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This Majestic Motherfucker

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I decided I had spent enough time staring at a computer screen and that it was time for a nap, turned around, and saw this handsome bastard lounging on my clothes on the chair I had casually thrown them on:

Sometimes when the light comes through the window in the afternoon his eyes are just so beautiful I could stare at them all day. Looks like I need to brush his beard again.

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  1. 1.

    jl

    Thanks for cute pet pic. Next time Cole needs to use the computer, I hope he sends us a pic of Steve lying on the keyboard, or maybe knocking the mouse off the desk. That would be fun too.

  2. 2.

    satby

    He’s a gorgeous cat!

    Waiting for my friends at the Irish pub down the street where we’re having dinner before going to Mayor Pete’s talk at the library. I really want an autographed book but they’re $29 and I am overdrawn until midnight tonight.?

  4. 4.

    Mary G

    He is magnificent, and your photo taking has improved immensely since you got the new house. I assume the light is better,

  5. 5.

    trollhattan

    Bigass cat is big!

    More TwittBook outrage!

    Facebook says it temporarily blocked Dan Scavino because he was behaving like a bot. Seems reasonable.

    Trump White House social media director Dan Scavino got a personal apology from Facebook, after some features on his account were blocked for a few hours on Monday. The social media firm says its automated systems identified his activity as likely being that of a bot.

    On Monday, Scavino posted on Facebook that his ability to reply to comments on the platform had been blocked, which was, of course, an outrage and injustice like none anyone has ever known in the history of mankind, truly.

    “AMAZING. WHY ARE YOU STOPPING ME from replying to comments followers have left me – on my own Facebook Page!!?? People have the right to know. Why are you silencing me???,” Scavino wrote, with righteous outrage.

  8. 8.

    Ohio Mom

    @satby: Maybe you can print out a picture of the book’s cover or a headshot of Pete, and have him sign that? He will probably be very understanding — and it can’t hurt to remind a candidate how close to the edge too many of their constituents live. Really, I’m just jealous you will have a chance to interact with him.

  11. 11.

    patrick II

    Netflix is featuring a Netflix produced series of sci-fi animated shorts called “Love Death + Robots”. Most are just too bloody for this old guy, but episodes 2 (three robots) and 16 (ice age) are worth watching. Three Robots is particularly why I am mentioning it on this thread — it features a cat and an interesting ending.

  14. 14.

    different-church-lady

    …lounging on my clothes on the chair I had casually thrown them on…

    Fine, I’ll be the one to do it: this means you’re blogging naked, doesn’t it?

  18. 18.

    HalfAssedHomesteader

    “I assure you, however regal you think I am, you are still falling about 60% short of how regal I actually am.”

  19. 19.

    VeniceRiley

    @patrick II: I binged it. Lots of T&A and violence, but yes, some of it was noteworthy.

    Cat: This laundry is my bed. Your bed is my bed. See that windowsill? It’s my bed. That couch = my bed …

  21. 21.

    JPL

    Well I was playing with my grandson today who is almost 6 weeks old today. I have to admit that I’m enjoying my new role. Yes you can interact with a 6 week old.

  24. 24.

    R-Jud

    @JPL: Nobody fucking knows! ? It’s like cricket, but with diabetes patients’ lives potentially at risk. We’ll probably know more once the E.U. meets later this week.

  26. 26.

    zhena gogolia

    @R-Jud:

    Haha — “It’s like cricket” — exactly!!!! This is why my eyes slide right over all Brexit articles.

    This has caused problems with Dorothy Sayers novels and episodes of Inspector Morse.

  27. 27.

    Dan B

    Was at the vest with our 19 year old furry beast, called Furr Beast – Tuxedo with big white wabbit foots, huge white widebody tusks, and a milk spot. The vets swooned but they announced they had a 30 pound Maine Coon there, a sweetie, fortunately.
    30 pounds! Yowza!

  28. 28.

    Ohio Mom

    Just had a bit of fun giving all tne reasons why I was unsubscribing from Wilmer’s mailing list. Doubt that an actual person reads it but cathartic nonetheless.

  29. 29.

    trollhattan

    Relax, your 401(k) is fine, fine!

    The Economic Report of the President, just released today, includes some interesting intern names over there at Donald Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers.

    Interns like Steve Rogers, Bruce Wayne, Peter Parker, Aunt May, and John Cleese.

    Also Jabba The Hutt.

  30. 30.

    Mike in Oly

    He is so beautiful! I miss having a long haired kitty. The current two are shorthairs.

  31. 31.

    HeleninEire

    Didn’t he just get a haircut? Asking cuz he looks like he needs a haircut. Or am I thinking of one of the other non-humans in the Cole household?

  34. 34.

    bluefoot

    @patrick II: I just started watching this last night – I’m a few episodes in. As VeniceRiley says above, lots of violence and T&A, for sure. Also pretty obvious (so far) that most of the stories are from male authors…in a few instances the women’s characters *really* didn’t ring true, even within the story. If Netflix does another series/season, I hope there are more stories from women.

    Even so, I’m enjoying it so far. it reminds me of Heavy Metal magazine circa 1982.

  35. 35.

    Pogonip

    https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/surprise-medical-bills-lead-liens-homes-crippling-debt-n984371

    As long as you’re writing your Rep, please consider bringing up THIS problem too. And also consider using it for education, although it may not take. I spent years warning people about this in Ohio and none of them would believe it until it happened to them. They’d listen, their eyes would widen, and then the door would slam shut, WHAM! “Oh, They can’t do that.” Oh, yes, They can, and They will, and They will enjoy doing it.

  36. 36.

    Miss Bianca

    @rikyrah: I have a couple acquaintances who are Bernie-bots who were defending Sirota as a “principled journalist” to me after those Guardian articles started coming out. If I cared to pursue it now, I’d be tempted to ask them what kind of “principles” they were talking about.

  37. 37.

    SenyorDave

    The DNC should announce that in order to participate in any Democratic presidential debate you must release 10 years of taxes. No ifs, and, or buts. If Trump really ends up being the candidate the main basis of the campaign against him has to be has to be that he is a dishonest, amoral pig, and the Democrat running against him has to be the opposite. If someone wants to vote for a candidate who lies about releasing his taxes, why choose Bernie when you can go with the original.

  40. 40.

    patrick II

    @bluefoot:

    I was amused at how obviously it was a geek male dominated production, and it also reminded me of Heavy Metal. I don’t know that it runs to most people’s taste here, but I mentioned it because of the cat in episode 2 which I think would hit John and some other people here on the button. And I also thought the “ice age” was a good story — borrowed from a science fiction short story I read about thirty years ago.

  43. 43.

    Dan B

    @Dan B: We were at the VET with our furry beast. In case anyone was concerned that we were at the vest maker.

    On another creature note: @Devin Nunes Cow went from 1000 followers to 150,000 since the lawsuit was filed. It’s adding 1000 every 3 to 4 minutes. Comments are gold to guffaw!

  44. 44.

    Avalune

    Three Robots was my favorite episode too of Love Death Robots too. I like Zima Blue and thought Alternate Histories was funny. I liked the art on Fish Sticks. Leto liked Good Hunting and Shape Shifters.

    That cat (Steve) is over the top.

    I’m so tired. Send halp.

  45. 45.

    Catherine D.

    @Pogonip: My esteemed *cough, cough, puke, puke* member of Congress, Tom Reed, owns a piece of a medical debt collection company. Funny how he votes against soshalist things.

  46. 46.

    Avalune

    Ice Age was good too. I swear I feel like the yogurt one is an old story retold but I can’t find reference to it.

  47. 47.

    aliasofwestgate

    @patrick II: I got that vibe of Heavy Metal from it too. We haven’t seen a good anthology of scifi/fantasy shorts in animation for years. I think the last one i heard of was Robot Carnival, and that was all japanese anime if i remember correctly. Also Heavy Metal 2000, which is also a cult classic in its own right now. But my faves were Lucky 13, ShapeShifters, and Good Hunting in particular.

  51. 51.

    Steeplejack

    @zhena gogolia:

    Speaking of Inspector Morse, I did a double take Saturday night when I saw a very young John Thaw as a villain on The Avengers from 1964.

  54. 54.

    Jay

    “Spoiler Alert: WE ARE. It only took 70 years, but we are now so evil that mainstream German politicians are calling for the expulsion of our Ambassador Richard Grenell for behaving “like a high commissioner of an occupying power.” Before everything went to shit, American diplomats would practice actual diplomacy, quietly bolstering our relationship with the host country and pressing US priorities. Not so Grenell, who tweeted a threat to sanction German companies within hours of his appointment last May.”

    https://www.wonkette.com/the-germans-are-calling-us-nazis-is-america-great-again-now

  57. 57.

    Leto

    @Avalune: @Avalune: Loved the yogurt story because 1) it was funny and 2) the voice over was done by the same actor who voiced “The Brain” from Pinky and the Brain animated series back in the early ‘90s. I liked most of the shorts though I do agree that there was an abundance of T&A. The short about the spaceman who came out of the hyper jump on the edge of the universe was good, though I can’t remeber the name of it atm.

  58. 58.

    satby

    @mrmoshpotato: @Ohio Mom: well we’re here and the room is already at capacity, so we’re in an overflow room with a live stream waiting for the Mayor to speak. And this is the second over flow room. So doubt I will get pictures this time.☹️

  62. 62.

    bluefoot

    @patrick II: I was amused at how cats featured in more than one of the shorts. Perhaps it says something about SF geeks? So far “Three Robots” is my fave, though I’m only 6 or 7 episodes in. I’m glad I’m not the only one whose misspent youth included Heavy Metal!

  64. 64.

    patrick II

    @aliasofwestgate:

    I used to see the graphics anthologies when they first came out and played at the local art theater. I remember when the little desk lamp jumping around was a big deal. The first human was a big guy playing the piano, the graphics so rough the then fingers were just tubes — not even with connecting knuckles. They were very proud of their first walking human, which was a crudely rendered Marilyn Monroe in a red dress walking as seen from behind. She had a nice hip roll. The graphics get better, but some things about the geeks doing them seems to remain the same.

  65. 65.

    Jay

    “Immigrant rights advocates were horrified Tuesday by a new report which confirmed that the Trump administration is sending some immigrant children to clandestine facilities that are not known to their families and lawyers and are not equipped to provide care to vulnerable minors.

    An investigation by Reveal on Monday showed that at least 16 young immigrants—as young as nine years old and in need of mental or behavioral health treatment—have been sent by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) to “off-the-books” facilities outside the network of federally-funded detention centers. The administration is housing immigrant children with an even greater degree of secrecy than was previously known, in violation of U.S. law.”

    https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/03/19/black-sites-kids-rights-advocates-outraged-over-child-immigrants-being-held-books

  68. 68.

    VeniceRiley

    @Leto: You know a man wrote it because you can end up stranded at the end of the universe, and you’ll still get some great pussy.

  70. 70.

    Miss Bianca

    @VeniceRiley: Now, wait just a minute! There’s more to it than that! There’s – oh, wait. You *weren’t* talking about “Farscape”!

  71. 71.

    Gin & Tonic

    Found out that my daughter is being recruited pretty hard by a sporting goods company in Oregon. They’re flying her out (from NYC) for an interview next week. I’m not sure she’s prepared to leave NY, but she’s keeping her options open. If they offer and she accepts, and my son moves on that fellowship, then by the fall we will have kids across something like 10 time zones. Such is modern life, I guess.

  73. 73.

    J R in WV

    Lot of good comments, great variety.

    Some links of interest, some wildly crazed. If you can imagine it, someone has created a web site about it. If you can’t imagine it, that’s on here somewhere also, too.

  74. 74.

    Gin & Tonic

    @JPL: What’s this “let her go” concept? Like I have some say in the matter?

    I’ve never been to Portland. I hear it’s nice, especially for fairly high-income white people.

  76. 76.

    Avalune

    @Gin & Tonic: Our son is in Hawaii! That’s half of why I’m so tired today. He was pinging me after midnight to tell me his team made it to the WOW Mythic Dungeon Internationals, so we chatted about that for a while. :D I do miss him and it’s a pain to get to see him and the stupid o’clock in the morning conversations can be exhausting but that is how it goes in our mobile society I guess. Maybe later we’ll move closer again – when he wants free babysitting or something.

  78. 78.

    Leto

    @Avalune: That’s it! I knew my “memory” would return ❤️

    @JPL: Thank you! I do try to get her to comment more because I feel like she has really great insights on various topics but I do respect her wishes on being a professional lurker :)

    @VeniceRiley: I probably should’ve picked up on that clue.

  80. 80.

    Steeplejack

    @patrick II:

    The graphics get better, but some things about the geeks doing them seem to remain the same.

    It’s the hardware, man!

    “New Video Game Technology Finally Allows Rendering of Smaller Breasts”:

    LAS VEGAS — The buzz at this month’s Consumer Electronics Show was all about a new breakthrough in the field of high-resolution 3-D graphics that has made it possible to render average-sized breasts on female video game characters. “For too long, game designers have been creatively stymied by a mammary-imaging technology only capable of rendering one type of breast—a heaving pair of massive, gravity-defying, torpedo-shaped bosoms,” said Warren Hood, developer of the new Vex9 graphics card, which has finally enabled video game wire-frame artists to digitally sculpt breasts as small as B-cups. “At long last, we can give die-hard gamers the level of realism they’ve been looking for.”

  81. 81.

    eemom

    @rikyrah:

    In other news today, The Intercept, love child of Greenwald and his billionaire sugar daddy whatzisfuck, is the latest digital medium to succumb to the digital media downsizing death spiral. Dunno if it’s a coincidence about the Sanders tool, but it sure is some good #karmasabitch.

  82. 82.

    bluefoot

    @patrick II: Hm, it looks like my last comment got et. I was amused at how cats figure in more than one of the shorts. I’m not sure what that might say about SF geeks. :) ISo far I like “Three Robots” the best. I’m glad I’m not the only one whose misspent youth involved Heavy Metal.

  84. 84.

    Leto

    @Gin & Tonic: Yeah, that’s pretty much modern life. Like Avalune said, I wish our kid was closer but he’s excelling at his job and he’s happy. That’s all I, or we, can ask for, right? Best of luck to her!

    Also I can’t wait to be a grandparent: “why yes, I did give him/her/them a 5lb bag of sugar, bought them three of the noisiest toys available, and super glued their battery compartments shut. Why do you ask?” I just want him to have the same full, rich parenting experience we had :)

  86. 86.

    ThresherK

    @patrick II:

    I used to see the graphics anthologies when they first came out and played at the local art theater. I remember when the little desk lamp jumping around was a big deal.

    Hey, Luxo Jr! Did you have Spike and Mike’s collections in your collegey theater too?

  88. 88.

    patrick II

    @ThresherK:
    Yes. I want to Every graphics anthology I could find when I was younger.I was working in computers but lived in the IBM and DOS world at work. When the amigas came out I was Amazed.

  89. 89.

    Mary G

    @bluefoot: @patrick II: @Leto (also Avalune and aliasofwestgate, but if I link everybody I’ll end up in moderation.): Three of those Love, Death, and Robots stories were written by John Scalzi, who talks about them on his blog, Whatever. here.

    Friend (jokingly): Basically, everything you’ve ever written has been optioned for television? Except for the yogurt thing.

    Me: Actually.

    Friend: Asshole.

    Me: No, seriously.

    Friend: The yogurt thing has been optioned?

    Me: (sends image of the opening graph of the Yogurt option)

    Friend: Oh my fucking god.

    Which of course I found entirely delightful.

    He and his family currently have four cats, so he knows.

    ETA: for bluefoot, he also talks about the issue you brought up:

    There have been substantive criticisms as well, mostly about the series skewing heavily toward the male gaze, which I think is a fair assessment. It’s something for everyone involved in a series to consider for a season two, if there is a season two, which I hope there is, whether I’m involved or not (although to be clear I would be thrilled to be involved again.

  90. 90.

    Gemina13

    Steve is one of the most majestic cats I’ve seen, and I include my late, lamented Lucky in that number. He’s the kind of cat that makes you grateful for his affection, just because you can sense he wouldn’t put up with any human he didn’t love.

  92. 92.

    Renie

    So @DevinCow went from 1200 followers to 184,000 followers today. The new @DevinNunes names are hysterical. He has created a monster on twitter.

  93. 93.

    trollhattan

    @Gin & Tonic:
    LOVE Portland. We generally looked down our noses at it from Seattle back in the day but they grew smart while Seattle, not so much. Fun, tons to do in town, tons to go see (mountains, oceans), public transportation that works better than any left coast city I can name, and a very pretty setting (Seattle and Vancouver B.C. still win but what are you gonna do?)

    Nike is huge as a huge thing; Columbia is smaller and quirkier and there are others, but I’ll guess it’s Beaverton she’s talking to.

  95. 95.

    Ohio Mom

    @trollhattan: Although I only saw bits and pieces of Warren’s town hall, everything I saw and heard resonated. She’s a keeper. If she doesn’t make it all the way, I hope she can be Treasury Secretary. We are going to need very strong appointees to get things repaired.

    On a related note, I saw an article on Beto’s platform from 2012, and a big part of it was addressing the debt by doing austerity things like raising the Social Security retirement age and means testing the program. He’s disavowed these stands but six years wasn’t that long ago. You can bet Warren had pretty much the same views six years ago as she has now.

    Anyway, what do all of you suppose is the statue of limitations on past dumb ideas and statements for political candidates? I’m all for recognizing evolution and growth. If it’s sincere.

  96. 96.

    trollhattan

    @Ohio Mom:

    Anyway, what do all of you suppose is the statue of limitations on past dumb ideas and statements for political candidates? I’m all for recognizing evolution and growth. If it’s sincere.

    Right there with you. Hillary can laugh at being a Goldwater girl because I just don’t mind what her teen self did. What somebody says as a first-term city council member should not torpedo their senate run.

    Although, it can occasionally be a reveal such as Paulie dead-eyes scheming on how to kill Medicaid (or whatever) at keggers. Some people Do Not Grow.

  97. 97.

    Leto

    @Mary G:

    (Also, let me geek out for a moment about the voice acting on my episodes! Rebecca Reidy and Dieter Jansen are fabulous in “Alternate Histories” and Josh Brenner and Gary Anthony Williams make their two of the “Three Robots” come alive — plus it tickles me to have Chris Parnell cameo in that episode. And as a lover of both The Brain from Pinky and the Brain, and of Father from Kids Next Door, the fact that Maurice LaMarche narrates “When the Yogurt Took Over” fills my brain with unfathomable squee.)

    I immediately recognized Parnell (Archer/ Rick and Morty fan), but my squee factor was off the chart when I heard LaMarche! I see that he addressed the “male gaze” part but I hope they address that in season 2.

  99. 99.

    Avalune

    @Mary G: The convo with his bud about the yogurt is A+ @JPL: Thanks! Usually Cole has already expressed my exhaustion with politics and people already so I only come out for inane things and animals ?

  101. 101.

    Formerly disgruntled in Oregon

    @Ohio Mom:

    He’s disavowed these stands but six years wasn’t that long ago. You can bet Warren had pretty much the same views six years ago as she has now.

    Wasn’t Warren a Reagan-supporting Republican a while back?

    That said, consistently of policy views is overrated in politicians. Their policy views need to be malleable, so they can compromise and govern, and so we can push them in the right direction.

  103. 103.

    A Ghost To Most

    @Brickley Paiste: Hey, fuckface. Care to retract that lie you told about me?

    I was on a competitive rifle team for ten years. I’ve forgotten more about guns than you will ever know, asshole.

  106. 106.

    Gemina13

    @eemom: Really? I have to check that out. I’ve got friends who’d love to piss on Greenwald’s intellectual ashes.

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