Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for October 25, 2024

Umm, if Elvis is doing that, somebody should real-quick-like take a look and see what Puck might be up to!

As in, NOW!

Someone’s knocking at the door

Someone’s vacuuming the hall

Start the chaos and open the door

Let them in…

ELVIS NO! LISTEN TO ORAZUZU NOT THE MOTHER DOOMBA!

Yeah. Hopefully they’re not after Tortimer. We like him and we like him just the way he is!

Come on, Iggy, get after decoding those messages!

Someone STOP Elvis before he does something undignified!

Stay in your lane, Elvis. This is so not like you, and so not dignified!

CHAOS It’s what we do. -Ora Zella.

But Iggy looks so cute, concentrating on codebreaking.

Well, kittens — especially torties — have a monopoly on chaos.

That’s a chilling thought, Bea. You have to make sure they don’t get him.

Well, they CAN’T HAVE HIM! So there!

I think we all have this backwards. Maybe the alien Doombas aren’t here to attack. Maybe they are groupies here to pay tribute to Tortimer. Maybe they are fans!

Oh, dear. The zombies are now joining the fight.

Huh, never thought I’d see the day that Lupin has to stop Elvis from doing something. Usually it’s the other way around.

Maybe being called “weirdo” will snap Elvis out of it. I would think them’s fightin’ words for an ornery cat.

Well, that’s interesting. In the third panel, the symbols Iggy is looking at spell A I (ay eye).

Elvis is operating under a Dark Moon tonight. And Lupin vs Elvis in the battle for the door. Place your bets!

Down, Elvis.

Why does this feel like a Muppet movie? I’m thinking of Gonzo’s people finding him.

Tortimor resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

Oh, I just had a wild thought! What if this is “The Fugitive” from The Twilight Zone?

Where is Dan Dare when you need him?

Why are they only attacking that place? I suspect it is all the cat and other animal fur in the carpet. Maybe Tortimer sent out a distress signal that he could not handle it all himself.

Oh, the poor Girl (and presumably the Boy also)! Their Mom won’t wake up, the elder cats are asleep or hypnotized, horrible noises are coming from the far side of the door, and only Kittens (and Lupin) for protection. They must be terrified.

So the Doomba message might be something like “Give us Tortimer and no one gets hurt!”

Why of course what else but that. Them steenky aliens robots is here to takes away one of theirs kind back to his steenky home planet. And also to conquers the world and rules the earth of course.

Obveeously them steenky aliens is needs more steenky robots of theirs kind to fights with them in their attack to takes over the planet earth. Which is why thems is here to recruits al the steenky robots on earth.

Reach for it, Elvis.

There is seems to be no how against steenky aliens robots. Only Ninja Sloth can saves them now.

Elvis, go back to bed! you’re far too old to be mind controlled

ELVIS NO—

OT—

Lupin called Elvis WIERDO ? Those are fighting words!

no, Zombie Elvis! don’t do it!

Finally we return to the possessed cats! The question of what the roombas want is a good one. Could they actually be trying to rescue what they believe is a subjugated compatriot?

Stay in the blanket fort!

Inspired By Shakespeare’s Scottish Play

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow

Leaves its dust and debris from day to day

To the last snore of the sacred nap

And all our yesterdays have lighted cats

To boxes tiny yet impossible. Out, out, brief kibble!

Life’s but an empty bowl, awaiting ham and bacon

And then is filled no more. It is a tale told by the humans

Full of sound and fury

Signifying naps.

As Halloween grows closer- the thrills increase!!!

No, Elvis! Don’t leave the building!

OT – sad day today

ELVIS! CUT THAT OUT!

Narrator: Why you ask? Surely you jest.

Lupin: No, I’m serious, and quite calling me Shirley.

Narrator: Well if you must know, this is the only apartment in the Big Pink House on the Hill that has two kids and a bunch of crazy cats who devoured an entire half gallon of ice cream and are now in a sugar induced mass hallucination, while playing in their blanket fort in the living room with he plate of Ding Dongs that the woman brought you for a snack.

Lupin: Oh well, that explains everything.

♪"Tortimer came here a long time ago

Now Doombas are knocking on our door

We hear you knocking, but you can’t come in

We hear you knocking, go back where you been"♫

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(I Hear You Knocking – Written by: Pearl King, Dave Bartholomew)

I want to filk “Doomba, Doomba” TTTO “Louie Louie”…

Trying to figure out what’s going on with Elvis’s jammies. He appears to be wearing a green “shirt”, but what is the green striped thing with the white towel? over top of it? Then whatever that green-striped thing is is not visible in the last panel? Is that his bathrobe? So is he taking it off? What’s the white thing?

You tell him, Ora, (even though he’s mind-controlled and probably can’t open the door, anyway) while you give your brother time to decipher the message.

The Kingsmen: Louie Louie

Doomba, Doomba,oh no, you take me where ya gotta go, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, baby

Doomba Doomba, oh baby, don’t want you here, you gotta go

So many doombas, they cannot be

Mother ship, take them across the sea

We know that we are not alone

And now I think you should go home

Doomba, Doomba,oh no, you take me where ya gotta go, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, baby

Doomba Doomba, oh baby, don’t want you here, you gotta go

For nights and days they sailed through space

And now they’re here constantly

On the ship, they need to go

And go back home and leave us alone

Doomba, Doomba,oh no, you take me where ya gotta go, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, baby

Doomba Doomba, oh baby, don’t want you here, you gotta go

And now another Louie Song: Hot Chocolate, Brother Louie

It was a long, sleepy night

Not a waking creature in sight

Danger, danger, when the doombas come

It can be a terrible fright!

…….

The kids were all alright

But the grownups seemed to be outta sight!

When Ora Z tried to speak to her Papa,

Only Lupin was there to save the night!

…….

Lupin, Lupin, Lupin, Loopy!

Lupin, Lupin, Lupin, and how!

Lupin, Lupin, Lupin, Loopy

Lupin, we need your help right now!

…….

See what I mean?

The kids and Lupin on the scene

Iggy is getting the message sorted,

We’ll beat those doombas green!

…….

Lupin, Lupin, Lupin, Loopy!

Lupin, Lupin, Lupin, and how!

Lupin, Lupin, Lupin, Loopy

Lupin, we need your help right now!

…….

What’s their intent?

What has all that gibberish meant?

No matter, with the kids and Iggy and Ora

We will get the job Dunn!

…….

Lupin, Lupin, Lupin, Loopy!

Lupin, Lupin, Lupin, and how!

Lupin, Lupin, Lupin, Loopy

Lupin, we need your help right now!

Awesome 2, The Sequel!

Snap out of it, Elvis! You will put everyone, including the Girl, in serious danger!

So only Tortimer is an alien roomba and all the other roombas out there are the normal kind? Surely there are multiple owners of roombas on planet Earth!

New it!

Baby Tail!!!!!!! Uh oh, Papa Elvis is going to let them in.

You could be my luck

Having invoked “Louie, Louie,” I choose to hold forth a wee bit. When I was almost, but not quite, old enough to go to rock’n’roll dances, there was a place on Highway 99 south of Seattle called the Spanish Castle. That was where the HS and college kids went to dance & get into the good rock’n’roll. I was in Jr High at the time. Oh, how I envied the older kids who could go there. In part, because there was one particular local band that was almost the house band: “Rockin’” Robin Roberts and The Wailers. They even had a hit record—well, at least in the Seattle area—and it was the closest version of “Louie, Louie” to that of Richard Berry, who wrote the song. Thus, I grew up knowing that “Louie, Louie” only sounded right with a good saxophone player in the band. I only ever knew of one band to come close to doing it justice w/o a sax and that was some Portland (OR) band called the Kingsmen. But w/o the sax, it just wasn’t right. Fortunately, Paul Revere brought his Raiders over from Idaho, and they had a good sax player and did the 3rd best “Louie, Louie” I’ve heard—after Richard Berry and Robin Roberts’ versions. Most local bands would play it when they did dances, and I went to many of those dances. I was disappointed, though, that one particular well-thought-of local band didn’t do “Louie, Louie”. It would’ve been great had Tiny Tony & the Statics done it, for then I’d have heard their regular singer sing it. Miss Merrilee Rush.