Sick. On your own.
Woke up to dog shit on the floor.
It’s cold and my joints hurt.
No one expects the bigfoot.
by John Cole| 64 Comments
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Sick. On your own.
Woke up to dog shit on the floor.
It’s cold and my joints hurt.
No one expects the bigfoot.
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Woodrowfan
puppy pics? phooeny. pheel perky presently!
Mike J
Top news result when googling Russell Wilson this morning was Breitbart’s house of idiocy complaining that he did an Obamacare ad.
CaseyL
Not a real haiku. Too many lines, too many syllables.
But the evocation of imagery is pretty good.
Librarian
Is that a tribute to Rod McKuen?
Violet
Hope you feel better. Or is this a re-run of previous tweets?
Pup pics?
JPL
If you are ill, we can wait on the pup pics but an update would be nice.
marduk
Oops!
Caprice
On the Rod McKuen album “Beatsville” – who is that young lady on the cover?? Is it Aubrey Plaza’s grandmother?
NotMax
Oh, dandy.
Now have got the phrase “dog shit on the floor” rattling around the head to the tune of Riders on the Storm.
Lavocat
Woke up to dog shit on the floor?
Then it must be Monday and this must be Newark.
mb
Live with shitload of dogs>dog shit on floor.
puppy pix please
Bobby B
@CaseyL: I’ve seen a pile of dog shit described as an angry haiku.
Lavocat
@NotMax:
When the owner is asleep/
And the bowels begin to creep/
Dog shit on the floor/
Yeah …
Currants
Yet another reason I love this blog–the unexpected giggles.
Mike J
@CaseyL:
He did get an allusion to the season in, something many people overlook, but is absolutely required.
donnah
Notmax and Lavocat for the win! Dammit, now that’s in MY head!
Hope you feel better soon, John.
Howard Beale IV
BREAKING: Rmoney say he won’t run for president.
JPL
@marduk: I read that earlier and thought of you. Nice job the other day, explaining the science to us, btw. Did you see where the refs didn’t log the measurements of either team?
max
Dying Poet Society
I think you meant Terrible Poets Society. Speaking of which:
Dog shit
Cole sick
But the kids
Demand
Puppy Pics
Burma Shave
Bigfoot delays
No late night
Forays
Sad puppies
Today
Burma Shave
max
[‘Try not to vomit on the dogs.’]
Scott S.
Any time I hear about dogshit, I think of this Mojo Nixon classic.
JGabriel
John Cole:
Me too. All week. Hope I get better soon, because this lying around, barely functional, going to sleep every 3-4 hours, is really a drag after 7 days.
By the way, is there some sort of football game this weekend? American or soccer? I keep hearing about some sort of – and I hope I’m getting this right – “Uber vole”?
JPL
@Howard Beale IV: Guess we won’t have Romney to kick around anymore.
Hillary Rettig
at least your feet are Longfellows
chopper
@Howard Beale IV:
But…but…unlimited corporate cash? ‘shock poll’?
I haz a sad.
Corner Stone
@Howard Beale IV: Looks like the Meeting of The Minds between Jeb and Mitt must have been pretty interesting, after all.
JPL
@Corner Stone: V.P. or a posh ambassadorship is my guess.
Corner Stone
@JPL: It won’t be VP as he doesn’t help Jeb in any way, and I can’t see him accepting second nanner.
srv
Mittens for leader
What might have been can not know
Poop on the car roof
satby
Get better soon John! don’t worry about puppy pics. Just get better!
catclub
@Corner Stone: IF he really says no, then the reports that surfaced just today – dissing all the other candidates are, as Ed Kilgore says ‘quite the feint’.
Be sure to check out Charlie Pierce’s take, even if events have overtaken it.
Again, it makes less and less sense. The polls have him doing better among the GOP than anybody else.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@JPL: Apparently in story written before Willard declared “Willard, OUT!”, the Romneys dismiss Jebbie as a “small time businessman” (really old top, barely had two million to his name when he was elected governor, one wonders if the man even tried). Pierce, also writing thinking Willard was running, has some helpful hints for reading the Halperin/Heileman beat-sweetener
Kind of funny to imagine the Romneys of White Horse and the Walker Bushes of Walkers’ Point sneering at other as jumped up parvenus.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
does seem more than a bit weird, judging from the Bloomberg piece and all the political gossip I half paid attention to, this is a sudden and abrupt flip flop from the flippity-floppiest politician this side of “Who Am I Mad At” McCain
Corner Stone
@catclub: After campaigning for 10 years at the highest level, you’d think all the possible oppo research that could have been done has been done.
So what Jeb could have possibly offered or threatened at their meeting is pretty interesting.
Citizen_X
@srv: *Golf clap*
Still, it’s Rmoney. He can operate at 16 gigaflipflops per second. I wouldn’t be surprised if he changes his mind by lunchtime.
SWMBO
Alas no puppy pics *I sigh*
John is such a nice guy.
Took in puppies and mama too
Try not to step in goo.
We wait until you feel good
Then we want pics of the brood.
Elizabelle
Tiny puppies
suck suck suck
poop on floor
….
JGabriel
Mark Halperin via Charlie Pierce via Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Oh, I don’t know about that assessment. I think, as campaigners, Romney and Jeb are both pretty bush league.
catclub
@Corner Stone:
I wonder how much Romney will get for the 2012 Christie VP dirt. Distressed assets and vulture capitalism R us.
rlrr
@Howard Beale IV:
He finally read the memo stating nobody likes him…
patrick II
@Corner Stone:
he threatened to have Dick Cheney take him down to that secret room in Dick’s basement.
Just One More Canuck
@Lavocat: please allow 4 to 6 weeks for delivery of your internets
marduk
@JPL: What’s interesting here is that some of the information the league has leaked must be false. If the colts balls were inflated indoors like the patriots were, it is impossible that they were legal when measured and also legal at halftime. The pressure change solely due to temperature is more than 1 PSI. Makes it quite a big deal that the initial ball pressure wasn’t logged. Is it really the case that the league measured the pressure of the colts balls at halftime and found them to be within the 12.5 – 13.5 range? Then they couldn’t have measured them at inspection and found them to be in the 12.5-13.5 range.
Keith G
@Corner Stone: I don’t think Mitt was ever truly serious about running for president this time. And the augers were not good. Once he had time to talk to bundlers outside the Mormon faith there wasn’t much going for him.
Corner Stone
@Keith G: I think he was serious, and why wouldn’t he be after taking a look at all the unelectable clowns biting at his ankles?
Why else would he have recently started talking about the poors? He damn sure isn’t going to start a new charitable organization to go out and start washing the feet of street urchins.
Tree With Water
Ask not
In silence
Why comes the big-foot
For when it comes
It comes for thee…
Pogonip
A puppy’s squeak
In winter, dogs poop inside
Get well soon, John Cole!
Pogonip
@NotMax: “Dog shit on the floor…” twang twang twang-twang twang…
bemused
I guess we won’t seeing and hearing horrid Anne anymore unless Mitt changes his mind again. Between Anne and Carly Fiorina, it’s hard to decide which woman is the most egotistical, nasty snob.
Pogonip
Why is John talking about Bigfoot? Is he delirious?
If a Bigfoot stepped in the dog poop, what was it doing in his bedroom? I mean, I know it’s a popular place for animals to congregate, but–aBigfoot?
SiubhanDuinne
@satby:
What kind of treasonous subversive excuse for Balloon Juice commentary is this?
rea
Puppy pics ? “Here’s the puppy, having a house-breaking accident . . .”
Denali
Hope you feel better soon. If not, go see your doc.
ET
@NotMax: thanks a lot NotMax – now I doo too
Morzer
Breaking the silence
Of West Virginia winter
A soft dog turd falls….
Pogonip
@Morzer: *sniff*. That’s so beautiful…so evocative…
Pogonip
And once again, when the topic of dog poop comes up, readers rise to the occasion! I’d like to see a group of idiot MBA’s do that!
Pogonip
@SiubhanDuinne: Heresy raises its ugly head again.
Quaker in a Basement
Haha! Applause for you, JC!
Jebediah, RBG
Although it feels wrong to argue with a poem, I have to point out that Anne Laurie always expects the bigfoot.
geg6
@Jebediah, RBG:
Heh. Too true.
My FB feed was featuring awesome Monty Python “Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition” t-shirts the other day. I shared the ad and, between me and a good 3/4 of my FB friends, the Pythons made some serious jack that day.
Chickamin Slam
Solution
Amble over to the cafe
Get the soup of the day
Warm your pain away
Walk back home, no dismay.
Elizabelle
@Morzer: Robert Frost weeps. Well done, sir.
keestadoll
I think all fortune cookies should have this level of honesty and malaise.
Montarvillois
Big demand I see for puppy pics. That’s o.k. but I’m putting in a request for one of mama Ginger.