This and That

While watching Case of Evil on TV on Sunday night, I suddenly realised what Vincent's doing with his accent and voice.

He's doing a version of that arch-villain James Mason's voice.

Now I've got that, it totally works.

Back at the vet's today with the lovely Dandy. He has a swollen foot. There's no sign of a wound, and the vet thinks it may be a sealed-in infection, cellulitis.

Ouch. Had that once. Nasty. Poor baby.

Dying Young

But not young enough, or Gordon would have got the girl.

Mind you, Julia Roberts...




OMG I just noticed he's wearing an earring!

Crooked Hearts

Ah, Charley. Love 'im.

Just beautiful

So there was Dandy, lying on the back of the sofa, the sun on his lovely face, and his long, fluffy tail draped across the scatter cushions. Irresistible.

I closed in.

Focused on his face, its perfect profile intact despite
the recent surgery.

Then he turned his beautiful face towards me,

also wonderfully scar-free.

What a gorgeous cat, his purrsonality as purrfect as his looks.

Salute of the Jugger

AKA Blood of Heroes.

Pretty violent stuff.













Why do we watch this again? Oh yes...




















Let me kiss it better.





























He looks so surprised to get all those girls!

Priorities

Health care is important. It's good that the US Senate looks set to pass the bill, though at rather a high cost to women with unwanted pregnancies.

Talking of high costs, who is paying the highest cost of climate change? The developed countries that are due to cough up funds to help those most likely to be affected (though most still owe the last lot of aid they promised, so don't hold your breath)? Or the countries they are supposed to pay it to?

The people of those countries will pay for the developed world's luxury by either drowning or frying. Their wildlife, already decimated by our hunting, our greed for hardwood, or beef for our burgers, or the coltan to enable us to have the latest mobile phone, is dying of hunger, thirst and habitat loss.

So President Obama leaves an unresolved climate conference to see through a bill which will enable health care to the poorest US citizens, while the poorest citizens of the world - some of them fellow countrymen of his own father and family - are left to pay for our greed.

When there is no longer a world to have health care in, it will look like a pretty stupid choice. But will there be anyone left to realise this?

Mr Obama, to say I am disappointed in you would be like saying I'm quite fond of having breathing. Understatement in the extreme.

You gave the world hope. The world has been betrayed.

If only Al Gore had been given the Presidency when he won it, instead of being cheated out of it by the Bush Brothers, we might be living under very different circumstances today.