Yayyyy… Thurston Howl and Rosie pictures. The only thing better would be if Lily had stood still… Thanks… they both look hot and tired, but what else is new… it’s summer. I hope all continues to be well for everyone. :)
2.
sharl
Excellent.
How is Steve doing?
3.
SiubhanDuinne
If Thurston has a drop of poodle in him, I’m a fruit bat.
Spent the day out on Block Island. I am now sunburned, and it is time for wine.
Paid no attention to the news or the Internet all day. Is Donald Trump still ridiculous?
8.
Pete Mack
Current advertisement is utter BS. What it claims is ‘mutant’ corn is actually a standard ergot infection. Probably you will want to cancel it for false advertising. And yeah it goes after Monsanto-always a worthy target, but in an insane way. That is $20in pure snake oil for sale.
That look in THurston’s eyes… that boy is plotting something.
14.
beltane
My NBC News headlines are blaring that Donald Trump has a plan to “knock the hell out of ISIS.” Is he going to punch them or fire them, that is the question.
15.
Pie Happens (opiejeanne)
@SiubhanDuinne: I think that every time I see one of those puppies.
16.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: I follow @A_single_bear on twitter. He appears to be some sort of animist. He was lied to by a squirrel recently.
17.
beltane
@Omnes Omnibus: OK, you’re veering into dangerous territory here. Remember all the fuss over Betty Cracker’s spirit animal post a couple of months ago?
Thurston’s expression is what an old friend used to call “hog-faced,” as in: “I think I got away with it, but I’m a little nervous about the way you’re looking at me.”
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Omnes Omnibus
@beltane: Look, I tend to trust any bear that can manage to tweet. I am sure he has no hidden agenda. I leave those fears to Colbert.
@Pete Mack: I’m seeing a different ad, but that’s so stupid it hurts.
I have a neighbor that I like but she’s kind of a ninny about food. Last year when I offered her some corn that we had grown she asked if it was gmo. No, I am not a farmer with a contract with Monsanto. I grow a small patch every year for us, and the variety is an f-1 hybrid called Trinity. I tried to explain what that was but lost her; she has no children but she is anti-vaxx for pets.
She’s funny as the dickens and votes for Democrats which are two reasons I like her.
Lovey has turned into quite the physical specimen. Her chest is wider and deeper than Thurston’s. Probably from wrestling with Koda all day long. Koda is 96 lb. and Lovey is (as of her spay surgery a month ago) 9.2 lbs. and Lovey holds her own, albeit with Koda being very solicitous of her size. And she’s quite the leaper. She jumped on the bed the other day (high frame, deep mattress; at least 3 Ft. off the ground. And I found her on top of her kennel the other day. But she looks no more poodle than Thurston. Devin had mentioned min pin as a possibility, but just not sure.
27.
p.a.
Nice pets. Steve? But have you made ‘Autofocus Off’ your default?
28.
geg6
Oh and Cole, I’ll email you some new pics since you apparently drop posts on people’s FB pages and then never reply when I comment. Or even check back ever again. ;-)
29.
WaterGirl
@geg6: That’s amazing that Lovey can jump on your bed. My little guy henry (maybe 12 pounds at this point?) can’t even jump on the couch*.
* well, he actually can jump on the couch, as he has done about 5 times, but he only does it if he’s caught up in the heat of the moment – like if I have company and let them in from outside and tucker jumps up to be with our visitor and henry does the same thing without thinking. but he still thinks he can’t do it. :-) it’s actually pretty funny, but I’d like him to figure it out.
Cole, I have yet to see a photo of Thurston Howl where he doesn’t have that look. (which I adore) Is he trouble with a capital T? It sounds like his sister is, though not in a bad way.
I just learned to look at the world like her four-year-old self did.
Does everything seem very large to you?
32.
Denali
@Ommes,
A_Single_Bear bears a strange resemblance to Tommy. Just sayin.
33.
PurpleGirl
@Pie Happens (opiejeanne): Anti-vaxx for pets… so she keeps any pets inside so that no pet has contact with a squirrel or raccoon and get rabies? She’d rather have to put down a pet who caught rabies? Uh-huh.
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Omnes Omnibus
@Denali: I find it much more charming in ursine form.
@efgoldman: A shandy. It’s an ideal drink for a hot summer’s night. I had 2 Stella Shandies at dinner last night.
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Omnes Omnibus
@redshirt: Too warm for hot buttered rum. I’ve read my Kenneth Roberts.
45.
Pie Happens (opiejeanne)
@PurpleGirl: She has three dogs, all were vaccinated before she got them. She says she has titer tests run to determine if they still have immunity or need a booster. These dogs are not out in the yard without escort, and are taken for walks at least twice a day, so while there is a chance of coming in contact with a rabid something it’s low.
The whole thing is infuriating to me. One dog had an ailment, kidneys or liver, can’t remember, and she took him to an herbalist vet. Her credentials included: lives in a yurt! The dog got better but all on its own. She owns a pet food company, raw food, and keeps trying to get our cat onto a raw diet. Our cat has other ideas.
@beltane: But he refused to say whether he’d send American ground troops into Syria. “I’m not telling you anything,” he said to O’Reilly. “And the reason I’m not is because if I run and I win, I don’t want them to know the game plan.”
So the plan is to find a new Patton, encircle them, destroy them and take their oil and give it to Mobil (sorry Exxon). But not saying it would take any troops to say, prevent the Iraqis from taking those drills back.
47.
Tree With Water
I was just listening to GD streaming radio (Grateful Dead) and looking out my window, when an electronic noise from the band intruded in the middle of a lovely, Indian sounding drum set by Mickey Hart. I was looking at a slope where some wild pigeons were feeding, and they froze to stare but for a split second, before launching like missiles in different directions. Can’t blame ’em, either- it sounded exactly like a huge, hungry, smart predator announcing it was about to feed on each and every wild pigeon in the neighborhood. Those bird’s mothers didn’t raise fools..
@Gin & Tonic: Indeed it is. Is there a German name for an Arnold Palmer do you suppose?
ETA:
@Omnes Omnibus: A question more appropriately directed to you, I imagine.
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Mike in NC
@efgoldman: Try a Dark & Stormy. We were introduced to them in Bermuda a few years ago.
51.
Omnes Omnibus
@Gin & Tonic: Just testing you. I actually think they make a very good hot afternoon drink.
52.
Betty Cracker
I’m watching “Newsroom” on Amazon. Not terrible, but it’s no “West Wing.” Anyhoo, Meryl Streep’s daughter is in it, and she looks and sounds just like her mother. She’s like a clone!
Are bears Catholic? Does the Pope shit in the woods?
It’s my impression that the first time I encountered that line,
it was uttered by Freewheelin’ Franklin in G. Shelton’s
Fabulous Furry Freak Bros.
I believe that the preceding line was “Would you like some hash?”
and the next line was “I just happen to have a pipe”
54.
Denali
@EF Goldman,
Kir- white wine with a splash of creme de cassis
Oh to be back in Provence!
55.
Omnes Omnibus
@Tree With Water: Once they realized that they were listening to the Dead, they fled? Can’t blame them.
56.
Gin & Tonic
@Omnes Omnibus: I am a simple man. I like beer. I like lemonade. I also like both Inner Beauty hot sauce and chocolate ice cream. That doesn’t mean that those things need to be combined.
57.
PurpleGirl
@Pie Happens (opiejeanne): I could see a partially raw diet since animals didn’t cook their food before humans began to domesticate them. What makes me crazy sometimes are people who try to feed cats a vegetarian diet.
Liked Arundel (enough so that the title popped right into mind even some 50 years later), but anything else of his I’ve sampled just didn’t click with me at all.
60.
Benw
I’m having an ice cold Sierra Nevada and listening to some Beck. Feeling pretty good. Today the family and I hiked Camel’s Hump mountain in Vermont.
SANDERS 2016
61.
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: I read Northwest Passage at an impressionable age.
@Betty Cracker: I didn’t realize that’s who that was. I kept thinking I’d seen her somewhere before without realizing it was her mother I’d seen.
64.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: I’ve always seen myself as more like Glorfindel.
65.
Pie Happens (opiejeanne)
@PurpleGirl: I haven’t run into those particular crazies who feed cats vegetables, and I do understand the raw diet argument, but this cat wants nothing to do with raw food. She is nearly three years old and we have tried all sorts of raw cat food, and she likes what she likes.
My daughter worked for a pet shop that sold a lot of raw pet food and she scolded us for allowing the cat to be an on-demand feeder. Hmmph. I allowed her to be fed on-demand when she was a rotten infant, and I kind of look at this the same way. If the cat was obese we would limit how much she gets, but we really don’t put out much food for her.
She currently eats a cat food that is free of corn and most grains, and has a high percentage of high quality meat. It’s cooked, she likes it, I don’t see that changing her diet will make either of us happy or healthier.
@Omnes Omnibus: Shockingly, you haven’t missed much. Ms. Cracker excepted.
I got stung by a wasp on the temple and I’m wondering if there’s a drink to dull the resulting headache. I only have a bottle of red wine open, but it’s not appealing to me.
72.
Benw
@Pie Happens (opiejeanne): dogs will generally eat whatever: kibble, raw, pumpkin, etc. Cats… Not so much. They’re gonna eat what they want. If you’ve found a good kibble she likes, you’re golden. Until next month when she decides to change everything!
John, is there a friendly female who could maybe assist with some home decor choices? I don’t even really know what I’m looking at here.
Dogs look good tho.
We’ve seen enough of the Tampa Bay area and if we go back to Florida in October would prefer to see Saint Augustine, which is celebrating its 450th year.
78.
divF
@Denali:
Or Kir Royale – with champagne instead of white wine.
To get back to brandy …
Sternwood: How do you like your brandy, sir?
Marlowe: In a glass.
Sternwood: I used to like mine with champagne. Champagne cold as Valley Forge and with about three ponies of brandy under it. The Big Sleep
79.
Omnes Omnibus
@divF: One could go all Bertie Wooster and have several brandy and sodas. Not a bad drink at all actually. It falls neatly between a Scotch and soda and a gin and tonic on the heaviness scale.
@divF: I met your daughter Carmen. She tried to sit in my lap while I was standing up.
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divF
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
“You may smoke, too. I can still enjoy the smell of it. Hum, nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy. You’re looking, sir, at a very dull survivor of a very gaudy life. Crippled, paralyzed in both legs, I barely eat and my sleep is so near waking it’s hardly worth the name. I seem to exist largely on heat like a new-born spider.”
We could go on all night like this. There are so many good lines.
The Wooster fall evening drink after a rural horse race: hot scotch and water with a touch of lemon in it. Contained within one of my favorite Wodehouse short stories.
90.
trollhattan
@Omnes Omnibus:
Think we all felt the zenith of French technology couldn’t be the Citroen; why not an artillery piece? I’ve been meaning to revisit the French 75 since discovering Hendrick’s gin. Think this could work if my liver will only capitulate. I’d have stories, if I could actually remember.
The lime tree is finally producing, drought or no drought, so it’s coincidentally G&T season. Choices, choices.
91.
gene108
I cannot find my mailbox. I live in a condo. The mail box for our building is out by one of the dumpsters near by.
I do not often check my mail, as it is mostly junk.
I went to check it tonight, but there is no mailbox there. It was there maybe a week to ten days ago, when I went to check it last.
I wonder where it has been moved…
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Omnes Omnibus
@trollhattan: The French 75 was actually the best, by far, gun of its time.
93.
opiejeanne
@mai naem mobile: we had a cat who would fight you for cantaloupe. We had to be quick when that was breakfast, both defending our food and clearing up the rinds.
I’m having a gin and tonic right now. Out of Mount Gay rum, my usual, and a G&T is a nice change anyway. Tanqueray, Schweppes tonic and an eighth of a lime smushed in.
Had a long, pleasant day at Sighthound Hall, away from rancorous blogs and the Internet in general. Discussed deep thoughts with my brother, watched a little golf and played with my niece, now 10 months old, crawling like crazy and starting to remember/recognize individual people like good old Uncle Steep. Also gave a lot of love to the greyhound Kitty, who has accepted the addition to the household with good cheer but is feeling a little emotionally fragile.
I can relate. I check my mail about once a week, if that, and if the mailboxes weren’t located in the foyer of the (six-unit) building where I pass them going in and out they could disappear and I’d be none the wiser for quite a while.
In his book “Chuck Amuck,” Chuck Jones has a long essay about his childhood cat, Johnson, who loved grapefruit.
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Tree With Water
Someone who cares should tell old Todd to STFU for his own good. Since I don’t care, I hope he continues to spill his guts, because this is vastly entertaining political theatre.. I think of it as an off broadway production:
@efgoldman: my husband grilled tonight, and as usual, our two cats were all over the table bugging us for food. Scout wanted steak. Zelda wanted green beans. Weird-ass cat.
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Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@Omnes Omnibus: It was the best field artillery piece of its time, definitely. It’s hard to say that it was the best overall gun given all of the things it couldn’t do. It wasn’t heavy enough for trench destruction and the flat trajectory made it unsuitable for most counter-battery fire or for the interdiction of a counterattack. All that stuff had to be reserved for the heavies.
William Manchester has a few lines about how prior to the Franco Prussian war, the French military was offered and declined steel artillery from the Krupps family. they liked the bronze.
That’s poodle, too. You should see the little guys take the jumps at agility competitions — they fly, and always with the biggest smiles.
First mini-poodle I knew, when I was going to obedience classes with my first papillon, was a debonair little brown fella named Teddy. He would get up on his hind legs & “walk” to greet people or dogs he liked. Of course, besides being extremely cute, that’s a little dog’s way of looking bigger… so, sure enough, Galley picked up the trick as well. And every week they’d greet each other by “standing up” & waltzing around each other, like hairy little contradancers…
112.
Anne Laurie
@WaterGirl: Excuse me if you know this already, but: How are Henry’s patellas? Bad knees are to little dogs what bad hips are to big dogs — and with mild cases, the only symptom a dog will show is a reluctance to jump or leap or even climb stairs.
Our rescue Zevon came to us, age five, with “congenital grade 1 luxation”; he manages the stairs in our multi-split-level just fine, but he doesn’t take them with the same abandon as our other papillons. And when he’s excited, instead of leaping straight up like a maniac (the expression breeders use is ‘popcorning’), he tucks his knees under his center of gravity and does this booty-scooting dance…
113.
bago
Mr robot is amazing for the first two episodes, almost biopic. In the third they broke the premise, having a security firm not have an isolated vm to get the package, debug it, and possibly plant a parasite, the old reverse honeypot maneuver. It moves the plot along, sure… but if I hot handed malware with fingerprints on it…
Anti-vaxx for pets… so she keeps any pets inside so that no pet has contact with a squirrel or raccoon and get rabies? She’d rather have to put down a pet who caught rabies?
There is a theory — and not just among crystal bunnies — that the spacing of rabies vaccinations, in particular, are driven more by “convenience” regarding a deadly disease than the actual science. Blood titers (sorry, most of the links my poor google-fu finds are pdfs) may show that a dog or cat who’s “gotten their shots” may actually not need a booster for 5 or 6 years, rather than the mandated 1-3. Since the vaccine does stress an elderly pet’s system, particularly their kidneys, there are veterinarians who think it’s overkill to re-vaccinate a 10-year-old cat who never goes outdoors, or a 13-year-old dog who rarely travels beyond its backyard.
State legislators, quite reasonably, tend to be hyper-suspicious about all this science-y stuff, so mandatory vaccination schedules are unlikely to change in the immediate future.
Yet another show that I have waiting on the DVR but haven’t gotten around to. No spoilers, please, but do you think it’s worth starting up with?
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Anne Laurie
@Pie Happens (opiejeanne): If her dog had kidney problems, I don’t blame her for being wary of rabies re-vaccination. Vets, sub rosa, have said that the standard rabies vaxx can be the straw that pushes a geriatric animal’s kidneys from “suboptimal” to “failing”. It’s the law & they have to tell you it’s required, but when every extra week in a beloved older pet’s life is a gift…
Anyhoo, Meryl Streep’s daughter is in it, and she looks and sounds just like her mother. She’s like a clone!
Mamie Gummer? (IMO, ugliest name in Hollywood). Saw her in ayoung-doctors-in-the- tropics series that lasted for 13 episodes, which was about 8 more than they had the scripts for, and she was… not a very good actor. But maybe she got better?
AFAIK, I’ve never seen Mamie in anything — but I liked Grace in Newsroom.
Actually, upon checking the Googles and the Wikis, I find I saw Mamie several years ago in Evening, but I have only the vaguest memory of the film and remember nothing of her as an actor.
I’m sorry I wasn’t clear. The vaccine discussion was regarding Parvo a couple of years before the actual ailment, when it was about a year old, because the dog had already been vaccinated by the breeder and she thought dogs don’t need the vaccine for it. (We had a neighbor who lost a beautiful puppy to Parvo, because the vaccine was applied too late). The titer discussion for rabies came up later, and she insisted that most dogs never need another vaccination for it. I didn’t argue with her because she brought it up and her mind was obviously made up. She was telling me that my cat didn’t need her vaccinations.
Her dog was no older than three when it had the issues with its liver or kidneys. My problem with that was the lack of proper diagnosis and treatment, rather than woo by a person who lives in a yurt.
She had a star-crossed career. (She died in 2004, aged 57.) Nominated for an Oscar for Diary of a Mad Housewife, turned her back on Hollywood for a relationship with Neil Young and then never quite made it back after that went south.
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Amir Khalid
@NotMax:
For having an odd surname, I remember Jo Ann/JoAnn/Joann Pflug from the 1970s and 1980s. I think that once, when asked if it was her real name, she replied, “Pflug is a name you change from, not to.” (It’s German for “plough”.)
129.
Stacy
Did not know that the rabies vac was a concern for older animals. We just had my 16 year old car boostered but he spends a lot of time outdoors (catching various rodents) and prefers to sleep at night under our deck. Our vet is always amazed how great he looks saying he’s found the fountain of youth.
130.
Gin & Tonic
@Mnemosyne (tablet): Responding the next morning on a dead thread may well be pointless, but… Indeed chocolate and some types of chilies go well together. Inner Beauty hot sauce, on the other hand, is largely based on habaneros and mustard. I submit that that flavor profile would blend very badly with chocolate.
131.
ET
Where’s Steve? (not to be too demanding or anything)
132.
WaterGirl
@Anne Laurie: That’s really good to know, I had no idea, so thanks for that.
I don’t think that’s Henry’s issue, though. He leaps to amazing heights at the door if I am standing outside talking to someone (and ignoring him!). I swear that he jumps as high as the couch when he’s inside, he just think he can’t jump on the couch. What a goofball.
Edit: It just occurred to me… My pet insurance won’t insure knee problems for the first 6 months unless the vet specifically checks their knees on the initial visit. So I asked my vet to do that and Henry’s knees were fine then.
133.
WaterGirl
I am sad that I missed this awesome thread last night. You guys were on a roll.
Luci
Yayyyy… Thurston Howl and Rosie pictures. The only thing better would be if Lily had stood still… Thanks… they both look hot and tired, but what else is new… it’s summer. I hope all continues to be well for everyone. :)
sharl
Excellent.
How is Steve doing?
SiubhanDuinne
If Thurston has a drop of poodle in him, I’m a fruit bat.
Very cute, though.
Roger Moore
Isn’t there supposed to be a cat, too?
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
Of course Lily wouldn’t hold still. Can we get a proof of life for Steve? And Shawn? Apologies if I spelled the latter’s name wrong.
MomSense
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
Ha! I was thinking the same thing.
Gin & Tonic
Spent the day out on Block Island. I am now sunburned, and it is time for wine.
Paid no attention to the news or the Internet all day. Is Donald Trump still ridiculous?
Pete Mack
Current advertisement is utter BS. What it claims is ‘mutant’ corn is actually a standard ergot infection. Probably you will want to cancel it for false advertising. And yeah it goes after Monsanto-always a worthy target, but in an insane way. That is $20in pure snake oil for sale.
dmsilev
@Gin & Tonic:
Are bears Catholic? Does the Pope shit in the woods?
scav
Thurston!
I’m somehow pretty sure he could launch himself vertically from exactly that position.
raven
@Gin & Tonic: Catch anything?
Omnes Omnibus
@Gin & Tonic: He’s gone to plaid.
PurpleGirl
That look in THurston’s eyes… that boy is plotting something.
beltane
My NBC News headlines are blaring that Donald Trump has a plan to “knock the hell out of ISIS.” Is he going to punch them or fire them, that is the question.
Pie Happens (opiejeanne)
@SiubhanDuinne: I think that every time I see one of those puppies.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: I follow @A_single_bear on twitter. He appears to be some sort of animist. He was lied to by a squirrel recently.
beltane
@Omnes Omnibus: OK, you’re veering into dangerous territory here. Remember all the fuss over Betty Cracker’s spirit animal post a couple of months ago?
Steeplejack
@PurpleGirl:
Thurston’s expression is what an old friend used to call “hog-faced,” as in: “I think I got away with it, but I’m a little nervous about the way you’re looking at me.”
Omnes Omnibus
@beltane: Look, I tend to trust any bear that can manage to tweet. I am sure he has no hidden agenda. I leave those fears to Colbert.
ms_canadada
@Omnes Omnibus: BEST! Next up, comb the desert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4OBUupicWg
SiubhanDuinne
@Steeplejack:
Oh, yeah, that’s awesome side-eye there.
redshirt
Filthy!
Pie Happens (opiejeanne)
@Pete Mack: I’m seeing a different ad, but that’s so stupid it hurts.
I have a neighbor that I like but she’s kind of a ninny about food. Last year when I offered her some corn that we had grown she asked if it was gmo. No, I am not a farmer with a contract with Monsanto. I grow a small patch every year for us, and the variety is an f-1 hybrid called Trinity. I tried to explain what that was but lost her; she has no children but she is anti-vaxx for pets.
She’s funny as the dickens and votes for Democrats which are two reasons I like her.
Pie Happens (opiejeanne)
@efgoldman: Ridicularity! What a great word!
Gin & Tonic
@raven: Didn’t bring any tackle.
geg6
Lovey has turned into quite the physical specimen. Her chest is wider and deeper than Thurston’s. Probably from wrestling with Koda all day long. Koda is 96 lb. and Lovey is (as of her spay surgery a month ago) 9.2 lbs. and Lovey holds her own, albeit with Koda being very solicitous of her size. And she’s quite the leaper. She jumped on the bed the other day (high frame, deep mattress; at least 3 Ft. off the ground. And I found her on top of her kennel the other day. But she looks no more poodle than Thurston. Devin had mentioned min pin as a possibility, but just not sure.
p.a.
Nice pets. Steve? But have you made ‘Autofocus Off’ your default?
geg6
Oh and Cole, I’ll email you some new pics since you apparently drop posts on people’s FB pages and then never reply when I comment. Or even check back ever again. ;-)
WaterGirl
@geg6: That’s amazing that Lovey can jump on your bed. My little guy henry (maybe 12 pounds at this point?) can’t even jump on the couch*.
* well, he actually can jump on the couch, as he has done about 5 times, but he only does it if he’s caught up in the heat of the moment – like if I have company and let them in from outside and tucker jumps up to be with our visitor and henry does the same thing without thinking. but he still thinks he can’t do it. :-) it’s actually pretty funny, but I’d like him to figure it out.
Cole, I have yet to see a photo of Thurston Howl where he doesn’t have that look. (which I adore) Is he trouble with a capital T? It sounds like his sister is, though not in a bad way.
oldster
@PurpleGirl:
Exactly. That dog has a *gleam* in his eye, and woe betide the object of that gleam.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman:
Does everything seem very large to you?
Denali
@Ommes,
A_Single_Bear bears a strange resemblance to Tommy. Just sayin.
PurpleGirl
@Pie Happens (opiejeanne): Anti-vaxx for pets… so she keeps any pets inside so that no pet has contact with a squirrel or raccoon and get rabies? She’d rather have to put down a pet who caught rabies? Uh-huh.
Omnes Omnibus
@Denali: I find it much more charming in ursine form.
@efgoldman: Calvados.
ThresherK
There’s just something guilty-looking about a dog when you can see that tiny crescent of the white of his eye.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: That is a mistake, but, in that case, I’d go with the cognac.
Gin & Tonic
@efgoldman: Shandys (shandies?) are awful. You don’t want one. The only thing worse you can do with beer is a Michelada.
Peale
@Omnes Omnibus: I thought we were mixing stingers? If so, cognac is fine
Omnes Omnibus
@Gin & Tonic: How do you feel about radlers?
Omnes Omnibus
@Peale: I thought we were out of creme de menthe.
redshirt
@efgoldman: Fancy pants Southerner.
Emerald
NEED MOAR STEVE!
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@efgoldman: A shandy. It’s an ideal drink for a hot summer’s night. I had 2 Stella Shandies at dinner last night.
Omnes Omnibus
@redshirt: Too warm for hot buttered rum. I’ve read my Kenneth Roberts.
Pie Happens (opiejeanne)
@PurpleGirl: She has three dogs, all were vaccinated before she got them. She says she has titer tests run to determine if they still have immunity or need a booster. These dogs are not out in the yard without escort, and are taken for walks at least twice a day, so while there is a chance of coming in contact with a rabid something it’s low.
The whole thing is infuriating to me. One dog had an ailment, kidneys or liver, can’t remember, and she took him to an herbalist vet. Her credentials included: lives in a yurt! The dog got better but all on its own. She owns a pet food company, raw food, and keeps trying to get our cat onto a raw diet. Our cat has other ideas.
Peale
@beltane: But he refused to say whether he’d send American ground troops into Syria. “I’m not telling you anything,” he said to O’Reilly. “And the reason I’m not is because if I run and I win, I don’t want them to know the game plan.”
So the plan is to find a new Patton, encircle them, destroy them and take their oil and give it to Mobil (sorry Exxon). But not saying it would take any troops to say, prevent the Iraqis from taking those drills back.
Tree With Water
I was just listening to GD streaming radio (Grateful Dead) and looking out my window, when an electronic noise from the band intruded in the middle of a lovely, Indian sounding drum set by Mickey Hart. I was looking at a slope where some wild pigeons were feeding, and they froze to stare but for a split second, before launching like missiles in different directions. Can’t blame ’em, either- it sounded exactly like a huge, hungry, smart predator announcing it was about to feed on each and every wild pigeon in the neighborhood. Those bird’s mothers didn’t raise fools..
Gin & Tonic
@Omnes Omnibus: How do you feel about radlers?
Just another name for a shandy.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Gin & Tonic: Indeed it is. Is there a German name for an Arnold Palmer do you suppose?
ETA:
@Omnes Omnibus: A question more appropriately directed to you, I imagine.
Mike in NC
@efgoldman: Try a Dark & Stormy. We were introduced to them in Bermuda a few years ago.
Omnes Omnibus
@Gin & Tonic: Just testing you. I actually think they make a very good hot afternoon drink.
Betty Cracker
I’m watching “Newsroom” on Amazon. Not terrible, but it’s no “West Wing.” Anyhoo, Meryl Streep’s daughter is in it, and she looks and sounds just like her mother. She’s like a clone!
joel hanes
@dmsilev:
Are bears Catholic? Does the Pope shit in the woods?
It’s my impression that the first time I encountered that line,
it was uttered by Freewheelin’ Franklin in G. Shelton’s
Fabulous Furry Freak Bros.
I believe that the preceding line was “Would you like some hash?”
and the next line was “I just happen to have a pipe”
Denali
@EF Goldman,
Kir- white wine with a splash of creme de cassis
Oh to be back in Provence!
Omnes Omnibus
@Tree With Water: Once they realized that they were listening to the Dead, they fled? Can’t blame them.
Gin & Tonic
@Omnes Omnibus: I am a simple man. I like beer. I like lemonade. I also like both Inner Beauty hot sauce and chocolate ice cream. That doesn’t mean that those things need to be combined.
PurpleGirl
@Pie Happens (opiejeanne): I could see a partially raw diet since animals didn’t cook their food before humans began to domesticate them. What makes me crazy sometimes are people who try to feed cats a vegetarian diet.
Gin & Tonic
@efgoldman: Um, not fudge. Local boy.
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
Liked Arundel (enough so that the title popped right into mind even some 50 years later), but anything else of his I’ve sampled just didn’t click with me at all.
Benw
I’m having an ice cold Sierra Nevada and listening to some Beck. Feeling pretty good. Today the family and I hiked Camel’s Hump mountain in Vermont.
SANDERS 2016
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: I read Northwest Passage at an impressionable age.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: Twelvish.
Pie Happens (opiejeanne)
@Betty Cracker: I didn’t realize that’s who that was. I kept thinking I’d seen her somewhere before without realizing it was her mother I’d seen.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: I’ve always seen myself as more like Glorfindel.
Pie Happens (opiejeanne)
@PurpleGirl: I haven’t run into those particular crazies who feed cats vegetables, and I do understand the raw diet argument, but this cat wants nothing to do with raw food. She is nearly three years old and we have tried all sorts of raw cat food, and she likes what she likes.
My daughter worked for a pet shop that sold a lot of raw pet food and she scolded us for allowing the cat to be an on-demand feeder. Hmmph. I allowed her to be fed on-demand when she was a rotten infant, and I kind of look at this the same way. If the cat was obese we would limit how much she gets, but we really don’t put out much food for her.
She currently eats a cat food that is free of corn and most grains, and has a high percentage of high quality meat. It’s cooked, she likes it, I don’t see that changing her diet will make either of us happy or healthier.
PaulW
@efgoldman:
Warp 9? Try Ludicrous Speed.
HE’S GONE TO PLAID.
Omnes Omnibus
@PaulW: Ahem.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: I’ve actually never been to Florida.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: Never mind.
piratedan
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): it’s a Bernhard Langer :-)
satby
@Omnes Omnibus: Shockingly, you haven’t missed much. Ms. Cracker excepted.
I got stung by a wasp on the temple and I’m wondering if there’s a drink to dull the resulting headache. I only have a bottle of red wine open, but it’s not appealing to me.
Benw
@Pie Happens (opiejeanne): dogs will generally eat whatever: kibble, raw, pumpkin, etc. Cats… Not so much. They’re gonna eat what they want. If you’ve found a good kibble she likes, you’re golden. Until next month when she decides to change everything!
Omnes Omnibus
@satby: Tequila?
jibeaux
John, is there a friendly female who could maybe assist with some home decor choices? I don’t even really know what I’m looking at here.
Dogs look good tho.
redshirt
@jibeaux: It’s a frat house/animal rescue shelter.
satby
@Omnes Omnibus: LOL
@efgoldman: Louder LOL…ouch
Mike in NC
We’ve seen enough of the Tampa Bay area and if we go back to Florida in October would prefer to see Saint Augustine, which is celebrating its 450th year.
divF
@Denali:
Or Kir Royale – with champagne instead of white wine.
To get back to brandy …
Omnes Omnibus
@divF: One could go all Bertie Wooster and have several brandy and sodas. Not a bad drink at all actually. It falls neatly between a Scotch and soda and a gin and tonic on the heaviness scale.
divF
@Omnes Omnibus:
“Stiffish, Jeeves. Not too much soda, but splash the brandy about a bit.”
ETA: General Sternwood’s champagne cocktail is a fast, smooth trip to getting really snockered. I indulge in it but rarely.
I’ll have to try a brandy-and-soda sometime.
Omnes Omnibus
@divF: Exactly.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@divF: I met your daughter Carmen. She tried to sit in my lap while I was standing up.
divF
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
“You may smoke, too. I can still enjoy the smell of it. Hum, nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy. You’re looking, sir, at a very dull survivor of a very gaudy life. Crippled, paralyzed in both legs, I barely eat and my sleep is so near waking it’s hardly worth the name. I seem to exist largely on heat like a new-born spider.”
We could go on all night like this. There are so many good lines.
ETA: But I need to go to bed. G’nite, all.
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
Brandy drinks\?
Sidecar.
Full stop.
@satby
Got any sippin’ whisky? Single malt scotch or the like ought to do the trick.
mai naem mobile
Our old cat used to like cucumber,popcorn,plain yogurt,sour cream and butter. The last couple of years of her life she got fussier with her cat food.
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: Not actually a fan of the Sidecar.
trollhattan
@divF:
There’s Champagne and brandy and there’s the French 75. Just sayin’.
Omnes Omnibus
@trollhattan: One of the most effective artillery pieces ever.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@Omnes Omnibus:
The Wooster fall evening drink after a rural horse race: hot scotch and water with a touch of lemon in it. Contained within one of my favorite Wodehouse short stories.
trollhattan
@Omnes Omnibus:
Think we all felt the zenith of French technology couldn’t be the Citroen; why not an artillery piece? I’ve been meaning to revisit the French 75 since discovering Hendrick’s gin. Think this could work if my liver will only capitulate. I’d have stories, if I could actually remember.
The lime tree is finally producing, drought or no drought, so it’s coincidentally G&T season. Choices, choices.
gene108
I cannot find my mailbox. I live in a condo. The mail box for our building is out by one of the dumpsters near by.
I do not often check my mail, as it is mostly junk.
I went to check it tonight, but there is no mailbox there. It was there maybe a week to ten days ago, when I went to check it last.
I wonder where it has been moved…
Omnes Omnibus
@trollhattan: The French 75 was actually the best, by far, gun of its time.
opiejeanne
@mai naem mobile: we had a cat who would fight you for cantaloupe. We had to be quick when that was breakfast, both defending our food and clearing up the rinds.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus, @trollhattan:
I’m having a gin and tonic right now. Out of Mount Gay rum, my usual, and a G&T is a nice change anyway. Tanqueray, Schweppes tonic and an eighth of a lime smushed in.
Had a long, pleasant day at Sighthound Hall, away from rancorous blogs and the Internet in general. Discussed deep thoughts with my brother, watched a little golf and played with my niece, now 10 months old, crawling like crazy and starting to remember/recognize individual people like good old Uncle Steep. Also gave a lot of love to the greyhound Kitty, who has accepted the addition to the household with good cheer but is feeling a little emotionally fragile.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: Good for you…
Steeplejack
@gene108:
I can relate. I check my mail about once a week, if that, and if the mailboxes weren’t located in the foyer of the (six-unit) building where I pass them going in and out they could disappear and I’d be none the wiser for quite a while.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@Gin & Tonic:
Chocolate chili ice cream is A Thing. A very tasty Thing, too:
http://shop.stevesicecream.com/collections/dairy/products/mexican-chili-chocolate
Chocolate and chilies go really well together.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@opiejeanne:
In his book “Chuck Amuck,” Chuck Jones has a long essay about his childhood cat, Johnson, who loved grapefruit.
Tree With Water
Someone who cares should tell old Todd to STFU for his own good. Since I don’t care, I hope he continues to spill his guts, because this is vastly entertaining political theatre.. I think of it as an off broadway production:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/08/15/michigan-tea-party-lawmaker-caught-in-affair-cover-up-releases-1900-word-confession_n_7993110.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
G.O.P. would call it the Freedom 75.
(Although 76 would be more appropriate.)
Suzanne
@efgoldman: my husband grilled tonight, and as usual, our two cats were all over the table bugging us for food. Scout wanted steak. Zelda wanted green beans. Weird-ass cat.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@Omnes Omnibus: It was the best field artillery piece of its time, definitely. It’s hard to say that it was the best overall gun given all of the things it couldn’t do. It wasn’t heavy enough for trench destruction and the flat trajectory made it unsuitable for most counter-battery fire or for the interdiction of a counterattack. All that stuff had to be reserved for the heavies.
Fucker tore up a lot of German infantry, though.
The Pale Scot
Driving thru the snow in Russia,
I’ll have what he’s drinking
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@NotMax: The U.S. switched from 3-inch (76mm) field artillery to 75mm during WWI precisely because the French 75 was so awesome.
Suzanne
@jibeaux: I have provided JC feedback on his end tables many times. Even something from Pottery Barn (hiss) would be an improvement. He ignores me.
No chair should have a lever.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@The Pale Scot: I’m pretty sure he drank all of what he was drinking already.
NotMax
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Unlike the old ad campaign (Tareyton cigarettes?) catchphrase, “I’d rather fight then switch.”
Anne Laurie
I see that Thurston still has the valuable Pink Belly of Puppy Immunity. And I’m sure he’s not afraid to make use of its awesome power…
@SiubhanDuinne: Oh, c’mon, those are shiny intelligent poodle eyes!
(Actually, he’s got a mini-poodle body configuration & skull, too. You’re just confused by the smooth coat & non-standard ears.)
NotMax
@NotMax
Silly uncaught typo. Of course, it was “I’d rather fight than switch.”
Gian
@Omnes Omnibus:
William Manchester has a few lines about how prior to the Franco Prussian war, the French military was offered and declined steel artillery from the Krupps family. they liked the bronze.
Anne Laurie
@geg6:
That’s poodle, too. You should see the little guys take the jumps at agility competitions — they fly, and always with the biggest smiles.
First mini-poodle I knew, when I was going to obedience classes with my first papillon, was a debonair little brown fella named Teddy. He would get up on his hind legs & “walk” to greet people or dogs he liked. Of course, besides being extremely cute, that’s a little dog’s way of looking bigger… so, sure enough, Galley picked up the trick as well. And every week they’d greet each other by “standing up” & waltzing around each other, like hairy little contradancers…
Anne Laurie
@WaterGirl: Excuse me if you know this already, but: How are Henry’s patellas? Bad knees are to little dogs what bad hips are to big dogs — and with mild cases, the only symptom a dog will show is a reluctance to jump or leap or even climb stairs.
Our rescue Zevon came to us, age five, with “congenital grade 1 luxation”; he manages the stairs in our multi-split-level just fine, but he doesn’t take them with the same abandon as our other papillons. And when he’s excited, instead of leaping straight up like a maniac (the expression breeders use is ‘popcorning’), he tucks his knees under his center of gravity and does this booty-scooting dance…
bago
Mr robot is amazing for the first two episodes, almost biopic. In the third they broke the premise, having a security firm not have an isolated vm to get the package, debug it, and possibly plant a parasite, the old reverse honeypot maneuver. It moves the plot along, sure… but if I hot handed malware with fingerprints on it…
Just had to put that out there.
Anne Laurie
@PurpleGirl:
There is a theory — and not just among crystal bunnies — that the spacing of rabies vaccinations, in particular, are driven more by “convenience” regarding a deadly disease than the actual science. Blood titers (sorry, most of the links my poor google-fu finds are pdfs) may show that a dog or cat who’s “gotten their shots” may actually not need a booster for 5 or 6 years, rather than the mandated 1-3. Since the vaccine does stress an elderly pet’s system, particularly their kidneys, there are veterinarians who think it’s overkill to re-vaccinate a 10-year-old cat who never goes outdoors, or a 13-year-old dog who rarely travels beyond its backyard.
State legislators, quite reasonably, tend to be hyper-suspicious about all this science-y stuff, so mandatory vaccination schedules are unlikely to change in the immediate future.
Steeplejack
@bago:
Yet another show that I have waiting on the DVR but haven’t gotten around to. No spoilers, please, but do you think it’s worth starting up with?
Anne Laurie
@Pie Happens (opiejeanne): If her dog had kidney problems, I don’t blame her for being wary of rabies re-vaccination. Vets, sub rosa, have said that the standard rabies vaxx can be the straw that pushes a geriatric animal’s kidneys from “suboptimal” to “failing”. It’s the law & they have to tell you it’s required, but when every extra week in a beloved older pet’s life is a gift…
Anne Laurie
@Betty Cracker:
Mamie Gummer? (IMO, ugliest name in Hollywood). Saw her in ayoung-doctors-in-the- tropics series that lasted for 13 episodes, which was about 8 more than they had the scripts for, and she was… not a very good actor. But maybe she got better?
SiubhanDuinne
@Anne Laurie:
Grace, not Mamie.
Anne Laurie
@Suzanne:
Dear, the day will come when you realize no chair should lack a lever!
Anne Laurie
@SiubhanDuinne: Ah. I’d forgotten there were two of them. So Grace may’ve inherited the talent along with the bone structure!
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Abso-freaking-lutely.
This past week’s episode was quite the stunner, with the plot zigzagging like the cycles in Tron
SiubhanDuinne
@Anne Laurie:
AFAIK, I’ve never seen Mamie in anything — but I liked Grace in Newsroom.
Actually, upon checking the Googles and the Wikis, I find I saw Mamie several years ago in Evening, but I have only the vaguest memory of the film and remember nothing of her as an actor.
NotMax
@Anne Laurie
Amen to that.
Not to mention the legion of pitchfork- and torch-wielding barbers and dentists descending on Suzanne’s abode. :)
NotMax
@Anne Laurie
Have always ranked Carrie Snodgrass at or near the top of non-euphonious screen names.
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
Okay, I’m in. Will bump it to the top of the “must watch” pile. Okay, near the top.
Pie Happens (opiejeanne)
@Anne Laurie: This is a young dog.
I’m sorry I wasn’t clear. The vaccine discussion was regarding Parvo a couple of years before the actual ailment, when it was about a year old, because the dog had already been vaccinated by the breeder and she thought dogs don’t need the vaccine for it. (We had a neighbor who lost a beautiful puppy to Parvo, because the vaccine was applied too late). The titer discussion for rabies came up later, and she insisted that most dogs never need another vaccination for it. I didn’t argue with her because she brought it up and her mind was obviously made up. She was telling me that my cat didn’t need her vaccinations.
Her dog was no older than three when it had the issues with its liver or kidneys. My problem with that was the lack of proper diagnosis and treatment, rather than woo by a person who lives in a yurt.
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
It’s worse than that: her surname was Snodgress
She had a star-crossed career. (She died in 2004, aged 57.) Nominated for an Oscar for Diary of a Mad Housewife, turned her back on Hollywood for a relationship with Neil Young and then never quite made it back after that went south.
Amir Khalid
@NotMax:
For having an odd surname, I remember Jo Ann/JoAnn/Joann Pflug from the 1970s and 1980s. I think that once, when asked if it was her real name, she replied, “Pflug is a name you change from, not to.” (It’s German for “plough”.)
Stacy
Did not know that the rabies vac was a concern for older animals. We just had my 16 year old car boostered but he spends a lot of time outdoors (catching various rodents) and prefers to sleep at night under our deck. Our vet is always amazed how great he looks saying he’s found the fountain of youth.
Gin & Tonic
@Mnemosyne (tablet): Responding the next morning on a dead thread may well be pointless, but… Indeed chocolate and some types of chilies go well together. Inner Beauty hot sauce, on the other hand, is largely based on habaneros and mustard. I submit that that flavor profile would blend very badly with chocolate.
ET
Where’s Steve? (not to be too demanding or anything)
WaterGirl
@Anne Laurie: That’s really good to know, I had no idea, so thanks for that.
I don’t think that’s Henry’s issue, though. He leaps to amazing heights at the door if I am standing outside talking to someone (and ignoring him!). I swear that he jumps as high as the couch when he’s inside, he just think he can’t jump on the couch. What a goofball.
Edit: It just occurred to me… My pet insurance won’t insure knee problems for the first 6 months unless the vet specifically checks their knees on the initial visit. So I asked my vet to do that and Henry’s knees were fine then.
WaterGirl
I am sad that I missed this awesome thread last night. You guys were on a roll.
Paul in KY
@Gian: Now that was stupid.
kc
Cute pups!
I second and third the requests for more STEVE.
Lurker
Looks like Thurston is up to no good! And where are the Steve pics?