That made me inexplicably sad.

Me too.

MM, have you seen this? I mean, for sadness's sake.

I am so cranky that I don't even think bacon can improve my mood, but I'm giving it a shot anyway.

Oh, here's what I want for my birthday: [link]

A 15 foot long stuffed squid.

Archibald is a unique creature. This flagship squid is made of bright red super soft ultra suede and stuffed with even softer polyester fill. His tentacles are lined with a soft black velour and his eyes are hand sewn in black and white satin. He includes a secret hidden pocket that closes with a zipper. He enjoys cricket and dabbles in philantrophy and loves nothing more than a good Alfred Hitchcock marathon.

Archibald stands 15 feet tall from head to toe. He is completely hand made and one of a kind.

Only $1,800.

MM, have you seen this? I mean, for sadness's sake.

That...that...

Part of me wants to really laugh. And part of me is...that...huh.

Remember that vampire that was running for MN governor?

So, in the last election, we Minnesotans briefly enjoyed the company of a vampire running for governor. Unfortunately, Jonathon "The Impaler" Sharkey was arrested before the election and we missed out on the potentially amusing spectacle.

Somehow, though, he is now free (damn those cunning vampires!), and is planning to run for president. As a most interesting and admittedly tempting part of his campaign platform, he is promising to impale GW Bush if elected.

He's crazy, I wouldn't have given him a chance, but dang if he didn't come up with a vote-getting idea. They're cunning, those vampires, they've had centuries to think up these plans. If he tossed Cheney in as a bonus, he might just sweep the election.

[link]

Well, I decided to call in incapacited to work. Had the heating pad in bed with me last night, so when I woke up, I felt all right. Then, I tried to get out of bed. After I got my breath back, I hobbled over to the phone and called in, then got changed, unplugged the heating pad, and took it into the living room so I could sit up and keep the heat on the lower back.

Watched a sad/happy episode of Emergency Vets--sad, because they had to put down a senior-citizen kitty whose looks reminded me of my Amarna's, so I was sobbing over that. Then they had a 3-month-old Devon Rex kitten with ringtail who finally got me to see what tommyrot thinks is so cute about those hairless cats--it was really adorable, even though the vet correctly said it looked like an alien! The other animal they treated was a Dalmatian who had gotten away from his family at the neighborhood ball game and ran into the street to get hit by a car. He ended up all right (had some torn muscles in his shoulder), but the reaction of his best buddy, the five-year-old son, was gutwrenching.

I'm now watching the edited-for-tv version of The Faculty, which is just stupid in its use of substitute swear words. "Phooey" for "fuck"???

Then they had a 3-month-old Devon Rex kitten with ringtail who finally got me to see what tommyrot thinks is so cute about those hairless cats--it was really adorable, even though the vet correctly said it looked like an alien!

Yay!

My kitty is a Devon Rex. Generally they're not quite hairless - they tend to have very short, wavy hair.

Here is a cute one: [link]

Yep, their big ears make them look alien-ish.

That's not a cat! t /ob-Friends joke

I don't think I hair-dried my right arm enough.

Wow. That made me inexplicably sad.

Me too.

FWIW, Watterson said that there were certain strips which indicated that Hobbes did indeed have his own reality separate from Calvin's imaginings. I don't know which ones he's referring to, but in his estimation Hobbes was not simply the product of Calvin's perfervid brain.