Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Humiliatingly small and eclipsed by the derision of millions.

You cannot shame the shameless.

Second rate reporter says what?

People are weird.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

One way or another, he’s a liar.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

How stupid are these people?

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

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You all would do this shit on the one weekend I have absolutely no time to participate. I just got done delivering all the stuff to the tailgate, shuttling people around, and now I am making some broccoli cheese soup for everyone to have something warm after the football game, which doesn’t start until 4:30 so people are going to be tired and cold and need something to warm them up. I’ll catch up with you all later.

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    I think that was the plan but you ruined the surprise by reading your blog for the first time in years

    ETA: Asshole.

  3. 3.

    different-church-lady

    If it makes you feel any better, I’ve been avoiding the shower thread because I don’t have the right words yet.

  9. 9.

    japa21

    Sometimes you just not which FPer it is just from the title of the post.  Cole doesn’t disappoint.

  13. 13.

    Raoul Paste

    I admire the way that Cole is always making things happen.  You’d never be saying to him “get a life“—- it’s in progress

  15. 15.

    CaseyL

    Are you going to the game?  It sounds like you’re not going to the game; like you’re the House Elf for everyone who is.

    Maybe you and Joelle are happy to have some alone time.  Use it well :)

  19. 19.

    RevRick

    John Cole: You’re a guy. This is a blog. Okay, I’m done.
    With apologies to Taylor Tomlinson’s “Picking Father’s Day cards as an adult routine.”

  28. 28.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @CaseyL:

    Maybe you and Joelle are happy to have some alone time.  Use it well :)

    It’s possible that Joelle is still dishing to Ma and Pa Cole.

  30. 30.

    karen marie

    I cannot stand the smell of cooked broccoli but I was curious about broccoli cheese soup and how it could take an inordinate amount of time (it doesn’t – it’s actually quite a fast soup to make).  Even though I will NEVER make broccoli cheese soup, I am completely besotted with the suggestion of using a kaiser roll as a “soup bowl.”

    MY LIFE IS CHANGED.

    I cannot wait until I make soup again.   Which reminds me … last winter I used Sally’s chicken pot pie recipe to make single-serving pot pies and had leftover filling that I then turned into soup by adding more half and half.  It’s really good.  I should do it again but with a kaiser roll on hand to use as a bowl!

  32. 32.

    gwangung

    @karen marie: I always thought that the use of a bread bowl for soup (the richer, the creamier the soup the better) was one of the most decadent things I ever saw as a regular, ongoing menu item for a cafe or restaurant.

  34. 34.

    CaseyL

    @karen marie: ​

    One thing I really like about this time of year is, it’s soup making time! Soups and stews: I like making them very much. As someone who only started to cook seriously in the last couple of years, they are a new and exciting universe to explore.

    I made another batch of chicken soup this past week – in the Instant Pot! An overnight process reduced to 2 hours! – and for once I used thighs instead of wings or breasts. The difference in the flavor of the broth is breaktaking.

    (I’ve never been a dark meat fan, which is why I had previously used white meat for my soup. Lesson learned!)

  35. 35.

    HinTN

    @karen marie:

    leftover filling that I then turned into soup by adding more half and half

    This full service blog has just opened a whole new vista for me. Thank you!!!

  36. 36.

    Tony Jay

    You’re not supposed to participate, Cole. We’re were talking about you, not to you.

    Jesus. Whose blog is this anyway?

  37. 37.

    dmckwski

    Seeing the title of this thread made my heart sink.   Expecting reports of more RFing shenanigans.   But no, just John Cole expressing gratitude in his own sweet way.

  38. 38.

    Danielx

    First batch of chicken sausage gumbo of the season a week back. Awesome as usual but…gluten free flour for roux tends to separate from oil. Maybe not the right way to describe it, but just not the same as using regular flour. Still all good and perfect fall and winter soup.

  39. 39.

    Raoul Paste

    We saw 2 yard signs on our dog walk tonight.  One was “Harris Walz Obviously”,  and the other was “Swift  2024”.  They were next to one another.  In Ohio

  41. 41.

    Raven

    When I taught at the NC State School of Sports Management at Oglebay Park near Wheeling we’d go to Bethany to shoot the hoop!

  42. 42.

    karen marie

    @HinTN: Oh, Sally’s recipe is teh absolute bomb, as the kids say.  The pies and soup were fantastic.  I used her pie crust recipe that uses half butter, half vegetable shortening.  It is a beautiful, flaky crust.  You should definitely make it, or just skip the pies and turn the filling into soup from the get-go.

    I haven’t bought a canned soup in decades, having discovered how incredibly easy – and relatively fast – it is to make a really good scratch soup.

  47. 47.

    a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio)

    @Danielx: I use rice flour rather than GF baking mix, as the stabilizers do weird stuff, and I use oil & butter together. It’s worked so far.

  48. 48.

    Nukular Biskits

    Late to the game. As usual.

    I’d like to see a “History of John Cole/Balloon-Juice” (in a nutshell) to go along with the shower post.

    There are a LOT of newer folks here.

  55. 55.

    eclare

    Watching UT UF, because I enjoy pain, I guess.  Just saw a great ad on abortion rights.

    The game is on ESPN, I guess the ad is national?

    But the ad did not tie restrictions to Republicans.  Grrr.

  59. 59.

    Timill

    @MagdaInBlack: If I were there, I’d go somewhere else:

    A 5% surcharge is added to each check to help fund the San Francisco Employee Benefits Ordinances.

    Its a business cost: put it on the prices and stop whining. Bloody RW owners.

  62. 62.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Sister Golden Bear: ​

    While there are many versions and varieties (some with bacon, some with tomatoes, clear or creamy) each region defends their recipe as the “correct” version and, of course, the best.

    Every other region which defends its recipe is, of course, sadly mistaken, as Rhode Island chowder is the Platonic ideal of clam chowder.

  66. 66.

    TBone

    HoJo fried clams in the late 60s, with fries and a strawberry milkshake. Those were the days…

  69. 69.

    karen marie

    @Sister Golden Bear:   Yeah, but that’s complicated.  Arizona is a bakery-free zone.  I’d have to make sourdough rolls – which would mean I’d have to start a batch of sourdough and, if I can keep it alive, figure out how to use it, and end up with a bunch of sourdough rolls (if I’m lucky) that I have no use for.  Much easier to go the grocery store and acquire one or two already-made kaiser rolls that don’t have companions needing precious freezer space.

    I have canned clams (again, because Arizona) but I don’t have any celery or potatoes, so clam chowder will have to wait.

    I miss southeastern Massachusetts.  I used to make little necks in a white wine and lemon sauce with little necks picked that morning.  I had a fish store a five-minute walk from my house.  So sad!  I never made clam chowder when I lived there because I could buy freshly made clam chowder from a number of nearby places.

    @Gin & Tonic:  One of the best clam chowders I ever ate was at a place on the main wharf in Provincetown.  It was in late September, so all the tourists were gone.  It was a really nice chowder, properly made with a flour-based roux instead of the shitty cornstarch that most places outside of Mass. and Rhode Island use

  70. 70.

    Jackie

    What? Has China joined forces with Iran???

    “A political organization helping prepare for the potential presidential transition of Donald Trump recently experienced a cyberattack by what federal authorities believe are Chinese hackers,” the Washington Post reports.

  72. 72.

    Jay

    @Jackie:

    helping prepare for the potential presidential transition of Donald Trump

    Much as Truth Social has become a hub for scammers. as all the marks are easy and clustered in one place,……

  77. 77.

    wjca

    @Gin & Tonic: Every other region which defends its recipe is, of course, sadly mistaken, as Rhode Island chowder is the Platonic ideal of clam chowder.

    There is the detail that Plato is long dead.  And the world has moved on the better things.  Like San Francisco clam chowder.

  79. 79.

    Jackie

    Switched to FAUX to see if they’re carrying TCFG in CA. They are. Picture quality is horrible – freezing up on and off, and there’s an amp or something humming terribly.

    He’s wearing a MAGA hat, which means he’s melting in the heat and hiding his hair from sweat ugliness.

    eta: He’s done

  82. 82.

    Jackie

    @Anoniminous: That was definitely true for this rally! I could lower my tv volume; idiots there didn’t have that option.

    One would think a “billionaire” being supported by Musk could afford top of the line audio equipment and such. Obviously, Union members weren’t handling logistics.

  83. 83.

    Pennsylvanian

    We look forward to our lashing. Fucking Jackals, always with the do-gooding…. Typical.

    John, chill. You got this. Love and love for always, you are a gentleman and a scholar, a damn fine person and a Renaissance man.

    Many blessings on your camels, and surely all the many loved and lost spirit treasures are looking down with admiration and joy. You are a rare jewel who has bonded with another rare jewel. Kismet.

    Love and light to you, Joelle and John, all critters in the area, and Jackals here and everywhere. Seek joy and be well.

    Pennsylvanian

  84. 84.

    cmorenc

    I see the Bethany College football team lost big on homecoming day today, 49-7.  Fortunately, that’s no reason to not enjoy the weekend as an occasion for a big party and get-together of old classmate buds, with food and a kegger to boot.

  86. 86.

    Gloria DryGarden

    @CaseyL: Soup. I grew up on canned soup, then when I met people who knew how to make soup, I thought it was magic, and please teach me how.  We made stew at home and froze the extra, growing up, but not soup.

    Then I was making soups all the time, and I’d bring some to my parents house, and my dad would ask what I seasoned it with, and I’d list all the vegetables that went in, plus salt. I discovered the flavors marry in the fridge overnight, so 2nd and 3rd day soups were even better. Always make enough for leftovers! Usually this was veggie soup, or chicken veg, turkey veg, with usual stuff, onion, carrot, maybe celery, but turnip if possible, maybe some greens. Soon my dad was telling me His soup trick, which was to put a pinch of fennel and of cumin in, for background flavor. He became a master soup maker later in life.

    later, after being introduced to pho, I figured out how to make a version of that at home. And a friend served me a wonderful soup I’ve repeated: chicken soup w broccoli, and with red cabbage. At the end, add in a bunch of torn cilantro to taste. Purple and green soup, so beautiful.

    Sometimes, in a really drastic hurry, I rip green onions and flimsy greens into a thermos cup, perhaps some rice ramen, and pour over hot water, steep, then add miso, or instant broth, maybe ginger from a jar.
    i suppose the ramen seals it into prayer form, may I be nourished.

    Blessings on the wedding couple, may you always be nourished, may all the flavors you share be rich and delicious.

  91. 91.

    Jackie

    TCFG’s word salad in Coachella tonight:

    Donald Trump at his California rally on Saturday threatened to withhold funds for helping to fight wildfires in the state.

    Trump over the weekend spoke in the city of Coachella, where he was laying out his vision of problems in the Golden State. At one point during his speech, he said a woman who was protesting and heckling him would get “the hell knocked out of her,” causing observers to say he was endorsing violence against women.

    https://www.rawstory.com/trump-threatens-to-withhold-california-fire-aid/

    And that was only the first paragraph…

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