some chucklehead's always trying to take over the world

[freckles_and_doubt]

I have déjà vu. There's a half-grown fluffy ginger tom with a white shirt front who's been wandering into our kitchen of a night and spraying, very slightly, somewhere I can't actually find. In the last couple of days he's become bolder, or possibly desperate, and wanders in while I'm cooking to dive head first into our cats' food bowls with every evidence of starvation, or to stand at the doorway making plaintive meeping noises. He's actually a very sweet and affectionate creature, and will headbutt my ankles and purr if I give him half a chance. This is pretty much the same extremely successful tactical plan followed by Ounce, although I don't think Ginger is a stray, he's very emphatically glossy, fluffy and beautiful. Nonetheless I am losing the will to chase him from the kitchen, which I suspect is a Bad Sign. We really don't need another cat.

In other news: pitch-perfect fairy tale by Catherynn M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship Of Her Own Making. Shades of Thackeray, Baum, Nesbit, all the good stuff. Matter-of-fact, off-beat, delectable. Look out for the soap golem and the flying leopard.

And, finally, annoying admin this week has driven me back into the arms of The Middleman's hyper-linguistic frivolity. Goofy Middleman Exclamations Du Jour: "Dagnabbit!" "Well, gosh!" "Scout's Honour!" "Swell!" "Shoot!" "Well, dagdiggity!" "Jeepers!" "Regoshdarneddiculous!" "Not a gosh-darned chance in heck!" and, memorably, "that was some darn fine cow-squirt!" Bonus points for the Jolly Fats Wehawkin Temp Agency. I feel much better now.

Comments

[stringgeek.livejournal.com]

A blacklight can help you find where he's spraying.

That book sounds very interesting, and I still haven't done anything with that gift certificate yet.

I say dagnabbit all the time! It's my favorite non-swearing swear word. :)

Ooooh

[first-fallen.livejournal.com]

I see a whole world of goth blacklight cat pee art :). Kinda Jackson Pollock, holding a spraying cat.

Come on, if a messy bed is art then anything is.

Re: Ooooh

[stringgeek.livejournal.com]

I'd just like to point out that a messy bed doesn't smell as bad. Usually. :-P

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

The book is not available for sale, it's online, being put up a chapter at a time. Not finished yet, but very well worth the wait.

Blacklight is a marvellously CSI sort of suggestion, and definitely worth a try. Thank you!