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…
Author Archives: Meryl Yourish
The Great Idina Menzel Poster Incident
A week ago Friday night, a derecho swept through Virginia and the surrounding areas, bringing with it winds as high as 80 mph, and 13 deaths from the storm. My niece and I were downtown Richmond, standing in line behind … Continue reading
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Caturday fluffy kitty post
Tig has such a fluffy tail, and it was in full evidence the other morning as he stepped off the deck but left his tail behind: That’s my boy.
The obligatory OMG! The intertubes are melting! post
Just in case you haven’t heard, there’s a malware that could be on your computer that is causing the Intertubes to make sure that if you have the DNSChanger, you won’t be able to access the internet after Monday. Here’s … Continue reading
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Friday head-scratching briefs
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/the-stink-of-cologne/2012/06/27/gJQAqe0d7V_blog.html All is not well in Assadville: A big defection in Syria, some big-time general. You know, that Arab Spring is going to cause a Winter War, if you ask me. Israel had better gird its loins. What kind of … Continue reading
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OMG! Yasser Arafat was poisoned by Zionists!1!!1
Based on some Swiss doctor’s report that they found elevated levels of polonium on Arafat’s clothing, they have exhumed the mass-murderer’s body and will be testing it. Of course, the rumors that were made up by Israel’s foes are swirling … Continue reading
Have a Glorious Fourth!
And on this date, every year, I write: Happy Fourth of July to my fellow Americans, and to my fellow Americans in spirit. Two hundred and thirty five years ago, our forefathers gave us this: The unanimous Declaration of the … Continue reading
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Tuesday briefs
Why is this woman smiling? Because she’s escaping from those freaky scientologists: Katie Holmes has escaped the conditioning and is divorcing Tom Cruise. The Daily News is all over the story (which totally amuses me), including showing this one, showing … Continue reading
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Monday briefs
Oh, so that’s why summer feels so long already: Did you know there was a leap second added to the year? And that it wreaked havoc on the interwebs? More evidence of Justice Roberts’ cowardice: More articles are coming out … Continue reading
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More concerned with history than with law
One of the reasons the Supreme Court Justices are elected for life terms is so that they can consider the laws without regard to who is offended by the judgments they make. But the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court … Continue reading
Sunday morning post-sleepover briefs
The girls are gone (sadly), the house is quiet (sigh), and I must get back to work. You know, it’s a lot of fun having two post-high school, pre-college girls sleep over your house. But there does seem to be … Continue reading
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A quiet Sunday morning
I have two teenage girls asleep in my guest room. My niece Sorena and a friend came over yesterday to eat kabobs and junk food and watch a ton of TV. When I heard that Victoria liked Clue, we cued … Continue reading
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Post-Obamacare briefs
That new civility: “it’s Constitutional. Bitches” is the tweet sent by the executive director of the DNC. Not a staffer. Not a young intern. The man in charge of the Democratic National Committee. To quote Todd Manning from General Hospital: … Continue reading
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Breaking: Obamacare passes the Supremes
Time to repeal it. From SCOTUSblog’s liveblog: Amy Howe: The individual mandate survives as a tax. Tom: So the mandate is constitutional. Chief Justice Roberts joins the left of the Court. Tom: The bottom line: the entire ACA is upheld, … Continue reading
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Iranian anti-Semitism: Still no AP report
I guess it’s just not important enough. There’s still no AP story on the Iranian VP’s anti-Semitic speech. Reuters covered it. The AP was too busy putting out long, in-depth stories about how the PA is trying to get the … Continue reading
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Media gives cover to Iranian anti-Semitism
While I’m waiting for the AP news story about the despicable anti-Semitic remarks made by the VP of Iran during a UN forum against drugs, let’s check out the coverage of AFP, France’s biggest delivery system of news to European … Continue reading
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