Gem of the Week

While we fretted over Tazzer's medical condition, we decided to eat, and watch a movie, in Emily's room with him. Ultimately, we put aside his food (uneaten at that hour, but he'd just eaten half a can at the vet's three hours earlier) and his catbox (or, as we now call it, the "evidence room") and everybody piled in with us.

The choice was a BBC Films piece from 2009 called In the Loop. Picture Aaron Sorkin and John Finnemore having a foul-mouthed love child and this is more or less what you'd get.  In addition to a bunch of the usual Beeb suspects running about on their side of the pond, the US cast includes Mimi Kennedy as a Hillary Clinton-esque Madam Secretary of State, and James Gandolfini as a scrambled-egg-covered general who's trying to explain whether war is forseeable. Or inevitable. Or something.

In the end, they wind up working it all out in the bedroom- but not the way General Petraeus does it. This might be the single most brilliant scene I've seen in ages, and there's not a hint of salaciousness in it:

We didn't last until the very end and will finish tonight, but it's truly a keeper:)

"Nobody Knows!"

I know QI doesn't do that anymore, but that's where we still stand with the kitteh.

Lab results came back, and the vet said they were, and I quote, "beautiful." Nothing elevated or indicative or weird. Pretty damn healthy boy, considering.

He did eat this morning- not when I fed everyone else, but within an hour or two- and he seems spunkier. He's still spending hours at a time curled up in a ball, but he's a cat- he always does that.  I'll lay out the noms again in a few hours and we'll see how it goes.

There's only one other remote theory to investigate. While waiting for him to be drained and filled yesterday, I noticed this poster on the veterinary wall:



My eye was immediately drawn, like moths to a munchie, to the upper right hand corner.  He has seemed pretty wobbly in recent months, and plenty damn mellow.  Not that we have a stash of our own in the house, but maybe he's got a kitteh pal in Colorado or Washington state;)

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Several people have posted links to this picture, or to the Buzzfeed link explaining it:



Since service workers are among the lowest-paid and hardest-working of any I know, this kind of one-percent overentitlement makes me angry. Angry enough to publish my own retort for free and unrestricted use by any waitstaff (or snarky passersby_ who care to:



If I ever see one of the first on the table, I will have one of the second at the ready.