The talented Miss Ripley Chainsaw

Don't worry, Ripley gets plenty of attention. She makes sure of it.

The divine Princess Madeleine

She's getting quite plushy.

And the tail of doom, which everyone wants to see more of.

RIP Nicky

Terribly sad news. Long time reader Poopyman had to say goodbye to his beloved friend Nicky this past week.

Nicky died from lymphosarcoma, the same terrible cancer that took my wonderful boy Zachary in 2002. Rest in peace, Nicky. But not too much peace, go frolic among the stars with lion kitty Maxx.

Memorial Mr. Plushy

Due to travel and other issues, we haven't had Mr. Plushy blogging for the past couple of fridays. So here's a double shot.

Physics!!

Just hanging out and being adorable.

I still miss my sweet boy.

More kitties!!

Physics!!

The world's fluffiest tail. So fluffy it's almost impossible to get into the camera frame.

And yet MORE photoblogging

Just be glad I didn't take 1500 photos like Eli did.

These are chandaliers in the lobby of a building downtown near the world trade center site. The whole ceiling was covered with what must have been dozens of them.

And a closeup of one. They looked a little like fireworks explosions.

Eli got all nervous because he thought the security guard was going to chase me out. He knew better than to mess with a centaur.

No guts no glory. Sometimes no glory anyway.

GET OUT! GET OUT! GET OUT!

Rahm Emanuel to Dick Cheney, "Get out of the White House you fucking radioactive brain eating zombie. Oh, and give us back our money."

Kudos to Rahm, who I usually want to kick in the ass, for getting right to the point.

Dogs we love

This is Conan, who owns one of our graduate students. Conan attended a shower for one of our colleagues last night and was a delightful addition to the party.

Thursday kitties

"Quit biting me, you little brat!!"

The talented Miss Ripley finds a sink to snooze in.

A few more bad photos

These pretty much suck. The two top photos were taken from the train as we were leaving, through a dirty subway car window.

The Cyclone.

I think this view shows just how seedy the entire Coney Island district is. A developer has been buying up the land and wants to develop it, but the locals are resisting, saying they want to preserve "historic" Coney Island. Honestly, I don't know what's there to preserve. It's incredibly run down and depressing.

On the other hand, the people who were there seemed to be having a ball. I tried to get a nice motion blur here, but didn't slow the shutter down enough. Oh well.

Hopefully they'll strike a happy medium and renovate the area, while preserving some of the local flavor and keeping it affordable enough for people to still go there. I'll probably never go back, because Atroland in closing at the end of the summer, and even if it wasn't, there aren't any freaks left there.

More scary things

Ack! The return of the psychotic alien carrot of DOOM!!!

Luckily for all of you, the talented Miss Ripley can subdue the carrot AND do her physics homework without even ruffling her fur.

The world remains safe. For now.

Photos of scary things

Scary bird totum guy who wants to peck your eyeballs out.

Scary demon who wants to eat your children while you're at Coney Island.

Scary totem that made us think of Ntodd with no customers at the Tastee Freeze. We were so frightened we ran out of the gallery screaming.

Daily Kittens

Maddie's got the snidely-whiplash thingee going on.

And Ripley was just happy that I came home and played with her.

Late Night gurlzz

Ha! Ripley caught in the act, grooming her sister.

Hallooooooo!!!

And that's your eeeeeeeep fix for tonight.

Bloomberg sez to the rethuglican party...

"Hey rats!! You ain't getting none of my billions for the general election... and not only that, but I'm gonna crash your party!!"

In case you haven't heard: N.Y. City Mayor Bloomberg to Leave GOP

I'd correct that by saying, he ain't gonna leave, he's already out the door. Interestingly enough, Tweety is apparently not terribly impressed by Bloomberg's cologne. He's all a-twitter about Bloomberg's monkey wrench in his manly hero's plans.

Last I heard, the RNC reacted by saying, "Wahhhhh! please don't go!!"

More Northwest Indian Stuff

The bottom one is BIG and scary. Mostly I'm posting these pictures to tweak Eli about him camera since mine is better at shooting in low light situations.

Tired of photoblogging yet?

Too bad!

A close up of an amethyst geode in the minerals and gem gallery.

Daily Ripley... and Maddie

Don't ignore me!

Poor Ripley, she was all depressed when I left for work this morning.

We're going to have to have a serious play session tonight.

Wanker of the Year

For fuck's sake. Richard Cohen in today's WAPO:

This is not an entirely trivial matter since government officials should not lie to grand juries, but neither should they be called to account for practicing the dark art of politics. As with sex or real estate, it is often best to keep the lights off.

You have got to be kidding me. A high government official engages in a smear campaign that destroys the career of a CIA agent? And Cohen thinks he should walk? Thinks it's perfectly acceptable to use their office to attack career government employees in the name of "the dark art of politics"??

I dunno, maybe I'm crazy but I think high public officials ought to be held to the highest standards, not the lowest.

And I think that over-the-hill pundits who can't see that should give serious thought to retiring and letting someone who can think write a column for the WAPO.

Jesus fucking christ. This bullshit really, really, really makes me angry.

Here's the link in case you need your bloodpressure jacked up. Why Scooter Shouldn't Do Time by a wankiferous old bastard with shit for brains.

Eeeeep

After a long day of torturing their centaur, the kittens indulge in a snuggle session.