Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for October 24, 2020

I know that’s meant to be a magician’s endless ribbon, but I can’t help but see it as the Fourth Doctor’s scarf, and no one can tell me differently. (Indulge me while I believe that the Doctor turns up in the world of OIXL every so often, everyone there sees them as a cat because mumblemumbleperceptionfiltermumble, and they’re totally fine with that.)

I’ll bet that third panel was fun to draw and ink!

Elvis is busted! Another secret soap watcher!

Elvis reminds me of a certain Robin Harwood

The other day I was in traffic behind a car with one of those “coexist” stickers where the letters are religious symbols. This one was done in fat graffiti font with each letter a different color and overlapping. From a distance it looked like what a cartoon character says when he swears.

Curse words, that was a fast escape.

Well, the magic escape was unexpected, at least for me. But what is this “I guess this is goodbye” nonsense?

Flying Pucks!

The first reply to this comment is for those who, like Elvis, would rather do laundry than watch idiotic, bat-filled, kibble operas. But if you don’t want to read this sort of thing, don’t.

CURSE WORDS!

I think I found my latest catchphrase. :D

Reminds me of my mom, who frequently snored through her “stories” but later in the day was able to tell her friend in marathon phone convos every detail of the day’s episodes…

Gotta hand it to Elvis… he is as Contrary as a Cat! Even as a Cat!!! ;)

Puck’s eyebrows in the 4th panel are emulating Bandit’s! Also I somehow find it very touching that Elvis is laundering his suspenders.

BoCH in front of the TV! Goldie’s definitely getting into this show…

Elvis washes his suspenders (last panel). Nice.

Georgia draws cute tongues.

Wait, what? What’s this, a deus ex magiciana? This is why I deeply despise soap opera!

Does this explain why the Woman’s socks always vanish?

Toe Beans! Rear Toe Beans! Incarcerated Toe Beans! Psychic Toe Beans! Yes it’s the trifecta, the rarest of all: RIPTB!!!! Scaeva , Cat1963, and FullMoonDeb, please join me in a “SQUEEEE” that can be heard all the way to the Big Pink House!

OT. Yen

What an adorable Beatrix “smothered laughter” grin in panel four as she lies down on the ironing board.

Whoa Elvis, better watch out. Burt’s going to nail you with his chyrons this coming week.

Elvis, you hang together , stand youre ground, be strong, we can do it. We will get throught this.

curs words??!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, ho, ho

It’s magic you know

Never believe it’s not so

It’s magic, you know

Never believe it’s not so

Never been a fake

Never seen a jail break

Leaning on my cell wall in the night

Wishing for a bed

Visions in my head

Crazy visions of Bandit and me in flight

Oh, ho, ho

He’s magic, you know

Never believe he’s not so

Bandit’s magic, you know

And Mitty is all like, “D’oh!”

(Pilot’s David Paton)

I love the “board game” path they’re traveling on. Very cute!

I love the bats! (I mean, flying Pucks).

Foiled again.

Elvis appears to be laundering his tie, his suspenders, and his boxers. The details on this strip are always amazing!

If ‘doing laundry’ involves restoring the appropriate level of cat hairs to nice, warm piles of textiles, then you have to do it as often as the humans do.

Paul McCartney and Wings: Band on the Run

Stuck in this asylum,

Dr. Mitts is laughing,

Never seeing no one

Until I see you,

Paisley you, Paisley, you.

…….

Now we’re gonna get out of here,

Gonna get out and goin’ away

To connect with my old friends.

All I need are my magical skills

Now we’re gonna get out of here,

Now we’re gonna get out of here!

…….

Well, the wall exploded with a mighty crash

As we ran into the sun,

And Paisley turned to me and she said

I’m really having fun.

Cats on the run, cats on the run.

…….

And old Dr. Mitts,

Just threw a fit

For the cats on the run,

Cats on the run

Cats on the run,

Cats on the run.

I guess the show’s writers ran out of time on figuring out how to end this particular episode…

“Magician” is actually a pretty horrible job these days. There’s always some heckler who will have looked up your trick on the Internet. He was lucky to “escape” from it. (I did enjoy the super-long, colored-silk handkerchief.)

SO totally cool the way Bandit just threw Paisley over his shoulder and skedaddled with her out under the starlight! Now that’s REAL magic!

Speaking of magicians, the Amazing Randi passed away this week. I was surprised to learn that he toured with Alice Cooper in the 70s and designed many of the stage props, including the guillotine (and I can attest Alice is still using it, or a version of it, these days).

OT: Onyx

Today is:

Make a Difference Day: It does not have to be a big difference, and hopefully it will be positive. My physician once said to me: “Society runs in cycles. All we can do is try to be good examples, and wait for the cycle to swing back.” Unfortunately, too few people think enough about that.

40-hour Work Week Day: Unless you are an “exempt” employee. That means you are exempt from having a life. A former employer wanted their employees, exempt or not, to average 50 hours per week. That is unhealthy, both for the employee and the employee’s family. (Who is raising the kids?) Even if what you do for a living is your passion, and you only have one passion, this is still unhealthy. It also hurts your ability and productivity.

World Tripe Day: There is a reason for the second meaning of “tripe.” It means that what someone has said is nonsense or rubbish, in other words, a lot of baloney. And speaking of that …

National Balogna Day: Salami tell you about bologna …There are hundreds of kinds of this sausage, not only the few familiar to most inhabitants of North America, where the sausage contents are so finely ground they cannot be distinguished—possibly not for the best reasons, at least originally. Pass the mustard.

National Crazy Day: How is this day different from all other days? Sanity is for people who cannot handle reality, and that’s no baloney.

Small update.

Clark is doing well. But not pleased about being confined. 3 years we’ve had the screen door set up. Never a problem.

Until Clark. After lights out last night he decided enough was enough and started clawing the screen. Not in the middle, not at random. Oh no. He dug right in where the screen is pushed into the groove at the bottom. I responded within 2 minutes and lucky I did. He was well on his way to working the screen out.

So, closed the hard door. Sorry bud, but you are just too smart for your own good.

BONUS: His front leg has a shaved band halfway between his ankle and knee joint. He was on an IV for a couple days. About an inch of bare skin all the way around. It looks like he is wearing a high top Ugg boot. A really cool look. Makes me want to shve the other 3 legs. Lisa has pronounced this to be “not a good idea.” I kind of paraphrased that for sensitive readers.

Poor Robin had to suffer through all the Our IX lives stuff (If he was here), so I thought I’d find him something he might enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw_cdqQHGA8

Curse words? LOL

Bandit is a great magician.

OT: Bad News

What’s with the bats?

Bandit carpet ride!

Did you know that the next our 9 lives is in the past? In one of the comics in the past that was made, I read it myself.

Curse words! Hahaha