Smacky is one of the very, very rare good frogs.  It's pretty much just her and Kermit.

That's so scary!!  I moved to Arizona many years ago with three cats, and spent a few weeks living at an aunt's house before our new house was ready.  The aunt had a dog with a high prey drive, so the cats, also indoors-only, had to live in the garage that whole time.  One evening I went out to sit with them for a…

@avclub-90128b891c510517af932a0897dca689:disqus You made me laugh out loud with the tiny body bags.  I suspect my wild little monsters will somehow find a way to fight their way out of that, too.

That's utterly terrifying.  I think I'd just have to move to a new house if that happened to me.

I've visited the butterfly pavilion installation at the American Museum of Natural History a few times and it's so weird to have to really confront how insecty butterflies are.  I mean, yes, logically it's obvious they're insects, but on paper they seem like something much gentler and less gross.  Then you get…

I read that New Yorker article too!  (Actually, I'll read any longform article about high-fatality catastrophes.  Shipwrecks are my favorite…)  It's really sobering to realize how quickly and unstoppably a benign situation can turn fatal.

I do the same thing, so I can only assume this says we're both wise, strong, survivor types.

This is all happening because we fed them after midnight, isn't it?

Good luck with the crating!  I got two kittens last March that turned out to be horribly under-socialized (read: "borderline feral").  They're a lot more mellow now that they've lived with us for a while, but getting them into crates is just never, ever going to happen.  They're just going to have to rely on herd…

I had a kitten once who fell in the toilet.  He'd been watching one of my other cats who is very adroit and athletic.  She'd perch on the seat and very deftly and daintily quaff deeply (until we got into the habit of keeping the lid down, because honestly), so my kitten figured he'd do the same thing.  He was about…

Crowds are the worst!  This thread is starting to crack me up, because with each new entry I'm like, "Oh yeah, that scares the ever-lovin' crap out of me, too."  Three hours ago my answer to "what are you scared of?" was just "frogs".  Now it's "everything".

I knew someone in high school whose father hit and killed a kid.  It was just a really horrible accident (he was sober and driving the speed limit in a residential area and the kid was a dart-out), but holy fuck.  That's a massive life-ruiner, for everyone. 

I used to avoid breakfast because it just makes me hungry about 45 minutes after eating.  That seemed counterproductive to me, but then someone pointed out that's because my metabolism has gotten started, which kind of makes sense.  In fact, it seems almost obvious…  Heh.

Holy jumpin'!  That recipe looks so good!!  Thanks for the link!

I'm a crazy cat lady!  Let's do Cat Thread!  I'll show you pictures of all my precious baby angels!

That's so horrifying.  I'm adding Wayne Newton to my list of things I'm terrified of.

There's a reserved seat in hell for Special K and their goddamn fucking red swimsuit bodies.  I remember being shamed as a child by a different, earlier-model Special K commercial, a shame that lives on strong today.

Actually, the hardest thing for me was keeping from making them all into cocktails.  :)

Really, I'd sworn I wasn't going to waste my time with preserves, but holy shit am I glad I did these.  I've got another batch's worth of berries hulled and macerated in sugar in the freezer, to be canned up when this batch is gone.  Last summer I did a strawberry jam with basil, mint, and habanero, but this round was…

You definitely make a good point about not being married to breakfast food.  There's a whole wide world out there of simple, quick foodstuffs I can put in a small tupperware to take to work with me in the mornings — I need to get out there and start eating them all!