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And now something to lift your spirits.

Yes, my furniture is beige.
Yes, my voice sounds different. Allergies.
Yes, my decorating sucks.
Yes, his bowl is dirty, I use it in the morning and then at dinner and wash before the next day.
Yes, he is eating on fiestaware human bowls. He and I don’t care and we have this thing called soap, so it’s cool.
Yes, he is fat. Fuck you, body shamers.
Yes, that is where I keep my vacuum. Why put it away in a closet when you have four animals?

I think that will handle all the annoying questions, or most of them.

Oh, yeah. Ellie is home and recovering from her major surgery. Pics when Seth sends me some.

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  5. 5.

    Johannes

    He’s not fat. He’s big-boned. (Actually, he’s beautiful. I love the irritated tone in which he meows in answer to “is that [dinner] what you want?” I get it myself on occasion.)

  7. 7.

    gogol's wife

    My kitteh Sasha is now in lurve — she can’t take her eyes off the screen.

    The bowl is certainly not dirty by cat-bowl standards.

    Praying for Ellie!

  8. 8.

    Luthe

    He’s better than my cat. Little fucker will nibble on your ankles if not fed on schedule.

  9. 9.

    Tom Levenson

    Jicha would’ve had my arm off at the oboe if I talk to him like that.

    Hah! I’m going to leave that 1st sentence as is to remind me of my iPad’s awesome dictation capability.

    What I thought I said:

    Tikka would have had my arm off at the elbow if I taunted him like that.

  13. 13.

    jl

    Is Cole sure he is taunting Steve? Steve doesn’t seem to care, or is familiar with the game and just disinterested in the BS.
    Cole’s voice sounds a little less Ben Stein-y than the last time. I assume less allergies than before.

  16. 16.

    Poopyman

    @Tom Levenson:

    Jicha would’ve had my arm off at the oboe if I talk to him like that.

    I didn’t know you played!

    All my cats are whiners, and would rather trip me up than make a frontal assault. Low energy bastards.

  17. 17.

    Poopyman

    I should have added that I watched with the sound off, so can’t comment on that, but Steve is highly gorgeous, as are all Maine Coons of my acquaintance.

    Now I’m missing my Spike (sniff).

    (And yes, he earned that name.)

  18. 18.

    p.a.

    I feel safe in pointing out no guy here would have noticed any of the cleanliness/style issues mentioned in the post. Women on the other hand…

  21. 21.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    Got up at 5:00 am, drove 90 minutes and worked all day in central MI. End of the day got kicked down to Charleston WV for an emergency. I’m in Columbus OH now and the emergency can wait. I gotta sleep. As long as I get to the emergency in the morning before the parts courier from Deutschland I’m good.
    This is not worth a car accident.

  23. 23.

    Schlemazel (parmesan rancor)

    Ah, feed the poor kiteh, he is starved!

    Thanks for the video & the smile and thanks for keeping the doors open on this crap hole so we all have a nice place to call each other asshole/

  24. 24.

    jl

    @p.a.:

    ” no guy here would have noticed any of the cleanliness/style issues ”

    That is sadly mistaken. I am a guy of the sturdy boor school, and am as inept as Cole at tidiness and style. But even I have noticed, many times. I’ve never commented on it because I don’t care that much, and completely unqualified and unable to offer anything constructive.

  25. 25.

    Amaranthine RBG

    Homer Laughlin Fiestaware — a fine West Virginia product. Or it used to be.

  30. 30.

    jl

    @p.a.: At least I know I am not alone. Someone’s decorating sucks slightly more than mine. Probably the colors force my attention on the Cole design situation not being quite right.

  31. 31.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    Your voice is sexy, husky and commanding like Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs. Other than that, your house looks great. You wouldn’t be able to tell there’s dead coeds in two bedrooms unless you smelled the place.

  41. 41.

    Roger Moore

    Yes, my furniture is beige.
    Yes, my voice sounds different. Allergies.
    Yes, my decorating sucks.
    Yes, his bowl is dirty, I use it in the morning and then at dinner and wash before the next day.
    Yes, he is eating on fiestaware human bowls. He and I don’t care and we have this thing called soap, so it’s cool.
    Yes, he is fat. Fuck you, body shamers.
    Yes, that is where I keep my vacuum. Why put it away in a closet when you have four animals?

    Yes, you are a bachelor. (So am I, FWIW)

  42. 42.

    Raven

    The Atlanta airport sux but the cell phone lot is an improvement . Now if I can gat out of here before the Braves let out!

  47. 47.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I tend not to notice dust.

    I have a dear friend who is, shall we say, casual about surfaces. She once caught me surreptitiously glancing at her sideboard and told me, “You’re welcome to write your initials in the dust, just don’t put the date!”

  50. 50.

    Roger Moore

    @dlm:

    He has the best of the best and he’s whining about customer service and tests.

    Actually, he doesn’t have the best of the best. Since he had cancer, he should have gone to Memorial Sloan-Kettering rather than New York Presbyterian if he wanted the very best in New York.

  51. 51.

    RSA

    Yes, he is fat. Fuck you, body shamers.

    I’ve always admired the unself-conscious arrogance of some animals.

  53. 53.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    Who are you? What have you done with Cole?!?

    JC has only been able to post underexposed, fuzzy pictures of scary things from his basement. This is nicely exposed, focused, and composed video clip of a beautiful, expressive cat. Something’s very wrong…!

    :-)

    Thanks.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  54. 54.

    ? Martin

    @p.a.:

    I still occasionally eat right out of the pan, esp soup. Any other singloids admit to that?

    I don’t do that, but I’ll offer up my teenage daughter as a kindred spirit. And I’ll go one more and note that she has a bit of a tendency to go chopsticks or commando on the utensils front. She’s not a slob by any means, but there are her rules and everyone else’s rules and fuck you, she’s going to live by her rules. I love her so much.

  56. 56.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @efgoldman:

    Yesterday was pretty bad. Today a bit easier, though still sore. The worst is having to think through a complete choreography of lifting myself up from a chair, or turning over in bed. If nothing else, this is going to give me a great upper-body workout!

    Thank you so much for asking.

  59. 59.

    p.a.

    @I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: That’s right! That was a fine vid, far superior to the usual photos. The earlier Thurston/Lily was in focus too. For a while I thought Steve’s mane was so phoofy (foofy?) it was throwing off John’s camera’s focus.

  60. 60.

    ThresherK

    @Germy: Socialistic? I hope he’s doing the Randian thing and paying for it all out of pocket.

    I haven’t thought about him in some time. I imagine there is a certain amount of suffering he has to go through before I feel bad for him like not pissing on his would-be grave. If he’s expecting a full recovery, then that amount of suffering has not been reached.

    To Cavuto-mark this, “What would John Stossel sound like after a laryngnectomy?”

  62. 62.

    Schlemazel (parmesan rancor)

    @SiubhanDuinne:
    thanks to @efgoldman: for reminding me, I had forgotten about your tumble. I imagine you have that whole body ache thing so it is hard to find a comfortable place for any length of time. I found sleeping really difficult (but I learned who Art Bell was so there is that!) hope you get better fast and don’t be afraid to use the drugs, they can ease the pain.

  64. 64.

    JCJ

    @Germy:

    He makes a statement about doctors not giving out their e-mail addresses and then adds that it is not possible to communicate using modern technology. What he probably means is that he is either too lazy or not smart enough to figure out how to send a message through the hospital’s EMR (electronic medical record.) His complaint that an EKG might not be necessary – yeah, increased operative mortality for patients who have suffered a myocardial infarction in the previous six months is hardly a reason to do an EKG. What an idiot.

  68. 68.

    coin operated

    You need to watch those Maine Coons…they’re fast for their size. My beloved Fredo (of which Steve could be a doppelgänger) left me many a present…some still twitching.

    BTW…taunting a Maine Coon is not a good idea. You do know you’re going to bleed for this, right?

  69. 69.

    The Lodger

    @JCJ: Chances are his hospital has a portal for messages, lab results, billing and the like. I never thought of it before, but doctors probably prefer them to being emailed directly, for privacy and so anyone on the team can handle issues as they arise.

  70. 70.

    Yutsano

    @Tom Levenson: I thought you got another kitteh for a moment!

    It would also slightly bug me if you were a fellow double reed and never told me.

    And proper authoritahs alerted. Also. Too.

  71. 71.

    Josie

    @SiubhanDuinne: I have missed some posts lately since I am back and forth to help babysit my grand daughter. I didn’t know you had been injured. I hope it’s not too serious and that you feel better soon. It is so maddening to be sidelined when you are used to being active.

  73. 73.

    Mnemosyne

    This probably makes me a bad film major, but putting subtitles on plain intertitles in silent films just seems silly to me. Just put an English-language card in, FFS.

  75. 75.

    Mike J

    Kathy Sullivan Retweeted
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    I kinda wish Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders were cops who learned to be partners by the end of the movie.

  78. 78.

    Mike J

    @jl:

    Steve doesn’t seem to care, or is familiar with the game and just disinterested in the BS.

    Everybody is disinterested in BS at this point. Just stay in Vermont already.

    Just doing my part to get us to a tbogg.

  79. 79.

    Hungry Joe

    Our Phoebe, a calico, also dines from Fiestaware because I have a weakness for the stuff and we have way too much of it.

    Although I glommed onto to cats relatively late in life we’ve already had four, and only once has one of them drawn blood: Scully was vexed when we got a puppy, and one day when Puppy Alice was about three months old I walked by Scully when she was perched on the back of a chair, growling. I must’ve passed too close because she reached out and slashed my forearm. She lived to 20, and that was her only attack on a human.

  82. 82.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @Mnemosyne:

    That is an amazingly clean print of the movie. And for once I am liking the score. I usually hate them on silent movies.

  84. 84.

    Culture of Truth

    I’ve had that exact conversation.

    Also, Tiger killed a mouse in my kitchen last night.

    No, I’m not infested. It was the first one in years. But boy was he proud of himself.

  92. 92.

    PurpleGirl

    @SiubhanDuinne: My sister complained to my mother about my housekeeping skills after I had a buffet for the whole family. My mother told me about the complaint. I told my mother: “my sister has 3 choices — (1) she can come and clean for me, (2) she can get used to the fact that I spend my time doing other things and not cleaning like she does, or (3) she doesn’t have to come over to my place at all. That was the only time she came to that apartment in 26 years.

  93. 93.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @Mnemosyne:

    P.S. I suspect TCM didn’t have permission to run the German print except “as is,” so subtitles it is. Or maybe they just didn’t want to spend the money. I have seen this occasionally before.

  94. 94.

    Miss Bianca

    Dust, dirt, fur…you know what? I’m living in close to monastic conditions on top of a mountain. OBSERVE THE NUMBER OF FUCKS I DO NOT GIVE.

  95. 95.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @PurpleGirl: When people post things like this like this, it makes me so thankful for my brother who is a truly good man (and a great brother – since we’ve been adults. As a kid he was kind of shit, but little brothers are).

  97. 97.

    Scamp Dog

    Fiestaware! That’s what my grandparents used, and I loved staying with them and eating my grandmother’s wonderful cooking off her Fiestaware. I came across it again a few years ago, when I was looking for new plates, and just had to buy plates, bowls, and cups. Definitely a classic.

  98. 98.

    Isobel

    What an amazing cat! Such a talkative little fellow. He reminds me of my Squeaker, who truly earned his name.

  99. 99.

    p.a.

    @Steeplejack (phone): I once saw the original Mad Max on one of the subscription channels overdubbed by American actors because, apparently, someone thought Australian English was a) incomprehensible or b) unmarketable!

  102. 102.

    gogol's wife

    @Steeplejack (phone):

    You’re making me sorry I decided to just read the paper last night.

    I keep trying to get into silent films, but I just don’t like them. The two exceptions: one funny one with Clara Bow, and one where Ronald Colman is caught in a volcano eruption and he’s just so cute.

  105. 105.

    Steeplejack

    @gogol’s wife:

    Tastes differ. The silents have a whole different style of filmmaking, as people figured out the new medium (and then did amazing things with it). And, of course, as our films do now, they mirror their time and place. Also like modern films, some are good, some are bad, and people are drawn to some and not to others.

    I highly recommend at least taking a look at one of the German movies next Wednesday (8:00 p.m. EDT), Pandora’s Box (1929), starring the American actress Louise Brooks. She blazes off the screen. Retro trailer here. And TCM is following it with the other film Brooks made with G.W. Pabst, Diary of a Lost Girl (1929). I haven’t seen that and am looking forward to it.

  106. 106.

    gogol's wife

    @Steeplejack:

    I saw Pandora’s Box in a theater while in graduate school and was left unmoved, although she is amazingly beautiful. But I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now, so I do plan to tune in.

  108. 108.

    Mj_Oregon

    Steve has better manners than most of my kitties have had. He’s beautiful and I envy you your wonderful animal family. No more indoor animals for me. My allergies just won’t let me have them inside anymore. Luckily I have a pride of ferals and half tamed left-behind-by-miserable-SOB-former-residents outside to give me my kitteh fix every day. They’re a hungry bunch and try to be nice while I set out the food. Give Steve an extra skritch on the chin from me. I’d love to meet him in person!

  109. 109.

    Steeplejack

    @gogol’s wife:

    Cool. No pressure. As I said, tastes differ. And who knows? I have found myself having a much different reaction to a film or a novel upon revisiting it after many years.

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