Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for April 02, 2020

OMC, Sophie! I have never seen her that happy!

So all we had to do was convince her that wrestling is a form of art. It seems so obvious now.

Wrestling is just like theater, except Lawrence Olivier never got hit on the head with a folding chair …

This makes me think of the South Park episode W.T.F.

“Yeah, it’s a kind of theater! Do you want to make a cost-…Um, how did this wrestling ring and backdrop suddenly materialize in the basement?

Sophie finally got the lightbulb moment! Now, look out, creative genius is about to take over! Tusslemania will never be the same!

And now, the word of the day: Kayfabe.

Puck, I think your feather boa is either eating you or morphing into a chicken, with you inside! (I know that’s his paw, but if you turn your head and squint just right, it could be a chicken eye, with the feather crest right behind…)

Of course “Professional Wrestling” is staged, that’s why they place a mike under the ring so that when a “wrestler” is thrown to the mat, it makes a loud sound.

…and our wee Sarah Bernhardt is about to blossom!

Athletic theater!♥ (Love Lupin’s double-paw push into Goldie’s face.)

“Curtain up! Light the lights!”

Hurray, Sophie!! I haven’t seen her this happy since she created the undercover costumes.

It’s like a soap opera written by fourth graders.

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Aaaaand she’s got it!

Well yes, yes it is!

This reminds me of my childhood in Florida back in the mid ‘70s where one staple of being a kid back then (right before the advent of cable TV and TBS/ESPN) was watching Championship Wrestling from Florida on WTOG 44 on Saturdays after Doctor Paul Bearer’s Creature Feature show with its ‘50s/’60s sci-fi flick. As kids we did not really realize that the matches were scripted and I do recall a couple of kids at school going to the emergency room or coming to school all bruised up for trying to imitate one of the moves they saw on TV or by simply being blasted by a sibling with a Samsonite chair because they saw one of the popular wrestlers like Dusty Rhodes get blasted with one by a bad dude like Harley Race only to get up off the mat and put the bad guy into submission with a bionic elbow….. They eventually started using disclaimers (“Kids, do not try this at home…”) , How I wish we were back in those simpler times now….. Stay well everyone!

Speaking of Sophie (and Tommy), Georgia’s book “Take It Away Tommy” on Amazon needs some more reviews

Why hasn’t anyone mentioned Beatrix toe beans?

Sophie’s tail is all fluffy and happy now! Look at her perky ears, too.

And suddenly Sophie feels like she belongs!! Yay!!!

Tabitha!

You made it, yay! :))

Welcome to the team sweetheart, you will be a valuable asset to Tusslemania!

xoxo

If you haven’t seen it yet, in the comments section late yesterday, Georgia posted a link to a podcast interview she had. The interview runs about 54 minutes and is worth every second. Take the time to listen. There are lots of good nuggets of info, including information concerning the next BCN book, “Elvis Puffs Out”!

Does that mean Mel Gibson’s outbursts were all kayfabe?

Sophie, you’ve just had an epiphany! Now join in the fun and have a grand old time.

Remember when they not only pretended that wrestling was real, but they’d get mad when people said it was obviously fake? Since they’ve started to admit that it was fake, it’s popularity has exploded.

I know a professional wrestler. (Nobody famous, a local performer.) He started as a dancer. Some of the moves are the same.

Yes! And pushing tea is “free enterprise”! :-p

To paraphrase Shakespeare (or was it really Francis Bacon?) … “All the world’s a wrestling ring”.

GLOW

OMC! My theater loving daughter got into WWE and now New Japan Wrestling because she had the same revelation as Sophie! She and I went to Tokyo over New Year’s so she could be at Wrestle Kingdom – their version of Tusslemania.

Wrestling is a sport. WWE is theater.

Except I don’t think Lupin and Goldie are acting.

Andrew Lloyd Weber: Phantom of the Opera

Sophie: At once it came to me,

That moment true,

What I was dealing with,

Out of the Blue,

The cats all having fun,

It warmed my heart,

To realize Tusslemania

Is performing art!

…….

Puck: It’s all about drama,

And story lines,

And creativity,

It’s so divine!

Costumes must be designed,

You have a part,

You know that Tusslemania,

Is performing art!

…….

All: We’d love to have you join,

How you would like,

Make your own character,

No two alike,

Your spirit and interests,

Are off the charts!

You know that Tusslemania,

Is performing art!

It’s a stunt show with basic plot/drama devices.

Georgia posted a picture of a sleeping Lupin:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B-eEFqaJ77Q/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

That’s right, Sophie. Theater is art.

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Fake wrestling is theater. Real wrestling is not.

I mean, basically…I guess…it’s no Broadway play, but…

Theater??!! … Yes, THEATER !! … Brought to you by:

‘The Mighty Dunn Art Players !!’

Pro wrestling has been about theater since I was born (and presumably long before). But not theater in the sense of Shaekspeare and the Globe, but in the sense of Punch and Judy. Go Sophie!

Sophie has an epiphany and all is well.

Through back Thursday October 1 2018

Ding, ding, ding, ding!!!

Kitty beans!!!

Today is Ferret Day. If you have a fantastical, foldable ferret, give it a little extra love (and treats!) for those of us who are ferretly deprived. Personally, I never met a ferret I didn’t like.

Don’t lump all wrestling into the theater category. Just professional wrestling.

You’re absolutely right, Sophie! Well said.

So now Sophie’s going to play.

I can’t believe that Robin missed this opportunity to say that the boys are DOOMED!

By Garfield!! I think she’s got it!

Sophie looks so excited!

Once when I was a kid, I was dragged to a WWF match. Actually I wanted to go to a movie but there was none playing nearby that I wanted to watch. This was many years ago before all the stage acting now. One of the ’’wrestlers’’ [don’t remember who] was supposed to be the bad guy and was apparently beaten up, fake blood and all. He was carried out but a few minutes later I saw him standing in the doorway to the dressing room watching the rest of the performance. I never saw anyone who was supposedly injured as badly as he was recover so fast. Not even any blood. Amazing.

I hope if Sophie designs some costumes that she has a good supply of pompoms for flair.

By, Jove! I think she got it!

LOVE the huge sophie eyes

I wonder if Sophie helped design this cake:

https://www.reddit.com/r/toptalent/comments/ftdcx3/toilet_paper_cake_by_dorothy_lane_market_in/

Most adorable light bulb moment ever? Y/Y?

Oh my gosh that lit up expression is priceless. Theatre once again bringing everyone together

AMEN SISTA! Sophie is one of my favorite characters, and this comic made her my first

Comes the dawn!