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Proof of Life

by John Cole|  June 9, 201511:34 pm| 99 Comments

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Thurston is below my feet helping me tear things up in World of Tanks.

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  1. 1.

    JCJ

    June 9, 2015 at 11:34 pm

    Wow! He is getting big!

  2. 2.

    Linnaeus

    June 9, 2015 at 11:41 pm

    tear things up in World of Tanks.

    I’m taking a trip down memory lane and playing The Temple of Elemental Evil.

  3. 3.

    SiubhanDuinne

    June 9, 2015 at 11:42 pm

    OMG, he stopped being a PUPPEH and turned into a BIG DOG!

    Edit: geg6, are you around? Is Lovey also getting big like her brother? For some reason, in my head, they are both eternally little fat puppehs. But naturally, that’s unrealistic.

  4. 4.

    rikyrah

    June 9, 2015 at 11:43 pm

    He is getting so big. What a cutie!

  5. 5.

    Valdivia

    June 9, 2015 at 11:44 pm

    How he has grown!

  6. 6.

    Elizabelle

    June 9, 2015 at 11:45 pm

    Thurston’s getting taller.

  7. 7.

    Little Boots

    June 9, 2015 at 11:50 pm

    oh, good lord, pulling out the dog.

  8. 8.

    Little Boots

    June 9, 2015 at 11:52 pm

    goddammit, that looks exactly like the dog I had five years ago. the one who died.

    johnnnnnnn….!!!!

  9. 9.

    mai naem mobile

    June 9, 2015 at 11:54 pm

    My god. He looks huuuge.

  10. 10.

    Mary G

    June 9, 2015 at 11:55 pm

    He’s growing, but is he behaving any better, or still a puppy at heart?

  11. 11.

    Keith P.

    June 9, 2015 at 11:55 pm

    Fur looks great; you can tell he’s well-taken care of.

  12. 12.

    Punchy

    June 9, 2015 at 11:56 pm

    Larry Wilmore just killing it tonite…

  13. 13.

    princess leia

    June 9, 2015 at 11:58 pm

    Such cuteness!!!

  14. 14.

    Little Boots

    June 10, 2015 at 12:05 am

    fine, this, cause everyone gets angry:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUL68ZeclcA

  15. 15.

    FlipYrWhig

    June 10, 2015 at 12:07 am

    You know, basketball-wise, the more I hear that Israel is behind the Cleveland Cavaliers, the more I want the Cleveland Cavaliers to lose.

  16. 16.

    Little Boots

    June 10, 2015 at 12:07 am

    everyone yells at me, but I do something once in awhile.

  17. 17.

    WaynersT

    June 10, 2015 at 12:11 am

    I hope for the upcoming election season/depression you will establish dedicated Steve/Thurston/Lily/Rosie days to see us through.

    Steve Saturdays
    Thurston Thursdays
    Rosie Mondays
    Lily Anydays

  18. 18.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    June 10, 2015 at 12:14 am

    @John Cole: Proof of life requires a copy of today’s newspaper with the date clearly visible in the shot.

  19. 19.

    Little Boots

    June 10, 2015 at 12:15 am

    johnny, your dog is so cute. every dog is so cute.

  20. 20.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    June 10, 2015 at 12:15 am

    @Punchy: Larry was really good last night.

  21. 21.

    Little Boots

    June 10, 2015 at 12:23 am

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    ummm?

  22. 22.

    Valdivia

    June 10, 2015 at 12:24 am

    @FlipYrWhig: Israel? Did I miss something?

  23. 23.

    Little Boots

    June 10, 2015 at 12:26 am

    @Valdivia:

    told ya everyone was angry.

  24. 24.

    Valdivia

    June 10, 2015 at 12:30 am

    @Little Boots: something in the air maybe!

  25. 25.

    Little Boots

    June 10, 2015 at 12:32 am

    @Valdivia:

    this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkADj0TPrJA

    omnes will yell, but I have to, sometimes.

  26. 26.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 10, 2015 at 12:34 am

    @Little Boots: I’m not angry.

  27. 27.

    wasabi gasp

    June 10, 2015 at 12:36 am

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWdZEumNRmI

  28. 28.

    Valdivia

    June 10, 2015 at 12:38 am

    @Little Boots: I knew it would be that even before clicking. I am a mind reader I tell you! :)

  29. 29.

    Little Boots

    June 10, 2015 at 12:38 am

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    see? fine. kinda love him. he might be straight, but …

  30. 30.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 10, 2015 at 12:39 am

    @wasabi gasp: You bastard!

  31. 31.

    Little Boots

    June 10, 2015 at 12:39 am

    @Valdivia:

    you are amazing, girl.

  32. 32.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    June 10, 2015 at 12:40 am

    how big do you think Thurston will get? hard to judge in that pic

  33. 33.

    Little Boots

    June 10, 2015 at 12:44 am

    or, I could stop here.

  34. 34.

    Valdivia

    June 10, 2015 at 12:48 am

    @Little Boots: nah, just too steeped in 80s music for my own good :D

  35. 35.

    Little Boots

    June 10, 2015 at 12:49 am

    @Valdivia:

    oh, can never be.

  36. 36.

    FlipYrWhig

    June 10, 2015 at 12:50 am

    @Valdivia: Cavaliers coach has some connection to Israel. Announcers were all excited about it. “He’s on a first name basis with the Prime Minister of Israel!” Ugh. Having a connection to Princeton is bad enough.

  37. 37.

    Little Boots

    June 10, 2015 at 12:50 am

    sorry, omnes, I’m a jerk sometimes.

  38. 38.

    Valdivia

    June 10, 2015 at 12:51 am

    @FlipYrWhig: I was already sort of rooting for the Warriors at a distance, now knowing this guy is friends with Bibi….ugh.

  39. 39.

    wasabi gasp

    June 10, 2015 at 12:54 am

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Don’t push me ’cause I’m close to the edge.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L0H_w9kBx8

  40. 40.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 10, 2015 at 12:56 am

    @wasabi gasp: Not what I was expecting. Not at all.

  41. 41.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 10, 2015 at 1:00 am

    @Little Boots: No harm done.

  42. 42.

    Little Boots

    June 10, 2015 at 1:04 am

    everyone sleepy now?

  43. 43.

    Little Boots

    June 10, 2015 at 1:06 am

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    sooo, why iraq?

  44. 44.

    wasabi gasp

    June 10, 2015 at 1:09 am

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3y0zh-3VJg

  45. 45.

    Little Boots

    June 10, 2015 at 1:10 am

    @wasabi gasp:

    you are too much.

  46. 46.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 10, 2015 at 1:11 am

    @Little Boots: I had nothing do do with that.

    @wasabi gasp: I am laughing so hard I am almost crying. No, no, there are tears.

  47. 47.

    Little Boots

    June 10, 2015 at 1:13 am

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    but you didn’t stop it. why?

  48. 48.

    wasabi gasp

    June 10, 2015 at 1:15 am

    @Little Boots: @Omnes Omnibus:

    You guys are sweet.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cE4Vy29Tok

  49. 49.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 10, 2015 at 1:16 am

    @wasabi gasp: Fine.

  50. 50.

    Valdivia

    June 10, 2015 at 1:17 am

    @wasabi gasp: are those subtitles in Norwegian?

    @Omnes Omnibus: and your video is from Kazakhstan?

    what is going on! you guys are killing me.

  51. 51.

    Little Boots

    June 10, 2015 at 1:20 am

    always johnny.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq0fUa0vW_E

  52. 52.

    seaboogie

    June 10, 2015 at 1:23 am

    There is not one poodly thing about either of the pups. Inquiring minds want to know…Thurston and Lovey are plenty cute though.

  53. 53.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 10, 2015 at 1:24 am

    @Valdivia: I just the grabbed the first version of that monstrosity that came up.

  54. 54.

    wasabi gasp

    June 10, 2015 at 1:25 am

    @Valdivia: As is with everything, I got no clue.

    @Omnes Omnibus: Funender, you!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTFFYyVC6WQ

  55. 55.

    Valdivia

    June 10, 2015 at 1:27 am

    @wasabi gasp: it’s actually Dutch. I checked!

  56. 56.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 10, 2015 at 1:31 am

    To fix the feng shui.

  57. 57.

    Little Boots

    June 10, 2015 at 1:32 am

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    worldwide hit, and my prom song.

    yikes.

  58. 58.

    Little Boots

    June 10, 2015 at 1:33 am

    @Valdivia:

    bought manhattan, and then … nothing.

  59. 59.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 10, 2015 at 1:36 am

    @Little Boots: They traded Manhattan for Surinam, which made sense at the time, and they colonized Indonesia, which is why some of the best Indonesian food in the world is available in Amsterdam (although Bandung on Willy Street is actually quite good).

  60. 60.

    Little Boots

    June 10, 2015 at 1:38 am

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    cause of the munchies?

    although either city that works for, I guess.

  61. 61.

    Mike J

    June 10, 2015 at 1:40 am

    Took one of the old boats for Tuesday night racing tonight, and to top it off, had a student come in at the last minute looking for a ride. Naturally we took the extra crew, so more weight in a slow boat. Won the starts of all three races, lost all three on the jibe leg, which is where sailboat races turn into drag races. The student was shocked when we gave him the tiller and told him to drive for a race, but it was a good way for him to learn and we were there to coach. Not a bad night, much fun had by all.

  62. 62.

    Valdivia

    June 10, 2015 at 1:43 am

    @Little Boots: what have they done for us lately eh?

    On that historical note and musical feng shui I bid you all good night.
    Buenas noches Balloon people.

  63. 63.

    Little Boots

    June 10, 2015 at 1:44 am

    @Valdivia:

    damn dutch!

    but good night.

  64. 64.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    June 10, 2015 at 1:45 am

    @wasabi gasp:

    Phrasing.

  65. 65.

    Little Boots

    June 10, 2015 at 1:46 am

    @Steeplejack (phone):

    glad you are back.

  66. 66.

    Little Boots

    June 10, 2015 at 1:58 am

    fine, since nobody is here, I’m going to do this thing:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N-qO3sPMjc

  67. 67.

    Major Major Major Major

    June 10, 2015 at 2:01 am

    Just called the cops to save a woman from an assailant. Three or four minutes later I’d guess they showed up. They told me to run when he started coming towards me.

  68. 68.

    Mike J

    June 10, 2015 at 2:01 am

    @Little Boots: I thought the video for that song had a bande à part style museum run. Was I thinking of a different song?

  69. 69.

    NotMax

    June 10, 2015 at 2:03 am

    @Little Boots

    Dutch, you say?

  70. 70.

    Little Boots

    June 10, 2015 at 2:04 am

    @Major Major Major Major:

    wow, damn, okay. glad you called.

  71. 71.

    Little Boots

    June 10, 2015 at 2:05 am

    @Mike J:

    words, words, words, I don’t know. but no, I’m thinking.

  72. 72.

    eddie blake

    June 10, 2015 at 2:07 am

    can we get more of steve (or did the dogs eat him?)

  73. 73.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 10, 2015 at 2:07 am

    @NotMax: Dutch.

    ETA: And with that, I am vapor.

  74. 74.

    Mike J

    June 10, 2015 at 2:08 am

    Since retiring from the U.S. Army in 2000, Dr. John Henry Hagmann has helped train thousands of soldiers and medical personnel in how to treat battlefield wounds. His company, Deployment Medicine International, has received more than $10.5 million in business from the federal government.

    The taxpayer-funded training has long troubled animal rights activists, who contend that Hagmann’s use of live, wounded pigs to simulate combat injuries is unnecessarily cruel.

    But an investigation by Virginia medical authorities alleges that pigs weren’t the doctor’s only training subjects.

    During instructional sessions in 2012 and 2013 for military personnel, Hagmann gave trainees drugs and liquor, and directed them to perform macabre medical procedures on one another, according to a report issued by the Virginia Board of Medicine, the state agency that oversees the conduct of doctors.

    Hagmann, 59, is accused of inappropriately providing at least 10 students with the hypnotic drug ketamine. The report alleges Hagmann told students to insert catheters into the genitals of other trainees and that two intoxicated student were subjected to penile nerve block procedures. Hagmann also is accused of conducting “shock labs,” a process in which he withdrew blood from the students, monitored them for shock, and then transfused the blood back into their systems.

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/08/us-usa-doctor-probe-idUSKBN0OO2E720150608

  75. 75.

    Mike J

    June 10, 2015 at 2:09 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: Dutchie.

  76. 76.

    Little Boots

    June 10, 2015 at 2:10 am

    vapor. okay.

  77. 77.

    Little Boots

    June 10, 2015 at 2:11 am

    honestly just hope steeplejack is okay.

  78. 78.

    SWMBO

    June 10, 2015 at 2:12 am

    JC could you get a video of the pup and the cat playing? You might have to give up a couple of minutes of World of Tanks but it would be a priceless addition to BJ. The commentariat here would swoon.

  79. 79.

    Little Boots

    June 10, 2015 at 2:14 am

    he’s worth about ten of us. he is.

  80. 80.

    NotMax

    June 10, 2015 at 2:17 am

    @Little Boots

    Words, you say?

  81. 81.

    Little Boots

    June 10, 2015 at 2:21 am

    @NotMax:

    you are a terrible, wonderful person.

  82. 82.

    Little Boots

    June 10, 2015 at 2:22 am

    @Mike J:

    oh good god.

  83. 83.

    Mike J

    June 10, 2015 at 2:23 am

    @NotMax: What are words for?

  84. 84.

    NotMax

    June 10, 2015 at 2:39 am

    @Mike J

    If only we knew….

  85. 85.

    wasabi gasp

    June 10, 2015 at 3:17 am

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7TYzEuTiiw

  86. 86.

    Aleta

    June 10, 2015 at 3:22 am

    @wasabi gasp:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sec-8JFNEMo

  87. 87.

    Aleta

    June 10, 2015 at 3:51 am

    for fun, vibes duo w/lolly allen
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpPRirTgei8

    or even better, lolly allen by herself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q3i4Qts7V4

  88. 88.

    fuckwit

    June 10, 2015 at 4:00 am

    @Mike J: My lips are movin and the sound is coming ou.. SQUEEK!

    I think I’ll dye my hair bwoo.

  89. 89.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    June 10, 2015 at 4:25 am

    @fuckwit: My Lips are Sealed.

  90. 90.

    Aleta

    June 10, 2015 at 5:04 am

    Take On Me

  91. 91.

    Trinity

    June 10, 2015 at 9:25 am

    Thurston is everything.

  92. 92.

    shell

    June 10, 2015 at 10:04 am

    As my mother would say, “A long legged galoot”

  93. 93.

    Valdivia

    June 10, 2015 at 10:18 am

    @Mike J: I am going to have that Dutchie song stuck in my head the rest of the day.

  94. 94.

    WaterGirl

    June 10, 2015 at 10:52 am

    Holy crap, Thurston looks huge! Is it just the angle or is he a big dog who weighs about 50 pounds?

    They grow up so fast.

  95. 95.

    phoebes-in-santa fe

    June 10, 2015 at 11:12 am

    The dog is nice and all, Cole, BUT WHERE’S THE CAT???

  96. 96.

    Althea

    June 10, 2015 at 11:23 am

    About time! And I see this is no dachshund here – what a fine dog

  97. 97.

    weavrmom

    June 10, 2015 at 2:39 pm

    What a wonderful dog he is. Have to admit I still find it hard to believe his mom is a poodle though.

  98. 98.

    Aleta

    June 11, 2015 at 12:19 am

    He is either being thoughtful again or about to fall asleep.

  99. 99.

    Montarvillois

    June 11, 2015 at 4:37 am

    As I say to my cat, “you are one lucky animal”.

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