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You are here: Home / Pet Blogging / Pet Rescue / These are Awesome!

These are Awesome!

by John Cole|  January 23, 20147:01 pm| 44 Comments

This post is in: Pet Rescue

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Just checked my gmail and found these in the inbox, and I just love them! They will be available soon in the hopefully constructed Steve section.

Steve-super

Steve-SecretID

Don’t forget to buy your Pets of Balloon Juice Calendar. All proceeds go to MARC! Oh, and btw- here is the snazzy van they bought at a steal for 3k to help transport animals.

van

van2

They tell me the logos will be on the side of the van soon, which is great, because it will really help awareness.

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  1. 1.

    Quaker in a Basement

    January 23, 2014 at 7:06 pm

    No shaved butt?

  2. 2.

    srv

    January 23, 2014 at 7:08 pm

    I wonder how many animals are living in your Subaru now.

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    grishaxxx

    January 23, 2014 at 7:12 pm

    Fkin’ awesome – and I see the Tunch Spot was included. WoW!

  4. 4.

    Poopyman

    January 23, 2014 at 7:18 pm

    I’m going to assume this is an open thread, and also assume this didn’t show up down below (sorry if it did), but Crooks and Liars is telling me Dinesh D’Souza Indicted For Campaign Finance Violations.

    Hoocoodanode?

    ETA: Ahh crap. Nevermind!

  5. 5.

    max

    January 23, 2014 at 7:20 pm

    @srv: I wonder how many animals are living in your Subaru now.

    At least they’ve got mustard.

    Don’t forget to buy your Pets of Balloon Juice Calendar. All proceeds go to MARC!

    Already done and they delivered the calender today. Very nice!

    max
    [‘Fast!’]

  6. 6.

    danielx

    January 23, 2014 at 7:32 pm

    I cannot express the amount of awesome in those pics of der Steve.

  7. 7.

    Mnemosyne

    January 23, 2014 at 7:40 pm

    They tell me the logos will be on the side of the van soon, which is great, because it will really help awareness.

    Plus they’ll look less like roving serial killers. I think that was the kind of van Ted Bundy drove.

  8. 8.

    ranchandsyrup

    January 23, 2014 at 7:42 pm

    Outstanding!

  9. 9.

    BGinCHI

    January 23, 2014 at 7:44 pm

    Suggested logo for van:

    FUCK THE GOP

  10. 10.

    CaseyL

    January 23, 2014 at 7:48 pm

    Those are awesome Steve sigils. Who is the artist (I can see the artist’s signature, but can’t read it)?

    Thanks for the update on MARC, too!

  11. 11.

    WereBear

    January 23, 2014 at 7:52 pm

    Looking forward to adding a Steve mug to my collection.

  12. 12.

    JPL

    January 23, 2014 at 7:53 pm

    @CaseyL: When you click on the picture and enlarge it, it looks like Jeff Hebert. They are outstanding.

  13. 13.

    MikeJ

    January 23, 2014 at 7:55 pm

    @CaseyL: Does it say Jeff Herbert? And if it does, I wonder if it’s this guy.

  14. 14.

    JPL

    January 23, 2014 at 8:03 pm

    @MikeJ: click at the bottom of the picture and it opens a separate screen that you can enlarge. That’s what it looked like to me.

  15. 15.

    glory b

    January 23, 2014 at 8:03 pm

    @srv: Okay, I almost laughed in the middle of putting a spoonful of chili in my mouth.

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    J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford

    January 23, 2014 at 8:05 pm

    That’s a van down by the river type of van.

  17. 17.

    Jeffro

    January 23, 2014 at 8:06 pm

    OT: with Hillary all but inevitable as the Dem nominee in 2016, how long before the GOP “Draft Haley” (as in Nikki) movement begins?

    Because also female, and all that…

  18. 18.

    AliceBlue

    January 23, 2014 at 8:06 pm

    Steve Is In The House indeed!

  19. 19.

    geg6

    January 23, 2014 at 8:06 pm

    Got the email that my calendar is on it’s way! Don’t forget to check out my Koda and Otis, February pinups extraordinaire!

    And the Steve artwork is good. Not crazy about the superhero one, but that’s just my comics prejudice.

  20. 20.

    Elizabelle

    January 23, 2014 at 8:07 pm

    @srv:

    I wonder how many animals are living in your Subaru now.

    You made me laugh.

  21. 21.

    JPL

    January 23, 2014 at 8:11 pm

    This is from the NY TImes..

    “Mr. D’Souza did not act with any corrupt or criminal intent whatsoever,” his lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, said in a statement. “He and the candidate have been friends since their college days, and at most, this was an act of misguided friendship by D’Souza.”

    So D’Souza defense is that he is not a very bright man but loyal to his friends. It’s the Godfather defense.

  22. 22.

    BGinCHI

    January 23, 2014 at 8:15 pm

    @JPL: Reminds me of McDonnell’s defense at his presser this week: even if it was wrong to take all that stuff and money it was paid back.

    So it would be ok if I robbed a bank, invested the money, then returned the principal when I got caught? It wouldn’t be stealing because I paid it back.

    Laws don’t apply to rich people, I guess.

  23. 23.

    BGinCHI

    January 23, 2014 at 8:17 pm

    @JPL: Now that I think of it, D’Souza’s defense is even more pathetic.

    He’s sorry so he shouldn’t be prosecuted.

    Put him in Rahway, please.

  24. 24.

    Elizabelle

    January 23, 2014 at 8:19 pm

    Steve’s got a George Clinton Parliament Funkadelic look going on. The 70s logo is perfect.

  25. 25.

    MikeJ

    January 23, 2014 at 8:19 pm

    @JPL:

    “Mr. D’Souza did not act with any corrupt or criminal intent whatsoever,”

    The problem with that argument is that the nature of the crime demonstrates that he knows something about campaign finance law. You don’t split your personal contribution in excess of the limits unless you’re aware of the limits.

  26. 26.

    Elizabelle

    January 23, 2014 at 8:27 pm

    @BGinCHI:

    The WaPost has McDonnell down for not being chivalrous.

    From top of website: Ex.-Va. governor rejects deal that would spare wife

    Authorities proposed that then-Gov. Robert F. McDonnell plead guilty to one felony bank fraud charge that had nothing to do with corruption in office and his wife, Maureen, would avoid charges altogether.

    Sounds like McDonnell’s going to try to brazen it out, let the chips fall on wife Maureen, who is not a government official.

  27. 27.

    Mike in NC

    January 23, 2014 at 8:29 pm

    @Jeffro: Nikki Haley will some day (2020?) be the Great Not Exactly White Hope of the GOP as it circles the electoral drain. Newspaper today had a very good article on her boundless self-promotion, lies about numbers of new jobs “projected”, and active hostility to the federal government and labor unions. She never held an honest job in her life.

    Somebody should start a petition to shut down all military bases and other forms of Red State welfare in South Carolina, just to get Big Gummint off the backs of the poor Neo-Confederates.

  28. 28.

    BGinCHI

    January 23, 2014 at 8:33 pm

    @Elizabelle: Let’s see if they get separate lawyers, then the fur will fly.

  29. 29.

    Lymie

    January 23, 2014 at 8:37 pm

    It will be interesting to see what Dartmouth PR does with this – they just invited him to debate Bill Ayres.

  30. 30.

    Villago Delenda Est

    January 23, 2014 at 8:47 pm

    Sorry, John, they’re not awesome.

    Awesome is too mundane a word.

    We need a new adjective for those depictions of Steve. Something a couple of orders of magnitude greater than “awesome”.

  31. 31.

    Ash Can

    January 23, 2014 at 8:52 pm

    Those pics are 24-karat awesome. Quintessentially Steve, plus the Tunch spot. Perfect.

  32. 32.

    jnfr

    January 23, 2014 at 8:59 pm

    Can’t wait for my Steve swag. Gorgeous artwork.

  33. 33.

    smedley the uncertain

    January 23, 2014 at 9:09 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    COSMIC

  34. 34.

    smedley the uncertain

    January 23, 2014 at 9:12 pm

    Can anyone provide contact info for MARC?
    I have friends who are part of a rescue dogs network who often need transportation of the rescuees and I’m sure would support MARC.
    Thanks,
    S

  35. 35.

    danielx

    January 23, 2014 at 9:16 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    May I suggest cat’s ass. Particularly apropos in view of last evening’s Cole cat grooming debacle.

  36. 36.

    gbear

    January 23, 2014 at 9:54 pm

    @danielx: Perfect. There was a Twin Cities band in the 60’s called The C. A. Quintet. The C. A. stood for cat’s ass. I was reminded of them by John’s post.

  37. 37.

    John Cole

    January 23, 2014 at 10:02 pm

    @smedley the uncertain: I can get you in touch of anyone you need at MARC. EMAIL me.

  38. 38.

    Jeff Hebert

    January 23, 2014 at 10:22 pm

    Thanks for the post, John, I’m so glad you like the illustrations! Steve is awesome.

    I’m the guy who did the drawings, by the way, for those who were asking.

  39. 39.

    Jeff Hebert

    January 23, 2014 at 10:26 pm

    @MikeJ: Close Mike, but different guy. Pretty neat to know there’s another Jeff Hebert out there who draws mechanical animals and such sometimes, though! I feel a little weird posting my site, but the super pets site is here and my regular ol’ illustration portfolio is here.

  40. 40.

    CaseyL

    January 23, 2014 at 10:35 pm

    @Jeff Hebert: Thank you for the links to your portfolios. Love your work!

  41. 41.

    Yatsuno

    January 23, 2014 at 10:41 pm

    @Mike in NC: Never happen. The US military has been in Charleston Harbour since the founding of the Republic. And it’s also a great jobs source since the only real other industry they have is Boeing (and hardly what’s in WA) and I think a couple auto plants. That’s it. Nothing else. Nikki would be run out on a pike if the military left. Oh and Marines get their first torture in Parris Island, and I can’t see the Dawgs giving that up.

  42. 42.

    mai naem

    January 23, 2014 at 11:06 pm

    @BGinCHI: The McDonnells did get separate lawyers.

  43. 43.

    grishaxxx

    January 24, 2014 at 2:39 am

    @WereBear: That would be great!

  44. 44.

    Manyakitty

    January 24, 2014 at 10:17 am

    Got my calendar–looks great! Even got two of my pics in it (covering all three cats).

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