JijiMilou
banner
jijimilou.bsky.social
JijiMilou
@jijimilou.bsky.social
An ace vegan everyperson who likes cats and cars.
Profile: one of my cats, a brown tabby, loafing on a '60s Olivetti soft case atop a '20s Remie Scout portable. Banner: a red '61 VW Beetle with penguins https://www.clubvw.org.au/vwreference/antarctic-vws/
Behold Zooey & Wednesday, two of the concurrent title holders >^..^<
For some reason only 2 of my 7 cats are female; all 7 came to my house by way of the Cat Distribution System where none actually came from shelters, hence my donating to shelters whenever possible to compensate & just to help out.
December 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This is how Wednesday often sits in the sunlight. When she first started doing that I thought she was sitting like that so she could groom herself but this is actually how she just likes to sit in the sunlight, very much a classic case of suns out tums out >^..^<
December 6, 2025 at 12:38 AM
This is Bean, youngest at 4 in a household of 7 cats. Some are on special diets, so there are 5 different kinds of cat food at mealtime. Bean is odd; he can be left alone w/ all 5 different foods & will eat only *his* own food. He does not like any treats (!!) but loves organic peanut butter >^..^<
November 26, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Ha, yeah, not to mention how the square sweets in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory look round:
tygertale.com/wp-content/u...
November 22, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Actually, that might be one for the Enfield poltergeist X-file
October 31, 2025 at 11:43 PM
In the 10s & very early 20s some actors would sometimes wear heavy eye makeup to compensate for the way their blue eyes showed up as white. Those images of Stan Laurel are from around the same time but using different kinds of film. The contrast is indeed pretty striking. 2/2
September 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Reminds me a little of one of my cats, Gus, who often has such an expression though it seems like his expression tends to be more one of curiosity. Utterly adorable!! >^..^<
He also has poor eyesight so that might be a factor in his curiosity.
He's a real sweetie who turned 7 years old yesterday.
September 20, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Funny, regardless of inspiration, the name does seem to suit her so it's all good!
One of my cats, Bean, came from my kid's co-worker who had adopted him, already so named, from an animal shelter so no idea either about inspiration. The name somehow fit so he's still Bean >^..^<
September 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
What a great label! Also digging that ceramic bottle in a lovely shade of pale green.
Did a little looking online & found a picture of this charming sculpture that the winery has outside in front >^..^<
August 30, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Yes, one doesn't move until the cat moves, them's the rules >^..^<
Sometimes even just being *adjacent* to a napping cat is enough to render one immobile, Medusa-like, lol.
Case in point, right now, with Gus on the couch next to me so I ain't going anywhere right now:
August 17, 2025 at 11:15 PM
August 16, 2025 at 10:50 PM
In case anyone was wondering, here's a pic of the aforementioned boxed-in TV (sitting on top of the aforementioned first Zenith which has been repurposed as a TV stand with shelving for the VHS/DVD VCR & the Blu-ray player & some discs) with one of my cats blissfully asleep on top >^..^<
August 16, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Oh, poor baby! Yeah, hopefully sitting there for just a spell. A great picture, though.
And that's what's so sorely lacking in Durer's work Melencolia I, it needs a cat >^..^<
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
July 30, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Yeah, good question. Like with the iconic photo "Lunchtime atop a Skyscraper" where one wonders where the photographer actually was 😬 Only fairly recently was he identified as Charles C. Ebbets, this mighty dapper fellow:
www.messynessychic.com/wp-content/u...
July 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
July 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Relatable!! Zero has a similar demeanor when I hold him like a baby; he's actually quite taciturn but he makes the cutest little chirp (according to my kids, as I am deaf) to signal he wants down which of course I accommodate; fortunately he's an affable sort so he doesn't hold it against me >^..^<
July 1, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Hey, no need to sully chinchillas' good name!! Maybe it was a Russian bot? Sometimes reading some of what those people post is like trying to read Russian cursive handwriting:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
June 29, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Despite all the browns & the vintage vehicles barely visible in the windows this is actually from today #Caturday & not the 1970s.
Pascal is enjoying some bird-watching while Jules is just chilling on top of the box I made for the new flat-screen TV when the old CRT TV finally died a few years ago.
June 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Ha, yeah. Gus (what a good chonker!) is also comfortable sleeping on this despite the center portion of cardboard being missing so the four spikelets that hold the cardboard in place are exposed. He absolutely loves it. Go figure >^..^<
June 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Alas, no luck here with my own searches so far; I'd actually been keeping an eye out for such an item ever since I first saw Escher's Drawing Hands a good several decades ago where it looked like the dual-ended extenders could accommodate larger sizes at least on one end mcescher.com/wp-content/u...
June 19, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Any time anyone mentions chinchillas (how often do chinchillas come up in conversation despite their ineffable cuteness?!?) it's hard to resist bringing up what the Russian word for 'chinchilla' looks like in Russian cursive handwriting. Cursed cursive, indeed.
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
June 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Indubitably!! >^..^< Yeah, an excuse to share another video of sweet if still feral FIV+ Pascal. The night before his anniversary of being taken in he sat in my lap for the first time; 2 months before his 2nd anniversary he started making biscuits for the first time which I actually got on video:
June 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Yes, not a problem!! Thanks to your old Twitter account I was well prepared to take in my formerly outdoor & extremely feral cat, Pascal, when he was badly injured in a fight & I took him to the vet where he tested positive for FIV. Since then he has integrated well with the rest of my cats >^..^<
June 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Good luck to you all! Every cat is different but who knows. The first 2 years Zooey would not come out of the bedroom because she didn't like the other cats but 4 years ago she started coming out & now she has free run of the house despite still not liking the other cats so there's hope yet >^..^<
June 7, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Requisite picture of Zero; he looks annoyed because a sound woke him from a sound slumber. Despite appearances he's an extremely sweet and mild-mannered sort and, yes, prone to hilarious mishaps.
May 29, 2025 at 6:12 PM