Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for May 13, 2023

Lupin facedown is their only chance! But when will this onslaught of the packing peanuts end? In a word, NEVER!

They may have successfully not woken Lupin and the Baby, but as for sweeping up the packing peanuts? Critical miss.

Hmm. It seems to me that Elvis has been known to “help” with sweeping. (https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2016/09/30)

Elvis is looking a bit disheveled there…dignified, but disheveled!

SUCCESS. Also lupin collapsed in the play chair is adorable as it is hilarious that he looks like he passed out drunk on cat wine

You’ll believe a peanut can fly! (and a nut can nap!)

Those packing peanuts look like green Cheetos (baked, to a delicate crunch).

Does anyone know why it was raining packing peanuts in the last panel?

Aaaa, I see why Lupin fell asleep…his adventure hat, fell off! The power is all in the hat!

BoCH alert!!! (Back of Cat Head.)

The packing tribbles look like green circus peanuts, and just as inedible.

Shhhhh, Elvis. Don’t wake the babies.

I love face—plant Lupin. When he’s napping, he’s napping!

Does anyone know how long packing peanuts continued to appear in the background of panels? It is another interesting bit of continuity. Kudos to the Man for pulling off a silent sweep, always impressive when you manage to do a chore without waking the baby.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile.

At the Outdoor Ampitheater

Serfig-Aro: Ladiecats and Gentlecats! I am pleased to announce the reunion of the renowned band The Red Planet Spiders, led by Arachna and Petros Parkour. And now without further ado, The Red Planet Spiders!

David Bowie: Starman

Sunset on the water, the light was low (oh, oh)

The crew was doing what they had to do (ooh, ooh)

They were getting ready for the next day,

Before nightfall

…….

Suddenly there came a flash of light (ite, ite)

Lightning and thunder crashed through the night (ite, ite)

There was Ziggy and his cousin Iggy there!

…….

They are Star Cats, working on the deck,

Not afraid of any storm, ready to give it heck,

They are Star Cats working on the deck,

Iggy was swept overboard, but he turned out to be fine!

He told us, it alright to be afraid,

But you can still be brave,

No need to worry!

Ari: And now it’s my pleasure to introduce Ziggy Starcross, and his brand new guitar!

(Continued Below)

Enter Ziggy Starcross

David Bowie: Let’s Dance

Let’s dance!

Put on your red socks and dance the blues!

Let’s dance!

Now I have a guitar we can dance to new music!

…….

Let’s play!

Run and have fun while I play guitar!

Let’s play!

Run and play all the way from here to Afar!

…….

And if you say run, we’ll run around and jump

Just like Ora Z and Lupin, as they Thwump!

Do what you love to do,

Have lots of fun, it’s true

Don’t be afraid to fall

We’ll run and do it all!

…….

Let’s dance!

Sophititi: Love your red socks, Dobes.

Adobe Style: Thank you. I had fun making them. It was a bit of a challenge making a pair for Bea.

Maat-Tilda: I think Elvis did a great job choreographing the show.

Soph: Yes, he still has a bit of a flair.

You would think that with all those cats the humans wouldn’t be such pet rookies.

Lupin naps bigly

Leavin’ a mess in the room where a package has been

Havin’ sweet dreams

The People move slow now

Cleaning the place while he sleeps, the Man sweeps the floor

Hope there’s no more

All the phony peanuts

Where do they all come from?

All the lonely peanuts

Where do they all belong?

- Paul McCartney / John Lennon – Eleanor Rigby

Cat News logo in the chyrons!

I have a twenty and a nineteen-year-old. I’m still trying to get a handle on this “Parenting thing.”

It’s not the parenting thing that the Woman and Man need to get the hang of, it’s the peanutting thing!

Georgia posted a comment “Today is a throwback strip from when we were new parents!”

She has also posted some nice pictures of Iggy and Ora and also of a new couch. No, it’s not replacing the old favorite but adding to it since they’ve outgrown just one couch.

OT: Tiny escapes!

This is giving my flashbacks about the time my beanbag chair exploded – static had stuck all the tiny spheres to everything, including the wall and ceilings.

The woman’s expression in panel 4 is wonderful!

Looks like they’re celebrating their success with a ticker-tape parade of packing peanuts…

O.o

Wow, the chyrons looked so different back then.

I’ve had enough jobs where I had to sweep the floor that I don’t find sweeping taxing. At one job I swept as a kind of meditation. It mitigated the stress.

Score—people 17, packing peanuts 10^6.

OT – Clara’s birthday