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1. about 3 years ago on Breaking Cat News

   Here in northern California it’s acorn season, and we have a HUGE scrub oak in our neighbor’s back yard. Here, it’s not jay vs. jay; it’s jays vs. squirrels. “Shriek! Shriek!” “Chitter chitter chitter!” From dawn till dusk.

2. about 4 years ago on Swan Eaters

   /sigh of relief

   I was wondering what had happened to her!

   That said, I googled “ghillie suit” and it turns out they can get awfully hot even under normal Earth conditions. Perhaps Clover invented some way of magically wicking it off?

3. over 4 years ago on Swan Eaters

   I dunno. But I notice that the swastika he’s wearing is still counter-clockwise. A real swastika is a representation of the clockwise (if you’re in the Northern Hemisphere) path of the sun across the sky. Maybe this is deliberate? Maybe it’s in an alternate universe where Europe is in the Southern Hemisphere???

4. over 4 years ago on Swan Eaters

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5. about 5 years ago on Breaking Cat News

   You might tell her this later, when she’s done with the surgery and feeling better.

   When I had my gall bladder out (years ago), I was lying on the gurney outside the operating theory, and a green-clad figure came up to me and said, “Hello, I’m Dr. So-and-so, and I’m going to be your anesthesiologist. In a few minutes when the operating room clears out, we’re going to wheel you in, and do you know what we’re going to do?”

   Now, this was not as dumb a remark as one might think, he wanted to be sure he had the right patient with the right procedure coming up. So I said, “Well, as I understand it, you’re going to hack out my gall bladder.”

   The doctor nearly lost his cool. He had his mask on, so I can’t tell for sure if he was giggling. Finally he said, “Well, the usual term is ‘surgically remove,’ but that’s the general idea.”

6. about 6 years ago on Breaking Cat News

   Aha. Look at panel 3.

   Lupin is polydactyl and Figaro isn’t.

   (But Tillie is.)

   Perhaps as time goes on we’ll be able to count the toes on the other cats.

7. almost 7 years ago on Luann

   Reminds me of the story about George Bernard Shaw (Irish playwright, looked as if Santa Claus had gone on a starvation diet) and Isadora Duncan (invented modern dance back in the early twentieth century). She said to him, “Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you and I had a baby? Just think, with my looks and your brains!” “Yes,” he said, “but what if it had MY looks and YOUR brains?”

8. almost 7 years ago on Breaking Cat News

   Okay, no spoilers. But you’re going to love this story.

9. almost 7 years ago on Breaking Cat News

   The last time we had snow where I live (San Francisco Bay Area), my children were toddlers. (They’re now forty-somethings and have kids of their own.) And that was just a light dusting on the lawn. Snow, for us, is something you get into the car and drive two hundred and fifty miles east into the Sierras to see.