Steve looks so much like our kitty, except he’s a beefier male, he’s got incredibly impressive paws, and whiskers our cat would no doubt be jealous about (since she’s kinda femmy-fussy). So glad you two found each other!
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SiubhanDuinne
He is gorgeous.
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Cassidy
This never gets old.
About that…
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lurker dean
well done on the pics, so much better than they used to be!
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Yatsuno
Is there a Crazy Cat Lady Society of West Virginia?
6.
MTmofo
Caption pic 1: Feel me ignore you
Caption pic 2: Had enough?
Just wanted to thank whoever it was on BJ last year who recommended Puerto Rican Eggnog.
I made 2 batches last year, and I was happy to find my notes about the changes I made to the second batch. Here’s my recipe, in case anyone wants to try it.
Puerto Rican Eggnog – Coquito REVISED
1 15-ounce cans coconut cream
8 ounces of heavy cream & some milk instead of the can of sweetened, condensed milk
2-3 splashes of milk
1 14-ounce can evaporated milk
1/2 cup Puerto Rican rum
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/8 teaspoon fresh ground nutmeg – used about half of that, then added more just before serving
Mix all ingredients with a whisk or a blender.
Chill at least an hour (it gets better as it ages, so make a day or two ahead if possible).
(I made the last batch 24 hours before I brought it to your house, but I tasted right after I made it and it was already pretty good.)
Drink carefully!
EDIT: making my first batch of the year on saturday morning so i can bring it to our 5-episodes of Homeland marathon on sunday. It’s only available ON DEMAND until january 5 or 7, so we are going the marathon route with the first 5 episodes of this season on sunday.
I have a recipe for Killer Nog, and part of the recipe includes the advice that you will either need to dole it out in very tiny portions or plan to have your guests stay over, so you may as well haul out the extra blankets and sleeping bags while you’re in the basement getting out the punch bowl.
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Little Boots
needs more omnes.
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WaterGIrl
@MikeJ: As I recall when I researched the puerto rican eggnog last year on the google, it said that the puerto rican eggnog originally had no eggs. It also said that some people add eggs, but this was definitely the best eggnog I have ever had, so why complicate it with eggs? :-)
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Fuzzy
@WaterGIrl: I know at least twice the rum will be crucial with my crowd. About 30 oz. of cream/milk needs at least 8oz of rum which is less than the 3 to 1 of most cocktails.
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WaterGIrl
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): Well, I’m brining the eggnog, and I’m planning on wearing my jammies. Well, my “lounging outfit”, which is basically jammies. :-) So I think I’m good to go!
This is seriously good stuff. As I recall, some of the recipes called for 2 cans of cream of coconut, but we agreed that would be too much. I also prefer the cream + a bit of milk to the sweetened condensed milk. It was plenty sweet without the sweetened condensed milk.
Yum. I seriously can’t wait. I had forgotten all about it until one day last week when it popped into my head.
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burnspbesq
Ol’ Newsmax finally put up a headline that I couldn’t resist clicking through:
Greenwald: NSA Creates Blackmail Risk for Women Who Get Abortions
It’s actually even worse than the headline suggests.
39.
WaterGIrl
@Fuzzy: Yeah, I probably reduced the rum and forgot to make note of it. I figure you can always add more, but it’s hard to take it out.
Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!
— Justine Sacco (@JustineSacco) 20 Dec 13
A message about race and AIDS in Africa posted on the Twitter account of a public relations executive at an Internet media giant caused an outcry on Twitter and the web on Friday.
The message, from the account of Justine Sacco, the communications director for InterActiveCorp, better known as IAC, read: “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!”
IAC is the corporate parent of more than three dozen companies, including Match.com, The Daily Beast and Dictionary.com. The company, based in New York City, also owns BlackPeopleMeet.com, a dating site for African-Americans.
“This is an outrageous, offensive comment that does not reflect the views and values of IAC,” the company said in a statement. “Unfortunately, the employee in question is unreachable on an international flight, but this is a very serious matter and we are taking appropriate action.”..
@burnspbesq: I was snarking about that a few threads down. Mostly wondering which side NewsMax was expecting readers to be on: slutty slutty sluts or Obama’s jackbooted Stasi. Or Glenn Greenwald’s.
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Little Boots
much as I love you all, I have to ask, no omnes? really?
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lamh36
@Baud: Apparently the tweet has been deleted, so I’m thinking it was a true tweet.
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Ash Can
@lamh36: She’s in for the shock of her life when she lands. Talk about learning the hard way about being an ass on Twitter.
ETA @ lamh36: Deleted? She must have landed, then.
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lamh36
@danielwein 11m
GENIUS: @AidforAfrica registered the domain name for http://JustineSacco.com and is pointing it towards their donation page.
A message about race and AIDS in Africa posted on the Twitter account of a public relations executive
What the fuck sort of public relations expert makes AIDS jokes unless they’re doing it intentionally to get clicks?
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lamh36
@MikeJ: well it backfired big time for her. She tweeted it right before she boarded. The flight has landed, and now the tweet has been deleted. I’m tell ya, she’s gonna be clearing her phone all night from her twitter mentions alone.
She might just as well turn the phone off and just use another phone.
ETA: Apparently now the tweet has been deleted and apparently the twitter account has also been deleted
@Little Boots: Of course, I could. But really why should I? some will call me an obot; some will call a coffee house liberal dudebro; some will drunkenly mutter something about me be a silly person or some such; and mclaren will again suggest that I masturbate to holocaust porn. So, why bother?
Hmmmm. There are advantages to Twitter’s character constraint. It forces distillation of complex ideas. Something tells me though that the full length essay from Ms. Sacco would be less interesting. But then she’d remain an anonymous nobody, instead of a unknown nobody everyone has as strong opinion about.
and there’s new thread. and stop with the self pity.
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James Hare
You make me miss my big beautiful Maine Coon boy Hagrid. Those damn godless communists in China sent us tainted food that granted that fine cat his final reward. I am not yet over holding a grudge.
Short version: using Linda Taylor as an example of the failure of the welfare system is like using Al Capone as an example of the failure of the income tax system. And yet she’s the example that Republicans have used for over 30 years to denigrate anyone who receives welfare.
@James Hare: I am not a grudge holder, but I would carry that one with me to my grave.
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srv
@Omnes Omnibus: A Firebagger earns their wings everytime an Obot gives up.
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Omnes Omnibus
@Little Boots: Was your wedding anniversary – the marriage that ended through someone else’s decision – this week? OTOH Diamonds and Rust is a brilliant song.
ETA: I know you are gay and in WI so a wedding anniversary isn’t an option. My apologies.
Oh, I got accused of that, too. Also of masturbating to thoughts of Pol Pot. Interesting glimpse into the swamps of that particular brain, but I wouldn’t want to live there.
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srv
#Future: Justine returns from Africa with a gay black baby and marries Duck in new Fox reality show
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WaterGIrl
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): Wow. Scary that someone could even make that connection. I’ll say it again. Wow.
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Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGIrl: I go back and forth on that commenter. Parody, using the internet to vent frustrations, or fucking out his mind.
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WaterGIrl
@Omnes Omnibus: I thought someone said once that mclaren was female. ?? Or maybe I am confusing two commenters.
@Yatsuno: Ahhh nothing but pain and resentment! But at the end of the day, blessed, blessed mobility, so worth it.
As for Main Coons, I just watched the “Too Cute” episode on Netflix tonight that featured MC kitties. Phil and Izzy are now nervous as I’m sighing thinking that two ragdolls are fulfilling, but the addition of a MC kitty would make it *really* fulfilling.
When are we going to get some Steve Stuff in the store? When is the calender gonna be ready? I’m getting tired of flipping to January, and not having any pet pics, or spaces to write my reminders…
Damn Hippy/Libruls; you just don’t know how to efficiently capitalize the branding, and take my moneys!
@Mnemosyne (iPhone):
The welfare queen. A very interesting story.
Once worked as a mental health counselor and had one telephone client, a 14 yr old girl who could make up very complete elaborate stories with names, voices and mannerisms and unless you could recognize her vocal idiosyncrasies you would never know if she was 10, 80 or somewhere in between. I could about 95% of the time figure out it was her in about 2 minutes but couldn’t teach anyone how I did it. Other than her actual age this could have been the same woman. Could fool almost everyone. If she had been a little older and a lot more evil she could have used her talent for conning a lot of money.
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karensky
Just gorgeous.
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StringOnAStick
Steve looks so much like our kitty, except he’s a beefier male, he’s got incredibly impressive paws, and whiskers our cat would no doubt be jealous about (since she’s kinda femmy-fussy). So glad you two found each other!
SiubhanDuinne
He is gorgeous.
Cassidy
About that…
lurker dean
well done on the pics, so much better than they used to be!
Yatsuno
Is there a Crazy Cat Lady Society of West Virginia?
MTmofo
Caption pic 1: Feel me ignore you
Caption pic 2: Had enough?
WereBear
Maine Coons rule!
Suzanne
So beautiful. Just like my Neeksie.
grishaxxx
No, it doesn’t. Makes me grin every time you post a new one.
srv
Dallas has a wingnut station on FM. Dennis Miller was up emoting about some Duck thing, and what all his gay friends thought about it.
Then he was talking about some conservative event with a sponser, which he stuggled with: “David JEW-ey-lyers… David JEW-lers… oh, David Jewlers…”
And then someone talked about how Baldwin had to be hateful eleventy billion times before he got fired, and Duck guy only got one chance.
Starlit
More, please.
Suffern ACE
@srv: it almost makes me wish for an underwear bomber to change the topic at Christmas.
Yatsuno
Made it to the rehab unit. Now things get intense for a few weeks.
Paddy
If you have a book, art or charity you would like to get out there for gifting in the season check this out- Holiday Cool Things 2013
I’ll be adding every day until Christmas eve. Just email me at paddy at the political carnival dot net.
Little Boots
doesn’t it?
I’m kidding.
VladCat
Did you clip that wild whisker to make him even more photogenic?
khead
No, it doesn’t get old. I need to get back to posting and sharing pics of the girls (kittehs). They are growing up pretty quickly.
NotMax
@Yatsuno
You are now the Bionic Commenter.
(And pay no mind to the GPS tracker the NSA installed while you were under.)
khead
@NotMax:
The trackers are inserted during flu shots. Just an FYI…
WaterGIrl
@Yatsuno: Yay for making it to the next step! I’m sure your feistiness will help get you through the next few weeks.
When I think of rehab, I always think of the movie Regarding Henry, and his PT guy who always said “I gotta get me some of that”.
If it has to be painful, here’s hoping you get a cool and fun person to work with you, at least.
Mike in NC
Our two damn lazy cats love nothing more than curling up under the Christmas tree. Something about the lights I think.
Comrade Mary
@Yatsuno: Beehive or it didn’t happen :P
KG
@Suffern ACE: I’m actually surprised gay marriage in Utah isn’t overtaking everything. Is it just because it was at the end of the day on Friday?
Little Boots
sooooo, duck dynasty. hmmmmm.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
I realize that this is probably the busiest weekend of the year for our cleaning people but, really SEVEN FUCKING THIRTY A.M. TOMORROW!?
max
@Yatsuno: Made it to the rehab unit. Now things get intense for a few weeks.
Good. Swelling and potential infections are bad bad bad.
If it won’t split your seams, here’s something to laugh at: The Ten Most Ridiculous Metal Album Covers of 2013.
max
[‘I think #2 should be #1.’]
WaterGIrl
Just wanted to thank whoever it was on BJ last year who recommended Puerto Rican Eggnog.
I made 2 batches last year, and I was happy to find my notes about the changes I made to the second batch. Here’s my recipe, in case anyone wants to try it.
Puerto Rican Eggnog – Coquito REVISED
1 15-ounce cans coconut cream
8 ounces of heavy cream & some milk instead of the can of sweetened, condensed milk
2-3 splashes of milk
1 14-ounce can evaporated milk
1/2 cup Puerto Rican rum
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/8 teaspoon fresh ground nutmeg – used about half of that, then added more just before serving
Mix all ingredients with a whisk or a blender.
Chill at least an hour (it gets better as it ages, so make a day or two ahead if possible).
(I made the last batch 24 hours before I brought it to your house, but I tasted right after I made it and it was already pretty good.)
Drink carefully!
EDIT: making my first batch of the year on saturday morning so i can bring it to our 5-episodes of Homeland marathon on sunday. It’s only available ON DEMAND until january 5 or 7, so we are going the marathon route with the first 5 episodes of this season on sunday.
danielx
@Yatsuno:
Yup. Going to hurt a lot; take your drugs and do your therapy.
Hawes
I just checked into a motel in West By God Virginia, and I’m shocked at all the Subarus out in fields. Is that a thing here?
MikeJ
@WaterGIrl: There is a distinct lack of eggs in your nog.
I was reading ye olde timey NY Times cookbook from back in the Craig Clairborne era the other day. The eggnog recipe starts with 50 eggs.
Ash Can
No, it doesn’t. Keep the pics coming.
danielx
@Hawes:
Totally.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@WaterGIrl:
I have a recipe for Killer Nog, and part of the recipe includes the advice that you will either need to dole it out in very tiny portions or plan to have your guests stay over, so you may as well haul out the extra blankets and sleeping bags while you’re in the basement getting out the punch bowl.
Little Boots
needs more omnes.
WaterGIrl
@MikeJ: As I recall when I researched the puerto rican eggnog last year on the google, it said that the puerto rican eggnog originally had no eggs. It also said that some people add eggs, but this was definitely the best eggnog I have ever had, so why complicate it with eggs? :-)
Fuzzy
@WaterGIrl: I know at least twice the rum will be crucial with my crowd. About 30 oz. of cream/milk needs at least 8oz of rum which is less than the 3 to 1 of most cocktails.
WaterGIrl
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): Well, I’m brining the eggnog, and I’m planning on wearing my jammies. Well, my “lounging outfit”, which is basically jammies. :-) So I think I’m good to go!
This is seriously good stuff. As I recall, some of the recipes called for 2 cans of cream of coconut, but we agreed that would be too much. I also prefer the cream + a bit of milk to the sweetened condensed milk. It was plenty sweet without the sweetened condensed milk.
Yum. I seriously can’t wait. I had forgotten all about it until one day last week when it popped into my head.
burnspbesq
Ol’ Newsmax finally put up a headline that I couldn’t resist clicking through:
Greenwald: NSA Creates Blackmail Risk for Women Who Get Abortions
It’s actually even worse than the headline suggests.
WaterGIrl
@Fuzzy: Yeah, I probably reduced the rum and forgot to make note of it. I figure you can always add more, but it’s hard to take it out.
MikeJ
@burnspbesq:
One stupid trick this dad uses to stop the NSA
Little Boots
can we all at least love joan baez? watergirl?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MSwBM_CbyY
Baud
@burnspbesq:
As opposed to Rand Paul libertarians?
Gravenstone
@max: Marvel should sue Iron Mask for copyright infringement. If that ain’t Doc Doom in bronzed PJs, I don’t know who its supposed to be.
srv
@Hawes: And don’t call the front desk for mustard. It’s in the room safe.
Gravenstone
@burnspbesq: That headline is basically B-J Yahtzee.
Narcissus
Booze? Pills? Cadbury Creme Eggs?
Recloyd
Glad you love your cat–I love my cat, too. Time to re-engage with the world.
Little Boots
still think omnes could sort this whole thing out.
lamh36
Ok, anyone keeping up with the twitter and the #HasJustineLandedYet #JustineSacco hashtag.
If not google it. NYTimes has even posted an online story about it.
They have progressed to twitpic hastags now and they are hilarious
#TwitpicYourWaitingForJustineFace
Here’s the NYTimes blogpost about it: http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/thelede/2013/12/20/a-twitter-message-about-aids-africa-and-race/?smid=tw-share
Little Boots
seriously? still no omnes?
what the hell with this place?
Baud
@lamh36:
I just saw that. I don’t know if I hope it’s real or if I hope it’s fake.
PurpleGirl
All hail His Lordship, Sir Steve the Floofy.
lamh36
A Twitter Message About AIDS, Africa and Race
By ASHLEY SOUTHALL
Cassidy
Can’t believe I missed this Oatmeal comic.
FlipYrWhig
@burnspbesq: I was snarking about that a few threads down. Mostly wondering which side NewsMax was expecting readers to be on: slutty slutty sluts or Obama’s jackbooted Stasi. Or Glenn Greenwald’s.
Little Boots
much as I love you all, I have to ask, no omnes? really?
lamh36
@Baud: Apparently the tweet has been deleted, so I’m thinking it was a true tweet.
Ash Can
@lamh36: She’s in for the shock of her life when she lands. Talk about learning the hard way about being an ass on Twitter.
ETA @ lamh36: Deleted? She must have landed, then.
lamh36
MikeJ
@lamh36:
What the fuck sort of public relations expert makes AIDS jokes unless they’re doing it intentionally to get clicks?
lamh36
@MikeJ: well it backfired big time for her. She tweeted it right before she boarded. The flight has landed, and now the tweet has been deleted. I’m tell ya, she’s gonna be clearing her phone all night from her twitter mentions alone.
She might just as well turn the phone off and just use another phone.
ETA: Apparently now the tweet has been deleted and apparently the twitter account has also been deleted
Baud
@MikeJ:
A fired one.
Omnes Omnibus
@Little Boots: Of course, I could. But really why should I? some will call me an obot; some will call a coffee house liberal dudebro; some will drunkenly mutter something about me be a silly person or some such; and mclaren will again suggest that I masturbate to holocaust porn. So, why bother?
Little Boots
so basically, me an joan baez are right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGMHSbcd_qI
MikeJ
@Baud: I hope so.
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
oh good lord, guy, just show up.
and post.
Suffern ACE
Hmmmm. There are advantages to Twitter’s character constraint. It forces distillation of complex ideas. Something tells me though that the full length essay from Ms. Sacco would be less interesting. But then she’d remain an anonymous nobody, instead of a unknown nobody everyone has as strong opinion about.
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
and there’s new thread. and stop with the self pity.
James Hare
You make me miss my big beautiful Maine Coon boy Hagrid. Those damn godless communists in China sent us tainted food that granted that fine cat his final reward. I am not yet over holding a grudge.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
So I was extremely surprised to find Slate using their contrarian powers against Ronald Reagan with this story:
The Welfare Queen
Short version: using Linda Taylor as an example of the failure of the welfare system is like using Al Capone as an example of the failure of the income tax system. And yet she’s the example that Republicans have used for over 30 years to denigrate anyone who receives welfare.
WaterGIrl
@Omnes Omnibus:
Wow, the things I miss because I skip over certain posters. That must have been a fun night.
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: WTF?
WaterGIrl
@James Hare: I am not a grudge holder, but I would carry that one with me to my grave.
srv
@Omnes Omnibus: A Firebagger earns their wings everytime an Obot gives up.
Omnes Omnibus
@Little Boots: Was your wedding anniversary – the marriage that ended through someone else’s decision – this week? OTOH Diamonds and Rust is a brilliant song.
ETA: I know you are gay and in WI so a wedding anniversary isn’t an option. My apologies.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@James Hare:
That’s what happened to our late great Boris. Dick Van Patten’s “natural” cat food killed our cat.
@lamh36:
I heard about this on the radio driving home. The deejay (young and female) was PISSED.
@WaterGIrl:
Oh, I got accused of that, too. Also of masturbating to thoughts of Pol Pot. Interesting glimpse into the swamps of that particular brain, but I wouldn’t want to live there.
srv
#Future: Justine returns from Africa with a gay black baby and marries Duck in new Fox reality show
WaterGIrl
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): Wow. Scary that someone could even make that connection. I’ll say it again. Wow.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGIrl: I go back and forth on that commenter. Parody, using the internet to vent frustrations, or fucking out his mind.
WaterGIrl
@Omnes Omnibus: I thought someone said once that mclaren was female. ?? Or maybe I am confusing two commenters.
p.s. Why either or, maybe it’s both?
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
hey, there’s always iowa.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGIrl: Recent evidence says male. But whatever.
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
you are too much.
Jane2
@Yatsuno: Ahhh nothing but pain and resentment! But at the end of the day, blessed, blessed mobility, so worth it.
As for Main Coons, I just watched the “Too Cute” episode on Netflix tonight that featured MC kitties. Phil and Izzy are now nervous as I’m sighing thinking that two ragdolls are fulfilling, but the addition of a MC kitty would make it *really* fulfilling.
Omnes Omnibus
@Little Boots: Okay, here. From your Baez song about Dylan, I will pivot to a Bryan Ferry Dylan cover.
You’re welcome.
Little Boots
and I will have you know, Mr. Omnes, that thus far, two people have been honored to marry me.
two.
Mr.
Little Boots
and don’t be throwing bryan ferry at … oh, god, I love bryan ferry.
Omnes Omnibus
@Little Boots: I know my audience.
LayedBackGuy
When are we going to get some Steve Stuff in the store? When is the calender gonna be ready? I’m getting tired of flipping to January, and not having any pet pics, or spaces to write my reminders…
Damn Hippy/Libruls; you just don’t know how to efficiently capitalize the branding, and take my moneys!
Steeplejack
@Yatsuno:
Keep on keepin’ on, Yutsy.
Ruckus
@Mnemosyne (iPhone):
The welfare queen. A very interesting story.
Once worked as a mental health counselor and had one telephone client, a 14 yr old girl who could make up very complete elaborate stories with names, voices and mannerisms and unless you could recognize her vocal idiosyncrasies you would never know if she was 10, 80 or somewhere in between. I could about 95% of the time figure out it was her in about 2 minutes but couldn’t teach anyone how I did it. Other than her actual age this could have been the same woman. Could fool almost everyone. If she had been a little older and a lot more evil she could have used her talent for conning a lot of money.
karensky
Just gorgeous.