fumetti update
December 6th, 2007 | Uncategorized
It’ll be, uh, coming soon. I hope. (see here if you don’t know what I’m talking about) Thanks so much for all the swell submissions. I’ve already picked the winners. Now I just have to figure out a way to make them into a quasi-story. New York City readers, I’ll see you at Phranc’s opening tonight.
Oh my god! I just noticed there are 303 comments on the last strip. I wonder what you’re going on about? I haven’t had time to keep up, what with my cat eating a length of dental floss the night before I had to drive to NYC. At last report, she was fine. But please don’t tell me any horror stories about cats ingesting string because I’m worried enough.
50 Responses to “fumetti update”
This is gonna be so cool. I can’t wait.
I’m sorry to hear about your kitty. If it’s any consolation, my cat has consumed enough yarn to open a kitting factory. And he’s fine. I give him petroleum jelly from time to time, and that seems to keep things moving along, one way or another.
Good luck. I hope you and she feel better soon!!!!!!
That would be “knitting” factory. I have no clue what kitting would mean! 🙂
Perhaps the cat wanted more fiber in her diet….
Or maybe this was her way of getting back at AB if she (the cat) was going to be left at home while AB partied in New York. Cats can be subtle in their ‘revenge’ that way.
303 comments on the last strip? Ah, yes. I think I’m responsible for five of them.
The comments are largely about environmental and gender issues. And leaning on ex’s after breaking up with them.
Have phun at Phranc’s.
Hope your cat is fine. Mine used to eat clam spaghetti, which she could at least digest. I had to hide the string and ribbon and yarn…
And, a yay for Phranc’s opening! This sort of thing is why I would like to live in New York for a few years just to soak up the experience. (But I don’t want it enough to leave my partners behind…)
Oh noes! Mo’s downgraded from “Vanilla Leather Lust” to the even tamer “Vanilla Leather Love”!
My cat once ate a length of ribbon that had been tied around a present. I fretted for a day or so, and then saw the whole thing in her litter box. Cats are pretty resilient.
So, there’s more than one way to thread a cat!
I won’t say anything about cats/ribbon other than sometimes it passes, sometimes it doesn’t but it pays to be vigilant! I hope everything turns out okay with her.
My cat Pearl routinely scarfs down bits of ribbon. I hate it, but she’s never suffered any damage. Just gives me the eye.
This was bound to happen. Will you please stop flossing that cat’s teeth?
Love that italian word “fumetti” resonates with a portion of Alison’s heritage as well as her craft
There’s a 25-lb. cat in my house that eats fuzzies (bits of lint & etc.) off the floor all the time – doesn’t even get hairballs, generally. Producing a sweater inside, maybe?
Please don’t mention hairballs.
HAIRBALLS!!! HAIRBALLS!!! HAIRBALLS!!
Actually I’ve become immunised to the power of the hairball, daily routines now include the search for today’s one and its surrounding remnants of breakfast. With luck and a bit of shoo-ing it Eliza places it in the garden for the slugs to deal with. So my slugs get locally produced food, they can be smug slugs.
My cat swallowed a length of red satin ribbon, which I discovered when it was starting its way out the other end. I rushed him to the vet, who kept him overnight…in the morning, the vet told me, “Yes, the ribbon came all the way through…do you want it back?”
I had a cat that would eat tinsel. (She played with it constantly until we stopped putting it on the lower branches.) We only found this out because we would see it in wrapped around her poop when cleaning out the litter box.
Does this mean June Thomas will be featured, perhaps introducing the winning “fumetti”?
Feeding cats pumpkin is a good way to help them “move” anything they have eaten as well. The nice part about it, at least witnessing my cats, is that cats think the pumpkin is a treat.
I kept putting of contributing to the fumetti, then rationalized that probably nobody else did it either. Glad to hear I was wrong.
gatheringwater, what an image! You made me sputter my water out my nose.
Why do cats do that? Eating long stringy things must have some evolutionary benefit, but I can’t think of what. They do consume grass, which is moderately stringlike but not long.
Alterity, is that plain raw pumpkin, or should it be cooked first? I’ll try anything!
Oy.
Oy,indeed. Ydnic’s posting qualifies as the LONGEST POST EVER on this blog.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
What a copy-and-paste job!
Was it really all typed out earnestly and at once?
Ydnic didn’t post that. The first repetition of “The disfavored …” is in bold. It was given as a name. I sure wouldn’t be upset if G-Lo or Katie deleted the post. And maybe put in some kind of automated limit on the length of each post? Even the most verbose posters (including me) never get close to the length of that one.
Clearly a troll, kids. One that a moderator will catch.
Yikes! Looked like the Dr. Bronner’s bottle until all the creepy stuff.
J.
omg.
a scary li’ll peep into someone’s mind there.
Ack! That was most certainly not mine! Sheesh.
Sorry ’bout that,Y–my eyes read the two posts together.Eyes are getting bleary…
Yep,we got our own creepy troll,to which I say: a pox on you. (Join me in saying a spell to drive away said troll..) Moderation,of course.
I was totally curious to see if this person really did cut and paste this, and if so, where s/he had found it, and found the exact posting (well, I didn’t read it all) on the following sites:
http://www.hypothetical-bias.net/econ/2007/04/freaks_and_geek.html
http://apostate.wordpress.com/2007/11/01/sleepless-muslim-men/
http://astridvanwoerkom.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/what-if-i-werent-disabled/
Either
a) it’s someone with a lot of time to go and post on other people’s blogs
b) a computer virus that somehow spreads to blogs over the internet or
c) some crazy cult organization that has set up some thing like spammers do to go and automatically do this.
or it’s proof of alien life living among us. take your pick.
You mean you read it?
Shouldn’t respond at all, just leave it for mods to remove it. It’s disqualified by having nothing to do with cat worm things, unless that’s in a part I didn’t read.
Did anyone read any of that? Hilarious. Favourite bit: DECENCY DEMANDS REPROCUSSIONS AGAINST ITALIANS
Blimey as we say in London.
A moment’s compassion for him/her.
Then compassion for the rest of us, and as the Daleks might say delete, delete, delete.
Pam – suppose vague qualification in that post was longer than the longest piece of ribbon a cat might swallow.
Back to Doris Lessing – she gave her Nobel Prize acceptance speech last night. If it’s not appeared yet in a newspaper near you, it’s in the Guardian
http://books.guardian.co.uk/nobelprize/story/0,,2224068,00.html
I want to make it compulsory reading for all the kids I teach who think the Internet is all they need. Suggestions for how to make a photography assignment from it, very welcome.
PS That off-topic hijack post is laterally qualified as my copy of Lessing’s On Cats arrived this morning.
Back to pumpkin and poo. Ydnic askd if it should be cooked — plain pumpkin (not pie filling) straight out the can works wonders.
Yes Lizzie…compassion. indeed. as that’s no troll but someone who is intentional about posting his manifesto here and believes that he has offered us information that is meaningful, useful and profound. I understand the desire to delete something like that… letting it be and moving on is another option and again, compassion.
At last report, my cat was fine but no dental loss had emerged. In case you were wondering.
We were all agog.
you really need to teach her the proper technique for flossing
if it’s any consolation, my cat ate who knows how much lime green curling ribbon. fortunately, i didn’t know it until the next day when i was cleaning out the litter. she passed it for 3 days but seemed okay the entire time. that was last year and she’s still good. in fact, she helped me tie the ribbon on the xmas presents yesterday.
Actually, Alison, we are also wondering, how was the Phranc party? Post some pictures, tell some stories.
I know Alison told folks not to report any cat/string/linear stuff horror stories and I do understand but… y’all are worrying me with your “it came out fine” (literally) stories.
My vet strongly cautioned us to be careful with linear objects because cats are so attracted to them and their guts can get damaged by them. I’m sure it isn’t always horrible, as evidenced above. Just like with kids, even when we try to keep danger away… they find it and pick it out of the trash can.
Still, I want to implore folks to be careful. I hope this doesn’t count as telling a horror story but a friend of mine, who has a house FULL of cats and is a total cat lady, lost a kitten a few years ago due to a ribbon from a Christmas present…so, please don’t get complacent thinking it always comes out in the litter.
Alison,
I’m glad that your kitty is doing well. I hope you are soon free from litter box inspection. I love my kitties but that can’t be a fun job.
There is a length of dental floss in the trash basket in “Just Say Yes,” strip 515. Ominous, huh?
Being a Cat Pimp with the local shelter, here are tips for all of you cat lovers, including Alison:
No tinsel on the tree. The kitty who passed it got off easy. Tinsel’s really bad and can damage your cat.
Keep used floss, earplugs (yes, earplugs), tampons (sorry, gross, but yes), yarn, string and so on away from cats. Playing with them supervised (with yarn or string) is OK. But unsupervised, not so good.
AB is a model citizen. If kitty gets into one of the above objects, it is wise to take the kitty to the vet. Alison did that. Cat should be fine. Alison’s wallet will be a little lighter.
Make sure they cannot drink pine water from under the tree. Cats are dim and it is toxic. Plant nibblers need to be kept from pointsettias.
No onions. Causes them to become anemic. No chocolate. It is strictly for the hairless primates.
Read Alison’s books to your cats while Phranc sings about Martina. It will make your cats very intelligent and capable of spelling Eastern European surnames.
OK. I lied about the last one. Sue me.
Cat Pimp– Did you men the water under a xmas tree is toxic only if the tree is an actual pine (which is rarely the case) or were you using “pine” as a synonom for “evergreen”? Out here in the Evergreen State we know pines from spruces, hemlocks, douglas-firs, silver firs, alpine firs, noble firs, and western red cedar. Only the spruces and firs are good for xmas trees. I have gained the vague impression that in some parts of the world “pine” is used as a generic for just about any needle-bearing evergreen, but it always drives me buggy. Forgive me my arboreal fixations. I wasn’t a Girl Scout all those years for nothing.
Jana C.H.
Seattle
Saith Smokey the Bear: Only you can prevent forests.
Good thoughtful comments, Jana.
I would keep the cat out of any water. I suspect a lot of those conifers are similar in terms of what is in their sap. I double checked some cat related web pages and the information goes further than a concern about just tree sap. Christmas trees are often treated with pesticides as they grow and fire retardants upon sale. Some folks will put something into the water to make the tree last longer. All of the pages I double checked just said that the water was “toxic”.
So, if your tree is fir, spruce, yew, cedar or whatnot, keep the moggies out of the water.
My cats’ first Christmas tree involved one 8 pound “kitten” (he was a freak of nature) and a 5 pound kitten. They knocked the tree over, spilling a gallon of water on my hardwood floor. I put bricks on the feet of the thing. Next day, I found the 8 pounder trying to drink out of the water (fortunately, it was fresh and had not gotten a lot of sap in it). I covered it well. Next day, I had to put up guy wires because it went over again. Needless to say, it was out on the curb on Dec 26th.
Anyway, I’m hoping the dental floss has left Alison’s cat without incident….