Open up your heart and let it grow twice the size of anyone I know
I spent the afternoon and evening with my niece. Have a picture of Hestia in the cat tree which I took while flat on the couch afterward, holding the phone over my head with one hand and petting the artistic subject with the other.

Godfrey Cambridge in Bye Bye Braverman (1968) gives the best surprise Yiddishkeit until Ed Begley Jr. in A Mighty Wind (2003). I thought for years that I was constitutionally allergic to neurotic Jewish comedy, but am now considering the possibility that I might just be constitutionally allergic to Woody Allen.

Godfrey Cambridge in Bye Bye Braverman (1968) gives the best surprise Yiddishkeit until Ed Begley Jr. in A Mighty Wind (2003). I thought for years that I was constitutionally allergic to neurotic Jewish comedy, but am now considering the possibility that I might just be constitutionally allergic to Woody Allen.

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I mean, how do you feel about Young Frankenstein?
A Hestia!! How magnificent.
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On regular rotation in our household idiolect! Ditto The Producers. And the mild-mannered pervert line from Silent Movie.
I do think it's slightly Philip Roth, too, though. I can deal with Portnoy's Complaint only because of the punch line.
A Hestia!! How magnificent.
She is a wonderful cat. She has taken to wriggling in under the covers at night. I wake and there is a small sentient lump in the sheets.