what’s new, pussycat
I’m currently recovering from a somewhat crazy week. It started at the vet where we took all three cats to get shots. Molly and Luddie were perfectly manageable, but Miles went into a possessed state when the vet put his hands on him. The vet and the technician ended up having to put on heavy-duty gloves and corner him with a net. When they finally got the shot in him and put him back into the cardboard cat carrier (it’s my fault that he wasn’t in a carrier of his own so we had to get one from the vet), the bottom fell out of it. So, they had to do it all over again. Miles weighs 18 lbs, by the way.
As a result of the vet visit, Molly is now allowed to go into the yard, which we think she has been doing for a while anyhow. Her usual route to the yard is to hop from the second-floor balcony to the first-floor balcony railing and down into the yard. She gets back up by crawling up to the second-floor balcony using her front claws. She is the Spidey Cat of Holyoke.
Of course, now I’m reading this alarmist story about how people are poisoning cats with anti-freeze.
Tuesday night, we intended to go see John Hodgman at the too-cool-for-school Rendezvous in Turners Falls, MA (or “the Voo” if you want to abbrev). The place was way too packed, but we did manage to see John Hodgman signing autographs before his reading. We left “The Voo” and bumped into our friends Mary and Greg who happened to be having some catastrophic car problems. A rotting wheel rod. Yeah.
On that same night, I was just falling asleep after a long day (and so far stressful week), when we heard the sound of glass shattering. Our storefront had been smashed by two hoodlums. So we had to call the police and deal with that.
We’ve nicknamed bad things happening as the Hodgman Effect. Clearly, that guy is bad luck.
Things have settled down since then, although work is crazy. We’re overhauling the entire site bit by bit, flattening it essentially, so that it’s a more pleasant experience for the user.
holyoke, pop culture, western mass | kristen August 1, 2008
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By Matt, August 1, 2008 @ 11:34 am
Seriously– I can’t believe how Hodgman’d we were the other night.
By JenAdams, August 1, 2008 @ 9:04 pm
This post needed a picture of Miles to go with it. Or maybe of Molly going all spidey.
By kristen, August 2, 2008 @ 9:27 am
i’ll work on that. it’s going to be a challenge to get spidey molly.
By joe, August 2, 2008 @ 7:19 pm
You will know that Molly is spending a lot of time outside is ALL of the animals in the neighborhood are cowering in corners and up trees soiling themselves. She might be able to deter the hoodlums too.
Oh, and I once knew a cat that was 25 pounds. He cornered me once and I feared for my life…well, at least a maiming.
By Britt, August 3, 2008 @ 4:56 pm
I suspect the Hodgman effect has headed over to my neighborhood.
By kristen, August 4, 2008 @ 7:04 am
Friggin’ hodgman
By JoshuaT1974, August 5, 2008 @ 12:09 pm
I knew there was a good reason I never trusted that guy …