Good thing I added DougJ to the roster, because I am blogged out. As such, a dog in a bucket:
Why not?
As a side note, I have no idea what it is, but dogs in buckets or kiddie pools, and cats in boxes always kill me.
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Good thing I added DougJ to the roster, because I am blogged out. As such, a dog in a bucket:
Why not?
As a side note, I have no idea what it is, but dogs in buckets or kiddie pools, and cats in boxes always kill me.
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Tax Analyst
“As a side note, I have no idea what it is, but dogs in buckets or kiddie pools, and cats in boxes always kill me.”
This one in particular sorta slays me, too.
MobiusKlein
Did the funky .js additions to your .js files get sorted out? How it got in there?
MikeJ
This pup looks as if he’s waiting for a lift.
Jon H
Here’s something animal-related.
Rooftop luggage carriers and baboons don’t mix at the safari park.
The Other Steve
Please go vote up all my ebay auctions! You really really want to buy a 3.4 Ghz P4 processor, I promise.
General Winfield Stuck
What with democrats running around pissing their pants, and the wingnuts screaming our presnit isn’t an American, I might just sit in a bucket too.
The next-to-last samurai
Signposts, how are you on this fine Balloon Juice day?
Violet
Awww…that pup is adorable. The fact that the bucket is red really makes the photo. Too cute.
Jay in Oregon
Y’know, John, if you want to post pics like that every time you have nothing particularly insightful to say, I won’t complain at all.
Joshua Norton
A cat will climb in any box it sees just because it’s there. Shopping bags, also.
Origuy
Lewis Black on the health care debate
The best part was his response to Mitch McConnell’s story about a Canadian friend of a friend who died because he was too old for a certain procedure:
No cheater buttons; no preview; if I screwed up the HTML it isn’t my fault.
bruins01
Where the hell did you find DougJ anyway? It’s pretty incredible that you found a writer who sounds so much like you and is so talented.
kid bitzer
not to mention so good looking.
especially when sitting in a bucket.
sarah in brooklyn
if i wasn’t feeling so lazy i would send you MANY pictures of cats in boxes.
lamh31
Update: African American Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. Arrest: Police Drop Charge
Check out the photo pasted on the link. Doesn’t that guy just scream deliquent!!!
Like someone said over at another blog I read: “…So they arrested him because he got loud about being harassed for being in his own house? How many things are WRONG with this sentence? The man had trouble getting in his house, got in his house then was harassed for being in his house then was arrested for being upset about being harassed for being in his house…
http://blacksnob.com/snob_blog/2009/7/21/scholar-henry-louis-gates-arrested-for-nothing-at-own-house.html
NutellaonToast
Cats in boxes are proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy.
John Cole
So Tunch got out again, giving me yet another minor coronary.
I found him a half block away. It isn’t hard. Just walk until you hear birds giving the warning chirps, and look for a fat white blob mixed in with the undergrass.
But still, I panic every time he does it.
MikeJ
John is the only person I can think of who punishes his cat by refusing to post cat pictures to his blog.
Jon H
“I found him a half block away. It isn’t hard. Just walk until you hear birds giving the warning chirps, and look for a fat white blob mixed in with the undergrass.”
If it gets to be a problem, just strap an iPhone to him and use the iPhone-finding feature when he goes wilding.
RedKitten
That doggie belongs to my friends Mark and Beth. He’s an absolute sweetheart, and very spoiled, despite that inimitable Boston Terrier “I hate my life” facial expression.
General Winfield Stuck
@bruins01:
Nobody really knows where DougJ came from. Though likely he was spawned by the ethers to be anybody we want him to be. He could be Cole’s stand-in today or lead a spoof charge against the Red State Strike Force tomorrow.
DougJ makes up a part of us, or is made up by all of us. No one knows for sure. And that is the way it should be.
RedKitten
Oh, and three more days of work until I’m on maternity leave! w00t!
r€nato
Republican senators in men’s room stalls usually do it for me.
…and by “it”, I mean, “LOLZ”, you perverts.
NutellaonToast
This is also proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sekLEG8xsOs
lamh31
Does anyone else find this completely stupid?
Too Fat to Fight Fat? Critics “Weigh In” on Surgeon General Pick
Question, doesn’t the Surgeron General do more than talk about weight-related health topics.
Other than seeing her on TV or pictures (which really does add pounds to ya), does anyone really know the health of this woman. Not all people who are not a size 0 overweight, or unhealthy.
So like Sotomayor, let’s just forget all this woman’s accomplishment, and critic her on her f*&KIN WEIGHT!!!
Ah, this skin deep culture of ours pisses me off…
John Cole
@bruins01: He trolled me for five years.
MikeJ
@General Winfield Stuck:
Some say he never blinks, and that he roams around the woods at night foraging for wolves…
Some say he’s wanted by the CIA, and that he sleeps upside down like a bat…
Some say that he appears on high value stamps in Sweden, and that he can catch fish with his tongue…
Some say that his breath smells of magnesium, and that he’s scared of bells…
We know him only as DougJ. Or the Stig.
RevPhat
We have two Bostons – Handsome & Gorgeous. Neither have ever sat in a bucket.
RedKitten
…and inspired legions of imitators.
Murray the Demonic Skull
@The Other Steve:
Are you going to be selling that P4 processor with a heatsink ->frying pan converter? I always wanted the convenience of cooking my eggs while surfing the web.
Energy Efficiency FTW
DemonDem
Tell me how you can get a Boston Terrier to sit still that long! I’m off to look for a bucket…
Karatist Preacher
Cats love anything they can hide in and peek out of – boxes, closets, blankets, etc. At least mine does. An overturned wine box is the height of comedy for him.
cbear
@RedKitten: A thousand good wishes on your upcoming special event!
Murray the Demonic Skull
@RedKitten:
So when’s the due date?
Laura W
@General Winfield Stuck: Some say he’s just a hack blogger who drinks too much and falls in love with girls.
(Not me. Those some others.)
Tattoosydney
@Jay in Oregon:
“Y’know, John, if you want to post pics like that every time you have nothing particularly insightful to say, I won’t complain at all.”
It’s true John – while I love reading what you write, take some time out, let Doug J do the heavy lifting, post regular pictures of Tunch, Lily and X’s in a Y, and I’ll be happy …. (mainly because I’m pretty certain that eventually something will piss you off so badly that you’ll churn out one of those erudite rants that brought me here in the first place).
Meanwhile, can I just say that googling “dog in a
bucket” makes me oddly happy.
bruins01
@John Cole: Five years of trolling is all it takes? I better get started then…
The Grand Panjandrum
Speaking of the Henry Louis Gates arrest, look who I found commenting at a right wing blog, and siding with the wingnut:
I guess total subservience to the police state is the only way for PUMA’s and wingnuts. Doesn’t surprise me.
DougJ
I’ve always liked
Now some say he’s doing
the obituary mambo
and some say he’s hanging on the wall
perhaps this yarn’s the only thing
that holds this man together
some say he was never here at all
Some say they saw him down in Birmingham,
sleeping in a boxcar going by
and if you think that you can tell a bigger tale
I swear to God you’d have to tell a lie…
MikeJ
While we’re on an open thread, Being Human starts its US run this weekend. Anyone know if one should watch it?
Jay in Oregon
@Tattoosydney:
I have I Can Has Cheezburger and Cute Overload bookmarked for mental therapy after getting off of a bad tech support call.
And that classic picture John posted of the dog going Galt in the bucket has been my IM icon since about 20 minutes after that pic appeared.
Germane Jackson
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32037702/ns/world_news-asiapacific/
Man engulfed in flames after being Tasered
He carrying a cigarette lighter and a bottle containing fuel, officials say
msnbc is writing their ledes in ebonics now, apparently
Demo Woman
@John Cole: So his trolling actually made you better.
Demo Woman
@The Grand Panjandrum: One slight problem, Gates did not climb through a window. He used his key to let himself in the back door and then disabled his alarm system. They driver then helped him open the front door. Guess what front doors get stuck on older houses. What a dumb ass…
Alan
Warehouse 13… anyone following that SyFy show? I hesitate to say it’s great. But it’s sort of like the X Files. It’s on tonight at 9 eastern.
arguingwithsignposts
@The next-to-last samurai:
How did you know I’d be coming by? :) I’m actually feeling a little better today. I still haven’t been sleeping well, and my diet sucks, but i’m here. i’m going to be working this weekend, so that’ll keep my mind off things, too.
Demo Woman
@arguingwithsignposts: How was the therapist? I have been thinking about you and glad to see that you are here.
Montysano
@DougJ:
Well he came home from the war
with a party in his head
and modified Brougham DeVille
and a pair of legs that opened up
like butterfly wings
and a mad dog that wouldn’t sit still
Nice one, friend. As good as it gets IMHO. Going on the turntable as we speak.
arguingwithsignposts
I actually didn’t go. I was so tired from getting 1 hour of sleep for the last two nights that I took the opportunity today to just rest, especially since I’m going out of town tomorrow.
I talked to my mom and a couple of friends on the phone. read some blogs and laughed a little. I’m going to get an appt. for next week when I’m back.
RedKitten
Make sure to keep us posted, and keep talking to the therapist — it’s funny how sometimes they can say so little but help you discover so much about yourself.
RedKitten
You do that. We’ll nag you, you know. ;)
SGEW
It’s not nagging, it’s caring. In nagging form.
The Grand Panjandrum
@Demo Woman: And the author of that comment is a one time Balloon Juice frequent commenter whose feeling got hurt during the Democratic primary.
jack fate
“Good thing I added DougJ to the roster. . .”
As a longtime reader/infrequent commenter I whole heartily agree. Never mind that he, like myself, is a Western New Yorker.
Mark S.
@lamh31:
I just saw this at TPM:
. . .
The updates get even more hilarious from there. I never realized that Ben Stiller’s character from Dodgeball was based on a real person.
slag
@The Grand Panjandrum: myiq clearly has a case of neutral man’s burden. No cure for that yet, I’m afraid.
@John Cole: Tenacity is an excellent quality in a person.
gnomedad
@RedKitten:
You, too. You are required to have an official correspondent or at least a portable intertubes device. We demand timely news!
AhabTRuler
I don’t know if L-dub is as interested in new humans as she is new critters, but the commentariat is very invested in a new commenter being spawned.
RedKitten
Will do. :) I don’t have a portable intertubes device (I know, I’m such a Luddite). But I’ll do my best to keep you all up to date, and have already promised to send John a picture that he can post.
A streaming web feed? Good god, no. I love you guys, but you really don’t need to see that.
General Winfield Stuck
Correcto. I’m sure I’d faint.
The next-to-last samurai
Next stop–the Signpost Zone! With your fans waiting!
AhabTRuler
I am sure there are more tasteful and imaginative angles than the NOVA shot.
gnomedad
@Mark S.:
I’m waiting for Rushbo to weigh in on this issue. So to speak.
Comrade Kevin
Anyone watching Countdown, and see the graphic accompanying the last story?
DougJ
I talked to my mom and a couple of friends on the phone. read some blogs and laughed a little.
Doesn’t sound so bad. Like Iggy said, maybe go out, maybe stay home, maybe call mom on the telephone.
Anyway, good luck. You know our thoughts are with you.
kid bitzer
man, i gotta think that fat-baiting is not going to go down well with fox news’ market-share.
i mean, once again the pure oppositional reactiveness of their position–she’s obama’s pick so we hate her, she happens to be fat so let’s ridicule that–seems like it is going to come back and bite them all in their own fat asses.
you know? they had more of a winning hand when they could make fun of latte-sipping liberals. this woman just looks like she’s a real person who works hard and does her job and isn’t obsessed with being skinny.
and, yeah, some of us put on a few pounds that way. not that i’m sensitive or nothing.
Demo Woman
@arguingwithsignposts: Just so you know, you are not our first intervention, that honor goes to Tunch and John Cole. Tunch seems to have a weight problem and John has received lots of comments about Tunch’s affliction.
@RedKitten: I certainly second your comment, because we are great naggers.
Are you ready to have your baby adopted by the BJ group? I can’t wait for the pictures.
Anne Laurie
Anne Geddes has made a nice living out of those shots. She uses babies, but of course dogs & cats are baby-substitutes for the XY set. Something about neotony and containers — it tickles both the nuturing *and* the tool-using impulses of the average nekkid ape.
Didn’t take me that long, but of course I’m an affirmative-action hire. For the Fat Acceptance folks, of course! (/rimshot)
Chris Johnson
Make a certain amount of effort on the diet thing, dude. One thing I do is keep a really wide variety of snackable food around, up to and including icecream. I don’t eat mass quantities of icecream, but sometimes if I’m making like the Hindenburg, and can’t face real food at all, I can hack a couple spoonfuls of ice cream. Whatever works…
Also, crackers and/or cheese, and maybe the most importantly- drink something that isn’t coffee. That might sound silly but I swear some days I’ve lived on nothing but coffee, and eventually it breaks your whole entire soul partly from sheer lack of water for your body to use. What that feels like when it happens is “holy crap, the world is that overwhelming that I can’t even get up much less deal with it”, and it doesn’t pass off instantly upon drinking water, either.
It’s a damn shame diet ties into our hearts and minds in such insidious ways. I swear I’d be perfectly happy subsisting on flintstone vitamins and polysorbate 80 if that worked. Making real food is a pain. (oh btw- do grab some flintstone vitamins- damn good way to nibble on something occasionally that will fill certain dietary needs).
Cod liver oil, and st. john’s wort, ain’t bad either. :)
arguingwithsignposts
On another topic, I’m watching MSNBC’s “Morning Meeting” on the intertubes. What’s teh deal with Dylan Ratigan and that table he’s drawing on? And Steven A. Smith talking to me about Too Big To Fail? WTF?
arguingwithsignposts
@Chris Johnson:
Yeah, I’ve been drinking nothing but water (and an apple juice, orange juice and cranberry/grape/apple concoction) for the last two days.
Making food is a pain, agreed. I’ll have to go to the store when I get back next week.
Betsy
@RedKitten:
I went out last August to visit a friend and her 6-week-old. Her partner offered to show me the pictures of the birth, via computer slide show (on a huge-ass gaming monitor). Turns out he’d neglected to take the crowning shot out of public rotation. Yikes. That was an education I didn’t need, even if I have known her since we were 7.
gnomedad
@RedKitten:
In a bucket! :)
You Don't Say
@John Cole: I panic too when my cats get out. Then they repay my love and concern by howling to get out at the back door for two weeks.
As for dogs in buckets: who couldn’t love the face of boston terrier?
Anne Laurie
Two intersecting impulses, I believe: First, it’s still acceptable to say “Eww, FAT, unclean leprous non-human!” in venues where “No non-whites need apply” would be… going too far. Second, it’s a common superstition that calling otherpeople fat (and thereby unqualified for, well, anything other than abuse) will keep one’s peers from noticing one’s own minor little figure flaws. Add in the new reality that today’s fattest Americans are at the bottom of the income pyramid — the ones who can’t afford healthy meals, gym memberships, or liposuction — and labelling one’s personal/political enemies as FAT has the added bonus of suggesting they’re also poor and ignorant, which in Wingnut-World, are not just misfortunes but signs of the Talibangelical God’s disfavor.
tcolberg
I prefer burrito cat.
DaBomb
@RedKitten: Congrats! Make sure to send pics to John so we can all see and coo with awe!
RedKitten
I don’t even want my husband to SEE that, let alone take photos of it, kthxbai.
Betsy
@Anne Laurie:
I think it’s also worth noting that I would be tres surprised if they made these comments about male candidate with a comparable BMI. Not that fat men don’t also have to deal with all kinds of social bullshit, too; I know that they do, and it sucks. But I think it wouldn’t be expressed in this particular way; I think that’s reserved for a female candidate.
Betsy
@RedKitten:
lol, I hear ya. Yeah, I was…startled.
But, yay! I hope the birth goes as easily as it is possible for a birth to go, and that your hormones make you forget about the pain really soon thereafter. :D I also look forward to seeing pics of your little one, once he or she has made his or her grand debut.
Mayken
@Joshua Norton: Ya know, my cats are just odd. Neither of them care for boxes or bags. At least the female likes to sit up on high objects as any self-respecting cat should. The male won’t climb any higher than the couch. They are mutants, I tell ya!
kid bitzer
@79
agreed, betsy. it’s almost like fat is a feminist issue. (hey; that’s kinda catchy!)
@75
right; fat ridicule is also classist. but there too, i gotta wonder: does fox news want to go there?
i mean–maybe i’m being classist myself, but aren’t they biting the demographic hand that feeds them?
JGabriel
@kid bitzer:
You wouldn’t think so, but it worked for Al Gore and Michael Moore. It’s all a part of the Winger Distortion Field, where any Republican who can see Fox News over his/her stomach is thin, and all libtards are either anorexic or fat.
.
Betsy
@kid bitzer:
Well, from my understanding, weight correlates with region as much as with class (though there’s obviously overlap there, since class also correlates with region) and the areas of the country that tend to be the heaviest, even in the middle- and upper-classes, are the most conservative – the south and midwest. So in that sense, yes, I think they’re definitely biting the demographic hand that feeds them.
However, I can’t speak about fox viewership, but the less money you have, the more likely you are to be a Democrat. So they might look at it this way: fat people = poor = Democrat = not watching anyway. I have no idea if this is true, but I’m commenting on the internet, so that’s not really a requirement.
steve s
When I quit watching cable news I thought it was about as bad as it could get. If Steven A. Smith is now yelling about politics into the camera, I’m surprised to find it’s gotten distinctly worse.
Anne Laurie
Betsy: Remember the original “Dress for Success” guy, back in the 1980s? One of the most useful things he said was that, in Business World, everybody got one mulligan… you could be fat, or female, or not-white, or any other moderate disfigurement. But people who already had an unfixable “disfigurement”, as it would be perceived by the powerful people doing the hiring & promoting — those of us who were not lucky enough to be straight-looking, middle-aged white men — had to be twice as careful to wear the proper uniform, use the proper codes, etc. One reason the books were so popular was that they broke the code for the huge wave of “affirmative action” women / people of color / gays who were the first in their families to successfully pursue higher education and challenge the lily-white male gatekeepers. Thirty years of “Nixon’s Revenge” later, and they’re trying to revive the old shibboleths… but they’re losing, and the degree to which they’re losing is measured by the bitterness of their defense.
The Other Steve
I am presently installing Windows 2008 Server on a Intel Atom N330 motherboard in a tiny Mini-ITX case… Just to see how fast this sucker is and whether or not it’d work well as a web server.
It’s faster then I expected it to be.
Betsy
@Anne Laurie:
That’s an excellent analysis. I agree. And I like (in a bitter sort of way) the description of getting one non-hegemonic “mulligan.” That is pretty fantastically accurate.
Svensker
@arguingwithsignposts:
Re: food. It’s the little things that can make a big difference. Have food and things to drink around. Eat and drink them. Even if you feel like crap and just don’t feel like doing it — punish yourself by making yourself do it…and you’ll feel better just to spite yourself. :)
Take care. Hang in. Make those teeny tiny little efforts even if they don’t seem worth it — hey, if they’re so small, why not?
Don’t stay away long — you have to find out what happens with Red Kitten, not to mention Tunch, Lily, and the gang.
kid bitzer
@84
you know what’s kinda sad, kinda sick, is that i think my analysis shows that i have bought one piece of their bullshit without realizing it.
namely, that myth that the fox news audience is based on poor whites. that fox owns the bubbas and the nascar watchers. whereas, in fact, i have learned several times over that this is a fallacy: the poor white demographic trends democratic if anything, and the fox news demographic, along with the solid republican demographic, is several notches wealthier than that.
granted that we are both commenting on the internet, i now think that your analysis of “poor=democrat, so fox says fnck ’em” is closer than my analysis of “poor=republican, so fox oughta respect ’em”.
when am i going to learn that they don’t own the rights to ‘real americans’?
Mark S.
Oh, for Christ’s sake. I googled Regina Benjamin, and she isn’t fat, especially by Neil Cavuto standards.
(And BMI is the stupidest measure in the world, unless you think LeBron James is overweight.)
Betsy
@kid bitzer:
I wouldn’t be too hard on yourself – poor and working class whites ARE more likely than poor and working class blacks and hispanics to vote Republican and watch Fox. I don’t know what the numbers are, exactly, but I suspect they do make up a not-insubstantial portion of Fox viewers. They’re just not the majority. And I’d wager that there’s enough self-hate among many who are poor, white, and fat, that they would not object to fat-hating on fox.
Mark S.
@kid bitzer:
The Fox News audience is, if anything, really old.
tavella
@MikeJ: While we’re on an open thread, Being Human starts its US run this weekend. Anyone know if one should watch it?
The first half is good, but it starts to fall apart on the backstretch with people starting to behave ludicrously out of character, and the last episode, oh boy. It’s like they fired the continuity person; which side of a door locks changes three times _in one scene_.
I did enjoy the first few episodes quite a lot, and the characters are charming to start, so I don’t regret having watched it, but nor can I precisely recommend it with such an unsatisfying finish.
kid bitzer
huh. and i’m really old, too, in addition to being fat.
and yet i still hate fox news!
r€nato
@The Grand Panjandrum:
gee… maybe myiqx2u got treated differently because he’s white? Just a wild-assed guess…
Betsy
On a completely unrelated note, I am currently baking my first ever loaves of rosemary-olive oil bread. I hope they turn out well – wish me luck.
Amanda
Cats in boxes are indeed adorable. My latest fav was a recent trip to the local animal shelter on a Sunday. Two feral kittens were in their cage very nervously checking out the world — shaking actually — whilst smooshed together in a tiny box on its side, as if it was a hiding place. We all felt bad standing there looking at them, admiring their cuteness, as they were shaking. Then they sniffed the chicken baby food on offer and they were coaxed from their box hiding place.
burnspbesq
@steve s:
“If Steven A. Smith is now yelling about politics into the camera, I’m surprised to find it’s gotten distinctly worse.”
Man, talk about failing upward … does this mean I will never have to see his mug on ESPN again? If so, then I am for it.
Comrade Kevin
@John Cole: So you try to keep Tunch as an indoor-only cat?
I think it’s a good idea, I’m doing it with my current cat.
A previous cat of mine was hit by a car, which destroyed his pancreas, and gave him diabetes.
GregB
I wonder if Fox News will have a Fatgate panel featuring Bill Bennett, Haley Barbour, Mike Huckabee and Ann Coulter?
-G
Comrade Kevin
@GregB: Perhaps they could have Michael Chertoff, so they would have both Mr. and Mrs. Skeletor on the panel.
freelancer
I for one, really want to see The Hurt Locker.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLCiIJCthn4
Indylib
@RedKitten:
“I don’t even want my husband to SEE that, let alone take photos of it, kthxbai.”
When I had my daughter they had a mirror on the ceiling so I could see everything, and my main thought at the time was that there was no fucking way in the world that her shoulders were ever coming out of me. 9 years later that same daughter caught her little brother and didn’t even blink at the view, she just thought it was weird that he was purple.
Violet
I wonder how much race is going to play into the discussion of her weight. In some situations it seems that overweight African American women are somehow more accepted than overweight women of other races. Like “American Idol,” for instance – there have been several larger African American women on “American Idol,” but no larger women of other races. After this many seasons, it’s a noticeable phenomenon. And then there’s Oprah, an extremely accomplished woman, who isn’t a stick figure. Would a woman of a different race, but of Oprah’s size, get as far? Does a woman’s race affect how her size and weight are perceived?
Indylib
@Betsy:
Good Luck!
I suck at bread. I can bake just about anything else the first time I try it, but not bread. It always doubles as a good doorstop.
steve s
@burnspbesq:
Steven Smith might be the worst sports commentor ever. And I’ve heard Bill Walton cover games.
Betsy
@Indylib:
Thank you! It turned out SOO GOOD. Far better than I’d hoped. I’m just getting into bread baking, and because it takes so damn long, I don’t do it that often. And this was much better than any of my previous efforts.
And don’t feel bad – I can bake everything splendidly except pie crusts. Can’t do ’em to save my life. I guess everybody has their thing. Oh, and the one time I tried biscuits from scratch you could have put them in a slingshot and brought down Goliath.
Brachiator
@John Cole:
I presume that Lily has a much sweeter temperament.
By the by, I think you should consider suing the NY Times for intellectual theft.
The adventure begins here.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/garden/pupblog.html?_r=1&em
Jim Pharo
I, for one, am glad you “found” (was he lost?) DougJ because he totally rocks.
Meliora, bitches!
General Winfield Stuck
@Indylib:
Same here. I’ve tried everything, more water, less flour, more and less yeast, and it’s always too damn thick.
Calouste
@kid bitzer:
“right; fat ridicule is also classist. but there too, i gotta wonder: does fox news want to go there?
i mean—maybe i’m being classist myself, but aren’t they biting the demographic hand that feeds them?”
No no, it works as follows: Fat people are poor. Poor people are Democrats. So Fox can hate on them. Fox viewers themselves aren’t poor, they are just “not rich yet”. That is why they are also for tax cuts for the rich, because next year they are going to make it rich. Really this time.
And the nominee of course is a clear case of governing while Black. And governing while female. That’s two strikes in the Fox law book.
Oh, and Tom Waits rocks. Or blueses.
Martin
Only because Cole wouldn’t stop being sexist and insisted on using periods in sentences
Uncaring bastard
Indylib
@Betsy:
“I guess everybody has their thing.”
So true.
My daughter is getting ready to go to culinary school for pastry and one of the only things she has tried that doesn’t come out well is pie crust. It ticks her off no end because I can’t explain to her what I do when I make pie crust that makes it turn out. She could make better bread than I ever have when she was 13, so it evens out.
John Cole
I’m listening to Dag- Righteous, and I think it is a real god damned sin that more people do not own this album. It is an absolute crisis that fewer people have heard of it.
And it is just a tragedy that I can go anywhere, and say- “Do you like Dag?” and they look at me funny. Easily one of the best bands of the 90’s, and no one has heard of them.
I call foul.
J. Michael Neal
@freelancer:
Yes. Yes, you do. All of you want to see it. It is absolutely tremendous, on so many levels. It is much more than a movie about the Iraq War. It’s one of the best done character studies I’ve seen in a long time.
General Winfield Stuck
I’m watching Indochine. It is a visually stunning movie and Catherine Deneuve is teh hot!
“Do you like Dag?” and they look at me funny.
Looks at Cole funny.
Delia
@John Cole:
Many years ago when my kids were babies and I was still married we lived in a townhome development in Culver City, CA that had a strict rule against cats roaming free so we were very careful to
keeptry to keep the cat indoors at all times. He had a very strong desire to go outside, not to do anything spectacular, just to sit under the bushes and enjoy the air. And he was very good at achieving his goal. I remember one day coming home with a three year old by my side, a baby on my hip, and a couple of bags of groceries on my other arm, unlocking the door, and of course the cat is right by the door and dashes out as soon as it’s open. I went out to try to retrieve him as soon as I got the kids settled. He had stationed himself underneath a bush near the front door, just out of reach on all sides and wouldn’t come in until he was good and ready. I believe that was dinnertime.Steeplejack
Well, then. Can’t remember if this was posted here before, but . . . box cat Maru.
DougJ
And it is just a tragedy that I can go anywhere, and say- “Do you like Dag?” and they look at me funny. Easily one of the best bands of the 90’s, and no one has heard of them.
I’m going to say what I said before about Dag’s lead singer: looks like Steve Nash, sounds like Curtis Mayfield.
Comrade Kevin
@DougJ: Where’d your new thread go?
The Other Steve
My cats have never been outside except on a leash or on the deck which has no exits and is two stories up.
It’s actually rather nice. They’re terrified of the idea of going outside, thus they never try.
Dog on the other hand likes to slip out the front door and run to the neighbors hoping the King Charles Spaniel will come out and play.
Delia
@The Other Steve:
My cat who plotted escapes had never been outside. He just wanted to go so he did. When we moved to a house I just gave up and let him do his thing. He was the ruler anyhow.
I now live in a small house in a semi-rural neighborhood. My cats pretty much stay in my yard and I keep them in at night so I don’t worry too much.
DougJ
Where’d your new thread go?
The audio came out wrong so I pulled it down til I can fix it. If I can fix it.
Comrade Kevin
@Delia: My cat has been out a grand total of twice in about 4 years. Both times he got out, I left a door open for a good half an hour before he went through.
Comrade Kevin
@DougJ: Ah ok. It showed up in the RSS feed, but I never saw it. Has it got your voice in it?
General Winfield Stuck
@Steeplejack:
that was fucking hilarious. Thanks. Maru is one crazy kat/
iluvsummr
@lamh31: I liked the Cambridge Mayor’s response to the Gates incident (as seen here). The Boston Herald commenters? Not so much.
Comrade Kevin
Okay all, here’s a question out of Left Field:
Is there anyone reading who knows anything about ImageJ macros? I’m looking for something to take USGS topo and earthquake data and put them into one of its models.
DougJ
Has it got your voice in it?
Yeah, but I couldn’t differentiate the two roles properly.
hamletta
Haven’t read the thread, so forgive my silliness, but you know what kills me? Porn titles.
I work for a certain teevee provider which shall remain unnamed, and we had a call tonight about a customer who in 4 months has run up a tab close to 4K. My colleague said, dude, check out this account, and I immediately went to the PPV section, because that had to be where the, ahem, action is.
Pages, and pages, and pages! And the occasional order of West Side Story or Elizabeth.
But I about pissed myself laughing at those titles. My personal fave: MILF: It Does a Body Good.
Fencedude
@Steeplejack:
Nya!
Fencedude
@hamletta:
I’m more amazed at how much trouble people seem to have finding free porn.
Its not like the internet is for porn or anything!
Wile E. Quixote
I am seriously jonesing for pancakes and breakfast sausage. I could go down to a local restaurant and get some. Or I could go to the store and get some eggs and milk and sausage and whip up my own batter. Or I could go to bed.
Anne Laurie
Y’know, when we got our first dog, our Pre-Existing Household Ruler, the Siamese-cross Asmodeus, decided that *he* was entitled to go outside, too (even though he’d never been interested in “escaping” any of the half-dozen apartments we’d shared during the first 10 years of his life). So, after he’d pulled the give-his-humans a coronary trick a few times, we found a secure harness & a nice lightweight leash, and… took him outside, along with the puppy. Of course, he didn’t want to walk with us… but after a certain amount of experimentation, a compromise was established: He wouldn’t try to run outdoors every time the door was opened, but when he asked (once a week or so, when the weather was nice), we’d fasten his harness to a nylon lead-line, and he’d sit under a bush near the back stoop for a half-hour or so.
Comrade Kevin
@DougJ: I’m looking forward to the one we get to hear!
Royston Vasey
Watch Nirvana Get Rick Rolled
RV
Comrade Kevin
John Cole is going to have a coronary tomorrow.
Some woman is suing Ben Rothlessomethingorother for raping her at a Vegas casino.
Comrade Kevin
@Comrade Kevin: Whoops! I appear to have tripped the mod filter. I can guess which word I used.
Steeplejack
@General Winfield Stuck:
@Fencedude:
I never get tired of that video. And Maru’s others are good too.
Wile E. Quixote
@iluvsummr
I liked it a lot better when Hollywood did it with Nicolas Cage and Samuel L. Jackson.
Wile E. Quixote
@Steeplejack
That was great. I loved how he jumped out of the box. It looked as if there was some kind of spring inside of it that was ejecting him.
Dulcie
@Comrade Kevin: Not Vegas (this time). This allegedly happened at Harrah’s Lake Tahoe.
Indylib
@Steeplejack:
That one’s even funnier than the one with the soda can box. I was waiting for him to jump down off the counter and push the box closer so he could jump into it.
hamletta
@Fencedude: I know! Lazy bastards. People will whore their children out for teevee, though. We regularly get young people whose parents used their SSNs to get cable when their tab was too high to pay.
@Indylib: According to America’s Test Kitchens, the secret is…vodka! Dos vidanya!
No, really. They have this cheesy little animated segment that’s trying to reach Alton Brown but not so much because they’re PBS, and vodka works as well as water to soften the dough enough to work with, but doesn’t bond with the proteins in the flour to form gluten, which is good in pizza dough, bad in pie dough, and cooks off when you bake it.
See how easy?
Brachiator
@Comrade Kevin:
The accompanying mini-scandal is that this story is not covered on the ESPN site, even though it obviously is news everywhere else.
Comrade Kevin
@Brachiator: I heard it on SportsCenter.
Brachiator
@Comrade Kevin:
Still nothing on the ESPN web site right now, not even if you search for it.
There is a lot of this floating around…
Here for example
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/07/21/source-espn-issues-do-not-report-alert-on-roethlisberger-story/
One sports radio station I was listening to was getting a big chuckle out of this, and linking to reports that tomorrow morning TMZ is going to release a cell phone video showing Lebron James being dunked on by a kid at his basketball camp, a situation that Lebron and Nike had been trying to suppress.
Not a good day for bonehead censorship.
freelancer
Couldn’t sleep so I decided to tune into Glenn Beck for giggles. I’ve never actually watched the show, just the clips they show on TDS and Colbert. Huge mistake. That show is some serious nightmare fuel because it has helped me arrive at two fundamental truths:
1) Anyone, and I mean ANYONE who tunes into his show on a nightly basis needs an ice cream cone, a hug from their dad, a bedtime story, and to have their Fucking head examined!
2) Given the choice to clock either Osama bin Laden or Beck square in the eye, I think I’d be stumped, honestly.
a)Pseudo-religious nutbag propagandist, inciter of violent extremism, and true enemy of everything that America stands for
vs.…
b)Saudi terrorist and murderer.
In all seriousness, I’d execute OBL in a heartbeat, but as far as aggravated assault is concerned, I admit that I’d really have to think about it, the guy has the most punchable face in the universe.
Brachiator
@freelancer:
Look on the bright (dark) side. On the other side of the world, people are enjoying the longest (six minutes) total solar eclipse this century.
Some pics here
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1201312/Solar-eclipse-Asia-brings-millions-streets-rooftops.html;jsessionid=F5E2788F83A7D87B76FEF9577C23F0B2
eglenn
My wife works in Corporate Research for a media company. The Neilsen ratings are frequently aggregated in age groups bands like ‘2-12′ or ’18-34′.
The oldest group is ’65+’. That also happens to be the *average* age of Fox News viewers.
R-Jud
@freelancer: I can’t watch even a few seconds of Glenn Beck because (blinding craziness aside) he looks, sounds, and moves like the asshole gym teacher I was stuck with all through high school. I just want to stamp on his windpipe.
Comrade Darkness
@Indylib: Alton has a great segment on pie crust. He really gets into the science of flakey/tender.
We made the best crust ever for a smoked turkey pot pie the other day. I took a thin slab of pork belly, ground it up in the cuisineart, tossed the bits into boiling water for 20 minutes, ran it through a screen filter, put it in the fridge until it formed a nice white disk, then used half that, half butter for the dough. Man o man.
Basically, screw the crisco, go for the piggie.
jenniebee
I know it’s been said a million times before, but God Bless, Mika is obnoxious.
RedKitten
@Betsy:
I have a foolproof biscuit recipe. Foolproof, I tells ya. I’ll post it here for you (and I know I’m providing an absurd amount of detail in the instructions, but that’s for the benefit of any non-bakers out there who want to give these a try):
CLOUD BISCUITS
2 cups flour (I just use regular flour. If you want whole-wheat, mix half white and half whole-wheat so that they’re not too dense.)
4 tsp. baking powder
1 Tbsp. sugar
1/2 tsp salt
2/3 cup of milk (I use 1%, but it really doesn’t matter what kind you use)
1 large egg, beaten
1/2 cup shortening (I just use plain old Crisco)
All measurements are level, not heaping.
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Sift flour, baking powder, sugar and salt into a big bowl.
Cut in shortening (get one of those pastry cutter gizmos that looks like a torture device — they’re worth it), until your mixture looks like coarse crumbs. (between the size of peas and marbles).
Combine your milk with your egg and mix it well, then dump the whole thing into your flour mixture.
Flour your board now before your hands get messy.
Mix it all together — some people use a spoon but I prefer to mix it with my hands. Pat it all together into a ball-ish shape, plop it out onto your board, and roll gently with a rolling pin until it’s about 3/4 inch to an 1 inch thickness. I tend to err on the side of them being really thick, ’cause I like a really big honkin’ biscuit.
Cut them with a round cutter — don’t twist your cutter: just down, a little wiggle, up, and pop it out. When you’ve cut as many as you can, you can just wodge all the rest of the dough together, make it into another ball, re-roll, and keep on going. Put them on an ungreased baking sheet, and bake them at 450 degrees for about 10-15 minutes on the middle rack. When they start to look golden on top, you can take them out.
Enjoy! (Let me know how they turn out for you, okay?)
jenniebee
Holy Shit, Cali is going to try to solve its budget problems by having Ahnuld sell autographs for the state.
And this format on Morning Joe with three reasonably but not wildly intelligent men talking over the head of a dim blonde is not selling me on their politics.
Sarah Palin would be preferable in Mika’s place. She’s no brighter, but at least she knows her own dull mind.
Betsy
@RedKitten:
Hey, thanks!! I will totally try that recipe, and let you know how it goes. Assuming I get to it before you are, um, otherwise engaged.
Edit: Seeing your note about the cutter makes me wonder if my problem last time was that I tried to make drop biscuits, since I didn’t have any cutters on hand at the time.
PaulW
Cats In Boxes = Jokes About Schrodinger
Phoebe
Is that Tucker Carlson on keyboards?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8TBmeK9Abg
Just say yes.
ironranger
Fox is so ridiculous. When I hear otherwise normal, smart people quote from Fox my opinion of them takes a nosedive. I’d feel sorry for them but they are allowing themselves to be bamboozled.
Such concern over Dr. Benjamin’s weight. She looks just fine to me. Never mind about her impressive qualifications. R’s wouldn’t have questioned refridgerator Denny Hastert for surgeon general. Being a tampon heir would have been good enough.
JGabriel
@jenniebee:
Generic Palin Response: We’re progressing that too for Alaskans! Oh … and it’s gotta include tax cuts! Also, to help those people, those real Americans, who are out there working to get Americans working again.
.
Tom G
Re: dog in a bucket, cats etc…one of my favorite “America’s Funniest Home Videos” consisted simply of a camera in a paper bag, showing a cat coming by, looking in, and charging full speed into the camera. For some reason, that one always made me laugh.
DZ
@John Cole: I’m an older, leftwing cynic, but I am a sucker for animal pictures. I have never been able to take a successful picture, but all 4 of my Siberian huskies sleep under my bed at night, and it’s not a high bed. Still working on getting enough light and the necessary depth perspective.
rachel
Thomas Friedman seems to have decided that Obama’s 6 months to do what Bush should have done in Afghanistan are up.
A Mom Anon
@ironranger:
I see no one questioning Rush’s weight. Hannity isn’t exactly svelte either. I know,they’re not the Surgeon General,but this woman isn’t fat. She’s about a size 14-16(from what I can guess,having a closet full of those sizes myself) which is the average American woman these days. It’s really brilliant to go insulting the average woman,not that the newshairs care who they insult. Skinny doesn’t always equal healthy anyhow. Is she a good doctor? Does she care about her patients and the health of the country? THAT’S what matters to most people.
ironranger
A Mom Anon:
Michele Obama’s toned arms were criticized too. Idiots.
Beeb
A blog for the bakers: http://pastrystudio.blogspot.com/
Do not read while hungry. :>)
debit
@Betsy: You actually don’t need a cutter. A glass will work just as well.
DougJ
I think it’s Roger Federer in a tux.
RedKitten
You know, I’ve tried using a glass instead of a cutter, and hated it. It wound up almost creating a bit of a vacuum, and the biscuits were a bitch to get out. On some cooking shows, I’ve also seen them just cut up their dough into squares with a very sharp knife, which would probably work too.
YMMV.
rachel
If you cut the biscuits into squares, you don’t have to either 1) waste any dough 2) make tough biscuits from re-rolling the scraps (the more you work regular biscuit dough, the tougher the biscuits). Who says they have to be round anyway? Square ones taste just the same.
lotus
‘Nother blog for the bakers (of anything, any skill level) . . . all-purpose droolers welcome too:
http://www.thefreshloaf.com
R-Jud
This scone recipe is the best I’ve ever found. And I used half milk/half Greek-style yogurt in place of the buttermilk. With raspberry jam and a well-made cup of tea, they are heavenly.
Krista, if you twist the glass as you draw it out, that usually breaks the vacuum seal. However, if you’re happy with your cutters, carry on by all means.
DZ
@Rachel: I’m with you on the shape. I don’t roll them out at all. I press them with my hands to the right thicknes, cut biscuits with a knife and bake. Shapes are a bit all over the map, but they taste good.
RedKitten
@R-Jud: That probably would work. I’ve always been told to nevah, evah twist the cutter, though, because it can make the biscuit uneven, resulting in dry spots. I’m a bit of a chickenshit when it comes to baking, though — once I find something that works, I rarely vary from it, for fear of fucking it up.
R-Jud
@RedKitten: Ah, I’ve never heard that warning (nor ever had that problem). Baking is weird.
Svensker
@Comrade Darkness:
We made the best crust ever for a smoked turkey pot pie the other day. I took a thin slab of pork belly, ground it up in the cuisineart, tossed the bits into boiling water for 20 minutes, ran it through a screen filter, put it in the fridge until it formed a nice white disk, then used half that, half butter for the dough. Man o man.
Isn’t it just easier to go buy lard?
Betsy
I kind of love that this has turned into a baking thread.
RedKitten, I’m with you – if it works, I do it exactly the same way every time forever.
I’m not like this with cooking, mind, but baking is so much more finicky.
RJud, those scones sound yummy.
If anyone’s curious, my rosemary-olive oil bread came from Bittman’s How To Cook Everything. I needed quite a bit more flour than he called for (when I used his amounts, the dough was practically liquid) but aside from that it turned out spectacularly. I would use more rosemary next time, too – the bread was delicious, but didn’t have much rosemary flavor.
freelancer
@rachel:
I’ve got one thing to say to Tom Friedman: F.U.
http://www.eschatonblog.com/2006_05_21_atrios_archive.html
*****
And yes, I woke up to Morning Joe. Mika is so vapid and dense that she makes Scarborough make sense. Dog-sitting at my parents’, with their Dtv Satellite feed, has turned me into a curmudgeon whereas I now feel that cable and satellite exist to sap its audience of any creativity and independent thought.
Scarborough mentioned that the birther crazies from the Town Hall video were right out of Idiocracy, however, I think it’s a little worse than that. The birthers are nuts, but the idiocracy is being forged in the inanity of cable broadcasting. Mika and Joe, in the span of one hour, circled around the birther vid, Henry Louis Gates’ false arrest, Obama’s Healthcare talk, the Taliban-captured US Soldier, and then finally back to birther vid in a mobius strip of concentrated, blase, insanely stupid commentary.
I’m so glad I don’t have cable, and I can’t imagine paying for it.
schrodinger's cat
Does anyone have a good recipe for biscotti. I am thinking of baking some this weekend.
Thanks.
sab
farmgirlfare.com had an amazing chocolate biscotti receipe a while back. I’d link, but I’m an incompetent technophobe who can barely manage to lurk on my favorite blogs.