I got Ric and Zooey Cat Balls (yes, you can find them by googling that, but you will have to do a little looking) for the cool winter nights to come. The cats really like them.
We’re getting into our first snow storm of the season. Just starting to stick here.
Baud
If you Google cat ass shaving, you return to Balloon Juice.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Baud: You made me google that and it did not give me BJ as a result. God knows what kind of stuff I’m going to get ads for now.
Baud
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I can’t believe you listened to me.
rikyrah
Cat balls?
They look so cute.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Baud: Me either!
rikyrah
They are off the rails in Florida
Kent
Where do you guys for for your election junkie updates now? They pulled the 2018 results off the NYT front page so I don’t have a quick link to go to for my latest fix.
Miss Bianca
Been snowing all day up in the central CO mountains.
Patricia Kayden
@rikyrah: You mean Republicans who are desperately trying to steal another election? I’ve heard that there is a deadline for the recount. Not sure why they’re setting a deadline versus just working their butts off to get all votes counted.
HumboldtBlue
If this doesn’t make you want to go to grandma’s house for dinner you’re a heartless loser who probably still eats TV dinners.
Shit, forgot the goddamn link — https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=xW9nQnPH_zU
Kent
@HumboldtBlue: Is that some hipster filming his grandmother Oma and turning it into a cooking show?
Platonailedit
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Either that or Cole’s Twitter feed.
Platonailedit
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Kent: The NYT is garbage.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Miss Bianca: What is this “snow” you speak of?
Platonailedit
Fuck MO’ans.
Barbara
@Kent: I do think NYT has the best organized format. Search for elections 2018 and click on any state link and go to the bottom where all states are listed. You can bookmark or leave the page open.
Platonailedit
@Kent: fynyt
lurker dean
googling “cat balls” is, uh, something. :o)
cute beds, though!
Frankensteinbeck
I finished writing A Rag Doll’s Guide To Enchantment And Murder.
Ken
@Dorothy A. Winsor: @lurker dean: Safe search is your friend.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Frankensteinbeck: Go you!
NotMax
Long before Amazon existed, bought a set of plush caltrops as a gag gift for a friend who was into the SCA and historical armor and weaponry. When I say “into” I mean to the extent he made his own mail armor at home.
Later heard back from him that they turned out to be the best cat toys ever (he was living at the time with a lady who had nine cats), as no matter how much the four footed demons batted them around they always were right side up., which the cats apparently thought was the coolest thing.
Can’t seem to find the type I purchased, which had more rounded ends, but did find these still being made (you’ll need to scroll down a bit at the linked page).
@Kent
You may find this site useful.
Chetan Murthy
@Baud:
Baud2020! We are sheep waiting to be led!
P.S. I also googled, and was bitterly disappointed to find only straight-man advice on how to shave one’s cat’s ass.
Kent
@Barbara:
I can do that and find various results sites like CNN and the Guardian but they are mostly static and don’t have updates and stories about all the outstanding races and counts that are stil ongoing in CA, AZ, GA, and FL and elsewhere. I’m wondering if there is some go-to site that keeps track of all the stories about the currrent races and counts around the country. Surely there must be. I don’t want to just look up a result from someplace. I want to go see what CURRENT news there is about the various counts and recounts going on.
Barbara
@Kent: NYT is updating but the updates aren’t coming all that frequently at this point. They update AZ at least three times a day.
John Revolta
@Patricia Kayden: I just asked that same question over at LGM and damned if someone didn’t give me a pretty good answer. I hate when that happens.
chris
@Kent: These pages from Politico. I know but they work.
HumboldtBlue
@Kent:
Does it matter? It’s wonderful.
I also really enjoy The French Cooking Academy, Stephane does a great job. Stumbled upon him about a year and a half ago.
schrodingers_cat
The color scheme of cat balls is in harmony with your kittehs. Zen kittehs is zen.
SFAW
The Cat Balls look nice, but $55 a pop? With three cats, I’ll probably take a pass.
hells littlest angel
I’d spend $55-$90 on one of those and my cats would sleep on a stack of old newspapers to show me up for a fool.
Ed Martin
Another Eric Bogle song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1VD84SLW8I
Origuy
I posted this late last night. Reposting for those who weren’t up.
My friend Nik is a veterinarian in Megalia, CA, near Paradise. He is suggesting that people who want to help with the animals displaced by the Camp Fire in the northern Sierra Nevada donate to the Critter Pass Ranch. Their main focus is on disabled animals, but they will be busy with all sorts of animals in the current situation. They are housing some of the pets of Nik’s family while they are evacuated.
Gvg
@Patricia Kayden: Florida codified our election certification process with dates way before we turned into an almost 50/50 state with sides that hated each other. The laws were in place for 2000 which is when I learned all this. I also learned that the party that ends up winning has no incentive for fixing whatever has been discovered to not work. It’s as if they think the luck is always going to break the same.
There is good and bad. Automatic recounts for specified close elections seem good to me. The deadline was bad in 2000 and probably will be again. Until dems control enough of the state again, it won’t get fixed. However auto recounts mandated by law are really good.
Platonailedit
Are the rethugs pulling a 2000 redux here, ffs?
Bill Arnold
@lurker dean:
You guys. :-) Cheryl threw out a (joke) challenge, I typed cat ball beds
Uhm, do they make those for humans? AFAF
PaulWartenberg
Cat updating: my cat Ocean has gotten into the habit of plopping into my lap whenever I sit on the sofa. She used to get herself onto my chest but lately she’s settling for the lap.
Writer updating: am struggling a bit with my NaNoWriMo at the moment and need an infusion of writing sprints to regain focus.
Comic-con updating: I will be a guest author at the Clermont (FL) Comic Con on Sunday November 18th from 10 am to 6 pm. I’ll be promoting my ebooks and the anthologies containing my short stories. You are all required to attend. No excuses, even if you’re in Alaska that weekend.
J R in WV
My favorite cat is right now curled up in a basket of clean clothes I washed today prior to travel Tuesday. She loves that even better than a box!
There will be cat hair, but that’s OK too. Cheap too!
zhena gogolia
I can’t believe that the producers of Poldark couldn’t get someone to consult on the rules of duelling. This was out of Bugs Bunny or something. Or High Noon.
schrodingers_cat
@SFAW: You have 3 kittehs? Pictures please!
2liberal
@Kent:
the great orange satan has Elections
NotMax
@zhena gogolia
Some marvelous scenes involving dueling and also challenges to duels in the underrated film St. Ives (note: 1998 movie, not the earlier Charles Bronson vehicle with the same name). trailer
Luciamia
Cat Cave!
zhena gogolia
@NotMax:
I love Richard E. Grant. At least they’re only holding one pistol at a time. On Poldark they had pistols in both hands! Ridiculous!
Steeplejack
@hells littlest angel:
Or the box it came in.