Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for October 22, 2017

love it! and tommy is included!

Hi Tommy! Puck has his pants on now and can say hello. And look- Elvis hasn’t poofed!

nevermore? no, tommy is here to stay :-)

“The Cat” by Georgia Dunn

nearly napping, three hours, just enough to rest the eyes.

“And that kitty, never flitting,

Still is sitting, STILL is sitting,

On that cold and dismal windowsill outside the rear door,

And my kibble from out that bag that lies beneath the kitchen drawer

Shall be brought out – just once more!"

Brought to you by Edgar Allen Poe, who must have had black cats.

Oh, this makes me so happy. Well done, as always. :D

Now I want to read some Poe!

Well Dunn!

Hello Friend, please never end

And narrated by eloquent little Pucky and his BCN news bros! What a creative intro for the World’s Friendliest Kitty!

That was beautiful Puck, just beautiful :) I think I’m going to have to pilfer the “nearly napping” phrase to use myself – sounds quite elegant

Backyard Cat is back!

Aw, Pucky is so poetic!

Oh, Tommy. You adorable, fluffy kitty, I love you so.

Tommy is just SO friendly! :D I wish I had a cat like him.

It was the backyard cat whom we can’t ignore. And ever meowing at our window, still is tapping, STILL is tapping on the glass-filled, lattice window where the moon is shining o’er. And his eyes have all the gleaming of a friend with nose appealing, and the moonshine shows his smile like the jack-o-lantern sitting near our door; and our living room shall be haunted by that grinning face with whiskers, always wanting to come into hearth and home forevermore! :D

Say Friend and Enter.

Poetic Pucky and Poe – who could ask for anything more?

This is priceless!!

Everyone’s raven about Puck, the BCN Poe-t Laureate!

Tommy! Welcome! And, Puck, I like your rendition of Edgar Allen Poe.

Georgia you are a treasure! I read the papers and get depressed. I tune into BCN and smile. Please write more books, I need new Christmas presents for friends.

I doubt Tommy would mind if you answered without pants, since he never wears any.

THIS! This leaves me gobsmacked. Taken by surprise, yes. Such a clever union of such different art forms, the presumably incompatible categories of “funny animal” comics and the dark, melancholy, Stygian poetry of Edgar Allan Poe.

Who in the multiverse would think of this… and then make it work? (We know who, lucky us.) I’ve always thought that the essence of creativity is an ability to see unity in things which a appear dissimilar. To see the unseen, the hidden connections. I believe this is intuitive, a nearly subconscious kind of insight that can only be shared through art. It’s like making a metaphor, saying, “Have you noticed? This is like that, isn’t it? They fit together.” When unlike things are shown to kiss, It is intention makes the bliss.

And besides, this is really funny, as many here have given witness, and which is no surprise, but is still remarkable. It ain’t easy to mix scary/macabre and funny. It’s been done, of course, as in the wonderful “Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein,” but it often doesn’t really work. Here, it does, with the added pleasure of the plain old sweetness of the newscats. [Which my spellcheck keeps insisting must be “newscast”.]

So?

So: dankie, gràcies, tak, dank u, merci, gracias, danke, ευχαριστώ, mahalo, .תודה, dhanyavād, takk, grazie, gratias, arigatô, 감사합니다, ačiū, grazzi, Xièxiè, dziękuję, obrigado/obrigada, спасибо, tack, Дякую, a dank, ngiyabonga, and Thank You.

Thank you, Ms. Georgia Dunn.

[My favorite is the Lithuanian “ačiū” just because it’s pronounced like our comic strip sound effect “AHCHOO!” And isn’t it interesting how much alike some of these are? Especially in languages as different as Japanese (arigatô) and Portuguese (obrigado/obrigada)?]

Poetry like that should have people ravin’.

“Tommy, can you hear me?”

If there are any knitters in this kitty-loving crowd, I want to share another take on Poe:

http://the-panopticon.blogspot.com/2011/10/

Scroll down to “The Romney”.

I loved that! Thanks.

This. Is. Awesome. <3

The perfect follow-on for yesterday!

(What Jonathan.Prater said!)

I’ve always enjoyed “The Raven”, and seeing the B.C.N. version made my day.

My favorite line was the one about putting some pants on, since it was so “out of left field”.

Cute clever twist ending. Good job Georgia :D

It was the craven, tap tap tapping at my snore!

Where’s the madien Lenore?