Have a cat video to celebrate, while I move on to the Valour and Vanity revisions.
In this case, I’ve got our cat Marlowe wearing a basket on his head.
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Have a cat video to celebrate, while I move on to the Valour and Vanity revisions.
In this case, I’ve got our cat Marlowe wearing a basket on his head.
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Marlowe’s helping paw is obviously working.
He’s handy that way.
“We think he’s not very bright.”
Not bright, perhaps, but sweet.
He is the sweetest fellow.
LOL! The snappy rendition of “Chattanooga Choo Choo” adds to it.
I have a stupid cat who once got his head stuck in a Kleenex box. I was a good mommy and got him out, though now I wish I’d picked up the camera instead. Sadly, he is stupid and obnoxious, not fluffy, has a very small purr, and runs up huge vet bills. Taking him in may have been a mistake.
For other cats with things on their heads (not self-inflicted), I recommend the YouTube channel “shironekoshiro”, 5 fabulous Japanese farm cats who do many amusing things. Shiro’s the big smiling white and orange kitty you see in all the .gifs with things on his head.
What’s funny is that Marlowe will sometimes greet us at the front door with the basket on his head. When he was a kitten, he’d sometimes forget it was on and try to eat with it.
“We think he thinks he’s invisible.” Hmm… basket as an imitation of the waving grasses of a prairie in his ancestoral past?
He just thinks its a fencing mask and is waiting for you to give him a gauntlet and a foil.
Computer told me I had an invalid email, so here goes again:
Overall Impression: It felt like a science fiction version of SHADES OF MILK AND HONEY. Then I realized that it was a post-petroleum non-apocalyptic world (Bruce Bethke set out a challenge to write one of these a few years ago — you’d have met his challenge fantastically!) For me, it was a slow beginning however, though I was happy to give it time because I wanted to see more of the world. I never reached “bored”, but I was getting antsy after the first third didn’t really…do much. The reward came for me in that, once the pace picked up, I had a clear image of the world in which they lived.
Comments:
1) “brain-fuck” just seemed out of place and yanked me from the narrative. Even though I work in an urban high school, I’m not fond of the f-bomb, but in this case, it seemed to “bomb” more because of the general tenor of the story.
2) “…particularly considering who I think ‘Johnny’ might have been…” This was plain irritating for me. We’ve been privy to Katya’s thought process for half of the story. I don’t THINK she speculates on what ‘Johnny’ might have been (though I freely admit, it may have been mentioned and I missed it!), but when I reached this point, my reaction was “WHAT???? Why didn’t you say anything — that you knew he was anything more than some dude dinking around in the woods?” It seemed entirely out of the blue. Maybe slow folk like me need more obvious clues?
3) Same is true of the word “Cyranoid” and “NDA”. Just not enough warning for the use of these words and it sent me thumbing backward into the story, breaking my stream of consciousness. MOST likely, it’s me and I missed subtle cues and hints. Maybe most of your readers are sharper than me (;-))
Anyway — I can see this in F&SF. I haven’t seen you there yet!
And then I posted in the wrong thread. I’ll go repost back over in the novella thread!