When I went to Prague in 2005, I fell in love with Cubism. Oh, I went for the Art Nouveau, don’t get me wrong — but I left loving Cubism, an art movement that had a vigorous, localized growth spurt in Prague from 1910-1914. Most people have seen one of Picasso’s Cubist paintings, but very [...]

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Ivan loves to climb inside anything. Cubby holes, empty boxes, bags… if it’ll fit him and it doesn’t look immediately dangerous, he’ll give it a whirl. (Which explains why he slunk so happily, immediately, into his new cat carrier before he realized what it entailed. I set it down, I unlatched the gate… I trapped [...]

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Sunset outside our front door this evening, thought I’d share. :D

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Yes, I DO love doing stuff like this to my cat, as a matter of fact.

When I’m not dropping him into random containers, he resides on my beanbag, or as he thinks of it, his THRONE:

He certainly has the “why are you disturbing me with that bright light??” look. ^^;

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Funny, I talked about work all day, thought about writing all day, and didn’t get anything on either front accomplished. What I did get (along with Johan and Lenneth) is some new mugshots, seen to your left and in various places. (Yep, all three are different pictures. Particularly proud of the TAFL one, although it [...]

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Feline humiliation, just one of the things Johan and I specialize in. ^^;;

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My father presented me with the above photo the other day, having found it in yet another pile of clutter. It shows my Ivan, quite young, having wandered into the open dryer, and when caught, looking extraordinarily innocent. I’d say he’s gotten wiser with age, but alas, it was just last week that a falling [...]

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