Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for July 18, 2024

Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s SUPER SOPHIE!!!

I hope Sophie becomes those people’s worst nightmare cat!♥

YES! THEATER!

Also, I notice that these are lowercase “people”. No title! No respect!

Natasha just nailed it. Time for Sophie to paint the scariest image of her life.

In this corner……hailing from the depths of your own despair, where all your nightmares go for their summer holidays…..The one that scares even the things that go bump in the night. The one. The only…. THE EXISTENTIAL DREAD !

That last panel. “Ooooohhhhh!!!”

Natasha is an outstanding motivational speaker!

Natasha, the World’s Greatest Mouse Motivational Speaker!

Exactly, this is what conceptual art is! It’s not what you are or what you do, it’s what your audience perceives! She will know about this from her many abstract installations.

“Anything?”

“Anything!”

“Stand back, I’ve got an idea!”

And, to those who were saying to remind her of the Existential Dread? Yeah! You win!

Once again, though. “A little less talk, a lot more action”.

OK, Sophie, start with

“If there were no eternal consciousness in a cat, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?”

And when they have absorbed that, follow up with

“What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means first of all, cat exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and, only afterwards, defines himself. If cat, as the existentialist conceives her, is indefinable, it is because at first she is nothing. Only afterward will she be something, and she herself will have made what she will be.”

And then

“Dasein is a being that does not simply occur among other beings. Rather it is ontically distinguished by the fact that in its being this being is concerned about its very being. Thus it is constitutive of the being of Dasein to have, in its very being, a relation of being to this being. “

That should finish them off.

And the artist has been awakened!!!

The ears! Oh, the emotions shown by the ears!

Those people have no idea. No idea at all. I guarantee that they will never hold a cat hostage ever again. GO SOPHIE!

Is anyone else seeing a light bulb over Sophie’s head in the last panel? I swear, it’s there.

Look out, Little Old Ladies! It’s time to play… “Let’s Pretend”! Mwa-ha-ha-haaa!

“The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.”

—Jose Ortega y Gasset

I don’t, Dread, what’s coming next! (I was hoping Rickey, would say that! ; )

Hello!! Enough talking here. GUTTER IS IN THE CUPBOARD!! Tidy Woman could come back at any second and you’re both debating philosophy??? Sophie! Pick yourself up, Be The CAT! You can do this! Time to give Tidy Woman a what for and get Gutter out of that cupboard and everyone out of that house.

Sophie Paw Pads!

If she can be anything, can she be mine ? My other 2 would just LOOOOOOOVVe her !

it’s time to be The Cat They Never Wanted!

I think we’re headed towards another cliffhanger – maybe a good one – for the weekend.

Finally, panel 4, Natasha hits on it: Sophie, the artist, is a blank canvas to those people. That’s something she can channel to create the most existentialist of dread!

Stevie Nicks: Rhiannon

Sophie waits with her friends in the night

She knows that we all love her

Chitter, Chatter, and Jules in flight

Outside we know they hover

All her life she’s never seen

How much she’s needed them

Can she help with Gutter’s rescue now?

Are they gonna win?

Are they gonna win?

Go Sophie!

Yay Sophie!

…….

Sophie is a cat in the dark

Natasha in the darkness

Giving Soph encouragement

Creating on blank canvas

All her life she’s never seen

How much she has to offer

Can she help with Gutter’s rescue now?

Are they gonna win?

Are they gonna win?

Go Sophie!

Yay Sophie!

Thank you, Agnes, I couldn’t remember Sophie’s wrestling persona name. Time for the Existential Dread to strike again, for the first time!

I enjoy Natasha encouraging Sophie here, and she definitely found the right words. This is going to be fun.

Remember Sophie you are an artist and a performer, play the part.

She doesn’t give you a movie, she gives you a well crafted story. That takes longer.

Yes! Appeal to the artist in Sophie! Very smart.

To quote Tuco (from TGTBaTU) “If you want to rescue a cat, rescue a cat. Don’t talk.”

OT a bit.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

At the Happy Healthy Hospital Pyramid Auditorium

Pink Lupinium: Welcome, kitties, to Vacation Scroll School. We’re going to learn all about how Cat loves us. And have lots of fun as well.

Iggy: First of all, we’re going to pretend sail on the Good Ship Treasure. I’m Captain Iggy, and this is my good friend Captain Elvis.

Elvis: Hello, kitties! First we’ll get in line and march on board the ship. Ready? Hup two, three four….

Kitten Isis: Are we really gonna sail on the Nile.

Iggy: Well, yes and no. The ship is on the Nile, but we’re going to stay anchored. But we’ll still learn a lot about sailing. And how Cat takes care of us.

Sometime Later

Elvis: Great job doing the Sailor Dance. Now let’s all head back to the Auditorium for songs and games with Pink Lupinium.

To all my Orb Friends of all faiths or no faiths: Cat bless you all, sending all the best.

Poor people, dont know what they are in for. Im sure Georgia will let them save face in the end though

Remember Sophie, All the world’s a stage and all the men and women are merely players, and there’s a lot of grubby people out there trying to hog the spotlight. It’s time for YOU to shine Sophie.

Sophie, a great deal of courage is the ability to act as if you are not terrified.

Go Sophie! Show these people your dark side!

you can dp this!!!

You can see the wheels of Sophie’s imagination starting to turn. Remember back to the 8th when she was wondering “What fresh heck…?” Well, now it’s time to unleash the fresh heck!

Go Sophie! Summon all your creative powers, and save Gutter, and yourself! You may not have claws, but you have fangs!

Dear Sophie, you’ve already shown us all that “pretend” is your hidden super power. An Oscar-worthy theatrical performance is exactly what’s needed here. Time to instill some EXISTENTIAL DREAD into Those Tidy People’s complacent lives!

When this is all over, I think Sophie will deserve an honorary Oscar for what I’m sure will be the performance of her life!

Oh boy, do I identify with Sophie.

Natasha makes a GREAT motivational coach!

Oh, this is getting good! I didn’t expect The Existential Dread! But, to borrow from Monty Python, “No one expects The Existential Dread”!

FYI: I just clicked on the t-shirt link to threadless below. They’ve got a sale going on right now where the shirts are $12.00 front printing ($18.00 for a t-shirt with crest and back printing.)

Sale ends 7/23/24 at 5:00 PM CT.

Feel the psycho-cat within.

“when we all wrestle” raises an interesting question:

What are the Robber Mice’s wrestling personas?! Do they wrestle the cats? Or do they have their own allied/rival league?

Can’t wait til Gutter sees EXISTENTIAL DREAD.

Don’t let others define who you are, Sophie. Your imagination is what makes you powerful.

Sophie, listen to Natasha – you are the mistress of your destiny here and can create the image you need to scare the bejeebers out of these fiends. Channel all that dread they are making you feel and spew it right back out at them!

Can someone give me the dates of the Existential Dread wrestling story. I think it might have been after they moved in to the BPH? (Which was January 2023, I believe). But maybe I’m remembering wrong (not out of the question!).

Until this story arc, I may have been under-appreciating Natasha. She is a great character.

Sorry I deleted my post by accident. Just remember Gutter still has his grappling hook in that pantry.

Hmm, do I also see that bit of a rip or tear in the screen, in panels 2 and 5? Or am I crazy?

Sophie! Be the uncarved block… The feline tabula rasa… The thing that goes ‘bump’ in the night.

Great pep talk!

But time’s a-wastin’!

Hey! Isn’t it still the same night? That means it is July 4th or early July 5th. Liberation day coming!

Lately, seeing the phrase “Tidy Couple” I can’t help but hear Don Ho:

Tidy Couple

In the dark

Catnapped dear Sophie

Deserve to be horked.

Please give that very same pep talk to The Born Loser today. Cross over can be arranged! Urgently needed!!!!

The mice understand Sophie. She needs an abstraction as a theme for a work of art. The last panel looks like the muse is at the door.

Georgia, how do I get a fanart on the bcn website? I’ve emailed the images multiple times without a response, can you please help?

Time to grow some claws and CAT UP!

Time for the July Bug to come rescue Sophie?

OT Bob Newhart passed away today.I

Unleashing Sophie!