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While you young whippersnappers were all in your barcaloungers drinking whatever pumpkin spiced crap you could find, moms was celebrating her 72nd birthday with my sister Devon in their box seats at the Penguins game:

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I still think she looks like she did when she was in her fifties.* Then again, Devon still looks like she is 25.

Happy Birthday, Mom!

* This picture was mom approved, which means tomorrow I will not wake up to emails, texts, and voice mails saying “Why would you put that picture up? I look terrible. I look like a frumpy old hausfrau.”

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  2. 2.

    burnspbesq

    Want to know the magic words that will get you free drinks in any bar in Mexico from now until the end of time?

    “Soy Graham Zusi.”

  3. 3.

    Punchy

    I had to do a triple take on that photo, as your sister is a dead-ringer for a great HS and college friend o’ mine.

    Looks like you may be the only Cole to inherit the fat gene. Sucks, doanit?

  4. 4.

    Paddy

    They’re both lovely J.C.

    All sorts of shit swirling around today under the heft of the shutdown/hissy fit.

    I’d be a horrible representative in Congress. I’d spend all my time screaming, “WHAT ARE YOU FUCKERS SMOKING?”

    And none of that “my esteemed colleague” crap. I’d be all Alan Grayson V1.0 up in it.

  5. 5.

    Alison

    @burnspbesq: LOL. I liked this from Ives Galarcep:

    25 years from now, the Mexican National Team will have at least one player with the first name Zusi. Book it.

    I don’t doubt it :P

    And now I’m torn. I want the best teams at the WC but of course I would laugh and laugh if Mexico didn’t make it. Though losing to NZ is unlikely…

  7. 7.

    Spaghetti Lee

    @Paddy:

    I’ve always thought that “my esteemed colleague” was (or can be) the equivalent of “bless his heart”.

  8. 8.

    peach flavored shampoo

    Im not seeing Crosby splayed out on the ice holding his coconut, reaching for the Midol. Must have been warmups.

  11. 11.

    burnspbesq

    @Alison:

    ESPN or NBC have to outbid BeInSport for the rights to telecast US away gualifiers next time. After five minutes of Phil Schoen and Ray Hudson, I was looking for crochet hooks to rip out my eardrums.

  14. 14.

    ? Martin

    @Alison: I really hope Mexico makes it. The overwhelming majority of of what is watched here is FMF, and a WC that includes Mexico is a much more enjoyable World Cup simply because the engagement is so much more widespread. Fans here typically root for both nations, but they know and follow the Mexican players much more.

  15. 15.

    Suzanne

    Happy birthday, Mama Cole.

    Got some bad news about my car—it needs a new transmission. Mr. Suzanne and I were getting upset about it, because we really don’t have money for this right now, then we calmed down, and he said to me, “This is okay, we can deal with this. It’s not a medical crisis.”

    Twenty minutes later, a dear friend of mine from high school with whom I have been close for seventeen years wrote to tell me that he found out that he is HIV-positive.

    So I have had better days.

  16. 16.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    Wow. Though I’ve never actually seen a picture of you, your own descriptions of yourself as a cross between this and this make it jaw dropping that you’d have such charmingly gorgeous relatives.

  17. 17.

    Spaghetti Lee

    I’ve listened to Bug by Dinosaur Jr. like five times now and I gotta say it’s just another one of those apparently revolutionary indie/underground bands that just doesn’t do anything for me. Are their other albums much different?

  22. 22.

    northquirk

    Delurking to wish your mom a very happy birthday! Its my birthday too and I am feeling like a most fortunate lady :)

  24. 24.

    burnspbesq

    @Alison:

    There is a ton of Liga MX on teevee in SoCal, but over time there won’t be any more America fans here than Dodger fans in NYC. The actuarial tables don’t lie.

    I would love o go to some Xolos matches, but with the delay at the border it’s six hours each way.

  29. 29.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    I think Devon’s coming on to me in that pic. Dammit John, I’m a married man! I can’t live like this, burning the candle at both ends. Let her down easy for me.

  30. 30.

    wasabi gasp

    Happy birthday to you, Mrs John’s Mom.

    [psst…john…in between your sis and your ma…there’s this little tiny dude…and I think he’s flippin’ you the bird.]

  31. 31.

    fuckwit

    @Spaghetti Lee: It does. “Bless your heart” in Southern-ese, and “my friend’ in NewYork-ese, or “my esteemed colleague” in CapitolHill-ese, are all euphemisms for “asshole”.

  33. 33.

    ruemara

    Happy birthday, Mrs. Cole.

    @Suzanne: I’m sorry. Good healthy thoughts to your friend and your car.

    I’ve spent 5 days collecting snippets for production reel and an efx reel. I can’t believe just letters can take 2 days to render.

  37. 37.

    Suzanne

    @Yatsuno: I hope we have him for many years to come. Apparently his t-cell count is in the shitter and his viral load is pretty high, but his doctor thinks that they’ll be able to get those back to better levels. He’s just been having a really rough time over the last year, so I am scared for him.

  38. 38.

    Mary G

    @Suzanne: I’m sorry – first your dishwasher, now your car, and most importantly, your friend. Like Yatsuno said, it’s not a death sentence these days, but it is scary.

    Was the exam that messed up the other day your soil one? Are they going to let you take it over.

    You are due some good news soon.

  41. 41.

    Suzanne

    @Mary G: Yes, it was the soil one. (Which ended up having only one question about soil.) I am fighting with the architecture board and Prometric, but I’m not hopeful. Prometric has no record in their logs of the screen blacking out.

    THX for the support. This has been a rough few weeks financially, between the dishwasher, the fridge breaking, and needing a bunch of plumbing work done, and now a couple grand for a transmission. And the test stress is also awful. But I am most worried for my friend. When we were younger, he told me once that if he ever got infected, he would commit suicide. That was years ago and he seems to be more clear-headed now, but he’s struggled with depression for years, and I worry.

  42. 42.

    rda909

    @rda909: Upon further (zoom in) inspection, I see that it is not CBGB. No bother…I have no problem visiting the East Coast. Go Pens!!

  43. 43.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    Really weird how you never get to go anywhere or do anything with your purported family, John. Maybe because it isn’t your family?? Maybe it’s just a sick obsession with another family you found in the Internet?

  46. 46.

    Redshift

    Most hilarious headline in the NewsMax box right now: “Coulter Blasts Liberal Republicans.” No way I’m gonna click through, but I’d guess it probably means those RINOs who might vote to end the shutdown and raise the debt ceiling, instead of marching off the cliff in lockstep.

    The corollary to Cleek’s Law is that a “liberal” Republican is one who ever agrees with a Democrat on anything.

  47. 47.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    Chris Hayes has been doing a series, “One of the People who are Running the Country”, about some of the teabagger clown caucus driving the shutdown. Tonight’s person, Paul Broun, is quite a specimen. After describing his biblical liberalism, climate change denialism, and general batshittery, Hayes pointed out that he actually referred to the Civil War, on the floor of the House, as the “War of Yankee Aggression”.

  48. 48.

    divF

    Congrats to Mom Cole on reaching 72 and looking tip-top, not to mention having such a great family (and I hope a great time at the Pens’ game).

  49. 49.

    Ripley

    @Spaghetti Lee: Re: Bug, I think you had to be there, then. Now it sounds dated and comically lo-fi; then, loud magic. We needed loud magic in ’88.

    Try Green Mind for one that holds up better. Puke and cry, come on down….

  50. 50.

    TG Chicago

    I hope to heaven we don’t have a default, but if we do and if we experience dire economic consequences as a result, I just realized what will happen:

    The Republicans will blame the economic collapse on Obamacare, and the media will treat that as a legitimate opinion.

    That sucks.

  51. 51.

    Tommy

    John here is to sports fan moms. Have not talked to my mom tonight, but I know last night when the Cards won she was literally dancing around the house.

  52. 52.

    Spaghetti Lee

    @Tommy:

    Watching Bears games with my mom is always a treat. She’s passionate enough to get worked up about the team but isn’t really a stathead, which leads to stuff like “Stop doing bad things, and start doing good things!” screamed at the TV.

  54. 54.

    Tommy

    @Spaghetti Lee: Oh my mom could coach the team. She knows the stats better then the announcers. Will be like “why are you brining in the left hander, he is terrible against a switch hitter. We need …..”

    I like to tell stories and about my favorite as a sports fan is when I was in her womb she used to put headphones to her belly in the late 60s so I could hear Jack Buck call Cardinals games. Sad my parents don’t have a picture of it, they have pictures of me doing just about everything. I’d blow that darn pic up to poster size and have it hanging on my wall.

  57. 57.

    Tommy

    @The prophet Nostradumbass: Yes. I recall in like 1991 going to grad school at LSU. Some folks called me a “Yankee.” Now my father has a PhD in Civil War history, I kind of caught on early they were not calling me a “Yankee” cause I was just from the North. They were in fact mad at me cause they had lost the War. I’ve said this so many times and often people think I am making it up (I am not) or that I am overstating it (again I am not).

    There are a lot of folks still mad ….. and a “negro” in the White House doesn’t help them feel more at ease.

  58. 58.

    Phil Perspective

    @Spaghetti Lee: Does anyone remember how Broun got elected in the first place? There was a special election and the two top vote-getters were GOPers, Broun and Jim Whitehead. And the Whitehead was even more nutso than Broun. So nutso that Whitehead said the University of Georgia, was a “liberal bastion” that should be eliminated, save for the football team.

  61. 61.

    Time Travelin

    Is sis single? I’d even pretend the Pens aren’t evil (B’s fan here). Think about having Cole as a brother-in-law. How terrifying / awesome would that be?

  67. 67.

    Betty Cracker

    Happy birthday, Mrs. C!

    @Spaghetti Lee:

    “…which leads to stuff like “Stop doing bad things, and start doing good things!” screamed at the TV.”

    Hahaha. My mother-in-law sometimes says, “They need to play…better!”

  73. 73.

    grishaxxx

    Great bones on both of them. Very Happy Birthday to Mama Cole, and bless her for raising such a great family – we are all in her debt.

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