Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for March 26, 2020

Let her come out!

Oh, Elvis. You disappoint me. ☹

Drama queen. :-)

There is no such thing as a "mere housecat. It IS nice that Puck worries about her. Tommy is wrong about her because she keeps too much inside.

It seems that cats are as “human” as we are.

Elvis, it is quite the opposite. She feels she is not good enough.

Sad how sometimes assumptions grow into big misunderstandings.

When exactly was yore?

We have to have her in full Charlotte Flair by Sunday!!

Sophie is left-pawed like Elvis!♥

Panic receding. The bottle shops are still open, and I haven’t seen any more suggestions that brewers and wineries might close. Still trembling at the thought, though.

Here are a few you might have missed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIhQPGwFgOw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAoZSWKqJQc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9nc-Tk_-hU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-eqO-0Tunw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxBXeUbEu4I

Oh, Tommy, how little ye know her!

Ah, that southern belle hand, er paw, to the brow!

Maybe not that kind of dramatics, but she writes like the Ouida of the cat literature world!

The “March Bugs” (aka BCN’s “July Bugs” are out and about in TX!

The Woes of the Introvert mixing with some impressive Teenage Angst here. I getcha, Sophie!

Yes. She’s one for overmelodramaritc.

Her diary entry reads “Despair, thy name is Sophie.”

Pfft! And she thinks no-one understands her. (She could be right.)

All Sophie needs is a tiny fainting couch, and then her misery will be complete? ;)

Friday night and the cheesecake’s fine

But she’s in a tragic state of mind

So play the depressed music

She doesn’t care about food

She just wants to brood

Anybody could hear her sigh

Night is young but melancholy’s high

With a bit of heavy mooning

“Everything’s ruined”

She’s in the mood for despaired dance

And now she has her chance

She is the drama queen

Shy and sweet

Thinks the world’s so mean

Drama queen

Hear the sigh from her pain unseen, oh yeah

Oh the pathos

Oh the strife

Having the worst time of her life

Ooh, pity that kitty

Share her chagrin

Grokking the drama queen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFrGuyw1V8s

Dancing Queen – abba

https://www.instagram.com/p/B-Lj8JCJO4N/?igshid=14pekrxuqs236

Yet another art imitates life photo from Georgia. Right now the link is in the small box at the bottom of the page but I have noticed they don’t always stay there, so here it is for other time zones.

Tommy, you are so wrong! Sophie has quite the flare for dramatics; it’s slapstick and pratfalls that she doesn’t get. Perhaps instead of wrestling, you could put on a play.

Lucy’sIn quarantine That’s why

Sophie girl, I feel for you, but now you’re pushing the drama a bit too far.

Shy people and cats are often misunderstood.

I need to get back to working on my book, but my heart hasn’t been in it. Shakespeare supposedly wrote King Lear during a plague. I can certainly work on a cat mystery during this time.

I like the contrast in the last frame of Tommy saying Sophie isn’t one for dramatics and the dramatic entry in Sophie’s diary.

There is nothing “mere” about a housecat.

And I think Sophie needs to be squeezed. She will both protest and like it at the same time.

She’s into drama, but her genre is the one-cat show.

At least she is a reclusive drama queen. I’m glad Tommy sticks up for her. The less outgoing of the world are too frequently spoken of as being “too good for us” or other disparaging things.

I’m wondering what would happen if anyone might happen to get their paws on that diary… I hope those thieving mice aren’t anywhere around here…

Dramatic writing that is

My oldest fur baby Patina had this same issue. Still does to some extent. I had to find 1:1 time to play with her to make sure she was OK and knew that it was OK to be silly. Granted, Lark (pic) still takes over and becomes ‘crazy kitty’ during play most of the time, but I can get all 3 of my girls playing eventually.

…he says as her writing starts turning almost Shakespearean…

Hey There, Georgie Girl

Hey there, Sophie Girl

Writing and drawing so creatively,

Nobody you meet could ever see the loneliness there,

Inside you,

Hey there, Sophie Girl,

Why do other cats just pass you by,

Could it be you just don’t try,

Or do they really care?

…….

They always come to see you

But you don’t invite them in,

But with a little effort you all can win!

You sure can!

…….

Hey there, Sophie Girl,

There’s a lot of love there just outside,

Let them love you, do not hide,

And Oh! What a change there’d be

The world would see,

The True Sophie Girl!

The thing is, if Sophie said all that out loud where others could hear, they would simply laugh at her pretensions.

They’ve invited you so go ahead and do it

“She’s not one for dramatics” unless they are her own.

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I’m having a flashback to my teen and college years when I had the miserable job of reading bad, angsty poetry in the slushpile for school literary magazines. After that job, I had absolutely no pity for such over-the-top drama. And I’m an introvert, too.

Well, pro wrestling in the US is really all about drama, but I can see where this might be going! Pink House Playhouse? The Old Cat Globe? Sophie probably won’t be an actor; she will write the plays and direct.

Poor Sophy—everyone thinks she is aloof and stuck up when she’s really just shy and socially awkward. Many teenagers would relate. And also relate to the drama.

I think Elvis is more right, Tommy. Which is sad since you live with her and know her better.

She may be revelling in her misery a little too much!

OT: humorous PSA

If only they knew the real her.

Not one for dramatics? The fragment of diary behind whatever cat that is is pretty darn melodramatic.

If Sophie hams it up any further, Puck is going to try to eat her. O.o

Sophie’s prose is downright Shakespearean. I submit the octave of Sonnet 29 (which I’ve modified to fit Sophie’s gender and species) as proof:

“When, in disgrace with fortune and cat’s eyes,

I all alone beweep my outcast state,

And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,

And look upon myself and curse my fate,

Featured like her, like her with friends possessed,

Desiring this cat’s art and that cat’s scope,

With what I most enjoy contented least;"

Hopefully Sophie will soon reach the volta (the turning point in a sonnet) and see that she is rich in both friends and art.

The bard’s version can be found here:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45090/sonnet-29-when-in-disgrace-with-fortune-and-mens-eyes

OT: A Very Angry Frog

Before yesteryear

Oh dear heavens! She sounds like a slightly more dramatic teenage version of myself.

Drama is exactly her thing.

We don’t know anyting about Sophie’s kittenhood or either her early adulthood. She was different and she is a rescue which means somewhere she needed to be rescued it isn’t that much of a stretch to think that being blind in one eye she would have had trouble on the street. It’s not that much of a stretch to think that he was surrender to the shelter for some reason that she doesn’t understand or didn’t understand at the time. So she does have issues and she does want to be included she just wants to be included on her own terms as her own person. Because oh her blindness in one eye she probably never felt comfortable wrestling and tussling with other kittens because she had a blind spot now that she’s older and has if not more confidence than at least more experience out in the world and has learned coping mechanisms for her blindness maybe she’ll be able 2 enjoy some of the things that she’s missed maybe she will be able to enjoy finally some of the things she is missed growing up.

This makes me so sad…I hope Pucky helps her soon…

XD

The day this was posted was my 19th birthday.

snerk! Not into dramatics, my eye!

Oh, and I love the juxtaposition of Sophie’s diary entry as the backdrop while the others talk in the last two panels!