First things first: if you missed or haven’t voted in the “Most Soulful Soul Song” poll, go over and choose your favorite.
Today 2016 begins in earnest, as everyone goes back to work and, in Chicago, our students creep unwillingly like snails back to school. It’ll be cold in my town as well, as winter seems to have set in: no more freakishly warm weather. I will add only one event in history: on this day in 1903, Topsy the Elephant was brutally electrocuted to death at Coney Island, New York, to get rid of her as a liability; she had done nothing “wrong.” The Park had earlier contemplated hanging or strangling her. It was a sad event, which you can read about (and see the video) here, and something that, thank Ceiling Cat, would not be repeated today. Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Hili has parked her sizable carcass on Andrzej’s desk:
A: Hili, you are disturbing me.
Hili: You must be joking.
Ja: Hili, przeszkadzasz mi!
Hili: Chyba żartujesz.
Still today it remains disgusting, what people will do to other animals for their amusement.
Lucky Gus must be thanking Ceiling Cat that he no longer has to try to survive in the snowy wilds.
Gus is well and thoroughly spoiled. He hardly remembers the ‘before time’ at all. 🙂
And sad though his backstory is, he now looks like some wildly expensive exotic new breed. Gorgeous!
Gus is a a very handsome specimen. He’s being lit opportunistically from the left, emphasizing his long lines.
Hili really has perfected her reproachful expression and of course the fine art of being in the way.
And Gus as handsome as ever!
Hili, did you hear about your sad Greek feline subject?
Poor thing got tired of mouse-aka.
Sorry.
One can guess what I’ve just started to digest.