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Happy Birthday, Jeff [Dan Collins]

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79 Replies to “Happy Birthday, Jeff [Dan Collins]”

  1. Joe says:

    Happy Birthday.

  2. happyfeet says:

    Jeez. That LensCrafters dude is back with his satin-collared smoking jacket on again and his unbuttoned shirt collar. And he still hasn’t shaved and he just leers and leers and then if you refresh he goes away. Disturbing. oh. Happy birthday Mr. Goldstein! Tomorrow I mean. For my birthday I’m having red velvet cake for sure. It’s my new favorite. But that’s not for awhile.

  3. Carin says:

    I’m not seeing it Happy. I’ve got some “Third Jihad” documentary thing. The lenscrafters dude is from Detroit ( I think) so I’ve prollyl endured enough of him during my lifetime.

  4. Carin says:

    Happy, have you ever had Italien Creme Cake? OMG, it’s the best. It’s a billion calories a piece (900 or something) but it’s wonderful. Best. Cake. Eva.

  5. VAHighlander says:

    Happy Birthday!

    /Gotta get it in early before this thread is 300 posts long!

  6. Spies, Brigands, and Pirates says:

    Happy Birthday!

  7. Carin says:

    Oh, and Happy b-day Jeff.

    Here’s a link to the recipe: Italian Creme Cake . It’s important you use good coconut. That that nasty dried-out stuff.

  8. Joe says:

    Well here is another guy who is going to lose some ad revenue too. Although it does help to explain his appetite.

    And red velvet cake is good stuff. Especially after a little…well just say no.

  9. Carin says:

    Not that…

    I’ve only had two glasses of wine.

  10. router says:

    Just for you on this special day: Creamy Parsnip Soup.

  11. happyfeet says:

    Italian Cream Cake… I will look and see if maybe I can pick one up. Pretty sure I’ve never had. I wouldn’t venture to make one myself though. But it definitely looks like a cake I wouldn’t kick out of bed.

  12. Carin says:

    It’s not hard. I’m not much of a baker … I can, but I really have to concentrate, and I turn out a good one.

    I know my mil found one at Sams or Costco … but it wasn’t as good. Home made, it’s exceptionally good.

    My FIL didn’t like coconut, so my mil could never put that in it. When he passed away, we could finally enjoy the cake in all it’s glory.

  13. geoffb says:

    Happy Birthday Jeff!

    As we say at our church, God grant you many years, many blessed years.

  14. Dan Collins says:

    You really miss your fil, don’t you, Carin? ;-P

  15. Joe says:

    Try this on your birthday!

    That will wake you up better than a double expresso shot.

  16. Carin says:

    Well, I always resented that he wouldn’t let us have the Italian creme cake in all it’s glory ;)

    He passed away while on vacation. We should all be that lucky.

    (he had a long-term heart condition, and exceeded expectations for survival so that’s a good thing.)

    That said, he could have let us enjoy a bit of coconut every now and then during his life. It is a bit boring w/o it. Really, no point to it.

  17. takeshi kovacs says:

    Happy Birthday, Jeff.

  18. Dan Collins says:

    A day without coconut is like a . . . aw, I might as well kill myself.

  19. Carin says:

    You joke, Dan, but once you’ve had Italian Creme Cake in all it’s glory … you won’t be thinking it’s all so funny.

  20. happyfeet says:

    Coconut has lots of fiber.

  21. router says:

    Tom Hanks didn’t like too much coconut in some film I saw.

  22. serr8d says:

    Happy Birthday, Jeff, but be forewarned…they do get pesky after awhile.

    I’ll knock back a nice draught of Grey Goose in your honor.

    Skoal!

  23. Stephanie says:

    HB, JG!!

  24. Dr. Weevil says:

    Jeff’s birthday is important, but don’t forget that tomorrow is Groundhog’s Eve!

  25. SDN says:

    Happy Birthday, Jeff.

    Mine’s tomorrow, too.

  26. router says:

    Some Steyn for your B’day:

    All that’s happened is that the pseudo-revolution of the corporate rockers has now spread to the political sphere. It’s the exact same formula: Millions of doting flower children hold hands and singalong with “This Is The Hoping Of The Change Of The Hopeychange…” and then Tom Daschle jets off in the Gulfstream worrying only that the couple hundred extra grand in non-declarable income he tossed in the hold might impact the weight balance.

    As for “Republican being the new punk”, only in the sense that McCain-Palin wound up like Sid and Nancy in the Hotel Chelsea.

  27. Big D says:

    #

    Comment by happyfeet on 1/31 @ 7:33 pm #

    Coconut has lots of fiber.

    So you can have your cake and….remain regular?

    HF, you are right on the Red Velvet Cake. Must be a southern thing.

    Happy Birthday Jeff.

  28. mcgruder says:

    happy birthday.
    i hope you nearly kill a tenured radical during an impromptu catch wrestling panel at the next MLA.

  29. McGehee says:

    I’ll bet Jeff can blow out all the candles on his cake just by flaring one nostril while standing in the other room.

  30. McGehee says:

    Groundhog’s Eve

    Groundhogs got feminine hygiene products?

  31. Diana says:

    Happy Birthday, Jeff.

  32. SarahW says:

    It’s tomorrow! Yay and happy birthday, Jeff.

  33. Warren Bonesteel says:

    Hey! Jeff can’t do birthdays!

    He’s an outlaw!

    Outlaws don’t have birthdays. They don’t do birthdays cakes, either.

    Of course, if his wife is a pirate…

  34. Spies, Brigands, and Pirates says:

    I thought that pirate was born on February 29?

  35. SarahW says:

    Well, I guess it’s eleven o’ clock in Colorado. But it’s tomorrow here.

  36. SarahW says:

    Outlaws do Cupcakes.

  37. Spies, Brigands, and Pirates says:

    It’s always tomorrow somewhere. It’s like 5:00 that way, I think.

  38. Topsecretk9 says:

    Happy Birthday Mr. Jeff. I miss you lots, but will always be a faithful PW’er and hope you have a great day day.

  39. cjd says:

    Mine was 3 days ago, Jeff. Happy Birfday to us!

  40. Topsecretk9 says:

    cjd

    so what? You gotta be a chick and celebrate birthday “week” or something?

  41. Topsecretk9 says:

    cjd

    that was an attempt (lame? sure) at a joke, was not even trying to be mean.

  42. cjd says:

    TSK9,

    No worries, I’m drunk anyway. Hopefully you, Jeff, and all the other PW’s are too.

  43. Happy Birthday, Jeff!

  44. Lamontyoubigdummy says:

    I think Mark Steyn called us all punks.

    Sweet.

    Happy Birthday dude.

    Don’t touch Carin’s coconuts.

  45. Cowboy says:

    I miss all the best PW parties…there was cake and wine, people were drunk, Carin had her coconuts out…

    And I’m sittin’ here drinking cold coffee at 5 in the morning because I can’t sleep.

    Story of my life. Oh well, happy b-day, JG!

  46. Lamontyoubigdummy says:

    You have coffee Cowboy!?

    I knew I needed something to put my bourbon in.

    Wait…

    It’s 5:00am there?

    Ah, shit. I’m gonna need a juice box and a nap.

  47. AKA Pablo says:

    Happy birthday!

  48. Rusty says:

    Happy Birthday,Jeff.

  49. ThomasD says:

    Picture the ghost of JFK on Anna Nicole channelling the ghost of Marilyn Monroe.

  50. ThomasD says:

    Um, that should read

    Picture the ghost of JFK on the ghost of Anna Nicole channelling the Ghost of Mariliyn Monroe.

    Happy Birthday.

  51. Darleen says:

    Happy Birthday, boss!

  52. Jeff G. says:

    Thanks, all!

  53. Bob Reed says:

    Happy Birthday Jeff G.

    Many happy returns, and may you have more birthdays ahead of you than you have already put behind…

  54. Swen Swenson says:

    Happy B-Day! And many more (you’ll make a great curmudgeon, I’d bet)!

  55. B Moe says:

    Happy Day, Jeff. Mine is Friday, come down to Athens and we will get fucked up and work on my new car.

  56. Great Mencken's Ghost! says:

    Happy birthday, Jeff!

    Maybe this will be of use to you in light of the recent unpeasantness….

  57. Great Mencken's Ghost! says:

    UnPLeasantness… no offense to Dennis.

  58. happyfeet says:

    GMG! You’ve been scarce I think. But then me too kinda. Hi.

  59. Lamontyoubigdummy says:

    I dunno…”unpeasantness” kinda works.

    Me no wise.

    Me no vote for the Obama.

    But me no peasant.

    Me unpeasant.

  60. Slartibartfast says:

    Happy Birthday, Jeff. Maybe you’ll be able to snap someone’s leg today.

    I’d volunteer, but I don’t think I’m that good a friend to anyone.

  61. Seth says:

    Happy Birthday, Jeff (Today!)

  62. Joe says:

    I do not want to depress you, but here some career paths for writers in Colorado:

    1) Move to Aspen. Make Friends with Johnny Depp. Kill yourself at the end of football season. Be shot out of a canon.

    2) Hole up in Estes Park. Write a commerically successful fictional story about writer’s block and being tempted to kill your own family–and getting past it. Have a producer/director buy the right then make a movie that is arguably better than the book but changes the story and have that bug the crap out of you for the rest of your life.

    3) There must be an option 3.

  63. Lamontyoubigdummy says:

    “1) Move to Aspen. Make Friends with Johnny Depp. Kill yourself at the end of football season. Be shot out of a canon. ”

    I miss Hunter Thompson too.

  64. Spies, Brigands, and Pirates says:

    Hmm… Colorado. So that would be a Western Canon, then? :-)

  65. Joe says:

    Maybe it was a Canon camera. My bad.

  66. Joe says:

    There is always meet a rich miner in Leadville. Get married. Burn your money in the cabin stove. Have your husband find a much richer strike. Move to Denver. Survive the sinking of the Titanic. Have a musical written about you and have Debbie Reynolds play you in the movie.

  67. ushie says:

    Happy Birthday, Jeff. May the road rise before you…wait, wouldn’t that make it more difficult? The Irish are peculiar.

  68. Joe says:

    You could do some crude animation of fourth graders in a fictional Colorado town. Get a gig on ComedyCentral. Make friends with Andrew Sullivan. Make a movie that mocks Hollywood and Kim Il Jong with puppets…

    I can already tell this story will end like Option 1, nevermind.

  69. Lamontyoubigdummy says:

    But…Joe.

    I’m so ronrey.

    And fuck that Hans Brix guy.

  70. Obstreperous Infidel says:

    Happy Birthday, you magnificent bastard. Enjoy.

  71. Joe says:

    101. Terrye:

    Joe:

    I like Jeff at PW, but when was he not having a fit about something? It is his default. In fact he has been threatening to quit forever.

    Feb 1, 2009 – 1:03 pm [Reader Comment at Roger Simon’s PJM Explaination]

    “A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.” Robert Heinlein

  72. dicentra says:

    Happy Birthday, you sick twisted freak.

    It’s still Sunday in my time zone, so this isn’t belated or anything.

    Oh, and folks? Jeff has patchouli oil on his Amazon wish list. Looks like we’ve got ourselves a stealth hippie here, trying to pass as an OUTLAWâ„¢.

  73. Silver Whistle says:

    Mazeltov

  74. Spies, Brigands, and Pirates says:

    Jeff has patchouli oil on his Amazon wish list.

    IIRC, he was planning to use that as one element of his disguise for the Democratic Convention.

  75. Jeff G. says:

    Indeed.

    I went with “smoke a lot of weed” instead, though. Which somehow wound up making me smell like Funyons.

    Probably because of all the Funyons I ate. I blame the transitive property.

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