Iza All Kinds of Banged Up

Even better is when you find the potatoes as well.

It's a happy day when you go looking for potatoes but end up finding your missing red knit hat and flannel pajama bottoms.

I sure look forward to each day and how Trump manages to say or do something even worse than the day before.

Raven wants to know where wet food with gravy is.

Small correction. I built a cat shelter for Ginza in October 2023. Time flies I guess.

When Ginza and I moved out of that apartment complex, I tucked the shelter that had been built for her next to the other cat shelters that a rescue organization had put in the hedgerow nearby.

How to Build an Outdoor Shelter Building an outdoor cat shelter is cheap, easy, and your feline friends will love it! See Alley Cat Allies Step-by-Step guide to build an outdoor cat shelter.

It's getting colder every day throughout much of the northern hemisphere. If you want to build shelters to help keep your local stray and feral cats warm this winter, here is a great DIY option! www.alleycat.org/resources/ho...

I'd go outside to call for her and feed her her breakfast.

She used it for the next month and a half til we got into December and it got cold and when I finally got her to stay inside a couple of nights, she decided indoors was even better than shelter. And now she's a fulltime indoor cat.

I'm one who can vouch for the shelter that the link shows how to build. I built one back in October 2024 for an outside cat before I had to go away for a week. When I came back, I found she had been using it because in the days that followed getting back, she would often be in it in mornings when

That's a hard thing to come by here in the PNW's doom and gloom season. Somehow got blessed with a 15 minute allotment today of a break in the clouds in my corner of the PNW.

YouTube video by Todd Bieber Inside Curtis Sliwa’s Tiny Apartment Full of Cats

My big surprise of the day is finding out that Silwa is a cat person. Silwa should never be a mayor, but to his credit, he loves cats.

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Which channel is the bird channel?

Tried making a lentil soup today for the first time ever. It turned out really good and it's definitely going in the rotation of easy crockpot meals. A crockpot is a vital kitchen utensil when you're a low spoon person. You can cook up a few days worth of meals without a whole lot of fuss & effort.

Does Raven rave to Billy Idol's Eyes Without a Face?

A cat's tail is sticking up and through a gap in the Venetian blinds. The cat's silhouette can be seen as well.

Ginza advises Jasper that he should stick his tail up and through the Venetian blind slots.

Photo of a black cat with yellow eyes, taken as the cat's head was moving. It appears to have 5+ sets of eyes

biblically accurate cat

YouTube video by Press Box Chronicles with Jeff Pearlman The Interview That Changed My Life Forever: The John Rocker story

I highly recommend Jeff Pearlman's video about him writing the story in Sports Illustrated on John Rocker.

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The PNW chill and gloom season is getting started. I'm wondering if I can move into an artificial desert biome like Simba's.

Any candy with coconut, that stuff is awful.

About the only thing I can recommend about fall and winter is how it becomes time to make soups and soup is a wonderful food.

Maybe Hudson wants another giant pumpkin to smash apart and eat.

atlantic article screenshot headline: no one knows how big pumpkins can get sub head: a decade ago, the worlds heaviest pumpkin weighed 2,000 pounds. now the 3,000 pound mark is within sight by yasmin tayag

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

Where's the sidekick, Major Disaster?

A letter written to Chess Review magazine, published in August 1958, 10 months after the cover with a photo of a black cat at a chessboard. The letter is written by the man who met and married the lady who had the cat. It reads: I am currently competing in three Postal Chess sections fo which one is prize section, 57-P 55. One of the other contestants is Miss Mary De Revere whose cat was pictured on the cover of CHESS REVIEW (October, 1957). Frankly, I was a trifle curious as to what a lady Post Chess player would look like. So, when Miss De Revere took her vacation last September in the White Mountains, I invited myself to dinner. I found out what she looks like. Miss De Revere and I plan to be married next week-end. My fiancee claims that she is no mood to clobber me in the chess game and wishes to resign. I feel that it would be decidedly unfair to the other five players in the section, whom I regard from our correspondence as being fine gentlemen, each and every one. Also, I have no desire whatsoever to go down in the annals of Postal Chess as the conniver who extricated himself from an inferior position against a girl by marrying the girl. So, in accordance with Rule 19, will you kindly inform us what is proper in the present situation, and we will cheerfully abide by any decision you may hand down. If you wish to adjudicate the game as of now, I will gladly pay the expense of adjudication. Both of us intend to finish our other five games to the best of our ability and feel that any action you take should be motivated foremost by protecting our opponents' rights. W.L. Sickman Portland, Maine As final note, the letter while published in August 1958, was received in December 1957.

So later on I was browsing through the scanned archive of 1958 Chess Review issues and found a letter written to them, that identifies the cat as belonging to a lady had been playing correspondence chess with the letter writer. The two met one another and got married!

Here's a link to the pdf of all the 1957 issues of Chess Review.

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It's highly unlikely there are any more photos of cats, but I just want to document my sources. I wonder if it's possible there might still be surviving print copies of Chess Review.

A closer look at the void cat playing chess. It seems to be looking intently at the white king. It also seems that its paw might be getting ready to give the king a nudge.

I also zoomed in to take closer look at the inky void who graced the cover of a chess magazine.

On the October 1957 cover of Chess Review, a black cat is seemingly playing chess. It is looking intently at the white king on the board. The cover is captioned, "A CT CAN NIP AT A KING." The photo is a black and white photo.

@catsofyore.bsky.social While browsing through scanned archives of the magazine Chess Review, which was published from 1933 to 1969, I found a cat! People who have watched Netflix's The Queen's Gambit will recognize that Chess Review was the magazine shoplifted by Beth Harmon.

Marshmallow fluff loaf

One thing I do every evening is look out to the south of me and watch the orange glow in the sky of Portland Oregon being burnt to the ground. Although maybe that's Seattle and I'm too far away to see the fires of war-ravaged Portland.

YouTube video by Thunder and Rain Band Sweet Child O' Mine Bluegrass Cover | Thunder and Rain

Of course I'm not gonna say that Guns and Roses was country, but I am fascinated by times when artists transfer a song over into their own genre. You inspired me to check the youtubes and here's a bluegrass rendering of Sweet Child O'Mine.

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You want gender ideology? I'll give you a gender ideology: one that insists you are the gender assigned to you at birth by someone who has no clue as to how you will end up developing emotionally, psychologically, and physically.