Lots to tell you folks…

1. Progress on Deadland and Four Elements + Dani’s Art Book

2. Upcoming Events

3. The dreaded move.

4. The Great Houdini

PROGRESS.

So far so good on bringing to life DEADLAND, a comic project that I wrote and Daniele Serra is illustrating. We're working up five complete pages plus a cover to start shopping to ( Read more... )

For those of you who think this might be about something other than a curious black kitten, you might as well be disappointed now, and stop reading ( Read more... )

Ed passed away yesterday while I was at work, from a heart attack, which was a complication of a larger, bigger problem we never got to solve for him. I wish I had been there when he died, but have small comfort knowing I cancelled a trip to NY, in the event something would happen while I was away--I would have felt doubly worse ( Read more... )

Yesterday I battled with the @!#$ing company called ApothoPet, aka Center Pet Pharmacy in Washington D.C. My vet called in Ed’s refill on the 15th for Cisapride, a drug not readily available at most vets (on hand, that is), and unsafe for humans, so you can’t just get it filled at a regular pharmacy either. You have to go to one of these pet ( Read more... )

It is with mixed feelings that I write this, because in no way can my words be taken as an upsided or downsided situation with Ed. I spent a few hours late yesterday at the new Vet’s office, and I really, really, REALLY have to commend their dedication and attention to detail. The staff is wonderful there. On occasion in your life you have the ( Read more... )

Those of you who have had the pleasure or profound amusement to meet my big black cat Ed, know why we call him special. He is perhaps one of the sweetest, most loving, and overly-affectionate empathic cats I’ve ever met, who loves to enunciate when he’s talking to you (or at you), as much as he loves to eat. He brings joy to everyone he meets. He ( Read more... )

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Yes, he actually thought we would not notice.

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Oh yes, he did.

So its been a few days, and Ed is doing just fine. The vet prescribed him a 7 day laxitive treatment, which I'm reluctant (as you can imagine) to administer...

This is a video I took a while back when I was sick and had nothing better to do, long before Ed got constipated.

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Enjoy.

Some of you know I’ve been pretty sick lately. I’m now on the antibiotics, and they seem to be doing the trick, however slowly… When I get stressed, Ed gets stressed ( Read more... )