The 2022 Pets of Balloon Juice Calendars are ready to order!
Two beautiful, beloved pets. Covers this year are dedicated to John Cole. As beth said earlier today, none of us would be here without Cole.
Calendar A
Calendar B
All calendar proceeds go directly to the pet rescue.
You can click this link to order or you can order by clicking Link to Order 2022 Calendars in the sidebar.
If you have pets in the calendars and have not yet reviewed the calendars, please do so before placing your order – spreadsheets that tell you which calendar your guys are in and previews of each month are in the sidebar.
If you find a problem, corrections can still be made. But the calendar has to be changed BEFORE you place your order with Cafe Press. The calendars are printed on demand by Cafe Press, and there’s no way to stop an order once you place it.
If you find an issue:
- Notify us in this post
- Wait for us to let you know that it has been fixed and that the calendar page has been updated
- Review the calendar again to verify all is good
- Then place your order.
Calendars are $25 each. Cafe Press raised the base cost of calendars this year, and you guys swore a blood oath that raising the price by $2 would not affect your purchase, so we are counting on that. Well, it looked like they were raising their prices, but they didn’t. So we didn’t.
John Cole says: “Check the god-damn previews before you order.” (Or he would say that if I asked him to.)
WaterGirl
I love these photos of Lily and Steve.
Order early so there is plenty of time for Christmas delivery!
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl:
Steve is the original Magnificent Bastard.
And Lily is never not adorable.
jeffreyw
@WaterGirl: ordered!
zeecube
They look great. Well done.
Professor Bigfoot
Didn’t get a pet in.
Did order one.
Of each.
WaterGirl
@Professor Bigfoot: Yay!
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: Uh oh. I hope Tunch is not listening.
zhena gogolia
I’ve ordered five of A and one of B. (My goddaughter’s perro is in A, so I’m sending her multiple copies.)
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl:
Oh, well, Tunch was, is, and ever shall be nonpareil.
KBS
I ordered for family and a few friends! Do we know how much per calendar goes to the pet rescue, or does that depend on how many are ordered?
K488
Ordered!
realbtl
Done, thanks.
Tinare
Ordered. These are always so well done. Thanks for the hard work you put into them.
Mike E
I’m getting the A spread, lovely. Miss E’s pup has some fine real estate on July’s page!
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: Wow! Good-looking pup and we did sneak him in twice. sshhh (we almost never do that so don’t tell anyone)
WaterGirl
@KBS:
Cafe Press charges us 14.99 for printing.
So $10.01 from each calendar goes to the pet rescue.
That’s pretty darn good, I think!
WaterGirl
Thanks for all the ordering that’s going on!
SiubhanDuinne
Breaking : former Senator Bob Dole has died at age 98.
I never supported him, but he was orders of magnitude better than the current GOP crop.
ETA: One pair of images that will stay with me forever is from immediately after TFG’s inauguration. Bob and Liddy Dole were seated at the top of the bleachers, on the aisle. They tried to greet and congratulate TFG, who ignored them and swept past them. A minute later, the Obamas got to the top row, embraced the Doles, and stopped to talk with them for a minute. The contrast was exquisite.
RIP, Senator.
cain
Clearly Cole did not take these pics of his pets. They would be blurry otherwise. ?
WaterGirl
@cain: Someone had to say it!
Cole’s picture-taking abilities have vastly improved over time. Plus, iPhone cameras have become increasingly better.
Both of those things show in Cole’s recent photos. :-)
WaterGirl
This is a totally open thread. We have to post about the calendars so everyone see that they are available to order, but with an open thread we can talk about anything.
germy
UncleEbeneezer
Order placed! Thanks.
germy
Steeplejack
@germy:
“Tell me you’re senile without telling me you’re senile.”
mrmoshpotato
@SiubhanDuinne:
Even with her head buried into. the bed. ?
hueyplong
Preemptive assholedom from Eoin Higgins. Realizing that lefties probably won’t “dance on his grave,” he tries to keep the outrage flowing by predicting a mendacious attempt to be “nice” by insinuating that Dole shared positive characteristics with actual humans.
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato:
You spelled especially wrong.
SiubhanDuinne
@germy:
It’s possible to acknowledge Dole’s decent qualities and not fall into hagiography. He served his country and sacrificed the integrity of his body. He considered his political opponents just that — opponents — and not enemies. He voted for many causes I am profoundly opposed to, as well as some I support. He made some big mistakes in his life. So have we all.
I’m sending him an R.I.P. and condolences to his family. If I spew vitriol on the likes of Bob Dole and John McCain and Colin Powell, it dilutes what I’m saving up for Dick Cheney, Rupert Murdoch, and TFG.
SiubhanDuinne
@mrmoshpotato:
Yes! That is the cutest pose!
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl: I spelled it incorrectly. ?
mrmoshpotato
@SiubhanDuinne:
That’s an interesting way to look at it. (Not that I have anything against Dole.)
karen marie
@hueyplong: How is it “preemptive assholedom” to point out that Dole proclaimed himself in the Trump camp in 2020?
I find all this “Dole was so much better than the current crop” nonsense annoying. Dole was an active participant in the Republican shitshow. Whitewashing him now is the “assholedom.”
SiubhanDuinne
Not directing this at any commenters in particular, but there are more than I had previously imagined who are coming across as narrow-minded, mean-spirited, unforgiving scolds.
Out of here for a while. I prefer to hang out with people who look for and acknowledge the decency in most people.
eachother
Lovely Calendars. Ordered 2. A & B. One a gift to a Cat rescue friend. She takes the seniors. I Love that.
Candidly, the calendars are tender treats. I have begun calling Katie my Calendar Girl.
WaterGirl
@eachother: Tell her she’s internet famous!
Steeplejack
@SiubhanDuinne:
I feel compelled to respond to this. We judge people by their actions and where those actions take them. Just as we can acknowledge, say, that Robert Byrd was a former Klansman who redeemed himself with his actions later in life, it is not “narrow-minded, mean-spirited [and] unforgiving” to acknowledge that Bob Dole, whatever his golden past as an old-school, honorable Republican, ended up fully supporting Donald Trump (and the ruinous policies of the Republican Party). That he still did so in 2020, after the colossal mis- and malfeasance of the previous four years, at age 97, prompted my “senile” snark. The alternative interpretation is not better.
Dole was a loyal Trumpist. That stains his legacy.
eclare
@Steeplejack: Very well put.
Ruckus
@Steeplejack:
I agree.
Some things can not make up for other things. Supporting TFG before he was elected and after could be seen to be from senility, given Dole’s age, and while prior he may have been a reasonable conservative, senility usually shows who one has been behind any veneer, rather than a drastic change in direction.
Carol Van Natta
Ordered one of each! Looking forward to all the pet photos in the coming year.
Thanks to everyone who made this happen.
KBS
@WaterGirl: That’s awesome!