I just had a rockin’ good time at my high school’s 30-year reunion…I might be close to that cool, as a matter of fact, but as we all know, kittehs always win the day! ;)
Whew…now to drop a number of pounds before the 40-year mark…
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WaterGirl
Sweet, handsome boy.
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spudgun
Aww, floofy-floof…thank you very much for this – a welcome tonic to all the tough political news right now.
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WaterGirl
@dlwchico: Wow, that’s a don’t fuck with me look if I’ve ever seen one.
Did you prop Mouse up in the chair like that or is that just how he rolls when he is ready to receive visitors?
Beat a J 33 (racing boat) in a Ranger 24 (decidedly not a racing boat) today when they ran aground. Sometimes you don’t have to be awesome, just don’t run aground.
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pseudonymous in nc
Steve has a domain. A domain of floof.
(Hi. It’s been a while. Love you all.)
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Wapiti
I had a boss once who raced a hydroplane. He was hoping against hope for the day that the top three boats all had maintenance issues and maybe he’d manage 2d or 3d.
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Tim C.
Gotta say, Steve looks a lot like my cat. I’ve always taken that as a good sign for you, cause my mostly-Maine-Coon is a fantastic cat.
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Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
Another cat named (after a) Mouse! I had a lovely cat named Peter Churchmouse when I was very small (not Gabriel, despite all my mother’s attempts to convince me), and more recently a handsome feller named Peter in honor of the long-ago Mr. Churchmouse. Your Mouse has such an awesome “fuck off, asshole” expression that I wish I could freeze-dry, package, and mail that look anonymously to every Republican in Congress.
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WaterGirl
@Mike J: Seems like you excel at this racing thing.
In all seriousness though, Magneto had some good points in First Class.
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lahke
Just want to dig into that fluffiness! Your pictures are getting better, John.
Went to see Gounod’s La Reine de Saba tonight. Lovely, but very weird libretto. As the guy next to me said, it takes the French to make a Biblical story anti-Semitic. The male lead is a racist snob who sneers at Solomon as the son of a herdsman and fires workers asking for pay raises. They bump him off before he can elope with the queen of Sheba and I was glad to see him go. Thank heavens that tastes have changed a little in the last 150 years.
Given the assholishness of the Jedi in SW 1-3, one can certainly argue that Palpatine’s “burn it all down” had a certain amount of justification to it.
@dmsilev: I found Kylo Ren’s pitch in The Last Jedi fairly persuasive.
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??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Major Major Major Major:
Huh. Nothing really springs to mind. I don’t know if that says more about my tastes in fiction (too black and white) or what.
I guess I can somewhat sympathize with Lex Luthor’s superficial (no specific property) views on Superman. He resents him because on one level he thinks Superman’s fantastic powers diminish mortal man’s achievements and abilities. He also can’t comprehend why anybody with Superman’s powers would use them to help others and not rule with an iron fist.
However, Lex is a sociopath who’s projecting onto Superman exactly his own desires. He’s also often a roadblock towards Luthor’s plans.
Me? I believe omnibenevolence and omnipotence are two conflicting concepts that cannot coexist so I can understand why something like Superman should be feared and distrusted.
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CaseyL
@Major Major Major Major: Thanos. Maybe a different method, but you can’t argue the guy’s diagnosis.
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Julia in north bend
Just checking in. John. Things in Oregon suck. Ducks lost. Damn it. Julia in north bend
@dmsilev: a weird number of people on the thread say The Joker from The Dark Knight, which kind of just tells me that my stereotype of “people who spend too much time thinking about The Dark Knight” is accurate.
Lex Luthor’s hatred stems from blaming Supes for his becoming bald.
/old school continuity
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blueintheface
Longtime lurker here who has posted less than a handful of times (I think I lost posted in 2008). I’m hoping this community can help me even though you really don’t know who I am.
My daughters are in HS and are friends with a kid whose puppy broke his leg. It needs surgery, but like most of us, they don’t have the estimated $3k to pay for it or else they may have to put it down. I’ve contacted the local shelter where we adopted our pets to see if they can help, and the owners have started a Go Fund Me page to help raise the funds for surgery. The link is here- gf.me/u/md38pr and I’m happy to provide my contact info to the admins if anyone wants to verify anything.
I appreciate anything you can do. And unless anyone needs me, I’m going back into lurker mode for the next 10 yrs.
In all seriousness though, Magneto had some good points in First Class.
Not many. I actually give First Class props for being one of the few depictions of Magneto to actually address his hypocrisy. At the end, he flat-out admits what most comics depictions of him dance around. For all his angst about being a Holocaust survivor, he actually agrees with the Nazis on the topic of whether there’s a master race. They just disagree on who the master race is.
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Nicole
Spent the evening singing karaoke with the better half. In our living room. Because this is how we entertain ourselves. Attempted “Jessie’s Girl,” which I will not do again.
but I can sympathize with Amon from Legend of Korra and the Equalists. I can’t imagine being a non-bender in the Avatar world would be as pleasant as shown in the show.
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Nicole
Also, as a kid I remember thinking the EPA guy in Ghostbusters was just trying to do his job.
@Citizen Alan: yeah, I was thinking of the broader discussion of assimilationism that was intentionally echoing some of LGBT history. (The X-Men movies are gay as fuck.)
I’ve seen more than one movie where I kinda rooted for the “villain,” though; and not in an anti-hero way, but in a “[they’ve] got a point” way. It makes for some very ambivalent movie-going, let me tell you.
@NotMax: was definitely expecting a link to Rutger Hauer shoving a nail through his hand.
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Mike in NC
When we fled the NC coast due to Hurricane Florence last week, we packed the three cats in one permanent pet carrier and two cardboard ones. It didn’t take more than ten minutes for the youngest cat to bust out of the cardboard carrier and jump all around my wife’s car. When we attempted to return home a few days later (a six hour ordeal), he broke out in less than five minutes from my back seat and ended up sitting on the console between the driver and passenger seats. This damn cat is a regular Houdini.
@WaterGirl: He just sits like that sometimes. No propping involved. I walked out to the living room and saw him like that and immediately whipped out my phone to take his picture.
@Mike in NC: Today in the basement I ran across a cat carrier I’d made and forgotten about. A square plastic ‘milk crate’ with a dish drainer tied to the top (rope wound to hinge). Had to be well padded inside of course, but it worked well.
@Jeffro: I hope you had fun. Were people vocal about their political differences?
My 50th is Wednesday, but there’s a pre-party on Tuesday evening. They’re having this shebang at a winery/hotel in Temecula, CA and it’s really hot there right now. Too many friends will be missing. Vietnam has been taking its toll recently, and just fuck cancer! The committee tracked down all but one or two out of a class of about 300. THE HS boyfriend will be there. Heard from him for the first time in 47 years, about 2 years ago. It was like getting slapped in the face with a dead fish, I was so surprised, but he and I had a long hilarious conversation on the phone. He is such a Democrat he’s nearly rabid, and I am rabid so now we’re both wondering if the room is going to be divided along party lines, and it could get a little ugly. He just realized he doesn’t know the political leanings of one of the couples we’re sitting with, and the other solo guy has left his nutty Evangelical wife in South Carolina but we don’t know how far gone he is. We may have to figure out who we can go off and vent with and rant about all of what’s happening. I know a bunch of the popular girls better than I did 50 years ago because of Facebook. I knew who they were and I didn’t think most of them knew who I was, but we have been bonding over politics the past two years.
We drove from the Seattle area to Lake Arrowhead, CA but what would normally be a 2-3 day trip took 4 because the car was making louder and scarier noises as we traveled south.. Long story short, we thought it was the engine, thought we’d blown a gasket, found a mechanic in Grants Pass who had some time for us and wasn’t afraid of a Subaru. .
Turns out the guy who installed two new tires a couple of months ago didn’t torque the lug nuts on the two passenger side wheels and in Oregon they started coming loose; they were wobbling really badly. One lug broke off; the mechanic said we could have died if we hadn’t come in when we did. It took four hours to get it repaired and our new motto is “YAY! We didn’t die!”
kind of a hairy ride. Hope our reunion doesn’t imitate the drive.
We’re at the cabin near Lake Arrowhead, sans kitty. Annie usually travels with us but we’re so glad she stayed home with the other cat, Henry. One of our daughters is staying at the house with them; that 4 hours would have been miserable for Annie. I guess we could have spent four hours in a hotel if we could find one that would take pets.
I thought we were going to have to have the car towed to the nearest dealership, another 30 miles down the road, and might even have to trade it in. So glad it was easy to fix.
They were kind to us and dropped us at a coffee shop in town that has wifi while we waited.
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Ruckus
@Major Major Major Major:
My friend from up north that I dog sat for use a carry bag that zips up and has a mesh on one side so her chiwawa can look out. When she would fly with the dog he went along with them in the bag. If you want I can find out about it. Samwise is probably bigger than the dog but there is plenty of room in the bag.
also one of the rare Matthew Broderick movies where watching him isn’t like chewing on tinfoil
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opiejeanne
@Mnemosyne: Our Annie rides with her carrier open and either naps in the passenger’s lap (mine usually) or in the carrier. Sometimes she helps David drive.
@Ruckus: I’ve seen pictures of such things and was going to look into it. He’s fifteen pounds, but… well, I do live across the street from the pet store. I’m sure they have something.
@NotMax: Who is the artist? It looks like a work by Jean Giraud, aka Moebius.
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Ruckus
@opiejeanne:
Went to my 50th last year. Got to catch up with a lot of the people I knew and spend about 15-20 min watching the memoriam slides. Eight guys from my small San Gabriel valley school, from if I remember correctly, 5 different years didn’t survive Vietnam, only one from my year. The damage was not just in country though, a fellow I met at the VA hospital 2 yrs ago, he and his brother both served in country and his younger brother died in October of 2016 in that same hospital. It has, as war always does, taken a lot of people earlier than they probably would have gone, even if years later. Walking in to that hospital during a week day will remind you of that war, all the guys sitting in wheel chairs or people with artificial limbs. Those 3 bastards that sit around shitheal’s golf club acting like they know what’s best for vets? We should tie them up in wheel chairs and make them sit in the lobby of a large VA hospital every day for 6 months.
@Ruckus: I like those. I had a cheap one (maybe not even designed for an animal) that I used to sneak an emergency cat in and out of a hotel. It was also a much nicer way to hold a cat than the usual hard carrier, but after about a week she got wise and broke the very cheap zipper. Always meant to get a real one, but they’re quite expensive.
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Ruckus
@Major Major Major Major:
I did see an ad for an Australian bag mfg the other day. Crumpler. Looked at their website as my shopping back pack is starting to look the worse for wear. A backpack, like to carry books, maybe a laptop, stuff from the store, starts at $249. And goes up from there. I believe they make small pet carriers. I’m looking elsewhere. I didn’t steal the entire state of Montana so I can’t afford their crap.
@Aleta:
What’s quite expensive? My friend uses her’s all the time and it seems to hold up well. Of course the dog is 8-9 lb, who is scared of her own shadow, not a cat.
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Ruckus
A buddy just sent me a bunch of pics, mostly of animals, pets of all kinds, some with kids. I’ll have to figure out a flicker or whatever account and post them. Not tonight though.
@Ruckus: that’s the sort of thing I was imagining.
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Ruckus
@Major Major Major Major:
Have to see it in person but it also looks a bit stouter than some I’ve seen, including my friend’s. Also it doesn’t look like it escaped from an 4th grade craft class.
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RedDirtGirl
Hey gang! Just heading home after a wonderful bluegrass jam in Red Hook.
Huh, sure hope that was five random fireworks that just went bang.
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Peej01
I have a Sherpa bag for my cat which has worked out quite well… including the drive from Denver to the DC area where I live now. One of my cats did try to chew out of it, but he never tried to open the zipper (thank goodness).
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Mohagan
@Mike in NC: cardboard cat carriers only work for the most passive of cats. Basically they’re useless unless you’re manually holding them closed or you wrap them in duct tape.
@blueintheface: Good luck to the pup, you may want to share that link with Anne Laurie later to front page a bleg. I’m contributing, but $3k sounds crazy high for a broken leg. They may want to see if there’s a small animal clinic or university vet school that could help even if it involves some distance. I’d get a second surgical opinion at least.
@opiejeanne: I just saw this on FB. Holy cow. That’s scary.
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JeanneT
@satby:In 2001 my goofy lab Juniper broke his front leg in 2 places and needed surgery to be plated and pinned together. That cost me $2000 then, so maybe $3000 now wouldn’t be unthinkable if there are multiple breaks to mend.
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Matt McIrvin
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Lots of movie villains have some germ of a good point, but use inhumane methods, or are terrorist extremists who decide that their good point overrides basic decency– this is a pretty basic element in action-adventure stories, especially superhero stories.
Sometimes the good point is a façade for some base motive, either through intentional deception or self-deception. There are the Hans Gruber types or some Bond villains, who ostensibly have some terrorist motivation but are just greedy or pure megalomaniacs once you scratch the surface. That’s another good way to do it if you really want the audience to hate the villain.
Sometimes, as with Movie Thanos, the methods don’t really make a lot of sense for the stated goal but the writers don’t seem to know that.
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cintibud
@Major Major Major Major: Kurtz in Apocalypse Now had some points but his methods were … unsound.
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Matt McIrvin
…or, almost the opposite, the villain actually has a good point but the writers seem to think it’s an evil one (Syndrome in “The Incredibles”).
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opiejeanne
@Ruckus: Where did you go to HS? South Pasadena? I went to Temple City.
One guy who was coming to the reunion just announced a couple of weeks ago that he can’t make it because he’s dying of cancer, he says most likely from exposure to Agent Orange. I don’t think we lost a single class member to the war at the time, but other classes did. Boys who graduated and were dead within months. Our class had at least one who came back with the 1000 yard stare, The Boyfriend, but he must have gotten help.
I don’t know how you have guys like that making decisions for the VA but then I can’t fathom how anyone could vote for Trump because he demonstrated what a monster he was for two years before the election.
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mostlygrey
@Major Major Major Major: I just had to order one for a rescue cat I’m getting from LA to Portland this week. I’m flying her in cabin so the airline gives a specific crate size to fit under the seat. To be on the safe side, I ordered a Sherpa brand carrier because they have a “Guaranteed On Board” program which shows you, based on the airline you are flying, what carrier you can use. If you get refused, they pay for your ticket. I’m more concerned with a stressed rescue cat being stuck in an airport so the guarantee is for her and my piece of mind. The medium size carriers of most brands seem to top out at 16 pounds. The specs for each airline are different so that makes they whole process even more entertaining. Good luck.
Somewhere buried deep inside my storage locker are the “Peter Church Mouse” tales.
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blueintheface
@satby: @aleta and @satby, thank you both for thr kind words. @satby, I appreciate your suggestions. Apparently the humane society said they couldn’t help, but the community college has a vet tech program. I’ll check myself tomorrow.
Appreciate your help!
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dlwchico
Mouse is as cool: https://i.imgur.com/GzflkbL.jpg
Jeffro
I just had a rockin’ good time at my high school’s 30-year reunion…I might be close to that cool, as a matter of fact, but as we all know, kittehs always win the day! ;)
Whew…now to drop a number of pounds before the 40-year mark…
WaterGirl
Sweet, handsome boy.
spudgun
Aww, floofy-floof…thank you very much for this – a welcome tonic to all the tough political news right now.
WaterGirl
@dlwchico: Wow, that’s a don’t fuck with me look if I’ve ever seen one.
Did you prop Mouse up in the chair like that or is that just how he rolls when he is ready to receive visitors?
Mike J
Beat a J 33 (racing boat) in a Ranger 24 (decidedly not a racing boat) today when they ran aground. Sometimes you don’t have to be awesome, just don’t run aground.
pseudonymous in nc
Steve has a domain. A domain of floof.
(Hi. It’s been a while. Love you all.)
Wapiti
I had a boss once who raced a hydroplane. He was hoping against hope for the day that the top three boats all had maintenance issues and maybe he’d manage 2d or 3d.
Tim C.
Gotta say, Steve looks a lot like my cat. I’ve always taken that as a good sign for you, cause my mostly-Maine-Coon is a fantastic cat.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
Another cat named (after a) Mouse! I had a lovely cat named Peter Churchmouse when I was very small (not Gabriel, despite all my mother’s attempts to convince me), and more recently a handsome feller named Peter in honor of the long-ago Mr. Churchmouse. Your Mouse has such an awesome “fuck off, asshole” expression that I wish I could freeze-dry, package, and mail that look anonymously to every Republican in Congress.
WaterGirl
@Mike J: Seems like you excel at this racing thing.
Do you ever have to buy the beer?
Major Major Major Major
Samwise is reasonably cool. https://imgur.com/a/5Sui72y
WaterGirl
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: Peter Churchmouse. What an awesome name.
spudgun
@Major Major Major Major: I love Samwise! Thank you!
More links to pet pics from the rest of the jackals, if you please…
Major Major Major Major
Here’s a fun discussion starter.
In all seriousness though, Magneto had some good points in First Class.
lahke
Just want to dig into that fluffiness! Your pictures are getting better, John.
Went to see Gounod’s La Reine de Saba tonight. Lovely, but very weird libretto. As the guy next to me said, it takes the French to make a Biblical story anti-Semitic. The male lead is a racist snob who sneers at Solomon as the son of a herdsman and fires workers asking for pay raises. They bump him off before he can elope with the queen of Sheba and I was glad to see him go. Thank heavens that tastes have changed a little in the last 150 years.
dmsilev
@Major Major Major Major: Similarly, Killmonger in Black Panther.
Major Major Major Major
@dmsilev: a very popular answer on the thread.
dmsilev
@Major Major Major Major: I’m not surprised.
Given the assholishness of the Jedi in SW 1-3, one can certainly argue that Palpatine’s “burn it all down” had a certain amount of justification to it.
Mike J
@WaterGirl: The people who win buy the beer. We have a slow boat, so we never have to buy.
Major Major Major Major
@dmsilev: I found Kylo Ren’s pitch in The Last Jedi fairly persuasive.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Major Major Major Major:
Huh. Nothing really springs to mind. I don’t know if that says more about my tastes in fiction (too black and white) or what.
I guess I can somewhat sympathize with Lex Luthor’s superficial (no specific property) views on Superman. He resents him because on one level he thinks Superman’s fantastic powers diminish mortal man’s achievements and abilities. He also can’t comprehend why anybody with Superman’s powers would use them to help others and not rule with an iron fist.
However, Lex is a sociopath who’s projecting onto Superman exactly his own desires. He’s also often a roadblock towards Luthor’s plans.
Me? I believe omnibenevolence and omnipotence are two conflicting concepts that cannot coexist so I can understand why something like Superman should be feared and distrusted.
CaseyL
@Major Major Major Major: Thanos. Maybe a different method, but you can’t argue the guy’s diagnosis.
Julia in north bend
Just checking in. John. Things in Oregon suck. Ducks lost. Damn it. Julia in north bend
Major Major Major Major
@CaseyL: way too many fucking marvel superheroes for sure yeah
Martin
@Major Major Major Major: Syndrome from The Incredibles.
Major Major Major Major
@dmsilev: a weird number of people on the thread say The Joker from The Dark Knight, which kind of just tells me that my stereotype of “people who spend too much time thinking about The Dark Knight” is accurate.
NotMax
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Lex Luthor’s hatred stems from blaming Supes for his becoming bald.
/old school continuity
blueintheface
Longtime lurker here who has posted less than a handful of times (I think I lost posted in 2008). I’m hoping this community can help me even though you really don’t know who I am.
My daughters are in HS and are friends with a kid whose puppy broke his leg. It needs surgery, but like most of us, they don’t have the estimated $3k to pay for it or else they may have to put it down. I’ve contacted the local shelter where we adopted our pets to see if they can help, and the owners have started a Go Fund Me page to help raise the funds for surgery. The link is here- gf.me/u/md38pr and I’m happy to provide my contact info to the admins if anyone wants to verify anything.
I appreciate anything you can do. And unless anyone needs me, I’m going back into lurker mode for the next 10 yrs.
Citizen Alan
@Major Major Major Major:
Not many. I actually give First Class props for being one of the few depictions of Magneto to actually address his hypocrisy. At the end, he flat-out admits what most comics depictions of him dance around. For all his angst about being a Holocaust survivor, he actually agrees with the Nazis on the topic of whether there’s a master race. They just disagree on who the master race is.
Nicole
Spent the evening singing karaoke with the better half. In our living room. Because this is how we entertain ourselves. Attempted “Jessie’s Girl,” which I will not do again.
NotMax
@NotMax
Reference.
And an aftermath.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
Not a movie,
but I can sympathize with Amon from Legend of Korra and the Equalists. I can’t imagine being a non-bender in the Avatar world would be as pleasant as shown in the show.
Nicole
Also, as a kid I remember thinking the EPA guy in Ghostbusters was just trying to do his job.
Major Major Major Major
@Citizen Alan: yeah, I was thinking of the broader discussion of assimilationism that was intentionally echoing some of LGBT history. (The X-Men movies are gay as fuck.)
Major Major Major Major
Oh. Blade Runner. Although “the villain has a point” is kind of a feature in noir, eh?
CaseyL
@Major Major Major Major: Hah!
I’ve seen more than one movie where I kinda rooted for the “villain,” though; and not in an anti-hero way, but in a “[they’ve] got a point” way. It makes for some very ambivalent movie-going, let me tell you.
NotMax
@Major Major Major Major
And once in a while the villain really does have a point.
:)
Major Major Major Major
@NotMax: was definitely expecting a link to Rutger Hauer shoving a nail through his hand.
Mike in NC
When we fled the NC coast due to Hurricane Florence last week, we packed the three cats in one permanent pet carrier and two cardboard ones. It didn’t take more than ten minutes for the youngest cat to bust out of the cardboard carrier and jump all around my wife’s car. When we attempted to return home a few days later (a six hour ordeal), he broke out in less than five minutes from my back seat and ended up sitting on the console between the driver and passenger seats. This damn cat is a regular Houdini.
Aleta
@dlwchico: Private Detective?
dlwchico
@WaterGirl: He just sits like that sometimes. No propping involved. I walked out to the living room and saw him like that and immediately whipped out my phone to take his picture.
dlwchico
@Aleta: Sorry, I am not getting the reference.
Aleta
@Mike in NC: Today in the basement I ran across a cat carrier I’d made and forgotten about. A square plastic ‘milk crate’ with a dish drainer tied to the top (rope wound to hinge). Had to be well padded inside of course, but it worked well.
Aleta
@dlwchico: He looks very cool.
opiejeanne
@Jeffro: I hope you had fun. Were people vocal about their political differences?
My 50th is Wednesday, but there’s a pre-party on Tuesday evening. They’re having this shebang at a winery/hotel in Temecula, CA and it’s really hot there right now. Too many friends will be missing. Vietnam has been taking its toll recently, and just fuck cancer! The committee tracked down all but one or two out of a class of about 300. THE HS boyfriend will be there. Heard from him for the first time in 47 years, about 2 years ago. It was like getting slapped in the face with a dead fish, I was so surprised, but he and I had a long hilarious conversation on the phone. He is such a Democrat he’s nearly rabid, and I am rabid so now we’re both wondering if the room is going to be divided along party lines, and it could get a little ugly. He just realized he doesn’t know the political leanings of one of the couples we’re sitting with, and the other solo guy has left his nutty Evangelical wife in South Carolina but we don’t know how far gone he is. We may have to figure out who we can go off and vent with and rant about all of what’s happening. I know a bunch of the popular girls better than I did 50 years ago because of Facebook. I knew who they were and I didn’t think most of them knew who I was, but we have been bonding over politics the past two years.
We drove from the Seattle area to Lake Arrowhead, CA but what would normally be a 2-3 day trip took 4 because the car was making louder and scarier noises as we traveled south.. Long story short, we thought it was the engine, thought we’d blown a gasket, found a mechanic in Grants Pass who had some time for us and wasn’t afraid of a Subaru. .
Turns out the guy who installed two new tires a couple of months ago didn’t torque the lug nuts on the two passenger side wheels and in Oregon they started coming loose; they were wobbling really badly. One lug broke off; the mechanic said we could have died if we hadn’t come in when we did. It took four hours to get it repaired and our new motto is “YAY! We didn’t die!”
kind of a hairy ride. Hope our reunion doesn’t imitate the drive.
Major Major Major Major
@Aleta: I need to get Sam a carrier to fly in soon…
Aleta
@blueintheface: What a sweetheart.
Major Major Major Major
@opiejeanne: glad you made it eventually.
NotMax
@Major Major Major Major
Perhaps this will prove helpful.
Mnemosyne
@Mike in NC:
We used to have a soft carrier for our cat Keaton, but he figured out how to unzip it from the inside.
I discovered this when I looked in my rear view mirror while driving back from the vet and saw him perched on the back of the back seat.
opiejeanne
@Major Major Major Major: Thanks. WE DIDN’T DIE! YAY!
We’re at the cabin near Lake Arrowhead, sans kitty. Annie usually travels with us but we’re so glad she stayed home with the other cat, Henry. One of our daughters is staying at the house with them; that 4 hours would have been miserable for Annie. I guess we could have spent four hours in a hotel if we could find one that would take pets.
I thought we were going to have to have the car towed to the nearest dealership, another 30 miles down the road, and might even have to trade it in. So glad it was easy to fix.
They were kind to us and dropped us at a coffee shop in town that has wifi while we waited.
Ruckus
@Major Major Major Major:
My friend from up north that I dog sat for use a carry bag that zips up and has a mesh on one side so her chiwawa can look out. When she would fly with the dog he went along with them in the bag. If you want I can find out about it. Samwise is probably bigger than the dog but there is plenty of room in the bag.
JR
@Major Major Major Major: Tracy Flick
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@JR: good one
also one of the rare Matthew Broderick movies where watching him isn’t like chewing on tinfoil
opiejeanne
@Mnemosyne: Our Annie rides with her carrier open and either naps in the passenger’s lap (mine usually) or in the carrier. Sometimes she helps David drive.
Annie on the road
Major Major Major Major
@JR: yes!
Sort of!
@Ruckus: I’ve seen pictures of such things and was going to look into it. He’s fifteen pounds, but… well, I do live across the street from the pet store. I’m sure they have something.
Aleta
Nice video and sound mix of studio work for How Do You Sleep?
(George’s slide guitar) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoJQAyrUHhA
Millard Filmore
@NotMax: Who is the artist? It looks like a work by Jean Giraud, aka Moebius.
Ruckus
@opiejeanne:
Went to my 50th last year. Got to catch up with a lot of the people I knew and spend about 15-20 min watching the memoriam slides. Eight guys from my small San Gabriel valley school, from if I remember correctly, 5 different years didn’t survive Vietnam, only one from my year. The damage was not just in country though, a fellow I met at the VA hospital 2 yrs ago, he and his brother both served in country and his younger brother died in October of 2016 in that same hospital. It has, as war always does, taken a lot of people earlier than they probably would have gone, even if years later. Walking in to that hospital during a week day will remind you of that war, all the guys sitting in wheel chairs or people with artificial limbs. Those 3 bastards that sit around shitheal’s golf club acting like they know what’s best for vets? We should tie them up in wheel chairs and make them sit in the lobby of a large VA hospital every day for 6 months.
burnspbesq
@Major Major Major Major:
The replicants in Blade Runner.
Aleta
@Ruckus: I like those. I had a cheap one (maybe not even designed for an animal) that I used to sneak an emergency cat in and out of a hotel. It was also a much nicer way to hold a cat than the usual hard carrier, but after about a week she got wise and broke the very cheap zipper. Always meant to get a real one, but they’re quite expensive.
Ruckus
@Major Major Major Major:
I did see an ad for an Australian bag mfg the other day. Crumpler. Looked at their website as my shopping back pack is starting to look the worse for wear. A backpack, like to carry books, maybe a laptop, stuff from the store, starts at $249. And goes up from there. I believe they make small pet carriers. I’m looking elsewhere. I didn’t steal the entire state of Montana so I can’t afford their crap.
Major Major Major Major
@Aleta: “emergency cat”
Ruckus
@Aleta:
What’s quite expensive? My friend uses her’s all the time and it seems to hold up well. Of course the dog is 8-9 lb, who is scared of her own shadow, not a cat.
Ruckus
A buddy just sent me a bunch of pics, mostly of animals, pets of all kinds, some with kids. I’ll have to figure out a flicker or whatever account and post them. Not tonight though.
Mnemosyne
@Major Major Major Major:
Somebody on Amtrak had their cat in one of these backpack carriers, but I don’t think the cat enjoyed it very much:
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07BTRJFQW/ref=mp_s_a_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1537684713&sr=8-8&keywords=cat+backpack+carrier&dpPl=1&dpID=5135lvVBVvL&ref=plSrch
Ruckus
@Mnemosyne:
My friend’s pet bag looks more like this one.
Major Major Major Major
@Ruckus: that’s the sort of thing I was imagining.
Ruckus
@Major Major Major Major:
Have to see it in person but it also looks a bit stouter than some I’ve seen, including my friend’s. Also it doesn’t look like it escaped from an 4th grade craft class.
RedDirtGirl
Hey gang! Just heading home after a wonderful bluegrass jam in Red Hook.
rikyrah
Hi Steve???
Major Major Major Major
Huh, sure hope that was five random fireworks that just went bang.
Peej01
I have a Sherpa bag for my cat which has worked out quite well… including the drive from Denver to the DC area where I live now. One of my cats did try to chew out of it, but he never tried to open the zipper (thank goodness).
Mohagan
@Mike in NC: cardboard cat carriers only work for the most passive of cats. Basically they’re useless unless you’re manually holding them closed or you wrap them in duct tape.
satby
@blueintheface: Good luck to the pup, you may want to share that link with Anne Laurie later to front page a bleg. I’m contributing, but $3k sounds crazy high for a broken leg. They may want to see if there’s a small animal clinic or university vet school that could help even if it involves some distance. I’d get a second surgical opinion at least.
satby
@blueintheface: also, have your friends checked out if these folks can help?
http://www.humanesocietyofpinellas.org/low-cost-pet-clinic/
NotMax
@Millard Filmore
Scott McCloud.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@opiejeanne: I just saw this on FB. Holy cow. That’s scary.
JeanneT
@satby:In 2001 my goofy lab Juniper broke his front leg in 2 places and needed surgery to be plated and pinned together. That cost me $2000 then, so maybe $3000 now wouldn’t be unthinkable if there are multiple breaks to mend.
Matt McIrvin
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Lots of movie villains have some germ of a good point, but use inhumane methods, or are terrorist extremists who decide that their good point overrides basic decency– this is a pretty basic element in action-adventure stories, especially superhero stories.
Sometimes the good point is a façade for some base motive, either through intentional deception or self-deception. There are the Hans Gruber types or some Bond villains, who ostensibly have some terrorist motivation but are just greedy or pure megalomaniacs once you scratch the surface. That’s another good way to do it if you really want the audience to hate the villain.
Sometimes, as with Movie Thanos, the methods don’t really make a lot of sense for the stated goal but the writers don’t seem to know that.
cintibud
@Major Major Major Major: Kurtz in Apocalypse Now had some points but his methods were … unsound.
Matt McIrvin
…or, almost the opposite, the villain actually has a good point but the writers seem to think it’s an evil one (Syndrome in “The Incredibles”).
opiejeanne
@Ruckus: Where did you go to HS? South Pasadena? I went to Temple City.
One guy who was coming to the reunion just announced a couple of weeks ago that he can’t make it because he’s dying of cancer, he says most likely from exposure to Agent Orange. I don’t think we lost a single class member to the war at the time, but other classes did. Boys who graduated and were dead within months. Our class had at least one who came back with the 1000 yard stare, The Boyfriend, but he must have gotten help.
I don’t know how you have guys like that making decisions for the VA but then I can’t fathom how anyone could vote for Trump because he demonstrated what a monster he was for two years before the election.
mostlygrey
@Major Major Major Major: I just had to order one for a rescue cat I’m getting from LA to Portland this week. I’m flying her in cabin so the airline gives a specific crate size to fit under the seat. To be on the safe side, I ordered a Sherpa brand carrier because they have a “Guaranteed On Board” program which shows you, based on the airline you are flying, what carrier you can use. If you get refused, they pay for your ticket. I’m more concerned with a stressed rescue cat being stuck in an airport so the guarantee is for her and my piece of mind. The medium size carriers of most brands seem to top out at 16 pounds. The specs for each airline are different so that makes they whole process even more entertaining. Good luck.
Miss Bianca
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: Such a dead thread, but PETER CHURCH MOUSE! And Gabriel! And Trumpet!
Somewhere buried deep inside my storage locker are the “Peter Church Mouse” tales.
blueintheface
@satby: @aleta and @satby, thank you both for thr kind words. @satby, I appreciate your suggestions. Apparently the humane society said they couldn’t help, but the community college has a vet tech program. I’ll check myself tomorrow.
Appreciate your help!