A dear friend of mine lost her mare, Cedars BlueMoon, today. Blue was 23 and, in her day, was a mischeivous, playful, smart little Arabian mare. She was also a 3/4 sister to Isis’ dam, Cedars del Taliah. Blue was a bay with four white socks and a pretty white marking on her head. I…
I’m going with a friend of mine to see The Eagle, a new movie based upon Rosemary Sutcliff’s book The Eagle of the Ninth. The movie gets mixed reviews. The review site Rotten Tomatoes gives The Eagle 34%. We’ll see how it is. None of the reviews are really good, and some of the reviews…
io9 had a feature article today on a spoof posted on b3ta.com featuring Doctor Hooey! An exploration of what if Doctor Who was filmed in Turkey on a budget of 27 pounds? b3ta.com is also going to be looking for people to play Daleks in part 2. As a companion to the above, here is…
Natamon on DeviantArt did a painting of Ambush as a Mardi Gras cat: Bejeweled Cat 5 by ~natamon on deviantART I saw the picture and had to smile. Ambush was a silly kitty who had a plastic fetish and played fetch with rubber bands. He used to climb onto my dresser to pull all of…
Over the past few year, I’ve been getting 2-3 registrations on this blog per day with very few actual posts from the new users. The registrations are from automated spam bots trying to see if they can log onto the site and take over some functions. I sorted through the 1100+ users who had registered…
I just read a review on io9 of Season of the Witch. It looks so cheesy. SO cheesy as to be good in a bad way. I could not resist. Nic Cage and Ron Perlman in a campy movie that has scenes with hommages to Monty Python? I am so there. 🙂 Related Images:
I got to work this morning determined to make it through the day. It’s taken a lot of effort to get anything done since Stella passed last Wednesday. My focus has been off, to say the least. I did manage to get some work done last night, into the wee hours of the morning. Better…
Stella passed this past Wednesday, at 4:30. She was 21. She had melted away to almost nothing, poor little thing. I’ll write more when it’s not so fresh. Related Images:
In 1973, Susan Cooper’s book, The Dark is Rising, (book two in a series of the same name), delighted readers and also won the Newberry Award. In 2007, Walden Media got their hands on the movie rights and made a horrible version. I wrote my longest blog post about the differences between the movie and…
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I had to. I just had to. Okay, maybe I didn’t but it was too cute to pass up. What do you do when you find reindeer antlers and santa hats in the store? You take them out to the barn and put them on horses, of course! Only Kasane was brave enough to wear…
In the past two weeks, Stella’s weight has gone up, gone down, gone up, gone down. Today she was back up to 3 pounds 15 ounces. Stella has been getting her anti-phosphorus medicine and potassium supplement every twelve hours. Every morning and evening around 8:00, Stella gets her medicine. She knows what time it is…
Where the intrepid explorer manages to get rides to and from work with friends and eventually discovers what happened to her car. The car was at the shop for three days, mostly because they didn’t have time in the schedule to work on the car. I finally got the car back today. The alternator and…
Well not so much. More like a scary outting in which my car dies on the Interstate and then miraculously works long enough to get off of an exit (road where I live) and park the car in a pharmacy parking lot. The car has been running a little higher RPM than normal, but the…
Stella had her second visit to the vet this week for fluids. She lost 2 ounces, back down to 3 pounds 12 ounces (she was 3 pounds 14 ounces). She seems to be feeling a little better. She’s been more playful over the past day or so. The vet gave me two cans of prescription…