Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for January 21, 2024

Such a nice little catalog of “things we’re not allowed to touch”. This of course forgets the First Law of Cats. If I see it, I touch it! Which Brings us to The Second Law of Cats. If I touch it, it’s MINE!

Looks like the cats are really taking a shine to the light…

Elvis seems a tad less impressed than the others.

Very diplomatic, Pucky. “quite the find” is so neutral you could paint things beige with it.

With so many pointies? Is this the lightshade of Damocles?

It’s a dust collector !

I dust my living room with a leaf blower. Needless to say, I don’t have many breakable tchotchkes.

OT: Quick update on sweet Trouble-cake ❤❤❤

Based on panel 8 it looks like Georgia’s up and running again.

Using “antique” as a verb is hideous enough, but buying and installing that monstrosity is completely beyond the pale. To have that thing above would terrify me. Even if (per impossibile) it wasn’t cursed, I would still feel inescapably doomed.

Thar’s an, er, interesting light.

The woman went antiquing and she came back with quite the find sounds like my wife. Our hometown is a community called Snohomish and the main industry of the old downtown area is antique shops. On weekends the old downtown is very crowded. We have a fair number of “quite the finds” from my wifes’s expeditions there.

I’m with Elvis. Um, a light that can poke your eye out? On the other hand, I am warming to the mid-century modern, Sputnik-inspired light fixture…(scrolls eBay jealously)

What to say? I’m glad it’s in their house and not mine?

If asked, I guess I could say, “Wow, that’s some light! I’ve never seen anything like it before.” And hope they think it’s a compliment.

Sunday Funday

Looks like Georgia might be a fan of all the HGTV remodeling shows where the designers love to find “unique” light fixtures in antique shops. It’s not nearly as bad as some of the lights I’ve seen on those shows.

Some more antiques to serve the kitties’ antics? – how deLIGHTful!

It the second weirdest light me has ever seen.

It look like one of em battle UFOs of them steenky outer space aliens with defensive spikes all over em.

And careful with that thing, whatever it be. It could impales someone for godssakes.

It also gets great TV reception

but the light secretly dreams of being used as a prop on a Sci-Fi show

Sorry Lupin, it does appear to be functional!

(If it doesn’t knock out all the lights and power when switched on!)

LOOK OUT! IT’S AN URCHIN LIGHT! THE SPIKES WILL GET US! WE ARE SO, DOOOOMED! Sigh! Relax, Elvis!

“It certainly isn’t functional!”

It turned out to be functional and functioning.

Bought in an antique shop it was probably expensive. If found for $2 in a thrift shop it would be hailed as a fabulous find. In any case, make sure it’s firmly attached so it doesn’t fall and impale some unsuspecting cat! Remember, there are two active cats for whom your ceiling is a floor!

The whole crew’s collective “ohhhhhh” seems to be an effort of diplomacy.

Looks lethal. I’d be afraid to stand underneath it.

I’m sorry, dear, sweet, wonderful artist Georgia, but I am so not into MCM and that light cover is…Nope. so nope.

Is it my imagination or is Ora Zella already plotting something?

It’s a Mid-Century Modern light, inspired by the first satellite, Russia’s Sputnik. These are popular and highly sought after.

Looks like a weapon

What is it you ask. Oh that’s simple, it’s UGLY. That’s all that needs to be said.

Dear Georgia, while everyone else is dissing your find, I love anything MCM, I think it’s neato! But, um, maybe make sure it’s well mounted?

As winter decor, it’s snowballs and icicles. As summer decor, it’s dandelion seed heads and stems.

It’s not the prettiest of light fixtures; however, if the woman likes it, so be it.

OFF TOPIC:

Buddha (grandson’s pet snake, for those who don’t know) is definitely shedding. This means he will be very sulky for a while. I’ll just leave him alone for the time being.

I would love to see a picture of the real lamp on Instagram, Georgia. It looks very 60’s modern.

Theme from “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” runs through my head.

I wish this weren’t Sunday. I’d love to follow Lupin and Ora Z attempts to reach it.

I think I saw something like that on Star Trek.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Puckmosis: Is Iggy out fishing with Fresh and Salty Water Cats?

Beatrixia: They came back to leave some fish off at the Royal Kitchen, then they are going to the Bazaar to sell fish and make trades.

Puckmosis: I wonder if they’ll meet the Royal Procurers at the Bazaar.

Bea: Maybe. They had gone out to Punn State to pick up cheese. I think they might be back by now.

Puck: That’s right. They won a year’s supply of cheese last June 2nd.

Sound of Giggling in the Background

Puck: Hello, ladies. How was your trip?

Agnes-Ata: It was great. After we won cows, we almost have more cheese than we know what to do with.

Violet-Ifa: A slight exaggeration. There is always a demand for good cheese.

Puck: Did you happen to see Iggy and the Water Cat brothers?

Ta-Natash: Yes. Fresh and Salty sold their catch, and bought some fishing nets. Iggy bought a contraption of which we know not the use.

Bea: He did say he wanted to get a lantern. He has a friend who keeps dropping them.

Puck: I think I met him. He sings opera or something.

Alice-Ata: That’s him. And the Lantern of the Opera.

Must be circa 1960s—it’s very much got that 60s futurism vibe to it.

And I can also see why it fell out of style. Not only must it be a pain to clean and maintain given all the pointy bits, it hurts my eyes looking at all the pointy bits, and it looks like if it ever fell it’d either skewer itself through the floor or shatter into a thousand pointy pieces that would be hazardous for anyone to be around.

O.T.

At first, I thought it was for appetizers and there was food stuck on the pointy bits. The cats would have LOVED that!

Ears back!

I’ve played video games where you kick enemies into things that look like that lamp.

Has Georgia ever commented on ELVIS, the cat in the Second Chance Cat Mysteries? By Sofie Ryan. I’m currently reading Undercover Kitty, in which Elvis is competing in a cat show while his human companions try solving a crime(s). For once, Elvis has lots and lots of mentions. Hope he wins a ribbon (currently 2nd place in Household Pet cat egory).

I’m with Elvis. What???

I’m surprised the Woman still has the cuckoo clock. It looks in good condition.

Cue Leslie Fish’s “Surprise!”

“Beep-Beep. Boop-Boop. Hello there! (Эй жопу!)

Sputnik sails, giggling, through the skies (Эй! Эй! Эй!)

Red flags, red faces, jump in the race, as

The space age begins with a surprise. (Сюрприз!)"

Gotta love mid 20th century ‘modern’

Oh look – Sputnik!

The lamp’s general design seems to suggest that the spikes should be used to toast marshmallows.

Holy Palm Springs, Batman!

Love the new light!

Oooo retro

Sorta OT: Denny

The oldest boy was riding his e-bike home after work Friday night at midnight. He was going around a corner when he hit some invisible ice and, of course, he fell and landed on his hip. Yesterday afternoon he finally told me about it so I had to take him to the ER to make sure he didn’t have any fractures. Good news is he didn’t break anything except the headlight on his bike.

I have EARNED my grey hair.

OT grocery shopping

Today I went hunting for kale chips without success. There were cassava, plantain, various fruits (including chili tamarind, yuck!) but no kale. I bought some fresh kale in reparation. On the bright side, I found Polish paczki (pronounced pooch=key). According to the package, you might call it pampushky, kraplen, gogosi, fastnacht, or malasada.

In Germany, it’s a Berliner. A myth is that John F. Kennedy’s famous proclamation, “Ich bin ein Berliner” meant that he called himself a jelly doughnut. Wrong ending. Here’s the quote: "All free men, wherever they live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words, “Ich bin ein Berliner.”

In any case, I bought some raspberry ones and stowed them in the freezer at once so that I don’t eat them before Cheesefare Sunday (Orthodox Catholic) or Shrove Tuesday (Western).

It looks like either a murder weapon or some bizarre scientific device.

A light from a fantasy ship ? Oh my goodness Elvis expressions !

Elvis is so confused & angry his eyebrows are sticking right off his face =P

I don’t like that light.