Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for October 09, 2022

Sunday Funday

That poor owl lamp has suffered and survived so much! Elvis with his arm around Beatrix—and his bare feet revealing rear toebeans! Where are his slippers?

Yes! Invoke the Lupin! Things will be knocked over in his honor!

Lupin!

Lupin!

LUPIN!

Wicked Lupin, filled with glee as glasses and lamps tumble and his name is repeated……three times three.

(And I think the real Lupin will do this as a ghost cat too.)

Lupin is the cat version of Beetlejuice!

Is this acknowledging Lupin’s passing?

Things that go, err…crash in the night.

Lupin maybe a reincarnation of MacCavity, “For when the crime discovered MaCavitys not there!”

That Lupin. He owl-vase leapin’ for trouble.

Lupin made his final disappearing act and now owl-vase haunts the house.

The spooky space heater reminds me of what I call “Goony Cars.” Those are cars that have their grill in a big smile, probably to make angry drivers less angry. But there’s one car (don’t know the make) that has angry eyebrows that look really spooky in the rear view mirror.

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!!

BoCH alert!!!! (Back of cat head… or, in this case, heads.)

Three times is certain to invoke doom.

I’ve been saying he was the monster… AND NONE OF YOU BELIEVED ME!!!

Lots of fangs in this one, including a single creepy fang from Elvis as he begins his scary story. And poor little Beatrix with her paws covering her eyes: “This one’s too real!”

RIP Lupin. :’(

That’s leaping Lupin, folks! (Blame it on yourself, Ma’am, since it was YOU who told him to “knock it off”)

Woman had a beside lamp,

Came Lupin white as snow, groan.

And we know where the kitty went,

The little lamp was sure to go down.

He nudged glasses and things once, hey,

And assisted the gravity’s rule instead

What an awful time did they have,

That night in the bed.

Crush-cat, crash-cat,

Just blow a gasket.

Sent a better vase down baby,

On his way he passed it.

3 days. Don’t leave everything to the last minute.

I love Lupin’s happy face as he rides the Owl Lamp off the table.

I love how Lupin’s eyes are gradually gaining color in each panel.

I have something in a similar vein on Twitter. https://twitter.com/FreyjaRN/status/1579003930633449472

I love the many looks of Lupin-Lupin-Lupin (there, I did it!) The happy face with the water glass, the determined, stalking my prey look (with fangs) with the owl lamp (ending with self-satisfied happy look), and finally, the ornery, I’m gonna’ teach you flowers a lesson look with the vase (which I am guessing will lead to a smile).

So funny!

How can that sweet little owl lamp look so serene when it lives in constant danger?

So that’s who keeps knocking things down in my kitchen! Nothing can compete with a real living poltergeist, or whatever horror creature Lupin is most like. I wonder if this is true to life since the real Lupin has passed.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice… Lupin Lupin Lupin!

Hi

I was sitting in a Waiting-Room this week. There were pairs of individual chairs with end tables at either end of a row. On each table was a lamp to supplement the overhead lighting. I was sitting next to one table and wanted to set my book down, so I tried to scootch the lamp over a bit, only to find the lamp was fastened down to the table; it wouldn’t budge.

I said out loud, “Hmm. Lupin proof.”

A woman sitting on the other side looked up and said, “I beg your pardon?” That lead to a 5-minute recitation of Breaking Cat News and its characters. I am not sure what the woman gained from my report but suffice it to say; I enjoyed talking about anything but the reason I was sitting in the waiting room.

Last night my tank of a dilute tortie, Gracie, caused her own spooky show by climbing into the box mattress and violently picking her way around the bed from underneath. It woke me just in time to see her pop up on top of the bed to see if her work was appreciated.

… and even knowing he’s deaf, they still say, and yell, the name of “Lupin!”….

Yesterday, anamolous4 was asking after noreenklose as we haven’t seen her around in a couple of months. I replied to her with this:

We really need to have a contact list somewhere. Not sure the best way to accomplish that. My husband would never be able to come here to let anyone know that I was sick or something (he is not very computer literate). I wish Bill Jackson was still around. He could probably make a really good spreadsheet for that and make it available to anyone who was interested and wanted to add their phone/email addresses to it. Does anyone have any ideas about this?

I posted it kind of late so wanted to come here today to post it earlier. Still looking for ways to accomplish this.

We have 4 cats and only 1 does this. And how.

One other thing to point out is Georgia’s genius with perspective . . . or showing the “camera one” view in panel 6, with the close-up focus on the glass and Lupin blurred in the background. I love these touches . . .

The fangs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lupin is just enforcing a feline imperative: Everything must be on the floor.

Lupin’s smile is sunny

His antics kinda funny

Crazy cat so wild and free

Oh, but fear grows wherever he goes

And nobody knows like Bea

Autumn nights are hazy

When people say he’s crazy

His motive is a mystery

Oh, but fear grows, so this scary tale goes

And nobody knows like Bea

There’s something about a cat Frankenstein

Causing chills up your spine

That is just Lupin’s way

He really casts a spooky ol’ spell

And it’s working so well

That no nice things get to stay

So go ahead and yell

The tale is fun to tell

But I love him endlessly

And that love grows where that sweet Lupin goes

And nobody knows like me

If you’ve met him, you’ll never forget him

’Cause nobody has such glee

La la la- believe it when you’ve seen it

Nobody lives so free

- Roger Frederick Cook / Roger John Reginald Greenaway – Love Grows

They’re giving him good vibrations,

They’re giving him excitations,

Good, good, good, good vibrations! CRASH!!!

I feel pretty sorry for the owl lamp.

Bea in the last panel — oh, so cute! But what happened to the footies on her PJ’s?

Lupin, the Beetlejuice of the feline world.

Shake, shake, shake, Señora, shake your body line

Shake, shake, shake, Señora, shake it all the time

Work, work, work, Señora, work your body line

Work, work, work, Señora, work it all the time

My cat’s name is Señora

I tell you friends I adore her

And when she dances, oh brother!

She’s a hurricane in all kinds of weather

(Jump in de line, rock your body in time) OK, I believe you!

(Jump in de line, rock your body in time) OK, I believe you!

(Jump in de line, rock your body in time) OK, I believe you!

(Jump in de line, rock your body in time) Whoa!

Shake, shake, shake, Señora, shake your body line

Shake, shake, shake, Señora, shake it all the time

Work, work, work, Señora, work your body line

Work, work, work, Señora, work it all the time

Vaughn Monroe, Johnny Cash, and Others: Ghost Riders in the Sky

The Meese was telling the story, and the story he did tell

A phantom white kitty who raised all kinds of heck!

The lamps and the vases went flying to the floor!

Nothing was safe from him, as he ran forevermore!

…….

Yipee-ai-yay! Yippee-ai-oh!

Ghost Lupin zooms through the house!

…….

It started with a lampshade, then the lamp followed soon,

The night sky was a-falling, the light was a full moon,

When all at once a streak of light foreshadowed a vase’s doom,

No shelf would be safe from him, as he hummed his ominous tune!

…….

Yipee-ai-yay! Yippee-ai-oh!

Ghost Lupin zooms through the house!

…….

The Meese looked around the room and he addressed his fellow cats,

If you want to save your favorite things from landing with a splat

Then kitties guard your items well you’ll see them no more,

When the Lupin comes around, all ends up on the floor!

…….

Yipee-ai-yay! Yippee-ai-oh!

Ghost Lupin zooms through the house!

He can be invisible too.

Friday I managed to spill liquids three times, one of which included breaking a vintage glass I was using as a vase. If only I’d realized, I must have said Lupin three times!

Wait though – I did actually drop or knock over two of the items myself; the third was on my microwave, which I probably bumped. Maybe I said my own name three times! I finally left and went on errands – I figured, why wreak havoc in my own home, when I can do it elsewhere instead? Fortunately it stopped until just now, when my cup slipped and spilled water onto my surge protector and some papers. But after rebooting, at least my modem was okay!

Hello Everyone! I have been following but not able to comment. My computer died abruptly so I’ve gone to the library to get my BCN fix. I am happy to announce I just acquired a new monitor (I am so relieved it wasn’t the computer!) The tech who came to my house just left and now I can hit the likes and replies!

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Masterpiece of a tale

Aw. I love Elvis in the last panel, comforting Bea. He’s got the ‘reassuring adult’ face