When Jack Attacks...

...he freakin' attacks. His decision that chin scratches were Okay has evolved into Crawling Into Laps, Attacking Arms, and Scampering Up Backs To Sit On Shoulders are all Mighty Fine Fun. Xena likes to get in your lap and purr while gazing upon you creamily with half-closed eyes, enjoying her full body strokes and talking.

Jack on the other hand likes to pounce Xena, get her to slither out of the lap, then sit on his rump and spin around, attacking knees, pants, shirts, buttons, arms, hands and fingers with relish. It's like he's in a Captain's Command Chair. I call it his Control Center.

This morning I had both of these previously wild kittens piled up in my lap, alternating between curling cutely and enjoying pets, and having wrestling matches. Amazing what food, patience, kindness, and toys will do to tame the savage breast...

Farrah Fawcett Dead

I never particularly cared for her, especially that smarmy, cheesy grin, but she had a hard road to the clearing. Rest easy.

Story here

PS: Oh yeah, Ryan O'Neal didn't manage to get married to her before she died. Interesting that she wanted a pre-nup, even said so on her death bed, according to Mr. Sleaze. Guess she knew him better than he thought.

PPS: BTW, I never understood why she did that schlockumentary NBC ran a few weeks ago about her struggle with ass cancer. So she had cancer -- about 134,000 other people get rectal cancer every year too. They don't make schlockumentaries, and they don't put them on national TV for everyone to see. I watched part of it, and wasn't impressed.

The bottom line is, if you're diagnosed early, you have a 90% chance of complete recovery. From what I've read, Farrah was treated and declared cancer free, then when it recurred she messed around with alternative treatments in Germany rather than having the colostomy recommended by her surgeon. Gather from that what you will.

Sugar Free Baklava FTW

Jaafer Sweets

Great prices, INCREDIBLE Middle Eastern pastries! Just got a 60 piece tray of their sugar free baklava and my god almighty, you wouldn't believe it was sugar free. And that 60 piece tray is a tray that's your basic 14 x 20 x 1 jelly roll pan. The pieces are generous 1 1/2" squares, so you feel you're getting something. They're already cut and nestled into paper cups.

And good?? Oh my god. I ate two of them and almost died from buttery flaky walnutty phyllo deliciousness. jblaque, why did you never tell anyone about this place, that's in Chicago????

I put them up in vacuum bags in lots of 6, so I have 9 bags of deliciousness now in my freezer and 4 sitting out for my son to enjoy -- well, 3 of them are his. 1 of 'em's MINE.

So the Gloved One is Dust...

... and excuse the hell out of me, but wonder what the odds are this was suicide? I'm thinking pretty good ones.