Temps dropped into the fifties today again, and I was actually a little pissy earlier because it was kind of chilly, and then it hit me- “OH MY GOD IT’S BATHROBE AND PAJAMA BOTTOMS AND SLIPPERS AND MULLED CIDER AND CROCK POT WEATHER!”
So now I am rocking a bathrobe and slippers and a couple OF pets on my lap and all is good.
*** Update ***
Play the Powerball, Pirates fans. The Buccos are in the playoffs.
Redshirt
You’re fuckin’ retarded Cole.
aimai
I’m making pork chops in a saffron/orange/tomato sauce for a friend who was hit by a car and needs dinners for her family of four while she recuperates. Either barley or couscous, steamed sugar snap peas, and a plum/almond crisp. Maybe one or two other things. Its definitely autumn here.
Capt. Seaweed
Use your head. Get a woodstove.
GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)
I love fall. Went singletrack running yesterday on the bluffline in a local state part. It was SO pleasant.
Linnaeus
Already looking forward to next summer.
Redshirt
Or, you’ve had too many concussions. Also a possibility!
Botsplainer
My puppy this afternoon. 5 months old, 35 lbs.
http://imgur.com/tvAeiNq
schrodinger's cat
Thread needs Steve, until then, I will leave the Right Said Fred Kitteh here.
ETA: 100 and not out. Cricket lingo, in case you are curious.
joel hanes
Saturday we got the first cool rainstorm of the season, a month early.
I make a big pot of my locally-famous gringo chili (I know what real chili is, but this is the popular-with-the-kids kind with tomatoes and beans and ground beef and Grandpa’s Secret Spices)
schrodinger's cat
@Botsplainer: He has a cute!
mzad
Hi John. Here’s a good recipe for fall breakfasts: my granny’s coffee cake, made with coconut oil. So good: you’ll love it.
http://centralcoastfoodie.com/saving-grannys-coffee-cake/
dmsilev
Fall is here again, which means that it’s time for another iteration of Operation Cake, wherein I research new cake recipes for Thanksgiving (I’m very popular with my coworkers this time of year…). Any suggestions? Chocolate is traditionally the main ingredient, but other than that, I’m flexible. I have a few possible candidates; there’s a sachertorte recipe I found on Epicurious which looks interesting, a couple of others possibilities as well.
Redshirt
Or, some kind of brain worm.
Villago Delenda Est
Hey, as long as you’re serving as a warm spot for a couple of dogs and a cat, you have a purpose in the universe. Don’t knock it.
raven
Bohdi update. Cervical problem, crate rest for a week hopefully will take care of it. Now we see how the doggie health insurance does.
Keith P
How Ted Cruz of you.
Keith G
@raven: Thanks.
Yatsuno
@dmsilev: Ifn ya want a slightly nutritious angle. I would omit the pineallpe personally as I have yet to have it add to a carrot cake like ever.
La Caterina (Mrs. Johannes)
@raven: Hope the Bodhi recovers soon.
eta: now y’all kindly go down one thread and read my friend’s writer bleg.
Redshirt
Maybe also too some kind of alien parasite.
Ripley
Thanks for letting us know you’re safe, Grandma. We’ll be by in the morning to make sure you didn’t leave the gas on.
Captain Comrade
I have a dog and tonight he dined on some old shepard’s pie. He was very happy and is very loyal.
dmsilev
@Yatsuno: “Nutritious” and “Thanksgiving” are opposing concepts in my experience… Even when, like this year, it’ll probably be only about 6 or 7 people, my mom and I will go through at least a pound of butter and god knows how many eggs…
Lavocat
Damn, dude. That’s just sad.
You’ve gotta get a woman.
IowaOldLady
Also, flannel sheets.
srv
I’m going to build a cabin someday, and all cloth is going to be linens and flannels only.
I’ve never found good slippers or moccasins that don’t make my feet sweat. Someone needs to work on that.
Msilaneous
Sounds lovely.
JCJ
This morning it was 39 degrees outside when I left the house. Tonight my wife and I went for a walk in a nearby park with a path around a small lake and a trail through a wetland. Came home and had stew that had been simmering slowly as well as some freshly baked zucchini bread. Fall is the best.
Mike in NC
Doing a fall long weekend road trip through central NC to hit some antique shows. Greensboro to Winston Salem then out to Blowing Rock in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Redshirt
@efgoldman: Low 30’s tonight! :(
danielx
Time for all that good fall stuff, but the part that I’m getting more and more impatient about is getting my teeth implants (both upper central incisors) finished so I can eat normally again. All due to an incident when I was eleven involving a skateboard and doing a faceplant on a concrete driveway – never let your kids have those inventions of the devil.
Healing is mostly done, now I have to get the crowns put in in mid-November. Forget eating steaks and whatnot, I just want to be able to bite into a grilled cheese on whole wheat again.
Although my daughter has enjoyed my rendition of “All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth”.
Redshirt
Already across the valley I command many snakes of smoke scrawling into the sky, fires for warmth, too soon in September. Too early, and we all cry out “Where’s your global warming Al Gore?!”
jeffreyw
@danielx:
Yatsuno
@dmsilev:
This is why my mother has hens. And a couple of roosters. And horses. And doves. And border collies. And four cats. But at least the hens are good for eggs.
Redshirt
@efgoldman: RI is a world away in some regards from this land. The coast of Maine? Not so much. But the interior mountains? Whole ‘nother world, of ice and snow.
The Dangerman
@dmsilev:
Not much chocolate, but how about a Kahlua Pumpkin Cake
If Chocolate is a priority, how about a Double Chocolate Pumpkin Cake With Pumpkin Spice Buttercream
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Me too, I love fall with winter a close second. I’ve still got a lot of fall clean up in the yard and I should get some more firewood, but damn I hope summer’s really gone.
hildebrand
Yep, Fall is in the air, it only hit 91 in the Valley today. Might need a sweater tomorrow.
dmsilev
@The Dangerman: We actually have a pumpkin + chocolate recipe that’s in the standard family repertoire. However, I made that for Rosh Hashanah just a couple of weeks ago, so probably something different would be in order.
Alison
I fucking wish :( Still too damn hot here. I WANT FALL WEATHER DAMN IT. Fuck you, climate change.
PaulW
Just sayin: here in Florida it rained like a mofo from mid-morning onward, something that happens when autumn rolls in.
Also wik: some blog flogging about the impending government shutdown. http://noticeatrend.blogspot.com/2013/09/how-it-came-to-this-government-shutdown.html
Tommy
Fall is the best of all. 64 here. Often 105 in the summer. 0 in the winter. Fall rocks.
Jackie
It’s Football Season! Went from 90’s to 70’s overnight. LOVE IT! :)
Captain Comrade
Terrelle Pryor is a very good quarterback.
rikyrah
Don’t know how anyone could be sad about Fall being here..
YEAH!!!
PaulW
@Keith P:
Ted Cruz is not a bathrobe and slippers kind of elitist. He’s a snobbish, won’t-play-with-others self-indulgent party pooper. He’s an idiot who would filibuster against the defunding Obamacare House bill that the GOP Senate is supposed to be for.
Anyone buying a Cruz 2016 t-shirt right now has got to be a bigger idiot than Cruz himself, even though said t-shirt buyer has already proved to be a big sucker for the snake oil.
seaboogie
Even in your deshabille, glad to hear you are wearing pants. It makes the blog a little nicer, somehow…
max
@Lavocat: Damn, dude. That’s just sad. You’ve gotta get a woman.
I dunno where an elderly cat lady named Marge is going to get a woman. Maybe hit up the rest homes?
max
[‘*You love hoarding? OMG, *I* love hoarding!!!’]
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@PaulW: It’s amazing to watch this soap opera and think that all this sturming and dranging is to stop….. people from getting health insurance. Somebody today actually mentioned the Kristol memo from ’93, saying HCR had to be stopped because it would be too popular. They gave the fucking game away twenty years ago, but almost no one on your Teevee gets that.
kindness
John you forgot football. It’s fall when we have real football. Summer is play football. Fall, it counts.
Bill E Pilgrim
See this is why I come to John’s place, for the recipes.
phoebes-in-santa fe
Hey, Cole. Unless you print pics of you and the animals, I don’t believe a damn thing you’re writing!
We want pictures…
xre
It’s 82°F with 89% humidity in the MIA. “Heat Nation” is srsly apropos. Will be nice when that fall y’all are enjoying comes to us in Dec. or Jan.
Jewish Steel
eemom appeasement!
This is how Chamberlain went down.
Jay C
Still stuck in the Scenic Berkshires for a couple of more days – frost warnings on the Weather for tonight: the trees are just starting to turn, but the height of leaf-peeping season is still a few weeks away.
Finished the depressing task of finally closing the pool for the season: that, and the fact that fresh cherries are gone from the markets (well, at least until the damn trees fruit out in Chile or wherever) make me long for summer. Oh well…
Keith P
@PaulW: I take it you haven’t read the GQ profile of him, then. He had a reputation in college as being “creepy”, in part due to him cruising (HA!) the women’s dorm hall in a paisley bathrobe.
CaseyL
Oh, FSM yes: I adore autumn. I love the crisp air with a little chill to give it character. The amber-gold sunsets. The scent of woodsmoke.
The last few hikes of the year, watching the foliage turn and mist line the slopes.
The perfectly good excuse to stop with the hiking, break out the “snugglies” (flannels, fleece, sweaters, sheepskin-lined slippers), and curl up on the sofa.
Sigh.
Redshirt
Fuck your snuggie cider fueled Fall fantasies. Shit’s cold up here in the Tundra. You South Landers have no idea what “Real America” is like! Shit’s cold!
4jkb4ia
Adam LaRoche vs. Trevor Rosenthal is all that stands between the Pirates and a playoff berth at the moment.
Edit: Popped out to shortstop.
Edit 2: All the good speeches from “Shoeless Joe” are in the wrong house.
Narcissus
You are an old woman.
Redshirt
Oh is Cole jumping on the Pirate’s bandwagon, suddenly? SHOCKER!
Origuy
I was camping near Cobb, CA this past weekend (where it rained cats and dogs Friday night and Saturday.) Cobb is a funky little village in the mountains west of Clear Lake, north of the Napa Valley. On my way out, I couldn’t find my iPhone so I stopped at the coffee shop in Cobb to use the wifi, to run Find My Phone. The cashier was busy and I was in a hurry, so I asked a patron which network to use, as there were several visible. The guy said the SSID was “VoteRonPaul2012”. I’d seen that listed, but I wasn’t about to try it until he told me it was the right one. Fucking Paultards!
My phone was in my car, not back at camp, but I’d packed up so quickly I’d forgotten where I put it.
? Martin
@Origuy:
See, the free market solves everything.
Felonius Monk
@schrodinger’s cat: Congrats on your 100th, but this is more cuddly.
Paddy
@Botsplainer: What a gorgeous dog!! Makes my hand itch with wanting to sritch him.
Redshirt
The beef jerky and egg medium is not part of every thread. Revel in it.
ruemara
@Botsplainer: I. Want. To. Snorgle. That. FUZZ!
It is fall here. I found delicata squash for almost a buck at TJ’s and acorn squash for $1.60. So I bought 2 of each. Am now contemplating a spicy delicata corn bread with the roasted sweet corn I stockpiled in the freezer and maybe an acorn goat cheese cake. I love fall produce, but I’m always on a diet and it just makes me bake more than ever. And fatten up my co-workers.
ranchandsyrup
@Origuy: have a bunch of great memories at clearlake. Not too much “clear” about Clearlake now that the hydrilla has taken hold.
Lol re the paultroons in Cobb and hope you had a good time.
Felonius Monk
@Redshirt:
Maybe we should ship you up a load of firewood.
Always thought shit was hot. Had a friend whose favorite expression was “Hot shit, man.”
different-church-lady
Next time the NFL expands they should put a team in Oakland.
Captain Comrade
Martin is a college teacher. Students are not allowed to file for bankruptcy after graduation. Those student loans will follow them around. Those debts shall be paid. College teachers are smart.
Chickamin Slam
Anyone remember this video “You Gotta Believe ” c. 1990?
>.> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AwX8MGYDYI
? Martin
I see BoB got the computer strapped back on the tractor.
hilts
Happy Birthday to the Late, Great JOHN COLTRANE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWG2dsXV5HI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCQfTNOC5aE
The Sailor
I apologize if this has been posted before, but it’s fucking funny:
http://thebloggess.com/2013/09/i-doesnt-take-much-to-make-me-happy/
MikeJ
@Chickamin Slam: Damn near the last time they had a .500 season.
Captain Comrade
Men of the Trades earn six-figure incomes. It makes one consider the value of studying stupid things, like the Martin college experience. Work being equal to a Force times a Distance. No Bankruptcy for You! Pay your teachers!
Or maybe one could line up a gig with Balloon-Juice.
fuckwit
It rained Saturday, the official start of what you’d call fall or winter here.
We have two seasons where I am: foggy and rainy. This is the start of the rainy season.
? Martin
Huzzah! California is further destroying the free market!
I’m sure this will generate outrage from the panty sniffers. “How will my child ever learn to not sext if there’s no repercussion from online bullying leading to her suicide!” And the onerous burden on tech companies this will impose (95% of which are in California, but nevermind that).
MomSense
I’m not ready for the cold weather yet. I feel like summer went by much too quickly this time.
Oh and the rumors are flying about 1 of the AQ mall terrorists being from Maine. My boys and some of their friends have an informal soccer game/league with some Somali kids who live about half an hour away. They were competitors in cross country and became friends. Everyone is freaked out about the news. We are all hoping things don’t get ugly.
Tommy
You know I just went to listen to some bagpipes ….
My family came here from Scotland many years ago. We came here honestly cause we were done fighting. I got the letters written. Why do we have to fight? Why we came to America.
I now see in my life almost the need to fight more then I want.
Abortiion isn’t bad.
The earth isn’t flat.
Somebody that gets SNAP isn’t a freeloader …..
I feel almost back in those days just without a sword in my hands …….
Suzanne
It was below 100 degrees here today. I went outside between the hours of 10 am and 3 pm. That hasn’t happened on a while. I liked it.
4jkb4ia
John, thank you for not yelling at me. I suppose I am so sporadic anywhere these days you have nothing to fear.
The rest of this comment will be about Tunch, because I tried to express to Tbogg (VERY badly in terms of simple grammatical English) that if I didn’t say something about Tunch then I quit. He meant too much to this site for any commenter who remembers in real time when John was a Republican, however INO, to say nothing.
I remember when Omnes Omnibus (?) said that although John Cole worship is absurd, Tunch worship seemed perfectly rational. Tunch worship (or love) helped to build this community. I also remembered after I heard about Tunch when the Balloon Juice lexicon was in process and some commenter suggested “Tunch–Thought to comprise half the mass of the universe….” and you said, “Hey, that was a cheap shot”. (That’s legit. I was in that thread at the time.) I half laughed and half cried. Tunch was as much a family member as any of your human ones, and he knew you before you were the ringleader of a dozen big shot media figures :) That was important. Tunch didn’t need to project anything onto you, for good or bad. It was more than OK to cry. I understood from the Tbogg comments that Tunch was run over by a car or something similar, but the actuality was even worse. If I had been on the scene I suspect that words would have utterly failed.
YellowJournalism
How very Hef of you, except you surround yourself with a different kind of fur.
chauncey1186
You had me at slippers and bathrobe, Cole.
Citizen_X
@hildebrand:
Hey, it’s in the low 30s this week way up north in H-Town. CELSIUS, that is. Low 90s Fahrenheit.
Hell, I was overjoyed that I could turn off the AC and open the windows last night. That’s “Fall” round here.
koalaholik
@The Sailor: That was hilarious! I have added this site to my favorites. I just read her piece about Australia. This woman is insane – I love her. Thanks for sharing
handy
The Pirates went the entirety of the Clinton and W administrations and a whole term and change into Obama’s since that last happened for them. Congrats.
And this time you won’t have Barry Bonds dogging it out in left field not throwing out Sid Bream either. Double plus bonus!
Ash Can
Yeah, it’s cooled off here in Chicago too, and it’s getting dark a lot earlier these days. The Cubs are marking time till they can all go home, the Bears are in full swing, the deciduous trees are all starting to look a little shopworn, and I guess it’s time to break out the saddest happy jazz song ever written.
handy
@Captain Comrade:
I read this four times in a row, and each time it made less sense.
Ransom
Don’t forget your motherfuckin gourds!
Tommy
@The Sailor:
LOL.
I went to LSU where to this day we keep a live tiger, LSU Tigers, on campus. I could maybe make a fortune selling tiger heads :).
Keith P
Fixed.
TheOtherWA
@The Sailor: That is awesome! ” I recommend not taking your medication during days when you have to buy a car or a bedroom set.”
Words to live by.
Cacti
The Pirates have fans?
Get outta here.
max
@Cacti: The Pirates have fans?
I wouldn’t be surprised if the Somali Pirates have a Facebook page. Or a LinkedIn page.
max
[‘Will Say ARR! For Food.’]
TheOtherWA
And John, I’m with you on fall. Wear comfy clothes, cook a lot and hang out with friends. Nothing wrong with that.
Tommy
Wow. From links on this page I came back to only the second movie I’ve ever seen with my father. The first was ET. I took him to see The Last of the Mohicans when I was like a Senior in college.
I thought he would be interested, he wasn’t. Still to this last day I think this last scene is one of the best in a movie.
BTW: Nothing ever makes my dad happy. I could have taken him to see Citizen Cane and he would have bitched about something. Why he is my dad ….. I often do the same!
eemom
John Cole is the awesomest blogger ever in the history of the universe. kthxbai.
piratedan
since the new Fall Season is upon us…. it must be time for me to post an old favorite:
5 Coolest TV show theme songs (imho, naturally, your mileage may vary)
5) Peter Gunn – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oysMt8iL9UE
4) FLCL – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj_3SF7jLSU
3) Route 66 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffeF7kkjXIM
2) The Man From U.N.C.L.E. – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQA-9LIS1es
1) The Avengers – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPSWrGJjur8
Honorable mention:
Cowboy BeBop, High Chaparral, Paladin, BECK, Mission Impossible and Get Smart
piratedan
le poot, I forgot too many links, am in moderation…. le sigh
karen
@danielx:
You’re so lucky to get implants. I have 4 teeth in my mouth because the others were removed because they were rotted from a condition I have (Sjogren’s Syndrome) which attacks the gland that creates saliva and tears. I wanted the snap on smile for my lower denture but in the DC area, it runs about $2,700 per implant and with no job, I don’t have that kind of money. I’m happy that you can have implants because it’ll make life better for you and I know that there’s a 6 month period where your jaw has to heal and I hope it heals well.
GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)
@dmsilev:
Lots of nutrition in those ingredients.
bemused
@Botsplainer:
Gorgeous pup. Our sweetie is 6 months old this week and about the same size. She is a cuddly dog who will jump into my husband’s lap while he is reading the morning paper and stay sprawled there contentedly.
PaulW
@Keith P:
…
you’re sh-tting me.
how the f-ck did he get into the women’s hall in the first place? wouldn’t they have called campus sercurity on his pervy ass?
f-cking entitled Ivy Leaguer bullsh-t artists, every one of them should be arrested for douchebaggery… we need more University of Florida alums in government dammit! All these Harvard/Yale bastards are ruining everything…!
PaulW
@piratedan:
X-Files Theme.