The Catmage Chronicles
Andy thought he was going crazy when a talking cat showed up at his front door. He couldn’t have been more wrong.Goldeneyes is a Catmage – a cat with human intelligence and magical abilities. Andy is an eighth grader who is smart, impulsive, and trying to avoid the school bully at all costs. A prophecy threw them together. There’s just one problem: Goldeneyes can’t stand humans.The Catmage world is heading toward war. Goldeneyes and Andy must try to stop the enemy from getting stronger. And they must save a powerful Catmage who’s been kidnapped. For Goldeneyes, it’s personal. That Catmage is her grandmother.Andy and Goldeneyes must try to put aside their differences. If they can’t, the enemy will soon be too powerful to defeat…
Daily Archives: 10/19/2006
Gracie update 6: The visit
I went to see Gracie before the vet closed tonight. She looked pretty miserable. She has an IV in her front paw, and she threw up while I was there. She’s still doing that every few hours—that was the fourth … Continue reading
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Princess Gracie
I met her on Easter Sunday in 1997. She was just a few weeks old. Someone had left her and nine other ten-day-old kittens at the Clifton (NJ) animal shelter, and the shelter fostered them out to various vets in … Continue reading
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On British diplomatic ingenuity
Stuff of legends, that British ability to resolve anything using nothing but diplomatic wit and savvy. The Sun, under a rather shrilly headline Brave heroes hounded out, displays a shining example of that famous British tradition. Tragicomedy in 3 acts: … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous, Satire 4 Comments
News snarks
Reuters is reporting, well, news: Ohmigod! Reuters is reporting that Hezbullah used cluster bombs on Israeli civilians. Quick, write this down in your diary; you’ll never see its like again. Of course, the article spends about 90% of its words … Continue reading
Vote for me for the Virginia Senate seat
I’ve decided that I want no part of either George Allen or Jim Webb. Or the independent candidate. And talking to some of my friends, we discovered we feel about the same. So I’m announcing my write-in candidacy for the … Continue reading
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Thanks
Thanks to those of you who have hit the tipjars this past week. It’s been a big help, and Gracie’s bills are piling up. So are the rest of the bills, come to think of it. Good thing I get … Continue reading