Get-well-soon-kitty~ma for tommyrot's furrpanion!

That illness sounds a lot like what Amarna had two years ago, although her temp was several degrees higher and her kidney was round instead of kidney-shaped. She got better right away and has had no problems since. The subcutaneous fluids really perked her up immediately--she was eating as soon as I brought her home, when she had barely touched her dish the day before.

One of my recent castmates just posted a hilarious Craigslist ad: GIANT wooden TV--like winning the lottery and rediscovering childhood.

I am moving out of my house on Saturday (!) and have to part with my awesome giant wooden television frame. It's about 6 feet tall and 4 feet wide. It's a great conversation piece (all your hipster friends will think you're eschewing pop culture and are therefore painfully cool and intelligent).

Alternatively, you could put a smaller (yet still large) television *inside* this television frame and then your TV setup would double as both a stylish entertainment center AND a postmodern rumination on the womblike effect of television on the human brain. Plus, if tissue boxes and iPods need holders, why not televisions? You can start a fad. You can even patent the idea; I won't sue.

Some other uses include the following:

-A LOW, JAPANESE-STYLE TABLE WITH A HOLE IN THE MIDDLE. Are you practicing the art of Zen? Then this giant wooden tv frame is essential for your well-being. you can practice sitting cross-legged at a low table while SIMULTANEOUSLY practicing the art of patience because your food keeps falling through the hole in the center of the TV frame.
-A FAKE BIRTHDAY CAKE FOR YOU AND/OR MARILYN MONROE TO POP OUT OF ON BIRTHDAYS, BAT MITZVAHS, AND OTHER SUCH SPECIAL OCCASIONS. Just slap some pink frosting on this sucker, put a painted cardboard box in the middle, and you have the best damn party money can buy. Except you didn't pay for anything.

Any SFistas want to bite? She makes a compelling argument.

If I were there, I would grab it in a heartbeat--for the reason she listed--puppet shows! Our library took the wooden frame of a tv and hung a curtain on its hollow shell and it is fantastic for two kids to fit inside and put on puppet shows. I would love to have one.

In news it seems the House passed the unemployment benefits extension. sigh ... and then the entire Congress went into recess until the 12th.

I am debating this one that Smonster linked to earlier: [link]

Oh yeah, that's sweet. Of course, if I'm buying anything, it should be for a wedding this fall, not just for wearing.

Timelies all!

Nice weather today, at least what I've seen of it. So, of course, I'm in here.

I'm half convinces subQ fluids are a miracle. They've pulled Devi and Mister Kitty through mystery illness a couple times now.

I'm sorry your husband didn't get the job, Dana.

lisah, my friend Tiff joined Fluid Movement! She's a Harpie for this year's production!

Are your cookies becoming drab and repetitious? Would your life be enhanced by a wider and more eccentric choice of cookie cutters?

I am attempting to reduce my cookie cutter stash from ridiculous to excessive. These are all vintage-style aluminum cutters. Free to one good home: turkey, horse, Santa, reindeer, angel, bell, rabbit, star, tree, and actually vintage lion.

(Crossposted with Bitches)

If I were Harry Reid, I'd be a pain right now and tell them they aren't going. "We get a break when the people do." But then I'm not a mild-mannered grandfather and "Deathgrip" was one of my childhood nicknames.(Because when I get something in my brain really hard, I don't let go. Ever.)

Thanks, Red Cross, for leaving me a voicemail asking me to donate blood while my phone was rebooting, and making me worry that my doctor was calling with bad news about the blood he took this morning.