Finally got tired of the lazy bastards doing nothing all day so I rousted them, and it looks like when Steve does not get enough sleep he puts on his ears sideways:
He’s so beautiful I sometimes just sit and stare at him.
Also, we salvaged the front door and painted it:
Plumber comes to do final hookups next week.
Trentrunner
Everyone, just go see La La Land. It will wash all the bad thoughts out of your head.
For a few hours, at least.
trollhattan
Eyes…haunting…must look away, but cannot….
Nice door!
Emma
I am envious of that door.
geg6
That is the exact color I want to paint our front door. I’m jealous.
SP
Be smart, Cole, use protection- you don’t know where his pipes have been.
Pogonip
That’s a beautiful tribble.
Betty Cracker
Love the door and love the color. I have a wall in my living room painted that same color or close to it. Maybe a teeny bit lighter.
seaboogie
John,
If you could just enlarge that photo of gorgeous Steve to fit the window of your newly gorgeous door, that would be total awesomeness for the new Casa Cole aka BJ HQ. Maybe someone here with photoshop skills could mock it up for you.
randy khan
Nice door.
Nice cat. Uh, nice-looking cat.
Darkrose
Nice door!
Also, while I will never put away my Tunch mug, a Steve mug with that picture would be a nice addition, especially now that I’m drinking lots of tea. Just a thought.
schrodingers_cat
Is that a purple door?
Major Major Major Major
I want your door.
donnah
Thanks for uplifting pics! Steve is a handsome beast and the door looks beautiful.
I am working on a portrait of my middle son as a Steampunk submarine captain, so I’m busy already this new year.
Gin & Tonic
@schrodingers_cat: It’s pink.
BillinGlendaleCA
@schrodingers_cat: No, I think that’s dark blue. But it still goes nice with the hot pink room.
zhena gogolia
I want to pet Steve so bad.
seaboogie
@Darkrose:
Agreed – and to which I would add the holiday photo of Walter (in antlers w. a big smile) with his new sister Ellie.
bobbo
Nice door! Need to gussy up the hardware a little.
Brachiator
@Trentrunner:
The New York Film Critics Circle Awards selected “La La Land” as Best Picture. I don’t know that I would go that far, but it is a very pleasant way to spend some movie time. Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling are both very appealing, and this Southern Californian would give the film an award for Best Use of the 105 Freeway.
ETA: Cool purple(?) door.
TheMightyTrowel
Nice door! We spent xmas week hanging doors at our place. These days aussi houses are very standardised, but ours is older so the entry shapes aren’t standard and finding new doors to fit is almost impossible. I’ve spent 3 months haunting gumtree (like craigslist) and finally found the two internal and three external doors we needed in a close enough size that Mr Trowel could shave them down to fit.
TaMara (HFG)
Love that door!
And well, Steve is just so…Steve.
Joyce H
Man, Cole, this house is going to be so freakin’ awesome!
NotMax
Coming soon, direct to video – Behind the Blue Door.
:)
(Have something political to mention but shall wait for a more amenable thread.)
Ian
You should have gone with pink to match the interior.
Iowa Old Lady
What a gorgeous door!
We just got back from a few days visiting relatives in Florida, where is it much hotter and more humid than here. Why did no one warn us?
Yarrow
Steve’s eyes are so gorgeous! And that door is excellent. Looks really similar to a door from the late 1800’s that my friend’s salvaged for the new, but exact reproduction of a Queen Anne style house.
SenyorDave
Here’s one of the lead stories on Yahoo:
WikiLeaks offers reward for info on Obama admin misdeeds
What do you want to bet they make a show of paying off someone, and the whole thing is a sham?
mai naem mobile
I lurrrve this pink door..would never of thunk of using the color. Beautiful. Serioisly, what’s the name of the color and paint brand?
Big R
Activism report:
Just called Congresswoman Terri Sewell (D-AL)’s local office here in Tuscaloosa. Managed to thoroughly stun the staffer when I said I was calling to thank them for their hard work and to ask them to keep fighting for the ACA. Got the staffer’s personal e-mail for when the phone doesn’t answer (because the office here is one person). Took five minutes and came away delighted.
Now to build up the courage to call Shelby’s office and tell him he sucks, and Sessions’ office and tell him he’s not fit to be Attorney General.
MRK
SiubhanDuinne
I don’t know which is more gorgeous, Steve or the door.
As always, nicely done on all fronts, John!
Shana
@Iowa Old Lady: HA! Reminds me of a phone call I got from my daughter in January of her first year at college in Chicago, having grown up in the DC area where winters are milder. She was walking across the Midway, where the wind comes straight in off Lake Michigan and said “One of my eyelids is frozen shut. Why didn’t you tell me how cold it gets here?”
Hubby and I just rolled our eyes, having told her in no uncertain terms, how cold it gets in Chicago in winter. But when you’ve never experienced it you can’t quite imagine.
At least your experience was in the other direction.
stinger
Two beautiful photos! I’d love to know the brand/color name of that door paint.
You know, for all the sadness engendered by the news about Walter, it really got me to thinking about the people who rescued, treated, transported, adopted, donated, and wrote messages of love and support. This past year I have begun to think rather poorly of other people in general, especially American voters and the people they’ve chosen to elect (I live in a newly red state). But the Walter Saga has shown hundreds of people being really swell folks.
Thanks, John, for engendering such goodness in people. We are the better for hanging out here!
SenyorDave
Another story from Yahoo:
Why one Democratic senator is sitting out today’s Capitol Hill meeting with Obama
Any guesses?
And the winner is Joe Manchin!
Patricia Kayden
@SenyorDave: Why were people on the Left praising Assange and Wikileaks again? So now we all know that he’s a Rightwing hack who ran away from rape charges. Never cared for him.
Patricia Kayden
@SenyorDave: Manchin can go jump off a bridge for all I care. He’s a jerk. Why isn’t he a Republican?
SiubhanDuinne
@Trentrunner:
Planning to see both Moana and La La Land next week. I like to go to movies during the day when few people are in the theatre and tickets tend to be cheaper. Kids will all be back in school by then, I think, so I should have my choice of seats for Moana.
I saw both Jackie and Manchester-by-the-Sea in the last week or two. Both very much worth seeing. Naomi Portman turned in an incredible performance as Jackie Kennedy. I’m not sure how it would play for people too young to remember the mythical “Camelot” of the early 1960s, but for people old enough to remember the JFK administration, the assassination, and the unforgettable images of that entire weekend, it’s a powerful film.
Woodrowfan
thanks to Moar for the comment on Walter and cancer treatment in a previous open thread. I didn’t read the whole thread on Walter because it was breaking my heart. :(
Woodrowfan
@SiubhanDuinne: Moana was fun. I thought the songs were forgettable, but I’ve never been a fan of most Disney movie songs, not even from “Frozen.”
SiubhanDuinne
@Big R:
Terri Sewell is one of the best things that ever happened to Alabama. I met her and some of her staff members in the Birmingham district office shortly after she was elected. Her name isn’t often mentioned. I hope the DNC have their eye on her as an up-and-coming Democrat. She is perfectly positioned to be groomed for more prominent office.
Yarrow
@Patricia Kayden: Because he gets much more attention as the Democrat who just isn’t sure if he can vote with the Democrats on that bill than if he were one of all the other Republicans.
JPL
The door is beautiful.
Ian
@Patricia Kayden:
He isn’t a republican because he agrees with the dems 50% of the time. We tolerate it, they primary the living shit out of it.
Calouste
@SenyorDave: I’m sure the “transparency group” WikiLeaks is going to be so transparent as to tell us who is fronting the money for that bounty, right? Right?
Brachiator
@Woodrowfan:
Interesting. They tried to give some of the songs a deliberate Pacific Islands flavor. And some of the songs were written by Lin Manuel Miranda, and clearly have a more “Hamilton” than standard Disney feel to them.
SiubhanDuinne
@Woodrowfan:
For me, Disney movie songs are “Some Day, My Prince Will Come,” “A Very Merry Unbirthday,” and “A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes.”
:-)
Never saw Frozen. In fact, I think the last Disney animated film I saw was The Lion King. I’m only going to see Moana so I can tell Mnemosyne I did.
Iowa Old Lady
@Shana: Our relatives don’t run the AC because they think it’s winter. I kid you not, there were flannel sheets on the bed despite it being 80 and humid one night when we went to bed.
FlipYrWhig
@Patricia Kayden: He represents hard-working white blue collar economic anxiety, you know, what everyone important agrees needs to be the raison d’etre of the Democratic Party!
Calouste
@Woodrowfan: I saw a bit of Frozen and wanted to stab my ears about a minute into the second song.
Schlemazel
@Woodrowfan:
There were some memorable songs in Aladdin and Mermaid (or maybe it is just that my kids were of an age I had to listen to each a million times). Certainly they were hum-able. There there was the dreadful Lion King. The real shame is that there are many great pop musicians in Africa that could have done distinctive, interesting and memorable stuff. Instead Disney chose to go with fucking Elton John & got what they, but not the movie, deserved.
Oh, and let me add my praise to that door. Both the color and the design are really nice.
Dog Dawg Damn
Am I the only one that found it odd that Trump was completely silent about the NYE attack in Turkey? (Am I right about this?)
Much different response from the “slaughtering Christians” memo they put out after the German attack.
Telling.
schrodingers_cat
@Dog Dawg Damn: Doesn’t want to mess with HMV.
ruemara
Steve is awesomely grumpy and I love the door style. Not big on that color, although I did go with a Feng Shui red at the last house.
SiubhanDuinne
@Dog Dawg Damn:
You know, I hadn’t noticed, but that is probably because I’m not going out of my way to follow Trump’s every last tweet — in fact, I’m going out of my way to not follow Trump’s every last tweet.
But you’re right, if he refrained from making a statement about the attack in Turkey on New Year’s Eve, that is indeed a tell.
paradox
Very nice front door, but a project to put off later is the inset painting of your alternate color, it would be smashing.
Schlemazel
@Dog Dawg Damn:
Please do not tell me you are surprised? Given the pissing and moaning that went on from the Trumpeteers when Obama expressed concern about the deaths of non-Xian, non-white people this silence is expected.
Brachiator
@Dog Dawg Damn:
Not quite right:
Story and video here.
ET
I am jealous of the front door.
And thanks for a most excellent picture of Steve.
Dog Dawg Damn
@Schlemazel: Am I wrong to think there’s not an insignificant chance of U.S. backed genocide against Muslims?
Mike E
@trollhattan: All Hail HypnoCat!
Roger Moore
@SenyorDave:
IOW, they think Russian intelligence has something juicy, and they want to cover their tracks a tiny bit better than they have been doing.
FlipYrWhig
@Brachiator: He ran on immigrants, refugees, and terrorists all being the same thing. I think that’s how he won. Pundits have been saying it was “economic anxiety” and manufacturing jobs and so forth, but I think they’re wrong. It was “brown people are coming to get you.”
Shana
@Iowa Old Lady: Oh man, that sounds lousy, and I think I just had a sympathetic hot flash just thinking about it.
Calouste
@Schlemazel: It’s telling how much “white” and “Christian” conflate in the minds of the right-wing, as Berlin is 60% non-religious. Yeah, it was a Christmas market, but that doesn’t say much in Europe.
zhena gogolia
@stinger:
I’ve been thinking somewhat the same thing all day, since I saw that thread this morning. Light shines in the darkness.
Mnemosyne
@schrodingers_cat:
It looks purple to me, too, but I’m kind of obsessed with purple.
Some people might call it indigo, which is the darkest shade of blue-violet.
Brachiator
Ah, California! This might be a good weekend for a haircut.
A new California law effective New Year’s Day lets beauty salons and barbershops serve free beer and wine without a license, as long as the drinker is of age and getting a beauty service.
But they can only serve 6 oz of wine or 12 ounces of beer. Guess you’ll have to savor that drink.
zhena gogolia
@Calouste:
I read this thing in an old New Yorker today that really depressed me. White nationalist prison inmates love to read Shakespeare, because they tout him as proof of the superiority of Europeans.
Dog Dawg Damn
News out: Trump is gutting the CIA
Mnemosyne
@Woodrowfan:
I saw a review of Frozen at the late-lamented website The Dissolve that complained that none of the songs were memorable.
I’ll just say that most people I know disagree with you about Moana‘s songs, but I hang with a mixed crowd of Disney and Hamilton freaks.
zhena gogolia
@Brachiator:
The Sicilian-American guy where my husband gets his hair cut always has a full array of alcoholic beverages set out during the holiday season. I don’t think anyone gives him a hard time, but I doubt it’s legal! I couldn’t believe it the first time I saw it, but it’s kind of typical of our strange little town. Sometimes there are unfortunate accidents among his more geriatric clientele.
Schlemazel
@Dog Dawg Damn:
You mean like we have been carrying out since 2003 in the Middle East? Yeah, I think we may pick up the pace now
bystander
LaLaLand left me bored and irritated. Navel gazing set to bland borrowings from Michel Legrand. Mediocre singing and dancing that made me look away from the screen. Sorry, but watch Young Girls of Rochefort or Umbrellas of Cherbourg to see how it is actually done.
schrodingers_cat
@Mnemosyne: Indigo is between violet and blue in the spectrum of visible light, VIBGYOR.
Schlemazel
@Calouste:
In the hierarchy of the right White Christian is #1, then Christian graded by paper bag standard.
Dog Dawg Damn
@Schlemazel: When you call everything genocide, then nothing is genocide.
No, Obama admin has not been carrying out genocide in the Middle East.
rikyrah
The door is beautiful ??
Steve is still scary.
Casa Cole is taking shape quite nicely.
Mnemosyne
@SiubhanDuinne:
I do think you’ll like Moana, so thank you for indulging me. ? I think you would like Frozen, too, since it’s definitely not a standard “princess” movie.
SiubhanDuinne
@Mnemosyne:
To me, it’s not blue enough for indigo, at least not on my iPad monitor. I would call it a dark purple brown. Not unlike dried blood, although I can’t think that would be an appealing Benjamin Moore name.
Mnemosyne
@schrodingers_cat:
I was thinking of where they put it in the paint store, but I’m glad to have scientific backing for my opinion as well. ?
Brachiator
@FlipYrWhig:
I don’t think so, and this crap is tiresome. I find Trump odious, but in California, especially in Southern California he touched a nerve of people who were simply tired of illegal aliens flouting the law, and the Democratic Party’s flirtation with open borders.
Now, Trump voters are big ass hypocrites, but they saw illegal immigrants as coming over, getting jobs, getting social services, getting welfare, which citizens and legal residents had to pay for, and which was lowering the quality of life for citizens. There were even some Latinos who waiting years to get legal status, who were fed up with illegal aliens finding sanctuary in various California cities.
You can call that economic anxiety if you like. Again, a lot of this is wrongheaded, but the Democrats had a tough time separating the lies from the truth.
As for terrorism, simple minded American exceptionalism holds that no one and no country can ever attack America, no matter what we do in the world. So Trump exploits this in his bombast on getting tough with ISIS. Again, this is doublespeak, but it worked. And even though Benghazi accusations leveled at Clinton were total bullshit, the fact that she didn’t pull out a 2nd Amendment blessed firearm and personally hunt down the attackers was proof that she was weak on terror and a tool of the Muslim president Obama.
The people who voted for Trump want absolute defense against terror and a president who will promise vengeance. It is simple minded, primitive, stupid, but it is what some people want.
Mnemosyne
@SiubhanDuinne:
It’s very blue on my phone, though there’s a splash of red light (sunset?) across the middle.
John has been pretty good about telling us paint colors when people ask, so we’ll see what he says.
Schlemazel
@Dog Dawg Damn:
the policies of the US government over the last 16 years have specifically caused large numbers of deaths in the Middle East. That the last 8 years have not been as bad as the previous 8 is damning by faint praise.
Mnemosyne
@Brachiator:
Los Angeles County went 70 percent for Clinton. I’m not sure where you keep seeing this huge surge of anti-immigrant sentiment in So Cal, but it’s not at the ballot box.
HinTN
Ears flared for landing.
HinTN
@trollhattan: VERY nice door!
HinTN
@seaboogie:
THIS
Mnemosyne
And all of the discussions of musicals is reminding me of a line from the musical episode of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”:
HinTN
@SiubhanDuinne: He has tells everywhere.
Brachiator
@Mnemosyne:
Being against illegal immigration is not the same thing as being anti immigration. And voting for Clinton does not mean that people were behind everything she promoted.
And California went 61.5 percent for Clinton. So even if you want to assume that only the 31.5 percent that voted for Trump were spurred by anti-immigration sentiment, it was fueled by the idea (which I noted was false) that illegal immigrants get more in benefits than they pay back in taxes. I also noted, but did not flesh out, that this is also hypocrisy because a lot of people happily hire illegal aliens at crappy wages and exploit their labor even as they whine about too many of them being allowed in. And I spent a chunk of time trying to explain to some rabid Trump supporters that Hillary Clinton never declared that she favored open borders.
SiubhanDuinne
@Mnemosyne:
I will probably watch Frozen sometime.
Brachiator
@zhena gogolia:
This sounds like fun, especially with a range of beverages to choose from. Probably have more satisfied customers, too.
SiubhanDuinne
@Mnemosyne:
I’m really kind of hoping it will be “Clotted Hemoglobin” or similar, but I wouldn’t make book on the chances :-)
SiubhanDuinne
@HinTN:
Indeed he does. I didn’t mean to suggest that this was the first or only one.
FlipYrWhig
@Brachiator: In Southern California “immigrants” means immigrants. In Minnesota and Wisconsin and Pennsylvania it means “brown people who speak gibberish will kill you in your sleep.” Look at that bit cited above: Building the wall keeps terrorists out. To him it’s all one problem.
Brachiator
Writers Guild Nominations. Yeah for “Deadpool!
I’m was hoping to read the book “Hidden Figures” before seeing the movie, but I may get a chance to see it this weekend, depending on how much I’ve gotten over a bad cold.
Steve in the ATL
@SiubhanDuinne:
Steve, clearly!
Woodrowfan
@Schlemazel: I forgot about Aladdin, but that was over 20 years ago. Loved the Robin Williams song…
SiubhanDuinne
@Steve in the ATL:
True! Also, the cat!
Woodrowfan
@Mnemosyne:
Yeah, I am sure I am in the minority. Really enjoyed the movie, just not the songs.
I did remember another Disney song I liked, “I Have a Dream” from Tangled. And Vladimir collects ceramic unicorns!
Manyakitty
My first thought for the door was TARDIS! Color and style, at least at first glance. Excellent.
When I first got my cats, their independently moving ears freaked me out.
Woodrowfan
Moana: I am not a princess.
Maui: If you wear a dress and have an animal sidekick, you’re a princess.
Steve in the ATL
@Woodrowfan:
Dude, that’s not something to admit in trump’s America!
Steve in the ATL
@SiubhanDuinne:
A couple of the walls in my basement are that color, but my lawyers told me not to talk about it (thanks, LAO and Bella Q!)
zhena gogolia
@Brachiator:
Oh, yes. It’s very sweet.
J R in WV
@Patricia Kayden:
Manchin IS a Republican. Always has been. His family tipped their toes into politics when his uncle, A James Manchin, was elected Secretary of State for several terms, and then ran for and won the Treasurer’s office. SoS is responsible for elections and registering businesses, easy work.
The State Treasurer was responsible for the State’s money, including a giant (for WV) pension fund, for example. He hired people to advise on investing that money, and lost close to a billion dollars. People went to jail over it, but not A. James. He was a beloved eccentric, and so it wasn’t his fault.
Joe ran on the beloved eccentric’s reputation, even though he is neither eccentric nor beloved. Worst governor since (pled guilty to felonies) Arch A Moore, father of Sen. Shelly Moore Capito, Senator for Wells Fargo Bank, where her husband is (was? I dunno) VP for WV Operations for the crookedest big bank left in the USA. He got that job days after Shelly Moore Capito voted for a bill the big banks needed to allow them to steal more openly, which she voted for. No quid pro quo there, no sir.
SFBayAreaGal
Steve and that beautiful door. What more could a gal ask for. Heart be still.
Mnemosyne
@Woodrowfan:
If that’s your taste (which is good, BTW), I’m surprised you didn’t like “You’re Welcome.” Maybe the rapping in the middle threw you off?
Roger Moore
@Brachiator:
What a load of crap. If Trump did such a great job in connecting with people in Southern California, how did he manage to lose Orange Fucking County by more than 100,000 votes? Maybe he was successful in connecting with people who are really upset about illegal immigration, but those people were already committed Republicans. The anti-immigrant sentiment- and you can be sure that people in immigrant communities saw it as anti-immigrant rather than anti-illegal immigrant- turned off a lot more people in Southern California than it energized.
Kurzleg
Damn, JC, Steve’s eyes are beautiful!
FlipYrWhig
@Roger Moore: I thought what Brach meant was that, place by place, there is a level of _real_ concern about immigrants and immigration per se, and it’s not all an encompassing fear of The Other. Which I’m sure is true, but I still contend that a blurring of Mexicans, refugees, and terrorists is both how Trump himself sees the modern world and what vast numbers of his supporters dread.
Woodrowfan
@Mnemosyne:
No, I don’t mind rap. I’ve liked what I have heard from Hamilton. “You’re Welcome” was the only song I kind of got into, a little. They just didn’t do much for me. Liked the rest of the movie, probably more than any Disney movie since “Emperor’s New Groove.”
Dog Dawg Damn
@Dog Dawg Damn: Your false equivalence is noted.
Dog Dawg Damn
@Roger Moore: Extremely unpopular in California. Biggest loss for a Republican since 1930’s or so.
danielx
The front door looks very nice, and Steve still looks pissed after the Shitmas episode.
Mnemosyne
@FlipYrWhig:
It’s kind of like the “bankster” discussion we were already having — you can’t lump the Tea Party whiners in with the anti-corporate crowd because they actually have two completely different reasons for complaining about “Wall Street.”
We do need immigration reform, because a lot of people who are trying to do things legally are getting wound up in ridiculous and unnecessary red tape, but the people who want immigration reform to make the process more fair aren’t the same as the ones who are upset about “immigrants.”
Mnemosyne
@Woodrowfan:
Meh, not everyone has the same taste. “We Know The Way” gives me chills and makes me cry. YMMV.
Dog Dawg Damn
We had the hardwood guy come over today. He had some really nice reclaimed wood that is handscraped on sight. So beautiful. Pricey, but only 500sf so might work.
seaboogie
@HinTN: And the caption would be “I got loved.”
Woodrowfan
@Mnemosyne: I loved the grandmother. And Heihei
SiubhanDuinne
@Roger Moore:
(Not that many opportunities to use “eponymous” in a sentence. I take my jollies where I can find them.)
dance around in your bones
Now THIS thread is what I thought the me, you and Steve post was going to be about! Much preferable……I have PreternaturalTraumpaShitDysfunction and the thing ? isn’t even sworn in yet. Long stretch ahead of maintaining ?Comfortably Numb? and I don’t even drink anymore. I definitely picked the wrong year to quit smoking opium.
SuzieC
Steve is so beautiful. I love it when cats express themselves with their ears. My cats point their ears backwards when startled or annoyed. It is really cute.
opiejeanne
I love your front door! I love love ❤️ the color!
opiejeanne
@schrodingers_cat: I was going to say it’s ultramarine, color I have in my paint box.
opiejeanne
@Mnemosyne: I liked Frozen. I haven’t been to see Moana yet, but soon. No grandchildren so I find it amusing hearing little kids sing the music from Frozen.
Scuffletuffle
@Brachiator: This is awesome…I just love Deadpool. Sooo funny!
Aleta
It’s nice you already put a sweet lil curtain on it.