When I tell people my cat is lying in state in the living room, I get weird looks. Loki was a large cat, likely with Mackerel Tabby and Maine Coon in him. At his largest he was 22 pounds but with a firm hand and a reduction of treats we got him to a more manageable 18 pounds. Up until 2 years ago, he was housemates with Zeus, who lived to a ripe ( Read more... )

…take the time to make it fun.

“I’d like to create an antigravitatory cat, capable of infinite spinning thereby creating a multidimensional black hole. I would step through, establish myself as an unimpeachable godhead and rule as a benevolent dictator. My moral quandary: is this animal cruelty or simply a waste of butter?” **

A question I just ( Read more... )

I really want 2016 to begin like 2015 ended - semi-productive and relatively happy.


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Yes, of course I’m writing and working and crafting, but diversions keep the mind from getting bored and thinking about all of the other things I’m not writing and working and crafting.

Go kill some time with this Chanrio Maker. The site is in Japanese, but there a nice English walk-through

Isn’t this adorable?


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*clears throat*

…Um…

okay, so .. um…

*bumps mic*

Hi, my name is MontiLee (or Penda, depending on how long you’ve been following me), and you may remember me from such blog posts as The Chicken Man of Madison Heights and Memories of Another When.

Part of what I want to do this year (2015) is get back to this *waves hands vaguely* blog-writing- ( Read more... )

I’ve spent the last sev­eral months mop­ing about what could have been and con­se­quently have taken my eyes off  the essence of what is me - the writing.

I’m absolutely sick about that.

Last week­end when I stared down the black hole that was my writ­ing career when my lap­top decided to take a dirt nap, tak­ing essen­tially 15 years of words and ( Read more... )

My heart in bro­ken into a mil­lion lit­tle pieces and I’ve been wan­der­ing the streets of the French Quar­ter and Lower Gar­den Dis­trict col­lect­ing the shards. There’s a piece on Wilkin­son, there’s a sliver in Bywa­ter, there’s a large jagged hunk under a tree in Holt Cemetery.

What pieces I can find, I bring back to the Fairchild House. New ( Read more... )

Still one of the best movies from MST 3K.

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For the longest time I’ve wanted a tattoo like this. I knew I wanted a double helix of rose vines and I wanted them swirling around my spine. I knew it would be pricey and I knew it was probably gonna hurt.

I was not wrong on either point.

I let Ed run with the details. It’s coming along nicely. We started the inking three weeks ago and continued ( Read more... )

I did not for­get to do this sev­eral weeks ago. I just neglected to remem­ber in a timely fash­ion.  Please find below your Cast and Crew:

Oryan Landa - Guy

Lara Shah - Judy*

Steven Mitchell - Ben

Peggy Schott  - Eliz­a­beth

Andrew Moher - Todd

Samuel French - Joe

Dan Nel­son - Phil

Kathi McAdoo - Auntie

(Let the aca­d­e­mic char­ac­ter nit- ( Read more... )