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Moosifer Jones Esq. 198?-2003 Moosifer Jones, my most excellent cat about town and my most beautiful, precious boy, died on the 18th of the complications of old age. He had been ill for some weeks and was on daily pills, occassional injections and, in the last couple of days, hand feeding. I emailed this to a friend yesterday, asking her to pass it on to others, and I think it covers things:

He was suffering and there was no option. I stayed with him throughout, fussing his head even after the vet said he had gone. He looked peaceful once it was over, like he was just asleep on my old burgundy sweater. He was my precious boy: we shared twelve years and six houses. Once, when I'd only had him for a month, he hissed at a sort-of-boyfriend who did, indeed, turn out to be no good. People who met him will know he was a smelly, curious, rag-eared and attention-seeking fellow always interested in investigating new laps, especially if they had a joint near them. I want to still be holding him, and getting smeary cat kisses or telling him not to chew on the phone line. He was the embodiment of the idea of "a very fine cat indeed". My beautiful, troublesome boy.

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Posted @ 11:43 pm on Thursday, November 20, 2003
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I've got a new Doctor Who short story out in Mythmakers (the fiction publication of DWIN). The theme of the collection is essentials, the stories and articles focussing on just what elements are vital to making Doctor Who unique and appealling. Naturally I've gone for the historical as a key aspect of the series and written a modern retelling of Marco Polo. It starts with the Doctor and Fitz bursting into a caravanserai in a sandstorm and meeting a Venetian trader.

Mythmakers also has comments from the likes of Terry Pratchett, Marc Platt, Paul Cornell etc as well as fiction by Daniel O'Mahoney, Andy Lane, Jon Blum, Clapham etc etc.

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Posted @ 12:50 pm on Thursday, November 13, 2003
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All this sorting out of a new opinionated blog for my site, which was prompted by yet another friend foolishly thinking LJ is better than blogger or MT, means I'm spending the day checking all my friends' LJs for the first time in yonks. Which in turn means doing far too many stupid online character quizzes:

I am 58% Tortured Artist
Art is significant in my life, people are scum but I have the capacity to deal with it. Give it a few more years and I will either forget about art or hate the world.
Take the Tortured Artist Test at fuali.com

And the worst thing about doing one online quiz is that you see the other ones on offer at the same site:

I am 55% Punk Rock
The intelligent punk. Tuff and Smart. I may be able to maintain a train of thought long enough... What the fuck was I talking about?
Take the Punk Rock Test at fuali.com

I also tried the palm reading quiz, as done by Dark Sam but it was so generic as to be meaningless:

There may be times in your life when you give in to feelings of sadness or depression.
Really? Can you tell that from a line in my palm or because just about everyone, including Picasso, has an occassional blue period?

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Posted @ 2:08 pm on Sunday, November 09, 2003
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I do sometimes get lured into answering "which character are you?" online quizzes. Bear in mind that as a veteran of teen magazine personality tests taken in the extreme peer pressure conditions of mooching about school corridors during break, way back in the early 80s, rigging the results is stupidly easy.

Which Spirited Away character are you?

lin
You are Lin!
You seem level-headed and cool, but you harbor a dream in your heart to get away.
You are steady and dependable, even if you are a bit blunt.