The New Cat, an Update

So, while everyone else was learning this crazy cruise news, I was busy taking the new cat to the vet. Here’s what I learned. Pumpkin (who will need a pseudonym) is probably two years old. She is free of feline leukemia and fHIV. She doesn’t seem to even have worms. She’s missing the very tip [...]

Um, So, Folks Weren’t Kidding About This

I just got an email from Jim Ridley asking what they could do to help me win a cruise and I was all “A cruise? What?” And then I remembered that this came up on Twitter. And it seems that someone mentioning it on Twitter was enough to put me at 13th place. I don’t [...]

Did the KKK Just Send Out a Press Release About Me?

My post. Their press release. Coincidence? I don’t know.

Going from Two Cats to Three

Okay, internet, assuming the Butcher tracks down the new cat so that I can take her to the vet, we will be in possession of three cats. So far, the two cats we have have responded thusly to the new cat in the garage–the orange cat (who my nephew calls “Garfield” which cracks me up) [...]

Fox Ran Out on a Chilly Night and Prayed to the Moon for to Give Him Light

In my head, these two things are connected–”The Fox” by the Waco Brothers, which you can find on this awesome CD (Let me tell you, if you have kids and need music that won’t drive you to drink while you’re driving them around in the car, this CD will be your salvation. And “The Fox” [...]

On a Lighter Note, I Have Some Questions

Look here (I think this is SFW, but it may cause you to look perplexed all day). 1. Is it weird that a werewolf doesn’t at least have arm pit hair? 2. He looks like he’s 14, right? 3. Is that a weird, subliminal face in the tree right over his shoulder? 4. Speaking of [...]

The Phone Call After I Went to Bed

I still pray. It’s a habit I haven’t given up. I don’t know if my gods are used to being prayed to, but I tell them that this is the way that I know and so that’s what I know to do. I pray, though, to all of my loved ones, friends, family, and gods, [...]

Fire and Chocolate Milk

After my parents left, I got in the car once today, to get some chocolate milk. The Butcher played video games and I sat next to him shouting words of encouragement. After he left for work, I built a big fire in the fireplace. I haven’t seen the new cat today. I hope she comes [...]

Things Wind Down

My brother and nephews left this morning. My parents leave tomorrow morning. It’s been a nice but rough visit. The dog behaved and we may have acquired another cat. There is, at any rate, a cat curled up in the garage, who has not been allowed in the house until it can visit a vet. [...]

Oh, Hey, This is Cool

Andrew Sullivan linked to one of my Pith posts.

Is the New Cat Really that New?

People, if I could have gotten any picture for you yesterday, I wish I’d gotten the picture of the Butcher, gone into the garage to check on the new cat, when he was squatting down to pet it while it ate and he looked up and saw me looking at him out the kitchen door [...]

Thanksgiving

This morning, we heard a meowing the likes of which we had never heard before. My dad was all “What’s going on with the tiny cat?” And I looked out and saw a tiny cat, howling, in the garage. A cat not ours. People drop all kinds of animals of out in the country assuming… [...]

In Which I Spill NM’s Pie Secret

People, I was at nm’s house this afternoon watching her make pie crusts WITHOUT A FORK!!!!!! I think I literally stood there slack-jawed. If I were not forbidden from making my world famous apple pie* for Thanksgiving, I would have totally come home and tried making pie crusts nm’s way. She mixed it with her [...]

Thanksgiving Blues

There’s nothing particularly stressful or weird going on with my family, but I am still down this holiday season, lonely for people who are long-gone and not coming back. I think it’s a side-effect of ancestor veneration, frankly, that you feel the in ability to be together face to face because you are acutely aware [...]

All Kleinheider all the Time

From a small heath field to America! Edited to add: It is now my goal to talk Tiny Pasture into smoking a corn cob pipe in honor of his ancestor.

People, This is a Real Thing!

I was driving to work today and I saw two people walking down by Whites Creek and I craned my neck over and saw that they were walking on a path! So, I looked and god damn it if there’s not a Whites Creek Greenway! Right where I thought there should be. I don’t know [...]

Don’t You Dare Buy this for Me for Christmas

Reindeer poop necklaces? I sense that at least five of you will consider buying me this piece of crap just because you think it’ll be funny.  Let me just say that that would be a really shitty thing to do. (And don’t you dare tell my dad about this.)

Pith Stuff

1. I write about the book industry. And crack myself up with my youtube video description. 2. I write about the racist graffiti, which is less interesting than the weird-ass comments.

Plans A & B

Okay, so Plan A is to find a small publisher who might be interested in the project. If that doesn’t work, Plan B is to self-publish. In the interests of Plan A, I have three packages to go out in the mail tomorrow. In the interests of Plan B, I read this.

Suck My Butt, Kleinheider

So, Kleinheider has his column up today and in it, he writes this: That, in fact, may be what this is all about. There is a segment of elite opinion out there that believes arguing for reduced or restricted immigration is necessarily racist. But that’s an article of faith, not proof. I invite you to [...]

“Life Partner”

I was all ready to complain about what a stupid phrase “life partner” is and how we all ought to support gay marriage so that when a dude wants to talk about the dude who’s been his “life partner” for decades, he can either say “spouse” or “husband” or we can all click our tongues [...]

Ooo, Wouldn’t It Be Cool If There Was a Gardener Signal?

I could just go outside, light it up, and then you gardeners would know I needed your advice and you would come to Tiny Cat Pants. So, here’s the question. Could I get salvia apiana to grow in my perennial herb garden? It’s only hardy to zone 7 and we’re zone 6. But I was [...]

Mrs. Wigglebottom and I Find the River!

First of all, apparently either Mrs. W. and I walk at a pace of one mile an hour or I didn’t pay attention to when we got to the park or the people at Bell’s Bend have vastly underestimated the length of the loop that goes along the river. Because we were at the park [...]

The Butcher Keeps Me On Track

Well, the Butcher cleaned the house from top to bottom, so I had no excuse but to work on my book proposal. It is done. I have some sample photos from Chris Wage. So, all I have left to do is print the stuff off and send it out. I’m already planning my book trailer. [...]

A Vague Woo Hoo!

I don’t blog about work, normally. So I will continue to not blog about work except to say that a project I worked on and loved just got a review in one of the top journals in its field describing it as invaluable and gutsy. I want to be all “in your face” to yesterday [...]