They really are! (My other kitty, who is now my mom’s cat, Stella, is also a black cat.)

Black cats are the best! It kills me that there’s still stupid stigma about them out there, it’s so ridiculous and undeserved.

I completely understand what you mean.

I am really looking forward to having a little companion of my own again, it’s been a long time since I lived full-time with a kitty. Just sitting while they purr near or on you is so comforting.

I adopted a kitty on Monday!

Sadly I don’t have any helpful advice to offer — it’s been well over 10 years now since I’ve owned a dog — but I wish you the best of luck! I just adopted a kitty on Monday, and he’s young enough (5 months) that it’s definitely been an experience, haha!

This is by far my favorite thing I’ve read all day.

I don’t give a shit about Star Wars, but a good friend of mine literally came within a hair’s breadth of getting Tran’s role (as in, it was between Tran and my friend, in the end), and this awful news is, as strange as it sounds... kind of making me glad she didn’t get it? I mean, yeah, it’s a career-making part,…

It’s nothing great, but it’s not bad, either! It’s more heavy-handed than the book, but it does translate a lot of the surrealism of how everyone just sort of accepts all the madness going on that the book tries to convey, I think. Definitely nowhere near as good as the source material, but I didn’t really expect it…

Sixty years after Frank Lloyd Wright dreamed up the first arcology, we have yet to see one built.

“The tire had flattened”

(I should probably add, we just put out our first title last month. Working on #2 now!)

This is our first year in operation, but we’ll be doing unusual, forgotten, or bizzaro fiction that’s been out of print for a long time, newly edited. We may occasionally do new works, too, once we have more funding. My partner edits, I do the book design and cover illustrations.

I think my favorite ever (that I’ve personally found) was a few years back, when copies of the first print run of this silly book came through my store at the time: It had the typo “aboy” on the front cover. (Do you see it? Look at the blurb! I caught it immediately and then couldn’t stop laughing.)

Speaking as an indie publisher, as well as a writer and copy editor: thank you, thank you, thank you for budgeting for an editor.

Those are so pretty! I’m impressed with myself, on the rare occasion I bother to paint mine, that I can even stay within the lines of my own nails, so I’m always amazed by nails that look as great as yours.

Happy Saturday, fellow Jez folks.

I really don’t know what to tell you, re: dyeing. I’ve got the same natural color you do, and I easily went to (dark) red, and have been returning to it regularly for over a decade now.

This just reminds me that I’ve been living in the neighborhood he plays jazz in for nearly 5 years and still haven’t gone to see him play yet.

I’ve mentioned this before (I think in a post about his upcoming film with Winona Ryder), but: Keanu Reeves! He was always my MOST favorite regular. He’s extremely well read, has great taste in books, likes to read all kinds of things, and always bounced up to the counter very eager to ask about what I was currently…