I should tell you, both seasons of Andor on DVD/Blu-Ray are checked out at my library system.
Star Wars has had a long history of pop music influence - from the disco version of the main theme onward - and the "Niamos" track is no different.
If I can't dance I don't want to be in your revolution - Emma Goldman
Oh my GAWD its a Krazy kat!!!
Your lap will never be safe again!!!!
Enjoy your 13th!
Update: so of course the original video refuses to upload. /sigh
Okay, I'm gonna have to go the long way around and upload the video through YouTube... which I can't do at work, so wait until this evening when I get home.
(muttering) damn Blogspot...
On the night of February 2 2014, Ocean the Wiggle Cat decided she'd had enough of watching the Seattle Seahawks blowing out the rancid Denver Broncos to the tune of 43-8, so she hurried into the cat cave to nest and give birth to six Seahawks kittehs.
Five of them moved on to other homes through adoption, and here's hoping they are still alive and still rooting for the team they first saw winning the Super Bowl.
As for Mal the Krazy Kat, who remains here waiting for this coming Sunday matchup between his beloved Seahawks and THE EVIL EMPIRE PATRIOTS?
This house is a 'Hawks House this weekend, kiddos. 12TH CAT UP.
Next week we're back to plotting out Tampa Bay Bucs draft options.
Update: YAS, Mal's team won!
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Whadda ya mean, they don't make cat merch for Super Bowls???
Struggling a lot in my writing schedule lately, just unable to find motivation to continue/finish any of the novel projects I've started over the decades (!). One thing I had hoped to keep my interest afresh is seeing about getting things submitted to the Florida Writers Association's annual Royal Palm awards (although they cancelled the category I was good at with Non-Fiction Blogging).
Except that, well...
After thoughtful review and careful consideration, the Florida Writers Association Board of Directors has voted to pause the Royal Palm Literary Awards for the 2026 season.
This strategic pause allows FWA to thoughtfully strengthen and reimagine the program—refining standards, modernizing systems, and aligning RPLA with current industry practices and serving FWA's vision as a premier resource for writers at every stage of their journey...
Well hell.
I do know the organization had been struggling with aspects of the awards - especially with trying to find enough volunteer judges to help review submissions - but this seems to be something more troubling. Without knowing the backroom dynamics that led to this decision, there's nothing else I can think of.
So... um... does anybody know where I can hire a copy editor who owns an egg timer and a 2x4? It's the only motivational coaching that can help me now...
Someone on Bluesky gave me the inspiration to put fabric bat wings on my cat Mal so he can dress up for Halloween. They came in this Saturday.
Mal pulled the wings off his body in 13 seconds.
He does not like the bat wings.
He didn't fit the Batman Cowl I tried to get him last year either. /sigh
I had last posted how my wiggle kitteh was getting thinner and not as active, that Ocean was having trouble jumping onto the furniture like usual. So I took her in to the vet.
...They found a mass near her stomach. They took more ultrasounds and found two lumps, one on her large intestine and on her liver. They also spotted enlarged lymph nodes, which told them she had lymphoma and the aggressive untreatable kind.
(small "no").
She wasn't in any outward pain, but she was clearly uncomfortable, and I didn't want Ocean to struggle for another month or so before the pain got too much. It's hard, really hard for a person to take a pet companion - a fur baby - to the vet one last time.
It wasn't easy back in 2013 when I had to let Tehya the Pretty Kitty go to rest, and it wasn't easy today for Ocean.
Ocean was the kitten who came to me a week after Tehya died, on Halloween night meowing for trick or treat at the apartment stairwell. She was so fearless, happy to run up the stairs to my doorway to greet me going out and okay with coming inside my apartment to check it out. I called her Wiggles for how she'd roll around on her back when I got close. When I took her in for good a few weeks after Halloween and took her to the vet, the nurses there said "Wiggles" wasn't a proper name so I named her Ocean (for a then-recent Gaiman novel). But she was always Wiggles to me.
And then she had her babies on Super Bowl eve as the Broncos got blown out by the Seahawks. I hope the five kittehs I gave up for adoption - River, Simon, Inara, Zoey, Jayne - went to good homes and hopefully staying healthy. I kept Mal, and you all know how much of a handful he's been.
I wonder how confused Mal is going to be tonight, the first night without mama cat. :(
These are among the last photos I've taken of Ocean. I may upload a video or two of her purring later. I never videorecorded Tehya or Page when I should have, because today I can barely remember how they purred or meowed at me. :(
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| This is Ocean just before the vet came in. They let me hold her to my side as they performed the injections. It's so heartbreaking how she stopped moving. |
I am so sorry I wasn't able to take better care of you, my kittehs. /cries
Well, Ocean hasn't been doing so well the past couple weeks.
She's been getting thinner, and she hasn't been able to jump onto the sofa where she likes to rest half the time. I took her to the vet, where they noted she's lost 5 pounds since her last weigh-in this December.
Her bloodwork came back okay, but her urine showed a UTI, so I'm giving her antibiotics for that.
She came to me back on Halloween night 2013 and when I brought her in she was this tiny thing. She got big in a hurry - and then had six kittehs - and she'd been this active wiggly cat ever since.
But that's 12 years ago, and she was at least six months, maybe a year old when she showed at the base of the apartment steps. She's already in the 'senior' category for cats, and I'm worried this is not a good turn for her.
May have to take her in for x-rays to make sure it's not cancer - the thing that took Tehya, poor kitteh - or anything just as serious.
Pray for my mama cat, please.
