Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for August 15, 2020

We are now, Puck!

Oh that’s too wonderful for words. Puck!!!

Annnd, news from Georgia’s facebook “A sneak peek from the painting board this morning. A little late night chat between Old Mag and Baba Mouse. Coming soon to a September near you!” The cartoon shows Old Mag and Baba Mouse being catty to each other. I can’t wait for September!!!

Puck in a tux with a pompadour singing hit songs of the 40’s!

:::::swoon:::::

Puck Sinatra!

Pucky, pucky, pucky! “Rags to Riches” is Tony Bennett from 1953, and My Way is Sinatra in 1969. We need to introduce you to the concept of “anachronism”! :-)

“Red dots, I’ve chased a few… Then again, too few to mention…”

I’m going to appropriate that & tuck it away for some future use!

OT: Georgia’s posting about the upcoming Halloween “Night Marathon.”

Let him have this Goldie, he’s adorable.

I think this crew would be more likely to eat a lounge lizard than to become one!

Love the riff on Sinatra’s my way….I wish there were more stanzas!

Puck has the ‘50’s mixed up with the ‘40’s and maybe a little “One for My Baby and One More For the Road” would definitely be more ‘noire. I think that was around 1950…. a movie called “ Roadhouse if memory serves me.

How to confuse one of my cats – put down a box and a brown paper bag! She will not know which to tear apart first!!!

Old Mew Eyes is back!!! ;-)

Love that hairdo!

Too cute for words! Thank you for putting a smile in my heart today, Georgia.

To see a video of more cats that look live puck in this comic highlight the link behind the arrow and drag it to a new tab or if there is a link click it to see it they are very cute(comment how cute they are)→https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB1R79oXCBCBoY4oQsjZ2rpAZxLtJfcm3

I just love BCN… Can’t stop reading it. I even read everything about the boys on the BCN site… I just can’t get enough of BCN.

Puck reminds me of Rick from "Magnum PI’ (both versions but mostly the classic with Tom Selleck) with a side of ‘5-0 on top of it. And that leads me to my biggest complaint about Hawaii 5-0 and how it finished: what happened to the wonderful "Mr Pickles’, a beautiful Angora, we were left in the dark about that??

Puck love to singa? About a moon-a and a June-a and a spring-a?

Sooo Off Topic for GEORGIA! A kitty crystal medication for real-life Lupin:This is in response to the 8/12/20 FaceBook post of Lupin walking straight into his carrier. I’m not on FB so cannot reply there.Have you tried DL-Methionine for bladder crystals? It is an OTC urine acidifier. I cleared it through my vet and have been using it on my problem child for around a year. Neutral flavored so I can crush it to powder and mix with wet food. There have been no further issues! Another baby started showing signs of bladder infection (stuff was turning pink) so gave some to her as a stop-gap until her appointment. She never ended up having to see the vet. Just something to ponder if you haven’t already.

Bing Crosspuck.

Aaaaand … now we are totally off the topic of the Case of the Vase. No thanks to Puck.

Sing it, Pucky!

Let’s not sweat the details about song decades; just enjoy the overwhelming cuteness of Puck’s costume and song styling. Like the Pastis strip today, we need audio!

From the Andrews Sisters: Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy

He was a famous singer cat from out Rhode Island way

He had a singing style that you could hear every day

He was the top cat at his craft

But then a mystery came up and he was needed to solve

He’s helping Goldie, now just like the Robber Mouse

He’s the Boogie Woogie Big Band Cat of the Big Red House!

…….

A-toot, a-toot, a-toot-diddelyada-toot

He sings eight-to-the-bar, in boogie rhythm

When he starts to sing the whole darn house sings with him!

He makes the whole house sing, with him and Buzzy Mouse,

He’s the Boogie Woogie Big Band Cat of the Big Red House!

…….

He can sing the whole darn gamut from be-bop to swing!

There is a mystery to solve so he will do his thing!

And all cats applaud, and each and every mouse,

He’s the Boogie Woogie Big Band Cat of the Big Red House!

Panel 1 – what happened to Puck’s arms & paws?

I LOVE THIS !! Sing it Puck!!

Intermission

More a (pinot) noir than a cabernet?

Tiny noir Goldie toe beans!

Croon a tune, Pompadour Puck.

OT: Signs of life in the R-verse

I dunno, Goldie…seems like the noir stereotype is that the detective always visits that one nightclub for insider information where they have the saucy singer upstage singing in the background…

Just when I thought I couldn’t love Pucky more!

Pucky’s a little bit ‘Vic Fontaine’ from DS9.

I wanted to reassure everyone that I haven’t fallen off the face of the earth. I’ve been helping a neighbour by watching her two boys while regular caregiver is on vacation. I’ll be doing it next week too, so don’t worry if you don’t hear from me.

Cattanooga Choo Choo

I love Puck’s song.

Goldie’s turn with help from Agnes and her tiny sax:

I’m no fool and don’t I know it – still -

Can’t crack this case, feeling blue

I’m perplexed and don’t I show it

Like a kitten without a clue

Stuck with same old thoughts I wrestle

Lately, I’ve not slept at all

Since this half-pint owly vessel

Took his murderous fall

I’ll try again

Beguiled again

A pondering, wondering PI again

Bewitched, bothered and bewildered, am I

(Leif Edling)

But the singer would have known about the vase before he got out of prison. The trail would have led him from one seedy night club to another. The vase would be his ticket out of this world of cigarette smoke and bad lighting…

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, PUCKEEEEEEEE!!!! Swoons into a dead faint

Super Cute!!

I just love Puck’s eyes and that’s a very nice microphone he’s got there.

Sing it, Pucky!!

Today is …

A plethora, possibly related to a thesaurus. Perhaps I should ask Robing what to feed it.

Today is:

I Love Cowboys and Cowgirls Day* —Yippee tai yai O, get a long little doggies. Me, I’m a cat herder. I recommend the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_MaJDK3VNE. I downloaded and saved this one when it first aired. Priceless.

International Homeless Animals’ Day —I think we all know what this is about—and we know what to do about it!

National Check the Chip Day —Another way to save beloved animals. If your pets aren’t chipped, they should be, as we nearly learned to our deep sorrow when 8-ball when a-Viking. Chips save lives, and pet lives matter! (Robin, have you gotten your thesaurus chipped? =^D)

National Failures Day —As long as you keep trying, and learn from failure, you are not a total failure. It’s not about the goal—the ultimate goal is death, that’s the only deadline—it’s about how and when you get there. There is an old saying: “An unexamined life is not worth living.” That is very true. So take a good hard look at a failure, and learn from it. Unfortunately, some spend too much time focusing on self examination, but never see the good side. Others only examine their lives for self promotion—politicians and similar … things.

National Leathercraft Day —Before carpal tunnel and arthritis, I used to make all my leather gear: moccasins (hard and soft sole), buscaderos, possibles bags, gun sheathes, sword and knife scabbards, you name it. Never learned to work with fabric—"Hey, this stuff changes shape when you pull on it!"

World Honey Bee Day —Please be nice to the bees, they need all the help they can get, and if they don’t get it, we are all in deep trouble.

Finally, to the delight of Font Lady, today is World Calligraphy Day— (It is also Whorled Calligraphy Day, but not all calligraphy is whorled. As far as I know, it is never whirled, but you have to ask her about that.

Proper film noir would have a nightclub with a sultry female singing a torch song. But in film violet, anything is possible.

Not following most of the references—which is distressing, since I grew up with a lot of that music.

You look very handsome, Puck!

Time after time…

I completely lost it seeing Pucky as a crooner! ❤

Look, see. We’re trying to solve a mystery, see. Your singing ain’t helping, see.

Try a torch song, Pucky!

Puck should try more big band leader. He might make a better Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, Count Baise, Tommy Dorsey, Les Brown, Cab Calloway.

Pucky makes such a wonderful crooner. I could be off base but wasn’t the 40s still part of the big band era. Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington and Count Basie. Though if memory of history serves I think Glenn Miller was tragically lost during WWII.

Noticing that Pucky has no arms/forelegs in the first panel. XD;

My singing is top-notch.

Shouldn’t Elvis be the one singing old songs?