Cole?
Nethead Jay
@MonkeyBoy: Dammit, I scurried over to Google Reader but the RSS feed had already updated, so Rick-Roll and no Cole…
Anne Laurie
Glad you had an entertaining evening, Mr. Cole!
Another Halocene Human
@MonkeyBoy: It is so not in the RSS feed. phoooey.
ETA: I see I was not the only one.
MonkeyBoy
I’m not exactly sure how RSS feeds work. My listing for BJ & ABLC says the new entries appeared at 3:23 and 3:32 and I still have the photo in both. I guess when I ask for the listing that is when the content is transfered and it doesn’t change after, even if the site changes.
RandyH
I’m really enjoying The Angry & Cranky Chronicles. Y’all should do a cross-country tour. I’d chip in for the gas money.
Pseudonym
Pics or it didn’t happen. Of the lucky lady who got to experience the rogue JG of course. Or, if that’s not possible, more ABL will do.
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
@ABL:
Ah derno. I werz kinda enjoern the Astly vid.
Nethead Jay
@MonkeyBoy: It’s been a while since I was really up on the technicalities of RSS but that seems plausible.
bemused
Morning Joe: Someone from Politico is on,
Party like it’s 1999
Was Clinton’s speech out of date?
The BS starts.
Poopyman
Oh crap, man. I gotta go to work, but at least I get to feast on those fat salty wingnut tears. Yum!
danielx
@ABL:
What we want to know: was there a walk of shame involved?
Randy P
@RandyH: Indeed. I’m ready to pre-order the book and already get in line for the movie. Is John Goodman too old to play Cole?
gene108
First no pants. Now no underwear…not a pleasant sight I’ll bet…
Odie Hugh Manatee
As long as the blisters aren’t on your ass John. It only sounds like your ass is chapped, you’ll survive.
If we don’t get a full post convention accounting of your activities…
well, you can fill in the rest.
:)
mai naem
@bemused: It’s Jim Fcuking VanDerHei from Politico. Ugh.
@Pseudonym: Maybe it’s that chick he was supposed to hook up with yesterday. From Raw Story??? I think???
Mika’s bringing up Dumbya not being in Tampa. Scarbo’s being weasly – “Dumbya doesn’t like politics.” Yeah, uh-huh. I am sure it doesn’t have anything to do with Dumbya leaving office with the lowest approval rating of a modern president.Seriously, that’s all Scarbo has? Scarbo is just so jealous of WJC and Gore, it’s embarrassing.
MMM
John Goodman could play his father…..Philip Seymour Hoffman – it would be his biggest acting challenge yet
hep kitty
I hope Cole got lucky in a non-STD sorta way.
Baud
@hep kitty:
bemused
@mai naem:
Ugh is right. They don’t like Clinton bringing up inconvenient facts from his era and successfully connecting them to the present but saying Clinton’s speech is so 1999 is just drawing more attention to those same inconvenient facts.
Bill E Pilgrim
@hep kitty:
Got some burnt ends, you mean?
Bill E Pilgrim
@bemused: Yes they had a whole narrative going about how Clinton was really a “fiscal conservative” and Barack Obama is a socialist and spendthrift thus Clinton was going to have to walk a tightrope and blah blah blah, and Clinton came out and told them that they were all completely full of it. In so many words.
So, new narrative time.
kay
We were 350 dollars short of the 1100 dollars we needed to open a field office ( we only have 18k voters, 60/40 R/D so we don’t rate an OFA field office).
Anyway, we got 500 from a single local donor yesterday afternoon, I think on the strength of Michelle Obama’s speech, although I wasn’t at the law office when he dropped the check off so can’t be sure.
He is a Michelle fan, though.
Valdivia
@kay:
that’s awesome Kay. Woo hoo field office here we go :)
bemused
@Bill E Pilgrim:
They’re stuck with trying to play defense, iow, desperately throwing crap and hoping something sticks.
Obama and campaign have to be pretty pleased with Big Dawg’s performance. I know I am. It was great to hear him shred the lies one by one. The Republicans have no equivalent, not even close, to a Bill Clinton figure.
dmsilev
@Bill E Pilgrim: The thing that gets me about that is how predictable it was. The GOP spent weeks, months maybe, building up Clinton as the good Democrat as opposed to that evil Obama guy, and it wouldn’t take much of a strategist to realize how easy it would be for Clinton to cut the legs out from under that position. Which he, of course, did.
Doesn’t say much for the strategic sense of the Romney folks. Which should be added to the long long list of reasons why Romney shouldn’t be President.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@kay:
Congrats Kay! I hope you folks can reverse that 60/40 R/D to 60/40 D/R.
Probably a lot to hope for but that’s what hope is all about. :)
1badbaba3
Cole needs better songwriters if he’s going to make it in show business. And can we sue ABL for false advertising? Lots of pics, little or no anger. Is it a black thing?
kc
I guess she’s just gonna have to post all your pics at her place. :)
metricpenny
Who let the dawgs out?
It seems President Clinton and Cranky both howled last night.
Bill E Pilgrim
@dmsilev: I had exactly your thoughts about that. How perceptive do you have to be to realize that Clinton could, and would, destroy your Republican fantasy comparisons in one speech?
On the other hand, watching CNN this morning (all I have) they had Stephanie Cutter on and some Republican shill asked her “One thing that Clinton did do that Obama doesn’t is talk about the deficit, so..”
Right, Barack Obama has never talked about the deficit. And of course no one called her on it except Cutter who said of course he has, at which point the conservative married to John King interrupted her to say “Yes but what about my right-wing colleague’s question?”
Click.
Reality doesn’t penetrate, is my point. At all. You can hold it right in front of them and you get “Yes, but what about the thing you’re holding right in front of me, where’s that?”
Kay
@Odie Hugh Manatee:
I’m sorry I didn’t get to talk to him (although I’ll call him) because he’s sort of a closeted Democrat, but he loves to talk politics. He would periodically send me emails during the 2008 primary asking me to explain the delegate count rules.
We had this big battle over where to put the office. There was a faction who wanted it on the “historic square”, but that’s where the courthouse is, I’m there all the time, and there’s not much traffic, honestly. The storefronts on the square are beautiful, but it’s just not a high-traffic area.
I want it in a storefront vacancy in a strip mall right next to the busiest “in and out mart” on the main east-west street because that’s where people will see us. I think I’ll eventually prevail and we’ll get it rented by the 15th.
LanceThruster
@bemused:
The small bits of Politico I saw on C-SPAN’s coverage last night looked like Right Wing hacks in training. I don’t know who these people but I don’t like them (apologies if any of their team was fair or made sense – didn’t stick it out).
gnomedad
Good thing she doesn’t have her own blog.
Tokyokie
ABL, That sounds like a challenge to me.
hep kitty
@Bill E Pilgrim: Dunno what that means
hep kitty
@Bill E Pilgrim: Dunno what that means
hep kitty
Cole, you got a lotta splainin to do today
Can’t wait :)
Elizabelle
Glad to hear that Cole is safe, if not sound, this morning.
Bill E Pilgrim
@hep kitty: Oh, barbecue.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@Kay:
Whatever inspired him, at least he was inspired to help get an office going and that’s what is important. Still, it would be good to talk to him and keep a good connection for the future.
Good luck on your endeavor and cheers to the great asset you will be helping to provide!
hep kitty
@Bill E Pilgrim: He went to a BBQ?! So much for my hot female blogger theory. Not that you can’t get lucky at a BBQ I guess
hep kitty
@LanceThruster: yep
ExurbanMom
@Randy P: I’m thinking Zach Galifianakis for our fearless leader, but who should be the radiant ABL?
Frankensteinbeck
Good luck with that.
Jerzy Russian
Dear ABL,
I want to marry you and have your children. Is that wrong of me to feel that way?
Violet
Can’t believe you took down the pictures. You wuss! Bah! Was anyone fast enough to save it? No. Double bah.
Cassidy
Cole, don’t be an asshole. Everyone here is excited about your trip. Everyone here is hungry for information and posts. Deliver some fucking goods. Don’t be an asshole.
ETA: Don’t give a fuck if you got laid. We need more pics of you and ABL and Heather (if she approves) hobnobbing with other bloggers, journalists, doing shit on the convention floor, etc. And as far as Heather’s approval, she agreed to join this hot mess of a roadtrip and I think approval is implied.
Meg
Cole went rogue and was out late mysteriously?
Sounds like something Tunch does sometimes.
Jess
Hey, ABL–You’re sure looking cute in those pictures! Smokin’ outfit! ;-)
Jess
@gnomedad: Bwahahahaha!
burnspbesq
Cole:
Good luck with that, big guy. You’re more likely to get Kathy Mattea elected to the Senate from West Virginia.
Ms. D. Ranged in AZ (formerly IrishGirl)
Wait, if there was a woman involved and he has blisters on his feet Cole either spent the whole night chasing the poor woman around Charlotte or he was “doing it” wrong. Just sayin…..
dsale
@ExurbanMom: Wanda Sykes. Takes one ABL to portray another.