Mark Of The Beast

1. No good deed goes unpunished. 2. First rule for new recruits (at least per the stories of every Army & Marine vet that I’ve ever known) : NEVER FUCKING VOLUNTEER. On Thursday, the slutty Mama cat here at L’Hotel du Fucktards brought her latest litter out into the sunshine for the first time (approx. [...]

It just struck me on the bus the other day closing my eyes on the serpentines so as not to freak because I do NOT like that, ya know America as stroke patient. Fits, somehow. First you get a weak arm. Then you topple to the side. (Well they toppled to the side on everything, [...]

Beloved commenter and fellow blogger Mentis Fugit‘s family lost a beloved member yesterday.Simba, aka Simblob, was killed by a hit-and-run motorist, and he will be sorely missed by the entire neighborhood, as he was an outgoing, affectionate character unlike any other. All our love goes out to the Mentis family and their friends after such [...]

Go to the Burger King philanthropic link in the above title. In the field for “Organization Name,” put “www.CatHaven.org” And then fill out the birthdate field and hit “Nominate Your Cause FOR BATON ROUGE”!!! Very easy, and you could wind-up getting Cat Haven FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS!!!!! Yes, there are many valid and amazing charities out [...]

“You know the American people are suffering watching –,” Curry said to the first lady. “Oh, I know that very much,” Laura Bush responded. “And believe me, no one suffers more than their president and I do when we watch this, and certainly the commander in chief, who has asked our military to go into [...]

Biddy has a bronchitis-sounding chest rattle, and Boy’s nose is running like a faucet and his eyes are covered in eye-boogers daily, no matter how many times that I clean them with the allergen-fighting wipes. They’re going to have to go back to the vet, and hopefully this will be the last time for a [...]

My baby boy is dead.I hadn’t seen him in 4 or 5 days at feeding time, but I tried not to freak out about it, because he’s a feral, and they do tend to take mini-vacations from time to time (Callie, for instance, will disappear for 3 days and then pop up again like she [...]

Had this in my mail this morning. Seemed like an interesting thing to pass along. “The Top 10 Signs of Giftedness in Adulthood” The vast majority of adults who were labeled “gifted” in childhood are unaware that they’re advanced development would continue to have an impact throughout their lives. Contrary to popular belief, giftedness is [...]

Lawyer Guy sez he can’t represent me (despite the fact that I have a helluva case) against a DOCTOR IN BATON ROUGE. Then WHYYYYY, pray tell, DOES HE HAVE A MEDICAL MALPRACTICE FUCKING PRACTICE IN BATON ROUGE?!?!?!?!??!?!?! Dr. Smartass wants me to wear a more strict brace (in between the mis-measured/mis-cast plastic body-cast nightmare and [...]

One article about Iraq especially caught my eye last week. It was the story about a “suicide truck bomb” blowing up the al-Sarafiya bridge over the Tigris River. Let me explain first that when I was in the US army in the early ’80′s I was trained as a Combat Engineer and ADM technichian. A [...]

Huge thanks and eternal gratitude to the friends who have helped me out, and if there’s ever anything that I can ever do to help y’all out, please do holler at me. But I think that we’ve gotta put the brakes on the begging, ’cause when I got home today, there was a call on [...]

SEMI-OT NEWS UPDATE: Al just sent me this link about even MORE pet foods being recalled by the FDA for melamine contamination. (and now back to your regular programming…) As a distraction from my panic-attack-induced begging and whining and bitching, I’ve got some good links for y’all. Jaye sent me this video to me a [...]

I’ve seen exactly how much people give a shit about stuff that I write about myself (judging from my last post), but I’ve got a lot of shit going on right now and I need help. And I don’t give a fuck if anybody narcs me out to Social Security, because I have to live [...]

Since we’re talking music… For those of you on dial-up, please be patient with the YouTube load time, it’s worth it. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be the Next The future teaches you to be alone. The present to be afraid and cold. ‘So if I can shoot rabbits then I can shoot [...]

Le Petite Fromage sent me (amidst yet another wunnerful care package) Lucinda Williams’ latest album, “WEST,” and I swear, this woman’s been living the parallel-universe version of my life. With actual success, of course, the major difference between our universes. The timing couldn’t be more bittersweet… She’s singing, with that raspy, compassionate blues voice of [...]

The Katrinacrat Blog, Donnie’s creative communal conflagration, has become one of my new favorite blogs (the more NOLA blogs I read, the more homesick I get, but hey, at least now I can keep up with the REAL news down there, as opposed to the uber-white-redneck-republicunt version outta the Baton Rouge “media” {one evolutionary step [...]

Aside from the horrifically and badly-timed anti-PC crayon-colors debate (it’s not funny and I don’t approve, not that that means shit to a tree), there were a couple of things in the monthly B3ta.com newsletter that I thought WERE worth sharing. If you’d like to explain to the uppity little brit code-writers why most of [...]