Mal The Krazy Kat on Friday the 13th Feb 2026 Edition

 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...

What Else Can I Do With a Black Cat on Halloween Except Put Bat Wings On Mal the Krazy Kat?

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

It's Quiet Man Time 2024 Edition

It's Saint Patrick's Day!

Time to dye the Chicago River green!

Time to eat Bangers And Mash!

What the hell's Bangers and Mash?

Time to figure out where Kate Middleton is doing all her own Photoshopping! Wait, that should go to my political blog...

Time to watch The Quiet Man!!!

 

2023 REVENGE OF THE FIFTH

Which is also considered Revenge of the Sixth for tomorrow, because May 5th conflicts with Cinco De Mayo...

Lemme get you some Sith:

Whoa.

Nickelback just called, Megan, they need you for the next tour.

This whole transition thing is a thing on TikTok and YouTube...

But how long have the geeks been making lightsaber video clips???

This was maybe 17 years ago (!):

FINISH HIM! Wait, wrong franchise...

If You're Wearing Green Today, You Won't Get Pinched (Also More Quiet Man clips)!

 Happy St. Patrick's Day ye Irish devils ye. Have some shenanigans from Inisfree!

The drinks are on the house! (every spit-takes) Well, they ARE!

The whole movie is like this. Impetuous! Homeric!!!

Erin Go Bragh!!!

May the 4th Be With You 2022 Edition

Wake up Nerf Herders!

It's MAY THE 4th!!!

Celebrate all the ways you can!

Celebrate in LEGO!

Dance to the rhythm of the Force!

And don't let the stormtroopers get you down!

Beware the Revenge of the Sixth, people!

It's Quiet Man Time! What Does Erin Go Bragh Mean Anywho...?

Well according to Merriam-Webster, Erin Go Bragh (or Braugh) translates from the Gaelic as Ireland Until Doomsday: In short, Ireland Forever. 

YOU LEARN SOMETHING NEW EVERY DAY, PEOPLE!

Now go wear your green, drive all the snakes out of Ireland your plane, and watch the Quiet Man on DVD or Turner Classics or something!

May The 4th Be With You this 2021

Due to Disney Plus, streaming services in dire need of fresh content, a growing comic book and print book industry of YA and adult materials, and an eager audience of Star Wars fandom spreading across three generations now, May the 4th is just about as official a national holiday as anything else.

It has helped somewhat during this pandemic to have our stories and our shows comfort us, to bring us light forth from the darkness.

They made a big deal today about releasing a new animated series The Bad Batch about the aftermath of Order 66. We've got a book series about the sunny days of the grand Republic, before its fall into war and chaos.

But let us not talk of heartbreak and the loss of hope during the Dark Times of the Empire.

Let us talk about BABY YODA!!!

ALL IS GOOD WITH THE FORCE AS AHSOKA IS BACK!

AND IF WE'RE REAL NICE THEY MIGHT LET THE FANS GOFUNDME A REMAKE OF EPISODE 9 TO FIX GLARING CONTINUITY ERRORS AND A BETTER ENDING.

...Yeah, that still hurts, I do need to issue a review of that when I can calm down.

Anyway, MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU!!!

May The 4th Be With YouTube

Just sayin', there's video clips aplenty:

Caturday With Mal February 2020

This is a big birthday weekend for Mal the Krazy Kat, but for now he's content sitting on the recliner bopping me in the face with his frickin tail.

Tomorrow should be a slightly crazier day, what what.

I Will Survive

Back from surgery.

This Morning

I have to go in for surgery to scoop out a growth on my Pituitary Gland.

So, in possibly a bad idea of tempting fate, I offer you this.

Offer up all the Unitarian prayers you got, fellow librarians and writers.

The Force Will Be With You Always AND OMG THEY HAVE A HORSE CAVALRY CHARGE IN A STAR WARS MOVIE

THE LAST OFFICIAL TRAILER FOR THE FINAL STAR WARS CANON FILM OH MY GOD I HAVE FEELS

I WAS SEVEN YEARS OLD WHEN THIS STARTED I AM NOT READY TO END THIS JOURNEY I WANT TO BE THERE FOR THIS PLEASE GOD LET ME LIVE LONG ENOUGH TO ENJOY THIS (and also live long enough for the Marvel/DC/Star Trek/Star Wars/Doctor Who/Power Rangers/Voltron/Godzilla/Lord of the Rings/Game of Thrones/X-Files/West Wing crossover event once Disney buys up every geek property in the universe)

Happy Friday the 13th From Mal the Krazy Kat July 2018

It's another Friday the 13th! Here for a special motivational speech is MAL THE KRAZY KAT!

Take it away, Malcolm!

WOOHOO! How's THAT for feeling the urge to celebrate this Friday the 13th it was MEANT to be! YEAH! (applause)

Okay, back to the writing.

Cat Video: Friday the 13th

I know it's a little late getting posted, but here's a black cat enjoying some snacks on Friday the 13th.

Welcome to Bartow Public Library!

With thanks to the Tampa Bay Library Consortium, our library has a promotional video out!

...that reference librarian guy needs to shave, get a haircut, and lose 50 70 pounds.

The Force Is Calling

JUST SHUT UP AND TAKE MY REPUBLIC CREDITS

I am seven years old again.

I want this movie to be soooooooo good.

It's Friday The 13th! Hug Your Black Cat!

It's time to revisit Mal!

Carl Sagan Has Been Modified

Caught this on Mightygodking (and apparently it's achieved memetic mutation):

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Can you imagine waking up to this video/song in the morning, and having your brain upload the chorus (A still more glorious dawn awaits / Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise / A morning filled with 400 billion suns / The rising of the milky way)?

My head would have exploded.

This is, for those who don't know, a video editing mash-up of sorts of Carl Sagan's epic COSMOS series from 1980. I was ten at the time of its broadcast, just learning myself about the world around me, awareness of the globe, of history and literature and space and time. And here came Sagan, presenting astronomy and physics and mathematics (and even biology to explain how humanity can even conceive and think of the universe where other animals can't) in simple, easy to learn concepts. I think he caught a lot of flack from hard scientists for 'dumbing down' as it were those scientific fields. The critics were wrong. Sagan probably did what few scientists, and indeed what few philosophers and theologists, could do: he helped explain where we (humanity) were in the vast cosmos (a small blue dot on a thin sunbeam).

The mixer's website is here. He has downloadables for MP3 and MP4/iPhone formats. I seriously recommend dropping ducats in his hat: this is an awesome work. Links to others who have made their comments and awe known are here and here and over there in the vast cosmos of the Intertubes.

Lyrics posted below. Highlights are mine, where the song touches my imagination the deepest. (The song starts with Carl Sagan apologizing for his attempt to sing. He begins to whoop and caw like a bird, which is edited into a sampled backbeat.)

Lyrics:

Sagan:
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch
You must first invent the universe

Space is filled with a network of wormholes
You might emerge somewhere else in space
Some when-else in time

The sky calls to us
If we do not destroy ourselves
We will one day venture to the stars

Chorus:
A still more glorious dawn awaits
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
The rising of the milky way

The Cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths
Of exquisite interrelationships
Of the awesome machinery of nature

I believe our future depends powerfully
On how well we understand this cosmos
In which we float like a mote of dust
In the morning sky

But the brain does much more than just recollect
It inter-compares, it synthesizes, it analyzes
it generates abstractions

The simplest thought like the concept of the number one
Has an elaborate logical underpinning
The brain has its own language
For testing the structure and consistency of the world

Chorus

The sky calls to us
If we do not destroy ourselves
We will one day venture to the stars

Hawking: (Rolling in like a rap artist cohort, like Snoop Dogg to Dr. Dre, singing counterweight)
For thousands of years
People have wondered about the universe
Did it stretch out forever
Or was there a limit

From the big bang to black holes
From dark matter to a possible big crunch
Our image of the universe today
Is full of strange sounding ideas

Sagan:
How lucky we are to live in this time
The first moment in human history
When we are in fact visiting other worlds

Chorus x2

The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean
Recently we've waded a little way out
And the water seems inviting...

(mind blown)