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You are here: Home / John Cole Presents "This Fucking Old House" / Here’s a Picture of Steve with a Banana Peel On Him

Here’s a Picture of Steve with a Banana Peel On Him

by John Cole|  July 26, 20218:03 pm| 57 Comments

This post is in: John Cole Presents "This Fucking Old House"

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Here's a Picture of Steve with a Banana Peel On Him

He is now awake and aware of the presence of the peel, but does not care.

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  1. 1.

    dr. bloor

    July 26, 2021 at 8:05 pm

    but does not care

    Your headstone is going to read, “But I thought he didn’t care.”

  2. 2.

    Another Scott

    July 26, 2021 at 8:06 pm

    Our doggie Ellie goes crazy when she finds an old banana peel on a walk.

    She eats everything. :-/

    (Nice picture.)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  3. 3.

    JPL

    July 26, 2021 at 8:07 pm

    Why?

  4. 4.

    Josie

    July 26, 2021 at 8:10 pm

    @Another Scott: ​
     Is she a corgi? Or maybe a golden?

  5. 5.

    Anonymous At Work

    July 26, 2021 at 8:10 pm

    “Steven got banana peel but I don’t care” is the 45th verse to Jimmy Crack Corn.

  6. 6.

    mrmoshpotato

    July 26, 2021 at 8:14 pm

    Now try putting him in a banana costume.

  7. 7.

    Percysowner

    July 26, 2021 at 8:17 pm

    @Another Scott: Beagle or another hound or Lab? Oh, so many breeds eat anything that is even vaguely food adjacent. I’m a Beagle owner, I know.​
    ​
    ​

  8. 8.

    Ohio Mom

    July 26, 2021 at 8:19 pm

    Interesting composition the way the curl of the banana peel echos the curves of Steve and the pet bed.

    Then there’s the contrast with the triangular spot of sun and I’m guessing, the vertical line created by the metal chair base. Both of these harder shapes pull our eyes out of the concentric circles and arcs of pet bed, cat and banana, and keep the composition from being static.

    ETA: Steve’s tail also serves to move our eyes out of the circle, all together making it three points connecting the circle of the bed to the outer rectangular of the image’s edge.

  9. 9.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    July 26, 2021 at 8:19 pm

    @Another Scott: Yup, my old lab would’ve woken up, eaten it, and gone back to sleep.

    He might have gotten up to sniff around to see if there were more

  10. 10.

    DRickard

    July 26, 2021 at 8:20 pm

    Not bad, but it’s no bacon cat.

  11. 11.

    scav

    July 26, 2021 at 8:21 pm

    Nah, I can see the plotting.

    Those internal wheels are turning and, however slow, will grind small.  And far too close to the house.

  12. 12.

    Roger Moore

    July 26, 2021 at 8:24 pm

    I think that’s his “plotting revenge” look, not his “doesn’t care” look.

  13. 13.

    Geeno

    July 26, 2021 at 8:25 pm

    @Percysowner: My Beagle when I was growing up would anything EXCEPT peas. The vet had my mother mix peas in his food (can’t remember the ailment), and she would look at his bowl after he ate and see a nice little pile of peas.

    Our Lab “Sam” would eat anything you gave her, but she didn’t like things with vinegar – salads, pickles, etc.  She’d eat them, but she would bark at them first and growl the whole time eating them.

  14. 14.

    Steeplejack

    July 26, 2021 at 8:26 pm

    @dr. bloor:

    Narrator: “He did, in fact, care.”

  15. 15.

    HumboldtBlue

    July 26, 2021 at 8:27 pm

    Here’s a clip of a kitten watching Tom and Jerry.

  16. 16.

    CaseyL

    July 26, 2021 at 8:28 pm

    @DRickard:  My very thought!

  17. 17.

    geg6

    July 26, 2021 at 8:31 pm

    @Geeno:

    Our Koda (Lab, of course) LOOOOOOOOVES salad dressing, pickles, olives…just about everything but bananas.  She won’t even consider a banana.  No idea why when she’s basically a canine garbage disposal.

  18. 18.

    NotMax

    July 26, 2021 at 8:33 pm

    Someone needs a better hobby.

    ;)

  19. 19.

    danielx

    July 26, 2021 at 8:33 pm

    West Virginia man found in bed with throat ripped out, resident feline denies any knowledge.

  20. 20.

    Mike in Oly

    July 26, 2021 at 8:34 pm

    I need a Steve.

  21. 21.

    bbleh

    July 26, 2021 at 8:38 pm

    @Ohio Mom: yes, but the curvature of the bed, the angle of the sun, the placement and curvature of the banana, and most importantly, Steve’s left rear leg, like a finger in a Renaissance painting raised heavenward, ALL point toward … what?!  What is there, what is so important, but that we cannot see? Here is the tension, the vitality of the composition, that in a truly modern way, leaves the completion to the observer.

    The NFT will fetch millions.

  22. 22.

    NotMax

    July 26, 2021 at 8:38 pm

    Hm. Notice it’s been peeled from the non-stem end. Could this betoken a whole Lilliput v. Brobdingnagesque fruit fight about which end to begin peeling?

    :)

  23. 23.

    raven

    July 26, 2021 at 8:48 pm

    We’re missin our pups. Lil Bit was deaf and blind for her last couple of years but if you peeled an apple she was right at you feet no matter where in the house she was sleeping.

  24. 24.

    rikyrah

    July 26, 2021 at 8:48 pm

    Steve is plotting, Cole.

    Be afraid ?

  25. 25.

    jnfr

    July 26, 2021 at 8:51 pm

    @Ohio Mom: ​

    @bbleh: ​ 

    This is the deep blog content we all come to John’s place for! I am thinking deeply now.

  26. 26.

    mrmoshpotato

    July 26, 2021 at 8:52 pm

    @scav: Steve inside.  The willow outside.

    John better start sleeping by the front door.

  27. 27.

    debbie

    July 26, 2021 at 8:54 pm

    @Ohio Mom:

    Is there docent in your past?

  28. 28.

    Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly, Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.)

    July 26, 2021 at 8:57 pm

    My day is now complete.

  29. 29.

    seefleur

    July 26, 2021 at 8:58 pm

    @Ohio Mom: Are you my high school art teacher? I would have paid more attention had there been cats in the artwork.

  30. 30.

    CaseyL

    July 26, 2021 at 9:01 pm

    @Roger Moore: I think it’s Steve’s “Oh, God, what now?” look.

  31. 31.

    marklar

    July 26, 2021 at 9:01 pm

    Great shot, John. Looking at this photo made me think I was back in the Andy Warhol Museum (North side of Pittsburgh)!

  32. 32.

    WaterGirl

    July 26, 2021 at 9:07 pm

    Steve does not look happy.  Why would you do that to him?  Steve is sad and would like the banana gone.

  33. 33.

    WaterGirl

    July 26, 2021 at 9:10 pm

    i just finished watching the daily press briefing.  I don’t know how Jen Psaki keeps her patience with them day after day after day.  She is a saint.

    I loved how she called out the Republicans for presenting themselves as “pro police” and are downplaying what happened on Jan 6 and *shitting on the police officers, nearly 150 of whom were injured that day.

    *Jen may or may not have used those exact words.

  34. 34.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    July 26, 2021 at 9:10 pm

    @Percysowner:  I have a (mostly) beagle. I am familiar with this.

    He gets prescription dry food from us because as a pup he had a strong reaction to a lot of different animal proteins.

    And then on walks he keeps his nose to the ground and eats EVERYTHING.

  35. 35.

    WaterGirl

    July 26, 2021 at 9:12 pm

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: Those two things are not unrelated! :-)

  36. 36.

    Steeplejack

    July 26, 2021 at 9:17 pm

    @raven:

    The nose knows!

  37. 37.

    NCSteve

    July 26, 2021 at 9:18 pm

    The look of long-suffering ennui is just *chef’s kiss.

  38. 38.

    Kristine

    July 26, 2021 at 9:22 pm

    @DRickard:

    @CaseyL:

    Mine, too!

  39. 39.

    mrmoshpotato

    July 26, 2021 at 9:27 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    I don’t know how Jen Psaki keeps her patience with them day after day after day.  She is a saint. 

    Yes.  100% agree.

  40. 40.

    dexwood

    July 26, 2021 at 9:34 pm

    Art, Cole, pure art.

  41. 41.

    Dan B

    July 26, 2021 at 9:40 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: I believe she is requiring a lock of hair from each reporter and late at night in her underground studio she is inserting pins and coolly putting out cigarettes on the dolls of a select few.

    It’s the same way with Steve.  Look calm and plot.

  42. 42.

    RaflW

    July 26, 2021 at 9:40 pm

    I dunno. That expression on Steve’s face isn’t quite “I don’t care”. It seems to have just a simmer of murderous rage in the corners of his eyes.

  43. 43.

    Another Scott

    July 26, 2021 at 10:01 pm

    @Josie: She’s a mutt.

    According to the DNA test:

    3/8 Aussie Shepherd

    1/8 Collie

    1/8 Rottweiler

    3/8 nothing dominant.

    We think she was an outside doggie that was used to finding food where she could get it.  :-)

    She loves paper too, (sigh), but she’s very respectful of our stuff in the house.  Fortunately!!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  44. 44.

    Oklahomo

    July 26, 2021 at 10:17 pm

    @dr. bloor: Cats are royalty, and they never forget  lèse-majesté.

  45. 45.

    Ohio Mom

    July 26, 2021 at 10:25 pm

    That’s an important question you raise, bbleh @21, about the possible meanings the photo’s composition could be pointing to; you also have sharper eyes than I do, and correctly identified the downward pointing limb as a leg (I mistook it as Steve’s tail).

    For those who asked, I was an art major, long ago. It was somewhat accidental. When I had to declare a major, a task I put off as long as possible, I had more art courses than anything else. Another sociology class or two and that would have been my major.

  46. 46.

    NotMax

    July 26, 2021 at 10:35 pm

    @Ohio Mom

    Sociology (noun): the science of taking a clear idea and making it opaque.

    :)

  47. 47.

    Plain Dave

    July 26, 2021 at 10:48 pm

    @RaflW: ​
     
    “I’m so annoyed but I can’t let him know he got to me again…”

  48. 48.

    wmd

    July 26, 2021 at 10:58 pm

    So the young woman that swims for the Seward Tsunami swim club just won a gold medal. My son has been her coach for the past 5 years.

  49. 49.

    Citizen Alan

    July 26, 2021 at 10:59 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: I demand that John dance around Steve and the banana peel while singing “It’s Peanut Butter Jelly Time!” at the top of his lungs.

  50. 50.

    Ms. Deranged in AZ

    July 26, 2021 at 11:04 pm

    That poor cat is thinking, “Good grief, I can’t wait until he gets a new hobby!”.

  51. 51.

    Dan B

    July 26, 2021 at 11:44 pm

    @wmd: Congratulations!  Which event?

  52. 52.

    wmd

    July 26, 2021 at 11:49 pm

    @Dan B: 100m breaststroke. Lydia Jacoby is the first Olympic swimmer from Alaska – 17 years old. She’ll be at U Texas after she finishes high school.

  53. 53.

    LeftCoastYankee

    July 27, 2021 at 12:22 am

    “That fat man could feed us for weeks, why won’t the dogs see this….”

  54. 54.

    Yutsano

    July 27, 2021 at 12:46 am

    U gonna die fat man…

  55. 55.

    JustRuss

    July 27, 2021 at 1:01 am

    What am I bid for this fine print of “Steve Plots His Revenge”, by the late John Cole?

  56. 56.

    Steeplejack

    July 27, 2021 at 3:11 am

    @wmd:

    Congratulations to her and to your son!

  57. 57.

    WaterGirl

    July 27, 2021 at 7:45 am

    @wmd: That’s a big Joe Biden deal!  Congratulations!

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