I know some of you get sick and tired of my Lily stories, but you all can pound sand. About five mins ago I was getting read for bed, took off the bathrobe, removed the slippers, and was walking to the bathroom to brush the fangs before bed, and Lily jumped up from her perch on the bed and asked for a kiss. So I bent down, tried to give her a kiss, and apparently I had built up a static charge walking across the carpet in my socks, and Lily got blasted on the nose. She then just freaked out. Ran around the bed, threw herself on her back and burrowed into the comforter, and lay there with her paws running in the air while she was on her back.
It was seriously the most adorable thing ever.
I LOVE THAT DOG.
The Fat Kate Middleton
And she still loves you, right? Please say she does.
Bill
ASPCA time ?
The Fat Kate Middleton
Listening to James McMurtry, “We Can’t Make it Here Anymore.” Dang.
http://youtu.be/ZbWRfBZY-ng
gbear
@The Fat Kate Middleton: Wow! Me too! I just listened to his ‘Where’d You Hide The Body’ CD.
Can’t Make It Here Any More is a great song.
This is the time of year where it gets difficult to pet the cats without zapping them. Then they get upset because they think you’re doing it to them on purpose.
Oltrol
Good God! It’s definitely more enjoyable, and worthy than flogging the Ol’dead Congress X10 shenanigans.
JBL
As a non-pet owner and reader-but-not-commenter-usually I’d like to note that the Lily posts are among my absolute favorite on this blog.
The Fat Kate Middleton
@gbear:
Lynn Dee
Quote: “I know some of you get sick and tired of my Lily stories, but you all can pound sand.”
Lol! Great line. Love the switcheroo in tone halfway through. :D
Ash Can
Whoever said they were tired of your Lily stories?? (Aside from the usual trolls, and who gives a fuck about them?) Keep the Lily (and Tunch and RosIe et al.) storIes comIng!
Violet
Hilarious. Poor Lily. Is she looking at you with the sad why-do-you-hate-me eyes now?
@The Fat Kate Middleton: Levelland.
mclaren
It is impossible to get tired of Cole’s Lily stories.
arguingwithsignposts
@The Fat Kate Middleton: @gbear: James McMurtry is a seriously underappreciated singer songwriter. You should check out all his albums, and see him live if you can.
James E. Powell
Do people get sick and tired of stories that end with “I love that dog”? I don’t know any such people.
The Very Reverend Crimson Fire of Compassion
Lily, Tunch & Rosie are why I come here. Okay, well maybe not the ONLY reason, but they’re a damned big part of it.
gbear
I’m so sick and tired of John telling us to pound sand.
Suzanne
Tired of Lily stories? Uh, you know that’s why we come here, right? It certainly isn’t for the blog owner’s sparkling personality….
Violet
@arguingwithsignposts: He’s a very good live performer.
Or something like that.Suffern Ace
@James E. Powell: I now know two people who like cats, but hate kittens and find them not merely “not cute” but actually vile. I will poll them about dog stories.
gbear
@arguingwithsignposts:
Already there. Only missing a couple of live CDs.
Violet
@Or something like that.Suffern Ace: How in the world can someone hate kittens?
arguingwithsignposts
@gbear: It’s also funny that Robert Earl Keen is more known as a performer of James McMurtry songs than JM is, i.e., Levelland.
Or something like that.Suffern Ace
@Violet: I asked a few surface questions, but decided not to probe because I honestly didn’t think it wise to go places where I might not like ending up and be unable to leave.
Violet
@Or something like that.Suffern Ace: Yeah, I can imagine.
Roger Moore
@Violet:
I can imagine someone who likes cats because they’re laid back and hates kittens because they have too much energy and are too demanding of attention. They can easily be major agents of entropy, which really pisses people off.
General Stuck
If Tunch ever learns to read, you are done for.
some guy
Tom Delay handed a 3 year jail sentence today.
freelancer
@some guy:
Hammer gets nailed.
Violet
@Roger Moore: I can understand not liking that kittens are energetic and take your time and energy. But finding them “vile”? WTF? Not wanting one in your house and hating them are two very different things.
MikeJ
I’m tired of John Boehner stories, although I would like to hear about you giving him a massive electrical shock.
NotMax
Need a schadenfreude booster shot?
Here ya go.
jacy
@MikeJ:
Give Boehner a massive electrical shock and the fumes that no doubt emanate from his pores would likely cause him to spontaneously combust. Not that that would be a bad thing.
PurpleGirl
But where is the picture of Lily burrowing into the comforter?
Pictures please!
Pangloss
** gasping for air ** OK, I’ve pounded the sand. Now what?
MikeJ
In case anyone hasn’t seen it yet, here’s AP’s story on the Oily Taint.
PurpleGirl
@Roger Moore:
major agents of entropy
That is a great description of kittens (and puppehs, and little kids).
Or something like that.Suffern Ace
@Pangloss: if you’re gasping, I think you might be doing it wrong. Not that end. The other one!
amk
reported to the spca, you mofo.
James E. Powell
@MikeJ:
It amazes me that this stuff is still getting attention. It’s On Beyond Racism at this point. It’s Area 51 stuff.
amk
@MikeJ: Wonder which judge will finally have the balls to throw her sorry ass in the slammer.
PurpleGirl
@James E. Powell: It was always Area 51 stuff.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@The Fat Kate Middleton:
Damn. I don’t know whether to thank you or curse you. After the service I was a machinist. I saw it go away and there wasn’t a damned thing I could do (And I did try) to stop it.
I saw the bridges to something like a middle class life burned by pols of both parties.
In my ambivalence I offer you Bob Dylan “Hollis Brown.”
I am glad now to be so old that I don’t have to watch this amazingly sad circus for much longer.
BGinCHI
I’m a freshman at a large midwestern university. Much to my surprise, here is what happened when I was house sitting for my Romance Languages professor:
“About five mins ago I was getting read for bed, took off the bathrobe, removed the slippers, and was walking to the bathroom to brush the fangs before bed….”
Yutsano
@NotMax: Schadenfreude you say? MikeJ will agree with me when Tim Eyman is throwing a hissy fit that means an angel gets its wings.
Redshift
Grrr. I’m having to deal with the selfish and self-centered wife of my selfish and self-centered brother-in-law, who has turned my acceptance of a request for a favor into… well, let’s just say no good deed goes unpunished.
Having successfully restrained myself from sending the response her email is begging for, I am now trying to calm down enough to go to sleep.
Grrr…
TaMara (BHF)
No, not tired of it yet.
TaMara (BHF)
For whatever reason, reading this electrifying post got this stuck in my head:
It’s electrifying….
Thursday
*sigh*
Took mine for a walk in the woods before going to work; three hours later she walked up to me, gave me a sad-eyed look, and vomited over five pounds of deer skin onto the floor.
Somehow, it’s not quite as adorable as your story…
Violet
@Redshift: Don’t let her win by affecting your sleep and health. Shake your head with wonder that someone has chosen to spend their life with her, thank your lucky stars that person isn’t you, and give yourself the gift of a good night’s sleep. You deserve it.
sharl
@MikeJ: My favorite bit at that link is in the final sentence (the part bolded below):
Hahaha, shine on, you crazy
diamondBirther Teahadists!The prophet Nostradumbass
Earlier today I got one of the weirdest political spams I have ever seen, about Dianne Feinstein, titled “Sen. Dianne Goldman Feinstein Is A Loaded Gun Out to Destroy America”. Really bizarre, the first paragraph contained this:
San Diego? HA HA HA HA!
The content of the email was apparently copied, verbatim, from some wingnut website.
PurpleGirl
@The prophet Nostradumbass: I double-checked with a quick Google… I thought DiFi had been mayor of San Francisco… Is Google too hard for RWNJ to use?
Redshift
@Violet: Thanks. I think I’ve gotten it out of my system, mostly. I wrote an overly long comment about the exact situation, then decided it was too much detail to post publicly and deleted it, but just writing it out seemed to help.
It reminds me vaguely of a former friend of mine who recently got divorced. The Ms. and I decided that even though it was how we really felt, it probably wasn’t appropriate to say, “I’m sorry you’re getting divorced because you are both horrible people, and it’s better for you to be together so neither of you is inflicted on anyone else.”
This couple isn’t that bad, but I won’t miss them when we see less of them.
piratedan
still recovering from a holiday of life changing proportions here… son #1 left the nest and moved in with his fiance and good on them for doing so. Still a challenge because he hasn’t picked up all of his stuff so we’re still kind of watching that shoe drop in slow motion. Then son #2, through no fault of his own, brought his grades up to earn a new set of wheels (which we could actually afford to buy, damn you dual incomes!) which has made him deliriously happy even though he’s still working on his license. Intend to use it as a huge leverage source throughout the end of his teenage years because that’s what parents do. So the double whammy of one moving on and the other making the first steps into adulthood… makes me feel old.
btw, anyone want a pair of purebred shelties that are skittish and bark anytime the doorbell is rung or knocked upon?
NotMax
@PurpleGirl
They do tend to trip up over words not in the English God Intended The U.S.A. To Speak®.
YellowJournalism
I wonder what the perfect apology dog treat would be for “I shocked you up your nose”?
Liquid
Total non-sequitur but does anyone here play Borderlands 2?
Joel
@The prophet Nostradumbass: Christ, it’s like the headline should just read, “Senator Jew Jew Jewenstein”. Dog whistle, indeed.
ranchandsyrup
Just got back from social distortion show. Great times and people watching. crazy kids with the mosh pitting and such.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@ranchandsyrup: I haven’t managed to see them. I did get to see the Dead Kennedys, Black Flag and Suicidal Tendencies (before they went metal), though. Yeah, I’m dating myself.
ranchandsyrup
@The prophet Nostradumbass: Mike Ness still has it. I think social d’s drummer used to be in suicidal tendencies. Never saw DK but would have loved to. Saw black flag. Used to catch 7 seconds shows quite a bit.
There is a pennywise tour I’m gonna catch in march excited for that.
MacKenna
I know some of you get sick and tired of my Lily stories,
Who?
I wish you would post more stories of Lily, Tunch and the Rose!
SiubhanDuinne
@some guy:
The story about Tom Delay is the one I was complaining about in an earlier thread when I said that some Facebook friends were posting supposedly “breaking news” stories that turned out to be two years old. I clicked on that and it turned out to be a January 2011 article. He is still out on bail and appealing the sentence as far as I can determine. Check the link of whatever you saw and have another look at the date. I’d love to be wrong about this. Wonder why it has suddenly popped up as a meme.
Patricia Kayden
“I know some of you get sick and tired of my Lily stories”
Names? We’ll beat them down for you.
Montarvillois
Never tire of your animal stories.
Schlemizel
@PurpleGirl:
I don’t think its too hard for them but they know that google LIES!
They google stuff like “where was Obama born” and “Define: soc” – well you know the word that may not be spoken here – and they get answers that do not match what they KNOW to be true. So google can’t be trusted!
Linda Featheringill
Feel good exercise for this morning:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-krauthammer-return-of-the-real-obama/2013/01/03/9f5f9b0c-55d9-11e2-8b9e-dd8773594efc_story.html?tid=pm_pop
Krauthammer column today. He seems to think that we won the fiscal cliff thingy.
:-)
The Ancient Randonneur
Are you sure she was reacting to the static charge? Dogs do have a very highly evolved sense of smell. Brush your fangs BEFORE the kiss.
amk
@Linda Featheringill: The butthurt of that morose punk is glenn beckesque delicious.
magurakurin
So, Elizabeth Warren is now Senator Warren. A good thing to be sure. And the usual suspects are beaming with joy, as they should, but it’s funny to me how those same folks were all telling me that Obama caving on Warren’s appointment to the Consumer Protection Bureau was the worst cave evah. Oh what a spineless dick Obama was then…
link
Yes, Ralph we hear you. And there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth by many.
Robert Scheer let us know how it was an insight into the inner workings of the mind of that worthless sell out in the Whitehouse
Yes, what a gutless coward.
bobswern at the GOS got in his digs (as did hosts of others)
and extolled us to stop making lame excuses about Obama’s failure.
The list could go on and on.
But, hey, bygones, eh?
Maybe someday they will be right about something.
Josie
@Linda Featheringill: Wow – a Lily story and an unhappy Krauthammer column. How much better could the morning read get?
The Ancient Randonneur
This is interesting:
According to the same report she met with NYC Mayor Bloomberg. Maybe I’m reading too much into this but she would be the perfect spokesperson for new gun control legislation.
WereBear
I am still astonished that someone could find kittens vile.
Beanheaded entropy distruptors and pains in the rear; absolutely. But geez… kittens.
How can anyone not feel the tug of those goofball faces?
Linda Featheringill
@The Ancient Randonneur:
Gabby would be terrific for gun control spoxcritter!
Elizabelle
@Linda Featheringill:
I will take your word for it (re Krauthammer).
Not taking him along with my morning coffee.
@The Ancient Randonneur:
Gabby Gifford would be an excellent advocate for gun safety.
I hope it’s a coalition, though, with loved ones and survivors of Newtown, Aurora (the Dark Knight theatre shootings), Columbine, those who got shot (or lost family/friends) retail.
bemused
@Or something like that.Suffern Ace:
They like cats but think kittens are vile? Weirdest thing I’ve ever heard. What’s wrong with them?
Gindy51
@PurpleGirl: I second that. Every Lilly post must have a photo!
Mary G
I get upset there aren’t MORE Lily stories, and MANY MORE Lily, Rosie and Tunch pictures.
BlueDWarrior
what is with the constant Republican bleating about Obama not having any personal relationships or not putting together proposals for the Spending cuts that they [as Republicans] want so goddamn badly.
Why is it that they and their hangers-on in the MSM want Democrats (especially Dem presidents) to do Republican jobs for them?
My possible answer: the Republicans are gutless cowards and wont propose any real Spending cuts, just vague assertions that spending needs to be cut; or if they do pass spending cuts, they will pass them in such a way to where they don’t affect Seniors now (who vote heavily Republican)
The Ancient Randonneur
Five years? RIP Andrew Olmstead.
The people we vote for have the power to start wars. Wars have consequences.
JPL
@SiubhanDuinne: Here is a recent article about DeLay and his best bud having lunch together. link Maybe he is ready to serve his time and wanted to ask Jack about the accommodations.
Raven
Barney just said he would serve in the senate seat.
Omnes Omnibus
@WereBear: I am allergic to the little bastards. And the grownup ones too. I don’t find them vile, but I certainly don’t want to spend time with them.
Cassidy
@WereBear: I love kittens, but you can’t just eat one. Next thing you know, a whole litter is missing, the neighbor’s kid is crying “where’s Mr. Fluffyzoodle” and you’ve got a terrible case of indigestion.
Chyron HR
@magurakurin:
Those people are full of shit, sure, but I don’t see the contradiction. I think we have a couple of them on this site who sincerely claimed that electing Warren to the Senate would, in fact, stick it to the N-word.
Cassidy
Let’s watch some more football!
Cassidy
Help. I’m in moderation!
handsmile
@Raven:
Tremendous news! I was watching “Morning Joe” specifically to hear from Frank when he made this declaration of interest in serving as the “placeholder” Senator from Massachusetts.
Said his change of mind was due to to his belief of the enormous importance of the next two or three months for US fiscal affairs.
Would be very surprised if Deval Patrick did not accept this offer (I have to think he was already alerted to it).
To imagine Barney Frank and Elizabeth Warren serving as Massachusetts Senators in the weeks ahead is a great way to begin a day.
(The story is already headlining at TPM and I’m sure it will be a front-thread here later today.)
Joy in FL
It is not possible for me to read too many Lily or Tunch or Rosie or any other pet posts. Or see photos.
Keep them coming
Ted & Hellen
Sounds like a seizure of some kind.
Higgs Boson
Ohio, The Gift That Keeps On Giving