Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for December 09, 2020

I saw Lupin and glitter in the same frame of reference, and felt a great disturbance in the Force.

Nice to see Puck is no longer stressed! And Lupin provides comic relief! Pretty sparkly kitty!

Once again, I am sure that this strip is purely the product of the author’s imagination and in no way reflects actual events in the author’s household. The Boy and the Girl would never (be allowed to) engage in such messy crafts and Lupin would never “help” with such messy crafts!

Oh dear. It’s going to be awhile before Lupin can achieve invisibility again.

But it’s a much better look than paint and ink. Such a pretty sparkle pony kitty!

Lupin is ALWAYS pretty! He doesn’t need sparkles for that. And poor Pucky, afraid to touch anything since the spilled glass incident.

He lost his journalistic distance and reaped the whirlwind.

Personal feelings – glitter is one of the worse craft items! It is either tiny metal pieces… or tiny plastic. Neither one is any good on environment. In the home it gets in everywhere. Mostly in places you do not want it to go. Like Christmas pine needles… it will take a long time to get it out of everything. And swallowing the stuff is not good on anyone. I will now step down from my Soap Box… and go back to vacuuming the area where glitter exploded in storage boxes… YEARS ago and still is leaking everywhere!

Also, in case you missed it yesterday: Georgia has just released a bunch of awesome new stuff (and all the old stuff is still there) in the Zazzle store!

(And I just bought a new computer and therefore have no disposable income! (Not that I had all that much to begin with, but . . .))

Lupin the kittycorn.

All he needs is a unicorn horn and he can be brother to Unikitty from Lego Movie 2! Glitterful kitty of happiness and positivity! :D

Glitter is not good for cats….

I don’t generally craft, but I do have a couple of googly eyes on the lid of this laptop.

OT: YouTube

GLITER KITTY DANCE PARTY!! (Loud thumping music) Whoot Whoot!!

It’s all right, Puck. No-one is going to blame you for disasters that happen to Lupin. We know he gets into messes without any help from anyone else.

Pucky toe beans!

Don’t slaves drive you mad, sometimes! They are supposed to look after one’s personal needs and maintain the household. That’s what they are for. And then suddenly they go around changing things. This time they have stuck up a little fake tree and covered it with flashy things. And now they are putting up flashy stuff in other other places.

Without permission!

That’s what comes of being too soft on them.

Do they realise those little snowmen are in paw’s reach?

Lupin’s pretty

Oh, so pretty

He is pretty, and glittery and bright

And we pity

Any kitty who isn’t him tonight

He looks charming

Oh, so charming

It’s alarming how charming he can be

And so pretty

That we hardly believe he’s for realzies

See the pretty cat on that table there

How attractive can one cat be?

Such a handsome face

Such a sparkly tail

Such a reportin’ ace

Such a news time fail

He is stunning

And entrancing

Feels like running and dancing, what fun

For he’s loved

By pretty much everyone

(Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim – I Feel Pretty)

You’ll have a hard time bathing it off.

OT. Yen

Time for a good brushing Lupin before you can swallow any of that glitter.

Poor Pucky. Still keeping a low profile.

Lupin in the vicinity of glitter. What can possibly go wrong?

Put some wings and a caticorn horn on him and he can be “Rainbow Butterfly Unicorn Kitty.”

Embrace your sparkly self, Lupin!

You can never get rid of glitter! You know what they call it…

Ooh, not good. You don’t want the cat licking that stuff of it’s fur.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Sophititi: Strange. Someone seems to have accessed my art supplies.

Maat-Tilda: Someone seems to have gotten into my sewing supplies as well.

Sophititi: Did they take anything?

Maat-Tilda: No, that’s the strange part. I seem to have more fabrics, and some of them look like the ones I was admiring on my last trip to Afar when Adobe Style was weaving on her new loom.

Sophititi: And I have a new set of fine camel hair brushes. And an origami cat made out of papyrus.

Maat-Tilda: I have one of them, too. What does it all mean?

Sometime Later

Kara: Sophititi, I see you are creating a new mural for the palace.

Sophititi: Yes. I was mysteriously gifted a fine set of camel hair brushes. On a Wednesday.

Kara: (Winks at Vann) I’m sure it was a fine camel who made them.

Oh, Lupin, you are such a mess. An adorable mess, but a mess nonetheless.

Not your fault Lupin—sparkles are infamous for getting everywhere you don’t want them to no matter how hard you try to avoid it.

In the third panel, you can see the moment when inspiration strikes.

Aww! Lupin finally gets a nickname commensurate with “Mom Cat” & “Dad Cat . . .”

It reminds me of a recent comparison I heard regarding COVID exposure: “If you have ten kids in a room making arts and crafts projects, and one kid uses glitter, how many projects will have glitter on them?” Answer: ten.

Wait, why is Elvis the anchor cat in this???

So you have sparkles and you look so great, When it found you, you know it was Fate.

PLEASE don’t send glittery cards to people. No one NO ONE likes their carpet unexpectedly glitter-bombed.

All that glitters …

I have a question: what is the Orb Team

Hide Puck. Run away and hide.

Today is:

Day Smallpox Declared Eradicated: There are simply too many obliviots these days for the same thing to happen with the virus that causes COVID-19. It could be done, but not with current ignorance and stupidity fueled attitudes.

International Day of Veterinary Medicine: Thank a vet!—for your furpersons’ health.

National Llama Day: Basically a redesigned camel: smaller, more versatile, drought resistant, looks almost as silly, and with the same bad attitude—actually, not when properly raised. You have to like an animal that hums, and you must respect an animal that takes horking to the weapons level, with a range of ten feet.

World Techno Day: “Ain’t technology wunnerful!” In some societies, technology isn’t merely embraced, it’s an obsession. Some may wonder what the “i” in “iPhone,” “iPad,” etc. stands for. “i” is for “idiot.” It is a closely guarded secret whether this is intended to apply to the device or it’s purchasers. However, based on years of experience with the former, and observation of many of the latter, it’s a safe bet that it is for both.

National Pastry Day: Just in time for my second cup of coffee … I wish. I’m not talking about the machine-made stuff, but the kind that is made in a real bakery, from ingredients that don’t come from a chemical plant and are explosion hazards or worse. So if you find yourself on a roll, may it always be sweet—and not a prune Danish.

So. Will tomorrow’s comic show Lupin traipsing all over the house? “Maybe it’s not that bad . . .”

no its like gold

PSA time….Georgia just posted photos of new items available on Zazzle

https://www.instagram.com/p/CIlimEKJtV-/?igshid=6ualdo2inqz5

It looks good on you, Lupin.

OT: Grumble

When my brother and sister were pre schoolers she liked to give them a pail of water and a couple of paint brushes so they could paint the back yard fence. One day she caught them painting the dog singing, “We’re painting the roses red.” He was a very tolerant dog.

GLITTER!!!!!!! The bane of everyones existence. Gets into everything and takes forever to clean up.

Awwww, GLITTER EXPLOSION :)

OMC! OMC OMC OMC!!!! I just realized that the Quinn Animal Shelter items on Zazzle feature pictures of Baby Tommy, Baby Lupin and Baby Puck (with Buzzy Mouse)!!!!!!

https://www.zazzle.com/quinn_shelter_dry_erase_magnet_for_info_and_notes_magnetic_dry_erase_sheet-256319890392386506

OMC! I want a full sized poster!

Just realized, there goes Lupin’s invisibility for the next five years.

There was a young lady I met at a college Halloween party. She came as a Pixie. She was using glitter as Pixie dust.

Yes, she lived. And never did it again.

Sparkle Pony Kitty didn’t have touch anything to become Pretty! Lucky Lupin.

Lupin is getting the unicorn version of taring and feathering; glue and sparkling!

Glitter is a microscopically thin piece of metal bonded to one or two sheets of clear, sometimes colored, polymer. It is not electrostatically neutral, but rather bipolar. Therefore it is attracted to, and sticks to, any surface that is not electrically neutral.

Almost everything has a “surface charge,” even Teflon™ has a slight one. In common understanding, this is “static electricity”—it is an electrical charge that does not move unless in contact or proximity to another electrical charge.

Metallic paints are essentially sub-microscopically thin, flat, pieces of metal with a more or less insoluble polymer coating … are you beginning to see where this leads?

Glitter is essentially coarse metallic paint pigment in and air suspension. Removing it? This is where Robin comes in …

lupin is disco ball now