Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Sunday, July 16, 2006
Stray Cat Blues
Just… ugh, just damn it. What’s my name around here again?
Some things to offset the gloom:
http://homepage.mac.com/trorb/BikeTV/iMovieTheater109.html
http://www.kittenwar.com
http://ratemykitten.com/
http://www.stuffonmycat.com/
http://catsinsinks.com/
http://www.mycathatesyou.com/
http://www.infinitecat.com/
http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/hum1/guidelines_for_cats.htm
http://www.dansdata.com/kitten.htmOkay, I’m all catted out for now. Except for the one sleeping next to the computer here.
Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 07/16 at 08:29 AMGood post. Thought I should add....
http://www.pet-abuse.com/pages/abuse_connection.php
And lest we forget…
http://www.all-creatures.org/aip/nl-3nov2000-frogs.html
Captcha = “them” Like protect ?
Posted by Luna_C on from The Delta 07/16 at 10:44 AMHello Expendables...from warm Astoria. I just sat on my fire escape for a bit: writing haiku.
Luna and Cat Lady: Thanks for the excellent links. Perfect compliments to today’s post. Tomorrow’s post here will also be animal-related...but more from a media/propaganda angle.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 07/16 at 10:54 AMHi Expendables...speaking from 100-degree Austin, where I am comfortably ensconced in 78-degree a/c with my two puppies, who if anyone ever spits on THEM living or dead I will go nuclear without warning.
Been a time. I got my computer up and running this morning after some hairy-scary moments thinking it was busted in the recent move. Incorrect, as it turns out, and blessed be that’s the case. Still need to resolve my roommate’s hypercompliance issues re: landlord-vs-dogs. Even his therapist says he needs to take a chill pill in many areas of life (said this to me, in front of him, so I am not relying on re-transmission of knowledge).
My new neighborhood’s great. Small bungalows on big lots on several bus routes. Friendly Austin-y types abound, young handsome men go running in next to nothing a lot (suppose women do too, but I don’t notice), people walking dogs are always ready to chat as I walk to/from my bus stop. It’s much like the NYC I experienced. I was never one to ognore people as I wandered around the city, so I always had fun conversations like MZ reported having with Chomskyite White Collar Dude.
I view that anecdote a little differently than y’all seemed to: I am VERY pleased that a white-collar criminal even knew who Chomsky was, and had enough knowledge that his erroneous conclusions about Noam could be flipped.
MZ, last week you posted a pic of your yummy, furry abs...since I am so far away, it’s safe for me to tell you how much I enjoyed that image! I love a man with hairy...errr, I like hairy guys. (Smooth’s fine too, I am not too awfully picky.) Your body’s a work of art, and I’m pleased to have you share it visually with the masses; thanks for the treat!
And CatLady, thanks for the nostalgic pics of the view from your roof. How I miss my rooftop view of the Harbor!! Your physiognomy needs no comment from me. You know you’re beautiful, and not just to me. Straightness is fixable, ya know...and since roomie’s a veggie, I’m learning all the vegetarian and vegan places around town, in case you decide to visit some day. I’d love to see you, but fair warning...your virtue will be under seige from airport pick-up to airport drop-off.
Anyone seen RMJ lately? Now that I live in a place where there’s public transportation, I hope she’ll remember how warm it is here in the dead of y’all’s winter.
Well, off to see if I can find a part for our Chinese washdisher so I don’t have to boil water to wash dishes anymore.
Posted by Mudge on from Austin, Texas 07/16 at 02:45 PMOh yeah...yesterday you, MZ, said something about the big pics being proof agains “Mudge-related whining” and I wonder, am I meant to be the whiner or the whined-about? Has Hubby Dearest missed me or something?
And I send all kinds of healing energies to Grandma Helen that she may use to do what she most wants to do.
Posted by Mudge on from Austin, Texas 07/16 at 02:52 PMMudge! For what Mickey was talking about regarding the whining I was doing, dig back in past comments boards since you’ve been gone.
Virtue? Under seige? Well this straightness probably is overrated. At least the women I meet as a result of it. They’re all such aliens. All this bad timing lately. And along with that my job situation’s as bad as ever. I’m glad you seem to have things more together now… though if you have any whammies stored up to send up north…
Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 07/16 at 03:16 PMHi Mickey, Mudge, Luna, and James.
James...those were great photos...a spectacular skyline as a view and you are a cool looking dude.
Mudge...the weather finally changed here. Right now I have 2 fans going but am still hot. Your new location sounds really great. Sounds like the way a lot of neighborhoods were back in the 50’s. I remember how great it was to live on a bus route. Here there is no public transportation....except for a small airport. Just to show you how government works, they wanted to extend the runway of that airport but never gave a good explanation why. It would have destroyed the neighborhood where I live. We all fought against it. I argued for public conventional transportation instead. Anyway to make a long story longer, no one could figure why all of this was happening. The main high profile person flying into this airport is Norman Lear. I don’t think he wants a longer runway. My theory is that some small aircraft manufacturing corporation is lobbying for it.
Grandma Helen is in our thoughts.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 07/16 at 03:25 PMAh yes, my discomfort in this oppressive weather has been pushed aside as I get to welcome Mudge home. I was not calling you a whiner...but your Cat Lady husband has been mooning for you in a big, big way.
And thanks for your kind words, re: my abs and furriness. Personally, I’d prefer having less body hair and more head hair but hey, you can’t have everything.
Hello RMJ. How hot is it in Vermont? NYC is in the throes of a classic heat wave.
Captcha, of course, sez: “summer.”
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 07/16 at 03:42 PMMickey, it is in the 90’s with oppressive humidity. The wildlife has been affected. I don’t often have any problem with wildlife except for the rabbits who dine on my flowers and the carpenter bees that drill holes in my house and also there was that time time that a wood chuck ate the wiring in my car. Now many people are having real problems with mice. I think that the enormous amounts of rain disturbed their habitats. A few days ago I realized that the main beam in my house was suddenly attacked by something. There are no termites in Vermont because it is too cold for them. I diagnosed the problem as carpenter ants. That’s a problem for anyone who does not believe in killing anything, even ants.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 07/16 at 04:36 PMOh how my heart sings with the joy of being reunited… we’ll commune again, wife o’ mine, but a local friend just invited me out to see Superman Returns in IMAX up at Lincoln Center.
But you’re the only super-man I neeed to return… oh brother, I’d better go.
Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 07/16 at 05:49 PMCatLady, dearest, cool your jets! I am positively scarlet with embarrassment after reading such love-notes as But like the born again Christians say, True Love Waits. I suppose I will track him down on my own. Anyone would think you’re...well...fond of me or something. >sigh< If I could afford to move back to NYC, we’d see how long that cattitude would last.
Personally, I trace this back to the time when I was describing the true quantum nature of Yggdrasil ("Odin’s Horse,” or the World Tree, remember?). Something went >ping< in CatLady’s psyche along about the time I mentioned the Norse experiential relationship to the string-theory level of reality.
The new Superman? Tell me what you think after seeing.
RMJ #9: Carpenter ants, oh NO. Badbadbad news for the death-o-phobic. I shall whammy them to find your home uncongenial and deeply unpleasant and so to move into the DA’s office.
WHAMMY
~and for good measure~
WHAMMY
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WHAMMYcaptcha="study" as in “studyin’ about that good ole way”
Posted by Mudge on from Austin, Texas 07/16 at 06:14 PMHe’s fonda you, Mudge. Fonda like Jane.
RMJ: Carpenter ants.
P.S. Some images from Lebanon...and one possible outcome?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 07/16 at 06:19 PMThis is worries me on so many levels…
bloody captcha says “attack”
Now that’s chaos for you....
Posted by Luna_C on from The Delta 07/16 at 07:48 PMLuna: When someone is considering a run for the White House (as is Newt), they’ll say practically anything to get attention.
It seems the current situation defies titles like World War this or that...and I can’t imagine things becoming any clearer if Israel goes all out on Lebanon and perhaps Syria while the U.S. defies Russia and China to take on Iran and/or North Korea. Maybe then, in the repressive aftermath, Americans will begin to finally question this whole “land of the free/home of the brave” bullshit...but I doubt it.
Captcha sez: “feet” (as in “don’t fail me now")
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 07/16 at 08:10 PMAaaah, the movie was sold out. I guess a lot of people wanted to be inside with air conditioning. It could have been the World Tree mention, or who knows what. Any leftover whammies would be appreciated. I know I don’t want to go back to my overnight job. These hour are too much now.
Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 07/16 at 09:10 PMshould really add mycatwearsclothes.com to this list now! so many cat websites so little time…
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