b.rox

Our household has been diminished by one.

He doesn’t look sick, does he? But this is the last picture ever taken of Milo. He was lethargic and not eating much, so we took him into the vet just after this picture was taken. They confirmed he was having some serious issues, and kept him over the [...]

My picture of Folds was lolcatted by someone I don’t even know.

Originally uploaded by blackheartedwolf2000.
The internet is a funny place.

We saw the final showing of The Lieutenant of Inishmore at Southern Rep. It was a strange play: very funny and very violent. Some people actually walked out during the penultimate scene, which was bloody enough in its own right. The final scene was completely over-the-top. Still I’d recommend it to anyone who isn’t too [...]

It’s been just over a year since Lucy disappeared. Somewhere along the way between then and now our hopes of ever seeing her gradually diminished until finally we have accepted that she is gone forever.
But I still miss her.

I find myself strangely unattached to the many cats in and around our house these days: [...]

We haven’t seen Milo since I put him and Crybaby out of the bedroom this morning for making too much noise.
He missed breakfast and now he’s missing dinner.
I’ve got a bad feeling about this.
Update: He’s back. False alarm. But obviously my characteristic easy-going optimism is slipping. Still, I couldn’t be happier. This calls for a [...]

Biggs disappeared sometime around the New Year. He had an infected cut behind his ear. Xy treated it with peroxide, but we fear the worst.
Shortly thereafter a new cat started hanging around. We call her the Crybaby because she cried a lot at first. But soon she joined our household and seemed to fit right [...]

Dark thoughts dominate my days. How could it be otherwise, with headlines like these: Man accused of robbing, beating elderly women mistakenly released from jail and New Orleans’ future bleak, historian says and Mom gave teen a gun for revenge slaying and Many residents of New Orleans consider leaving and A culture’s sad finale?
And [...]

A few days ago I posted a picture of Milo and me, and noted that we had the same color eyes.

My friend Sean went a little crazy with this picture and swapped my eyes with Milo’s. The results are funny and a little disturbing. According to Sean, “Milo’s eyes fit perfectly inside the iris part [...]

It’s been three weeks since we last saw Lucy, and this makes us very sad.

Last night I dreamt we entered one of the many vacant houses nearby and found Lucy just sitting there staring at us. Alas, in waking life she remains missing. We finally put up flyers and talked to neighbors today. Some guys who appear to be squatting on the 200 block of North Gayoso said they [...]

Add this to the list of “crazy things white people do”:
First, we collected our urine in a bucket.

Then Xy poured it into a spray bottle.

Then I sprayed it around the perimeter of our house.

Why? The vet recommended it as a way to help Lucy find her way home. We also made a bilingual flyer which [...]

We haven’t seen Lucy since Saturday afternoon. She was lying on the curb in front of our house, kind of a strange place for her to be hanging out, but when we pulled up in the car she got up and ran off in perfectly normal cat-like fashion.
But we haven’t seen her since, and here [...]

When I came home from my book club meeting today, Xy was crying. Our neighbor, Richard, had just told her some bad news. She didn’t get all the details, so I talked to Richard myself and confirmed the following:
Around seven o’clock this morning, he saw a car stop and pick up a dead cat from [...]

Speaking of cats, Folds scratched Xy’s face again.

Even though I evicted Folds from our bed back in July, Xy has been letting her back in and she’d been spending a lot of time on our downstairs couch. Despite getting scratched repeatedly, Xy can’t resist kissing Folds and pressing her face against the feline’s body. I [...]

This inquisitive fellow poked his head over the neighbor’s shed and stared at us for a long while this morning.

We took Van’s bandage off yesterday.

This morning he let me take a picture of his paw.

Van vanished for almost 24 hours the other day, and when he returned he had a wounded paw. We tried treating it ourselves, but this morning Xy noticed that the paw had the “stink of death,” so she took him to the vet. He is now hobbling around the house somewhat pathetically, with his leg [...]

Today I evicted a tenant.
She had been living in the shed behind our house for I don’t know how long; she took up residence on our bed about six months ago and has been there about 23 hours a day ever since. She wasn’t paying rent, but she was very affectionate, aggressively so, and [...]

Here’s some things that happened over the last few days:
Got drenched to the skin on the way to work Friday morning. It rained real hard and it rained for a real long time. They cancelled Jazz Fest for the first time in thirteen years! I brought a change of clothes with me [...]

I was supposed to take our fat cat, Archer, to the vet today for a follow-up. We’ve had her on reduced rations for the last month to bring her weight down. Plus she’s on some kind of antihistamine to help with her labored breathing.
But I couldn’t get her into the cage! Archer [...]