mind dump

David Bowie references

Oh, You Pretty Things:  Oh, you pretty things. Don’t you know you’re driving your Mamas and Papas insane?…

Rebel, Rebel:  You’ve got your transmission and your live wire. You got your cue line and a handful of ludes…

Space Oddity:  Ground Control to Major Tom. Your circuit’s dead, there’s something wrong. Can you hear me, Major Tom?…

Life On Mars?:  Take a look at the lawman beating up the wrong guy. Oh man! Wonder if he’ll ever know…

Under Pressure:  It’s the terror of knowing what the world is about. Watching some good friends screaming…

Cat People:  It’s been so long. And I’ve been putting out fire with gasoline…

Tiny dirty stray kitten hanging out at the bottom of our stairs since yesterday. There are a lot of self-reliant ferals around our apartment, but this little thing was dirty & covered in burrs. We gave it some chicken but couldn’t catch it. I think it may have wandered over from the outdoor cat hoarder colony down the street; that house is awful & we saw kittens there last week.

This morning the downstairs neighbor managed to grab it for us, and I put it on this cozy towel & started combing and picking the burrs & sticks out of its fur. It calmed down immediately and has been chilling here with me in the kitchen ever since. Got a vet appointment in an hour to get my little buddy cleaned up & checked out. I hope it isn’t too sick; I think it might have a cold.

Space Cats by Bronwyn Schuster on inprnt

prof. read them all aloud so she could demonstrate how virtually everybody chose something they couldn’t morally or socially get away with if they were witnessed, and she was looking awfully entertained about how quickly the class proved her point until she got to one that just said “go swimming in the ocean.” 

the real forward thinkers: 

and then whatever the hell this is: