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Mr Thompson Woofed

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Mr Thompson Woofed

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"For there is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest.
For there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion."

- Christopher Smart (1722-71)

Close-up of Keogh, a subtly stripy orange cat, sleeping curled up in a cat bed, his chin on his forepaw and his tail curled around front, almost to his eye.

March 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM

Mr Thompson Woofed

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Just realized how many of my favorite books have plurals in the title.
The Decameron
The Metamorphoses
The Book of The Thousand Nights and a Night
The Canterbury Tales
Dubliners
The Rubáiyát
Letters from the Earth
Seveneves
. . .

Weird.

March 14, 2025 at 4:33 AM

Mr Thompson Woofed

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Extravagant use of bollards indicates a serious parking incident in the recent past. (Lexington KY.)

[Once crowded into a booth here with 4 other groomsmen and the bridegroom, all drunk & high. Having eaten our fill, I proclaimed, "And now. . . we order AGAIN!" We did. Luckily, had a limo driver.]

'Waffle House' in yellow san serif capitals above a red awning. A one-story freestanding building with a Little Caesar's Pizza at the far end. 17 yellow bollards ring 2 sides of the Waffle House. No vehicle's getting through to slam into the building.
One is left asking, "Well, what happened? Tell the story!

March 8, 2025 at 8:59 PM

Mr Thompson Woofed

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I can't seem to learn which _Ulysses_ text is used in the three(?) audiobooks available. 1922? 1934? 1961? Ellman?
I prefer the 1961, but don't know how to tell.
Any help?
#Joyce #Ulysses #audiobook

Fairly early photographic portrait of Joyce against a white background, wearing a billed cap and a fairly fluffy coat with large lapels, a white collar and bow tie. His expression is serious, his round spectacled eyes intense, not showing their later difficulties.

February 25, 2025 at 2:32 AM

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Edith

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I can't lie, this is so soothing right now

Asteroid's chances of hitting Earth have nearly doubled in a week, ESA scientist warns

An steroid up to 300ft wide now has a 2.2% chance of colliding into Earth. It could prompt a space mission to intercept it.

uk.news.yahoo.com

February 7, 2025 at 9:40 PM

Mr Thompson Woofed

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Worth stepping outside to see Venus cavorting with the moon tonight! (Sorry for bad iPhone pic.)

Quarter moon on the left (with lots of earthshine on the shadowed part) and Venus blazing about 3.5 moon-widths to its right.

February 2, 2025 at 2:12 AM

Mr Thompson Woofed

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Most novels are about something, but some novels are about _everything._
Novels about everything:
- Tristram Shandy
- The Manuscript found in Saragossa
- Moby Dick
- Ulysses
And now, I realize, so is Huckleberry Finn.
Everything. Everything that matters.
Next up: _James_ by Percival Everett!

Book cover: "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)"
The H and F in the title are fashioned of broken fence with grass below and sprigs of greenery above. A drawing of Huck is pictured in a frame to the left, wearing a straw hat, red jacket, and high-waisted pants patched on the right knee, and ragged shoes. His hands are in his pockets and there's an amiable smile on his face. Looks like he's ready for any mischief.

February 1, 2025 at 3:30 AM

Mr Thompson Woofed

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Sleepy afternoon.

Three cats sleeping together on a rattan lounge covered in green stripy pillows. Top left and right, a calico (Miruku) and orange short-hair (Keogh); foreground, a swirly orange short-hair (Bailey).

January 30, 2025 at 9:25 AM

Mr Thompson Woofed

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Vanilla wafer, cream cheese, blueberries. A good combo.

January 28, 2025 at 8:11 AM

Mr Thompson Woofed

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Keogh snoozing, warmed by the gas fire, dreaming perhaps of long slain mice, or maybe mice to come!

Orange short hair curled up and snoozing, one paw and tail showing. Books and bicycle playing cards surrounding him.

January 23, 2025 at 7:12 AM

Mr Thompson Woofed

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Dreamt friends Ephrem, Angela, and I ran errands and passed a men's clothing store: "Brad's Trousers." Lol
We began (in my dream) using it as an indeterminant noun:
"Have you seen Brad's trousers?"
"Hand me Brad's trousers."
"That looks just like Brad's trousers."
"I think I smell Brad's trousers."

January 22, 2025 at 3:53 AM

Mr Thompson Woofed

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Sleepy boy on the couch next to me, fading fast.

A short-haired, stripy orange cat with one paw tucked under faces me on the back of the couch, his eyes beginning to close in drowsiness. Doesn't care, apparently, about the Richard Feynman bio I'm listening to. Behind him, to his left, is a stack of books, faced wrong way 'round for us to see the titles.

January 20, 2025 at 4:33 AM

Mr Thompson Woofed

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Miruku loving the smell of a stinkbug (who's perched on the edge of one of my studio's softlights). It wintered with us a few years ago and no cat molested it, though everyone got a chance to dig its cilantro-like aroma.

The frame is divided diagonally with white above and black below. A stinkbug is perched on the edge of the light, with Miruku, a tortoiseshell cat, giving it a sniff, her nose nearly touching it.

January 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM

Mr Thompson Woofed

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Hit me.

Short-haired tabby crouches by the left side of the table, a paw on one card and apparently ready to accept a second. The dealer, in a purple shirt, is on his left with the deck. Cat seems to be surveying the hands of other players out of the frame.

January 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM

Mr Thompson Woofed

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Bailey and Miruku creating an ICDC (Inter-Cranial Dream Channel).

Overhead shot of a swirly orange cat and a dark tortoise shell sleeping deeply in a tangle of limbs with their foreheads pressed together.

January 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM

Mr Thompson Woofed

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Nothing to do about the fires, thousands of miles from my erstwhile home.
Nothing but donate to Pasadena Humane, call and text to check on friends, eat a can of smoked oysters, and let Eliott Gould read me "Red Wind."

Cover of _Red Wind,_ a collection of stories by Raymond Chandler. The airbrushed image is a little hard to make out, but on a background of black fading into yellow in the foreground, there are swirls of red (wind?fire?) with (top right) a stylized black figure holding a gun, (left) a crumpled prone figure, and (bottom) a figure with maybe Japanese garb and a large conical hat with a red ribbon.

January 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM

Mr Thompson Woofed

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Keogh (little spoon), Miruku (big spoon). She protected us all, but him, most of all. <3

Miruku, a calico (some would say tabby) with white feet (as if she just stepped in milk, a cognate of her Japanese name) forms the big spoon around Keogh, a diminutive orange male, curled up and looking cozy and secure. They're lying on a confusion of quilts and blankets. A very peaceful image.

December 30, 2024 at 10:04 AM

Mr Thompson Woofed

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Cats love boxes, or, in this case a rattan table balanced upside-down on a rolled up yoga mat. Keogh classes up the joint.

Orange short-haired cat sits upright among the legs of a TV dinner-sized upside-down rattan table balanced on the end of a rolled up purple yoga mat. He (Keogh, named for his meow of choice) is staring off in the distance to the right. Looking regal, or, according to some, angry. Behind him (out of focus) are a part of a recliner, a straight chair, and a decorative wooden screen. Beyond all this are the windows of my back porch, showing a glimpse of wintry back yard landscape. Oh, there's a bit of floor showing behind the screen.

December 5, 2024 at 3:15 AM

Mr Thompson Woofed

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You know how Niander Wallace in _Blade Runner 2049_ has those floating pebbles that furnish his brain with information? My cat Keogh has those in the form of whiskers. They trace the contours of my face in the night, letting him know exactly where to plant his forehead. Forcefully. <3

December 1, 2024 at 5:40 AM

Mr Thompson Woofed

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Oof! Totally digging Dracula all over again!
As I was saying to Cathy, what's great about an epistolary novel is that there's no narrator who knows everything beforehand. Instead, each fragment builds up the total narrative layer by layer. So satisfying.

First edition cover of Dracula by Bram Stoker. It is -- or once was -- cream-colored, with a line drawing, or engraving, of the Count's dark castle on top of a hill, with several bats in flight above.

November 24, 2024 at 9:10 AM

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November 22, 2024 at 11:28 PM

Mr Thompson Woofed

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A favorite historical cat pic about which I know nothing. Screenshotted from the youtube video of R. Crumb and the Cheap Suit Serenaders' recording of "My Girl's Pussy," originally put on wax in 1931 and attributed to Harry Roy.