Got a kitten, kitten, kitten, kitten in my hair

[sovay]

It is the seventh anniversary of Kittening Day, when the children of golden-eyed Hera left their fosterage with the family of a_reasonable_man and came to live with us. We celebrate them constantly.



Hestia, presiding over the remains of her scratch box. One of her cult titles is Death to Cardboard.



Autolycus, sacked out on my shoulder. A few nights ago he chased a plastic bottlecap through the apartment at exactly the hour we wanted to be asleep.

I learned tonight that in 1930, John Steinbeck wrote, shelved, but did not destroy an unpublished werewolf novel called Murder at Full Moon. "Its characters include . . . an eccentric amateur sleuth who sets out to solve the crime using techniques based on his obsession with pulp detective fiction." Take my money, please.

Comments

[thawrecka]

Aw, kitties!

I didn't enjoy any of the Steinbeck I read in high school but I would honestly give that a chance.

[sovay]

Aw, kitties!

They are very cat and we tell them so!

I didn't enjoy any of the Steinbeck I read in high school but I would honestly give that a chance.

I didn't enjoy any of the Steinbeck I was assigned in school, either, which considering how much I enjoyed the Steinbeck I found on my own time feels like a major misstep on the part of American education. If the werewolf novel gets published, maybe it will become a cornerstone of the curriculum instead.

[kore]

Aaahahaha this is where people Of A Certain Age rant about having been forced to read the short story about the chrysanthemums. I think I was assigned that three times. That, or the Pearl, or the Red Pony, I think those were the terribly chosen perennials for US high school Steinbeck readings.