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Saturday Night Open Thread

by John Cole|  September 17, 20169:28 pm| 82 Comments

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I’ve been not blogging much because I am busy with the new house (dumpster has been there since the other day and it looks like I am going to need a second one) and because I am alternating between freaked the fuck out about Trump winning and furious at people who might vote for Trump, Stein, or Johnson. I am also focusing on a new genre of photography, which I call “My Pets Being Assholes Jumping on Me While I Am Asleep.” I’m keeping my phone by the bed with the ringer off so I can catch pictures:

steveonmybelly

Thurstononmybelly

I should note you will never see Lily in one of these, because she is a perfect angel sleeping right to my side curled up in between my torso and my right arm underneath the covers.

In other pet news, Rosie has taken to licking Steve from neck to tail in a two inch wide swath down his back. He just sits there and lets her, so this leads me to believe he likes it. The first thing I thought of was licking toads, but she is not acting high, so it isn’t that. The only problem with this is that later on, after it dries, it gets matted, so I have to brush Steve thoroughly several times a day now. You can see the spittle matted hair in the picture of him here.

Big Walter update coming up later tonight.

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  1. 1.

    Trentrunner

    September 17, 2016 at 9:31 pm

    Some unspecified explosion in NYC. No identifying cause yet, whether gas line, IED, whatever.

    Meanwhile, Trump, speaking at a rally in CO, says “A bomb just went off in NYC, nobody knows what it is.”

    Jesus Christ.

    ETA: NYC Official says 15 people have minor injuries.

  2. 2.

    Jerzy Russian

    September 17, 2016 at 9:32 pm

    Possible caption to the top photo: Pass the mustard please.

  3. 3.

    JPL

    September 17, 2016 at 9:32 pm

    Can’t wait for the Walter update…
    Trump in Colorado said there was a bomb in NYC. Someone might have put a pipe bomb in a trash can but it’s still unclear .. anyway I’ll share a tweet I saw online
    Guidelines when there’s a sudden crisis:
    The news tries to be accurate
    Twitter is sometimes accurate
    Trump just says shit

  4. 4.

    redshirt

    September 17, 2016 at 9:35 pm

    Cole, can you explain how/why your photography skills are so much improved? New phone? Training? Not drunk? Would love to know. Because your photos are worlds better then they used to be.

  5. 5.

    Felonius Monk

    September 17, 2016 at 9:35 pm

    Stop freaking out about the election, John. GOTV and Fuck Trump.

    ETA: Go Buckeyes.

  6. 6.

    JMG

    September 17, 2016 at 9:37 pm

    John, the people who brought you the dumpster will empty it for you. It’ll cost, but less than another one.

  7. 7.

    SiubhanDuinne

    September 17, 2016 at 9:38 pm

    @Trentrunner:
    @JPL:

    I am still trying to figure out if there were two separate bombs today — one in New Jersey this morning, and one in NY that Trump is talking about — or if he’s conflating the two.

  8. 8.

    Peale

    September 17, 2016 at 9:40 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: no. There were two. My friend from Chelsea who lives on 24th and 7th confirmed the New York one.

  9. 9.

    JPL

    September 17, 2016 at 9:41 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: There was a pipe bomb in a trash can in NJ earlier today. The explosion tonight was in a dumpster in the Chelsea area of Manhattan. Several people had minor injuries but there is no word about how the explosion occurred.

  10. 10.

    debbie

    September 17, 2016 at 9:41 pm

    @Felonius Monk:

    At least the game finally started.

  11. 11.

    SiubhanDuinne

    September 17, 2016 at 9:41 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Apparently two separate incidents. The NYC bomb is recent.

  12. 12.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    September 17, 2016 at 9:44 pm

    @redshirt:

    Fuck you. Cole has been sober for two years—which is none of your business anyway. Take your cheap “drunk” jokes and get out of his house.

    And you owe him an apology.

  13. 13.

    debit

    September 17, 2016 at 9:44 pm

    I swear,every time I see a picture of Steve I think, “Wait. Is that Julian?”

  14. 14.

    redshirt

    September 17, 2016 at 9:45 pm

    @Steeplejack (tablet): Excuse me? I asked a sincere question.

  15. 15.

    rikyrah

    September 17, 2016 at 9:46 pm

    Democracy is on the ballot.
    —POTUS @ the CBC dinner tonight

  16. 16.

    rikyrah

    September 17, 2016 at 9:47 pm

    Steve still scares.
    But, your pictures are great.

  17. 17.

    gogol's wife

    September 17, 2016 at 9:49 pm

    So cute. I love Steve’s licked fur.

  18. 18.

    Elizabelle

    September 17, 2016 at 9:49 pm

    Thurston looks like a little crocodile.

    Pets are wonderful. When they’re not being asshats.

  19. 19.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 17, 2016 at 9:52 pm

    @redshirt: FWIW, I had the same reaction that Steep did. It seemed like a cheap dig.

  20. 20.

    Mnemosyne

    September 17, 2016 at 9:52 pm

    Charlotte is going to be very cranky after this weekend, because her favorite weekend activity is to lay on my left arm and be cradled for a minimum of an hour while I’m laying down in bed, and I have activities outside the apartment all weekend. Poor kitty, her life is so hard.

  21. 21.

    JPL

    September 17, 2016 at 9:57 pm

    CBS NYC live feed for the explosion link

    okay not really live sorry

  22. 22.

    EllenH

    September 17, 2016 at 9:58 pm

    @rikyrah: He was awesome tonight! I want to watch it again!

  23. 23.

    Villago Delenda Est

    September 17, 2016 at 10:02 pm

    The caption for the Steve pic should be “Go ahead, punk, make my day.”

  24. 24.

    JMG

    September 17, 2016 at 10:05 pm

    If Obama campaigned every day, that’d be great. If when challenged about who’s minding the store he said, “Joe’s got it,” that’d be greater.

  25. 25.

    SiubhanDuinne

    September 17, 2016 at 10:06 pm

    @rikyrah:

    Loved him!

    (Have you bought your copy of the new Essence yet? Twelve pages of POTUS/FLOTUS photos and interview.)

  26. 26.

    John Cole

    September 17, 2016 at 10:06 pm

    @redshirt:

    Cole, can you explain how/why your photography skills are so much improved? New phone? Training? Not drunk? Would love to know. Because your photos are worlds better then they used to be.

    Bifocals.

  27. 27.

    PhoenixRising

    September 17, 2016 at 10:06 pm

    My Dane likes to groom the cat. The cat is 3 years old and has learned to tolerate this, as it’s been going on for 2.8 years. He’s a regular old short haired striped kitty from the pound, though, so we don’t have to groom him. Just baths once a month or so–to keep his dander less troubling for the humans.

    As to the dumpster, not Trump but the actual physical one–I’ve sometimes called and pled stupid, as in, Boy was there a lot more demolition than we spec’d so can you swap this out? They’ll charge you but you get the space to move around in the yard, vs moving up a size.

  28. 28.

    The Golux

    September 17, 2016 at 10:06 pm

    @JPL:

    …in the Chelsea area of Manhattan.

    Interesting factoid: The neighborhood of Chelsea is named after the estate owned by the family of Clement Clark Moore, author of “A Visit from St. Nicholas” (AKA “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas”). He made a fortune subdividing the estate, after vehemently opposing the grid plan for Manhattan, which made it possible for him to subdivide at great profit.

  29. 29.

    hovercraft

    September 17, 2016 at 10:08 pm

    @rikyrah: @EllenH:
    Repost from downstairs.
    Obama, “Hillary’s opponent says there’s never been a worse time to be a black person, well he must have missed that whole civics lesson about slavery and Jim Crow, but we’ve got a whole museum for him to visit.”

  30. 30.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    September 17, 2016 at 10:08 pm

    @redshirt:

    Cole’s photography has improved only very recently. To ask a “sincere question” linking it to something years in the past is bullshit. You are skating on the edge of the Asperger/asshole/”Moi?” zone pioneered by Little Boots.

  31. 31.

    debbie

    September 17, 2016 at 10:11 pm

    @The Golux:

    I think that’s the Toy District also?

  32. 32.

    debbie

    September 17, 2016 at 10:11 pm

    .

  33. 33.

    rikyrah

    September 17, 2016 at 10:12 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:
    I got Essence and In Style this week. ??

  34. 34.

    No One You Know

    September 17, 2016 at 10:13 pm

    @redshirt I think there are kinder, truer, and funnier ways to compliment John on his photos. And not in mocking a problem beaten and beaten every day.

    The skill is in the photographer, not the equipment.

    Steve still does not suffer fools.

  35. 35.

    JPL

    September 17, 2016 at 10:13 pm

    @The Golux: Wow.. Thank you for that info.

  36. 36.

    redshirt

    September 17, 2016 at 10:13 pm

    @John Cole: Really? You got new glasses? Good reason if so.

  37. 37.

    redshirt

    September 17, 2016 at 10:14 pm

    @Steeplejack (tablet): Whatever.

  38. 38.

    hovercraft

    September 17, 2016 at 10:14 pm

    @EllenH:
    He was excellent.

  39. 39.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    September 17, 2016 at 10:17 pm

    ObFirstWorldBlogProblem: I understand Cole and the FPers have no control over the ads, but the autoplay HTML5 ad in the box that recently showed up (for me) on the right margin is annoying. UBlockOrigin lets me block it pretty easily, but I fear that the annoying ad people are going to be “more creative” in finding ways to annoy us with their stupid autoplaying videos…

    /rant

    Thanks again for this place.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  40. 40.

    SiubhanDuinne

    September 17, 2016 at 10:18 pm

    @rikyrah:

    Yup, I got In Style at the same time :-)

  41. 41.

    Mary G

    September 17, 2016 at 10:21 pm

    @Elizabelle: That’s exactly what I thought – is that a toy alligator with lit-up eyes? I had to look three times.

    Great photo of Steve frowning at you for moving to get the phone and disturbing his rest, John!

    When the tenant from hell left the house I’m in now, we ended up using four big dumpsters. At some point point, it’ll feel like it never ends, but just power through.

  42. 42.

    CaseyL

    September 17, 2016 at 10:21 pm

    I’d like to know when, during a lifelong association with companion animals, I became conditioned to believe that nothing is worse than disturbing a sleeping kitty.

    When I get out of bed in the morning on weekdays- long before I want to, because I gotta go to work and all that – FSM forbid I disturb the fur persons who share the bed with me. I have basically crab-walked backward up over the pillows, then slid out from the very tip-top edge of the bed, in order to disturb not so much as a hair on Jeannie or Oscar’s head.

    Why do I do that? How did I get conditioned to do that? When did this happen??

  43. 43.

    dmsilev

    September 17, 2016 at 10:24 pm

    Obama back in the “jab at Trump and his hair-thing” mode:

    CNN Breaking News ✔@cnnbrk
    Obama jokes: Neither ISIS nor North Korea “weighed on my mind like the validity of my birth certificate” Watch live http://cnn.it/go
    6:38 PM – 17 Sep 2016

  44. 44.

    Corner Stone

    September 17, 2016 at 10:26 pm

    @Steeplejack (tablet): Ok, had something to say but used a different stalkers name and got the old heave ho.

  45. 45.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    September 17, 2016 at 10:27 pm

    Jon Favreau ‏@ jonfavs 2h2 hours ago
    Keep those sheets dry: Clinton +9 in PA, taken 9/12-16.

    Muhlenberg College poll

    in other news…

    Kenneth Goldsmith
    ‏@ kg_ubu
    God, I live on 26th St. & 6th Ave. and have been at home the whole time. The news media is making is sound like 9-11. NOT.

    the explosion, i.e.d. experimental device or improperly disposed of propane tank or the like, was in a dumpster, which I gather made it very loud.

  46. 46.

    Redshift

    September 17, 2016 at 10:30 pm

    Don’t freak out, it doesn’t do anything to help. Steady on, and do more of whatever you can do that does help.

    I’ve definitely learned to read polls better. The Clinton campaign sent me an email about polls from last week vs this week, intended to motivate me to give money, and the first thing I noticed is that they’re different polls between the two weeks. This week’s “bad” polls include two Rasmussen polls and the LA Times, which has had a strong Republican lean for months.

    It’s not that there’s nothing to worry about, but there’s definitely not as much to worry about as the media says. It also helps to know that “momentum” in polls, so beloved of the media, actually doesn’t exist. It’s just a statistical illusion.

  47. 47.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    September 17, 2016 at 10:30 pm

    ‏@ NancyHightower
    Yeah, peeps. I’m in Chelsea. I just walked to the area. We are chill. Many are eating gelato. Having a glass of wine. It’s not total chaos.

    Ivor Tossell ‏@ ivortossell 21m21 minutes ago
    Actual quote from NY1 eyewitness: “It was just a burning dumpster like you see around the city.”

  48. 48.

    Mai.naem.mobile

    September 17, 2016 at 10:32 pm

    I am having problems posting tonight. Anyhow,John, there’s a thread on Reddit with good advice from people on home remodelling. Stuff that they would do if they had to do it again or stuff they learned from mistakes and stuff they did right. Really worthwhile thread.

  49. 49.

    Villago Delenda Est

    September 17, 2016 at 10:33 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Yes, but our “if it bleeds, it leads, and our ratings go up!” media will sensationalize anything for another few eyeballs.

  50. 50.

    schrodinger's cat

    September 17, 2016 at 10:36 pm

    @Mnemosyne: Yogi Kitteh is traumatized from the 911 call for smoke in the basement, we have two fire trucks and 8 firemenz (and wimmenz) stomping through the house.

  51. 51.

    redshirt

    September 17, 2016 at 10:36 pm

    @Mai.naem.mobile: Link it up!

  52. 52.

    Helen

    September 17, 2016 at 10:36 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Here’s a theory pulled right out of my ass. There’s a Home Depot right there. Caustic chemicals disposed of incorrectly.

    The Mayor’s gonna speak shortly.

  53. 53.

    Pogonip

    September 17, 2016 at 10:39 pm

    Cole, may I ask how much trouble you had getting used to bifocals?

    Also, have your fleas fled?

  54. 54.

    Mnemosyne

    September 17, 2016 at 10:40 pm

    @CaseyL:

    It was probably after the second or third time they dug their needle-sharp claws into your flesh to make you stop moving, and you’ve blocked out the trauma.

  55. 55.

    daves09

    September 17, 2016 at 10:40 pm

    @Steeplejack (tablet): Since Cole doesn’t seem to be bothered why are you? Do you think that whole portion of his life is just gonna vanish? How Victorian of you. It’s a part of his life, not something to be ashamed of. It happened then and this is what he is now, but it is still a part of what he is today.
    It’s not PC, but it’s oversensitivity to everything in the damn world.

  56. 56.

    JPL

    September 17, 2016 at 10:41 pm

    There appears to be to ied’s that have not critically injured people, but will get lots of news. Who does this benefit? Do we know where Trump’s kids are? Just hoping they are safe.

  57. 57.

    EllenH

    September 17, 2016 at 10:41 pm

    @hovercraft: Several people have posted a short video excerpt (~2 min) where he talks about his legacy being on the ballot etc. I think I’ve watched it 3 times and I made my daughter watch it. It is so inspiring! I’ll try to link it.

  58. 58.

    rikyrah

    September 17, 2016 at 10:42 pm

    A tv junkie’s happy moment : EW’s Fall TV Preview Issue. About to begin reading it.???

  59. 59.

    Mnemosyne

    September 17, 2016 at 10:43 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    Poor Yogi. Our kittehs had to ride in the car and get their nails trimmed this morning, which they would like you to know is the WORST THING THAT CAN EVER HAPPEN TO THEM.

    Poor Charlotte had to get two car rides this week (she had a vet appointment on Tuesday), so she’s still annoyed about that.

  60. 60.

    schrodinger's cat

    September 17, 2016 at 10:46 pm

    @Mnemosyne: Our landlord is also getting the roof replaced, so all that noise is making him antsy too.

  61. 61.

    Miss Bianca

    September 17, 2016 at 10:46 pm

    @Trentrunner: Trump is (or was) in CO? Gag. And here I was having a lovely evening.

  62. 62.

    CaseyL

    September 17, 2016 at 10:46 pm

    @Mnemosyne: Excellent theory!

  63. 63.

    Pogonip

    September 17, 2016 at 10:50 pm

    @Mnemosyne: yogi Cat: “Hey! Nobody goes to the vet any more! It’s too crowded! So put down those keys!”

  64. 64.

    J R in WV

    September 17, 2016 at 10:50 pm

    @Pogonip:

    I now have F’in tri-focals. I use the middle part for the computer, and bottom part for phone book / medical fine print, and the rest to look at the world and drive. It took me about an hour to get used to it.

    You can’t see where you’re walking clearly, because looking down you’re looking through the up-close focus part of the glasses, but really, you don’t need to see every ciggy-butt you step over, just curbs and steps. That was the biggest thing for me.

    I worked with a guy who couldn’t adjust – he had three pairs of glasses, one focused to look at his computer monitor, one focused for reading, and one for driving. Would drive me nuts. I have prescription sun glasses, I have myopia, which can make you extra sensitive to bright light.

  65. 65.

    Manyakitty

    September 17, 2016 at 10:59 pm

    @CaseyL: Three words: sweet baby kitties

  66. 66.

    Ken

    September 17, 2016 at 11:03 pm

    @Felonius Monk: Go Buckeyes, indeed. A good 1st half for them.

  67. 67.

    John Cole

    September 17, 2016 at 11:04 pm

    @Pogonip: I don’t even remember it was so easy, really. Like maybe a couple of days of tnoticing I move my head a little to get things to focus. I got progressive and have no problem.

    @J R in WV: I have three pairs. One normal prescription sunglasses for driving and yard stuff and outdoors. One progressive bifocals. One set of computer glasses that are perfectly set for the distance from my head to the monitor.

  68. 68.

    hovercraft

    September 17, 2016 at 11:05 pm

    @EllenH:
    Here’s the whole thing.
    via C-SPAN

  69. 69.

    J R in WV

    September 17, 2016 at 11:05 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    Well, the fire department knows what they’re doing. You did the right thing to call them instantly !

    And Yogi-cat is better off not on fire, too.

    Take care, and Best of luck!

  70. 70.

    frosty

    September 17, 2016 at 11:07 pm

    @John Cole: I got progressives a few years ago and they’re a pain to get used to. Almost everything is out of focus, although just by rocking your head up and down you can bring what you’re looking at into focus.

    Better than the alternative though. I guess.

  71. 71.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 17, 2016 at 11:07 pm

    @hovercraft: He is stone cold.

  72. 72.

    schrodinger's cat

    September 17, 2016 at 11:09 pm

    @J R in WV: This incident happened day before yesterday, kitteh is still jittery.

  73. 73.

    frosty

    September 17, 2016 at 11:13 pm

    @frosty: FYWP no reply?

    Anyway, I like your approach to just distance-only sunglasses and that’s what I’ll do next time. My days of reading at the beach are over.

  74. 74.

    columbusqueen

    September 17, 2016 at 11:17 pm

    @Ken: O-H-I-O! How’s that basic defense workin’ out for you, Sooners?

  75. 75.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 17, 2016 at 11:19 pm

    @J R in WV: I spend 70% of my time not wearing glasses. I would never adjust to multiple prescriptions in one lens. I have one pair for driving at night and watching movies (just renewed my DL and passed the test with no problems) and one pair for reading. Computers and modern TVs are no issue.

  76. 76.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 17, 2016 at 11:21 pm

    @daves09: Someone thought someone else was rude. It happens.

  77. 77.

    Mike E

    September 17, 2016 at 11:48 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Just got contact lenses (specs still good tho not bifocal) and the transition hasn’t been smooth as I’d hoped…might opt for more comfy lenses, they now make bifocal contacts also. Too

  78. 78.

    workworkwork

    September 17, 2016 at 11:56 pm

    @Mnemosyne: Had to take Emma, our five-year-old tuxedo kitty, to the vet on Friday for her annual physical. She was a complete brat for the entire session, though our vet is very gentle and loves cats. I almost felt bad for her because each time she managed to escape, she would climb into my arms and glare at him and his assistant.

    Henry, our ginger, is a complete gentleman – very relaxed and patient. He seems to be mellowing with age.

  79. 79.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 17, 2016 at 11:59 pm

    @Mike E: Not buying it. I’ll stay with what I have. It also means that my 30-something Wayfarers are still in play.

  80. 80.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    September 18, 2016 at 12:14 am

    Some good news from NoVA today – Washington Post:

    In a town that once took considerable pride in its Confederate past, the Alexandria City Council voted unanimously Saturday to change the name of Jefferson Davis Highway and seek permission from the Virginia General Assembly to move a renowned statue of a Confederate soldier in historic Old Town.

    The council’s actions went beyond the recommendations of a task force that studied what to do about the city’s controversial Confederate symbols, but not as far as some residents wanted.

    After a lengthy public hearing, the council agreed to try to relocate the “Appomattox” statue from the busy intersection of Prince and Washington streets, where thousands of motorists pass it each day. The pensive and unarmed south-facing Confederate soldier would be moved to a local history museum on the same corner.

    Relocating the seven-foot, bronze statue will be a heavy political lift. It cannot be moved without the agreement of the legislature, and the General Assembly passed a bill earlier this year further strengthening prohibitions against cities and counties removing war memorials. The legislation was vetoed by Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) in March.

    The statue occupies the spot where a local regiment mustered to retreat from the city just before Union troops seized Alexandria in 1861. Erected in 1889 and owned by the local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, it bears the names of Alexandria residents who died on behalf of the South. Once surrounded by an iron fence, grass and gaslights, its footprint has shrunk significantly, and vehicles have occasionally collided with it.

    It’s far past time that the statue was moved, and the road renamed. Progress though!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  81. 81.

    ThresherK (GPad)

    September 18, 2016 at 12:15 am

    @Mnemosyne: You don’t trim kitty nails? I am the designee for this task in our home. My wife’s cat-who bites me, too much-tolerates it better than mine, whom I have to bribe with treats during the chore.

  82. 82.

    Ken

    September 18, 2016 at 5:10 pm

    @columbusqueen: can, that was a heck of a game, wasn’t it? :)

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