I still don't like, or understand, chemistry...

but I am real damn amused

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just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water

I proudly bring you another entry from 187 Ways To Amuse a Bored Cat, now with bonus commentary!

#155 - Sock Toys

A very simple, inexpensive plaything for kittens and cats is a child's white kneesock lightly stuffed with either waxed paper or the crinkly cellophane wrappers of cigarette packs [cause that's how I roll and I want my beloved to inhale some sort of toxic BPA/nicotine residue mix].  Tie the sock closed with a bit of yarn [it's a kneesock, tie a knot in it].  The toy is lightweight and makes noise. Kittens throw it in the air, jump on it, and attack it.  It cannot harm them [except for the toxic BPA/nicotine residue mix], and it can be emptied and washed.

A.L.S., Englishtown, NJ

Okay, my ribbing aside, this is actually a pretty good idea.  One of Bink's favorites is something that acts just like it but costed much more than sock and a pack of cigs.  I kid.  I think I'll get a sock from the pile of book-residue covered laundry [which is still just as you saw it in the picture from an earlier post] and put some Wal-mart sacks in it.  They didn't actually come from Wal-mart, that's just what we call them.  Similarly, I might be caught asking you what kind of Coke you want rather than asking your soft drink preferences.  It's what many of us do here in Alabama, get over it.

So, it's nearly 11:30pm and I'm drinking decaf coffee and eating rice.  It feels like a weekend night and that sounds pretty good up until the point when my alarm goes off at 6am tomorrow morning (which is getting closer and closer btw).  I'll be glad when daylight savings ends (begins?), when we fall back an hour anyway.  I don't like getting up in the dark as it just makes everything harder than it should be.  Binky thinks I'm straight nut crazy as well as she is currently in my room moaning like a lion on the Serengeti.  In Binky-speak that means it's bedtime and my dumb @$$ just doesn't get it.

Okay Binky, okay!  I wish ya'll could hear this, she's so bossy.

night, ya'll!

no stone unturned...

or perhaps it should be no grave left undisturbed...

as Cinematical blogger Elisabeth Rappe points out, Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula, has an ending and a pretty definitive one at that.  She reports, however, that Stoker's great-grandnephew (Dacre Stoker....okay, that sounds sexy!)  has been authorized by the Stoker estate to write a sequel to be called Dracula: The Undead, based on characters and plots edited out of Bram's version, which will then be adapted into a feature film.  Dacre, sexy or not, I really feel is messing with something that needs no further interpretation but who am I to judge?  If you've read Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian, you'll know what I mean :)  Anyway, I'm not a big fan of sequels to anything at all.  

What do ya'll think?

del Torro dirt

The Hobbit is coming along!  In fact, del Torro is pretty excited about it.  He had this to say, "Believe me, I am jumping up-and-down inside this fat body!"

You have to respect that kind of excitment, you just gotta.

Also, he seems to definitely be working on an adaptation of Frankenstein.  He did say he was not doing Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, but rather an adventure story with that character.  I say he could have ol' Franky participating in a sack race with Jason at Crystal Lake and I'd still watch it!

O.......M.......G ! ! !

Thanks for the heads-up, KT!

Checkout Jay Walker's personal library!  (I know, it's an unfortunate name, but with this much money who cares?)

Seriously, I'm salivating RiGhT nOw!

I would give both ovaries for a set-up like this in my house....hell, half of it even...

Right now all I have are purple plastic tubs from Dollar General.  Never have they seemed as white-redneck-trash as they do at this particular moment.

new ink!

So Thursday I got a new tattoo...

So I am fundamentally unable to be frugal, sue me...I'm expressing support for the local economy.

Anyway, I put the following quote (Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus) on the inside of my left forearm:

Come, and take choice of all my library

And so beguile thy sorrow...

It is in a Shakespeare-ish font that I downloaded from dafont.com and it makes me v.v. happy :)  As soon as it heals up I'll take some good photos.  I should have taken one right after I got it, but now it's starting to heal and is somewhat...I hate to say scabby, but there it is.  When this little period of time is over, I'll display it here for you :)

that is all.

I bought this from Anne-Julie Aubry

for your consideration

Carl over at Stainless Steel Droppings has posted an interview with French artist Anne-Julie Aubry that you should definitely check out.  (I know KT is going to love the art and Erica as well!)  SSD is the site through which I participate in the RIP Challenge III (which I've got to get mOvInG on!).  There are all sorts of creepy things going on over there so don't miss out!  Visit Anne-Julie Aubry's Etsy site and get some of her art for yourself!  I can see some on my walls right now :)

T! This puppy looks kinda like Bella!

Plus I could SO see this happening with her :)

another cute kitteh

This is not my kitteh, but I distinctly remember her doing stuff like this when she was a youngster :)