That poor owl lamp has suffered and survived so much! Elvis with his arm around Beatrix—and his bare feet revealing rear toebeans! Where are his slippers?
The spooky space heater reminds me of what I call “Goony Cars.” Those are cars that have their grill in a big smile, probably to make angry drivers less angry. But there’s one car (don’t know the make) that has angry eyebrows that look really spooky in the rear view mirror.
Lots of fangs in this one, including a single creepy fang from Elvis as he begins his scary story. And poor little Beatrix with her paws covering her eyes: “This one’s too real!”
I love the many looks of Lupin-Lupin-Lupin (there, I did it!) The happy face with the water glass, the determined, stalking my prey look (with fangs) with the owl lamp (ending with self-satisfied happy look), and finally, the ornery, I’m gonna’ teach you flowers a lesson look with the vase (which I am guessing will lead to a smile).
So that’s who keeps knocking things down in my kitchen! Nothing can compete with a real living poltergeist, or whatever horror creature Lupin is most like. I wonder if this is true to life since the real Lupin has passed.
I was sitting in a Waiting-Room this week. There were pairs of individual chairs with end tables at either end of a row. On each table was a lamp to supplement the overhead lighting. I was sitting next to one table and wanted to set my book down, so I tried to scootch the lamp over a bit, only to find the lamp was fastened down to the table; it wouldn’t budge.
I said out loud, “Hmm. Lupin proof.”
A woman sitting on the other side looked up and said, “I beg your pardon?” That lead to a 5-minute recitation of Breaking Cat News and its characters. I am not sure what the woman gained from my report but suffice it to say; I enjoyed talking about anything but the reason I was sitting in the waiting room.
Last night my tank of a dilute tortie, Gracie, caused her own spooky show by climbing into the box mattress and violently picking her way around the bed from underneath. It woke me just in time to see her pop up on top of the bed to see if her work was appreciated.
Yesterday, anamolous4 was asking after noreenklose as we haven’t seen her around in a couple of months. I replied to her with this:
We really need to have a contact list somewhere. Not sure the best way to accomplish that. My husband would never be able to come here to let anyone know that I was sick or something (he is not very computer literate). I wish Bill Jackson was still around. He could probably make a really good spreadsheet for that and make it available to anyone who was interested and wanted to add their phone/email addresses to it. Does anyone have any ideas about this?
I posted it kind of late so wanted to come here today to post it earlier. Still looking for ways to accomplish this.
One other thing to point out is Georgia’s genius with perspective . . . or showing the “camera one” view in panel 6, with the close-up focus on the glass and Lupin blurred in the background. I love these touches . . .
Friday I managed to spill liquids three times, one of which included breaking a vintage glass I was using as a vase. If only I’d realized, I must have said Lupin three times!
Wait though – I did actually drop or knock over two of the items myself; the third was on my microwave, which I probably bumped. Maybe I said my own name three times! I finally left and went on errands – I figured, why wreak havoc in my own home, when I can do it elsewhere instead? Fortunately it stopped until just now, when my cup slipped and spilled water onto my surge protector and some papers. But after rebooting, at least my modem was okay!
Hello Everyone! I have been following but not able to comment. My computer died abruptly so I’ve gone to the library to get my BCN fix. I am happy to announce I just acquired a new monitor (I am so relieved it wasn’t the computer!) The tech who came to my house just left and now I can hit the likes and replies!
Ahsum about 2 years ago
Sunday Funday
Sue Ellen about 2 years ago
That poor owl lamp has suffered and survived so much! Elvis with his arm around Beatrix—and his bare feet revealing rear toebeans! Where are his slippers?
Le'letha Premium Member about 2 years ago
Yes! Invoke the Lupin! Things will be knocked over in his honor!
Lupin!
Lupin!
LUPIN!
deadheadzan about 2 years ago
Wicked Lupin, filled with glee as glasses and lamps tumble and his name is repeated……three times three.
Aspen_Bell about 2 years ago
(And I think the real Lupin will do this as a ghost cat too.)
Witchempress about 2 years ago
Lupin is the cat version of Beetlejuice!
saobadao about 2 years ago
Is this acknowledging Lupin’s passing?
Crann Bethadh about 2 years ago
Things that go, err…crash in the night.
sergioandrade Premium Member about 2 years ago
Lupin maybe a reincarnation of MacCavity, “For when the crime discovered MaCavitys not there!”
Gent about 2 years ago
That Lupin. He owl-vase leapin’ for trouble.
Gent about 2 years ago
Lupin made his final disappearing act and now owl-vase haunts the house.
Ricky Bennett about 2 years ago
The spooky space heater reminds me of what I call “Goony Cars.” Those are cars that have their grill in a big smile, probably to make angry drivers less angry. But there’s one car (don’t know the make) that has angry eyebrows that look really spooky in the rear view mirror.
Jungle Empress about 2 years ago
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!!
fullmoondeb Premium Member about 2 years ago
BoCH alert!!!! (Back of cat head… or, in this case, heads.)
Robin Harwood about 2 years ago
Three times is certain to invoke doom.
WelshRat Premium Member about 2 years ago
I’ve been saying he was the monster… AND NONE OF YOU BELIEVED ME!!!
ikini Premium Member about 2 years ago
Lots of fangs in this one, including a single creepy fang from Elvis as he begins his scary story. And poor little Beatrix with her paws covering her eyes: “This one’s too real!”
amethyst52 Premium Member about 2 years ago
RIP Lupin. :’(
in-dubio-pro-rainbow about 2 years ago
That’s leaping Lupin, folks! (Blame it on yourself, Ma’am, since it was YOU who told him to “knock it off”)
in-dubio-pro-rainbow about 2 years ago
Woman had a beside lamp,
Came Lupin white as snow, groan.
And we know where the kitty went,
The little lamp was sure to go down.
He nudged glasses and things once, hey,
And assisted the gravity’s rule instead
What an awful time did they have,
That night in the bed.
Crush-cat, crash-cat,
Just blow a gasket.
Sent a better vase down baby,
On his way he passed it.
Robin Harwood about 2 years ago
3 days. Don’t leave everything to the last minute.
Trespassers W about 2 years ago
I love Lupin’s happy face as he rides the Owl Lamp off the table.
Miss Mina about 2 years ago
I love how Lupin’s eyes are gradually gaining color in each panel.
FreyjaRN Premium Member about 2 years ago
I have something in a similar vein on Twitter. https://twitter.com/FreyjaRN/status/1579003930633449472
artchick530 about 2 years ago
I love the many looks of Lupin-Lupin-Lupin (there, I did it!) The happy face with the water glass, the determined, stalking my prey look (with fangs) with the owl lamp (ending with self-satisfied happy look), and finally, the ornery, I’m gonna’ teach you flowers a lesson look with the vase (which I am guessing will lead to a smile).
bonita.eley about 2 years ago
So funny!
sugordon about 2 years ago
How can that sweet little owl lamp look so serene when it lives in constant danger?
Katzen1415 about 2 years ago
So that’s who keeps knocking things down in my kitchen! Nothing can compete with a real living poltergeist, or whatever horror creature Lupin is most like. I wonder if this is true to life since the real Lupin has passed.
Jayfbird1969 Premium Member about 2 years ago
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice… Lupin Lupin Lupin!
brysonbraswell about 2 years ago
Hi
rs0204 Premium Member about 2 years ago
I was sitting in a Waiting-Room this week. There were pairs of individual chairs with end tables at either end of a row. On each table was a lamp to supplement the overhead lighting. I was sitting next to one table and wanted to set my book down, so I tried to scootch the lamp over a bit, only to find the lamp was fastened down to the table; it wouldn’t budge.
I said out loud, “Hmm. Lupin proof.”
A woman sitting on the other side looked up and said, “I beg your pardon?” That lead to a 5-minute recitation of Breaking Cat News and its characters. I am not sure what the woman gained from my report but suffice it to say; I enjoyed talking about anything but the reason I was sitting in the waiting room.
anne o about 2 years ago
Last night my tank of a dilute tortie, Gracie, caused her own spooky show by climbing into the box mattress and violently picking her way around the bed from underneath. It woke me just in time to see her pop up on top of the bed to see if her work was appreciated.
beindevine about 2 years ago
… and even knowing he’s deaf, they still say, and yell, the name of “Lupin!”….
azkfwecho Premium Member about 2 years ago
Yesterday, anamolous4 was asking after noreenklose as we haven’t seen her around in a couple of months. I replied to her with this:
We really need to have a contact list somewhere. Not sure the best way to accomplish that. My husband would never be able to come here to let anyone know that I was sick or something (he is not very computer literate). I wish Bill Jackson was still around. He could probably make a really good spreadsheet for that and make it available to anyone who was interested and wanted to add their phone/email addresses to it. Does anyone have any ideas about this?
I posted it kind of late so wanted to come here today to post it earlier. Still looking for ways to accomplish this.
mpolo11 Premium Member about 2 years ago
We have 4 cats and only 1 does this. And how.
fuzzybritches about 2 years ago
One other thing to point out is Georgia’s genius with perspective . . . or showing the “camera one” view in panel 6, with the close-up focus on the glass and Lupin blurred in the background. I love these touches . . .
metagalaxy1970 about 2 years ago
The fangs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Wolf In Your Midst about 2 years ago
Lupin is just enforcing a feline imperative: Everything must be on the floor.
Cassia about 2 years ago
Lupin’s smile is sunny
His antics kinda funny
Crazy cat so wild and free
Oh, but fear grows wherever he goes
And nobody knows like Bea
Autumn nights are hazy
When people say he’s crazy
His motive is a mystery
Oh, but fear grows, so this scary tale goes
And nobody knows like Bea
There’s something about a cat Frankenstein
Causing chills up your spine
That is just Lupin’s way
He really casts a spooky ol’ spell
And it’s working so well
That no nice things get to stay
So go ahead and yell
The tale is fun to tell
But I love him endlessly
And that love grows where that sweet Lupin goes
And nobody knows like me
If you’ve met him, you’ll never forget him
’Cause nobody has such glee
La la la- believe it when you’ve seen it
Nobody lives so free
- Roger Frederick Cook / Roger John Reginald Greenaway – Love Grows
scaeva Premium Member about 2 years ago
They’re giving him good vibrations,
They’re giving him excitations,
Good, good, good, good vibrations! CRASH!!!
Red Bird about 2 years ago
I feel pretty sorry for the owl lamp.
JLChi about 2 years ago
Bea in the last panel — oh, so cute! But what happened to the footies on her PJ’s?
Daltongang Premium Member about 2 years ago
Lupin, the Beetlejuice of the feline world.
Shake, shake, shake, Señora, shake your body line
Shake, shake, shake, Señora, shake it all the time
Work, work, work, Señora, work your body line
Work, work, work, Señora, work it all the time
My cat’s name is Señora
I tell you friends I adore her
And when she dances, oh brother!
She’s a hurricane in all kinds of weather
(Jump in de line, rock your body in time) OK, I believe you!
(Jump in de line, rock your body in time) OK, I believe you!
(Jump in de line, rock your body in time) OK, I believe you!
(Jump in de line, rock your body in time) Whoa!
Shake, shake, shake, Señora, shake your body line
Shake, shake, shake, Señora, shake it all the time
Work, work, work, Señora, work your body line
Work, work, work, Señora, work it all the time
Kitty Katz about 2 years ago
Vaughn Monroe, Johnny Cash, and Others: Ghost Riders in the Sky
The Meese was telling the story, and the story he did tell
A phantom white kitty who raised all kinds of heck!
The lamps and the vases went flying to the floor!
Nothing was safe from him, as he ran forevermore!
…….
Yipee-ai-yay! Yippee-ai-oh!
Ghost Lupin zooms through the house!
…….
It started with a lampshade, then the lamp followed soon,
The night sky was a-falling, the light was a full moon,
When all at once a streak of light foreshadowed a vase’s doom,
No shelf would be safe from him, as he hummed his ominous tune!
…….
Yipee-ai-yay! Yippee-ai-oh!
Ghost Lupin zooms through the house!
…….
The Meese looked around the room and he addressed his fellow cats,
If you want to save your favorite things from landing with a splat
Then kitties guard your items well you’ll see them no more,
When the Lupin comes around, all ends up on the floor!
…….
Yipee-ai-yay! Yippee-ai-oh!
Ghost Lupin zooms through the house!
willie_mctell about 2 years ago
He can be invisible too.
Solarbear Premium Member about 2 years ago
Friday I managed to spill liquids three times, one of which included breaking a vintage glass I was using as a vase. If only I’d realized, I must have said Lupin three times!
Wait though – I did actually drop or knock over two of the items myself; the third was on my microwave, which I probably bumped. Maybe I said my own name three times! I finally left and went on errands – I figured, why wreak havoc in my own home, when I can do it elsewhere instead? Fortunately it stopped until just now, when my cup slipped and spilled water onto my surge protector and some papers. But after rebooting, at least my modem was okay!
mepowell about 2 years ago
Hello Everyone! I have been following but not able to comment. My computer died abruptly so I’ve gone to the library to get my BCN fix. I am happy to announce I just acquired a new monitor (I am so relieved it wasn’t the computer!) The tech who came to my house just left and now I can hit the likes and replies!
azkfwecho Premium Member about 2 years ago
OT
SamSevenDT 6 months ago
Masterpiece of a tale
Hammy300 4 months ago
Aw. I love Elvis in the last panel, comforting Bea. He’s got the ‘reassuring adult’ face