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Wait., wait...I think my heart is growing again...

 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
01:45 / 22.12.05
All of you are so wonderful and I'm truly--TRULY--living up to my namesake...

I am made of steel...I am made of iron...

Eh, what's that? No, I'm NOT tearing up. Something got in my eye.

*sniff*

Son of a bitch...

;-)
 
 
Hieronymus
03:49 / 22.12.05
I are confusled
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
04:32 / 22.12.05
Hiero, dear, I used to make my presence known on these illustrious boards quite a bit ago. Then I dropped off the map through no will of my own, but kept in random touch. My Barbe-inbox has been brimming with messages from elder 'Lithers and I have just read them today. They tugged at what might be bits of my heart left. I was touched.

Do you see now?
 
 
Hieronymus
05:59 / 22.12.05
I remember ya, love, for all my ancient lurking. Was just confused as to what the well wishes said. But that's the kind of nosy prying that ruins the sweet moments.

Glad to have you back. *hugs*
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
06:03 / 22.12.05
Thought I knew you, love. I was going, "What the--? Am I that old and unrecognizable?"

Hugs back.

Now work with me and get me the fuck out of here.
 
 
Quantum
08:31 / 22.12.05
"Kali. As the Dread Destroyer, her eyes were red, her complexion dark, her hair unbound, her teeth sharp like fangs. As she rode out on her lion, Raktabija realised he had met his match and fear hit home in his demonic heart."




That's you that is.
 
 
The Natural Way
09:54 / 22.12.05
This is all incredibly moving.
 
 
The Natural Way
09:55 / 22.12.05
Can we eat the child's lips?
 
 
Tits win
10:07 / 22.12.05
Things have changed around here, as you can see.

but Kali, I don't recall your ever having to take the ritualistic ass-candling initiation, and it HAS been a long time so...
 
 
Spatula Clarke
10:18 / 22.12.05
Kali comes from a time when the jokes were new and funny.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
10:30 / 22.12.05
There were giants in those days...
 
 
iamus
10:30 / 22.12.05
All times are present simultaneously.
 
 
Mirror
13:10 / 22.12.05
Hi, Kali! You've been missed!

How's Atlanta? Did you guys win the good fight against the Starbucks?
 
 
grant
23:42 / 22.12.05
Hope you're doing well with the peaches.
 
 
Jack Fear
00:49 / 23.12.05
We've been missing you, darlin'. Missing, and wondering, and occasionally worrying.

Glad you're still breathing it in and out. Everything OK? We're fine, mostly.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
12:15 / 23.12.05
For my part, I have assumed the quiet life. Occasional ventures out into the thorny Atlanta nightlife--a city which I am thoroughly soured on, truth be told--but more likely to be found reading and researching my Great American Novel. (Gah! It EVEN sounds pretentious, doesn't it?) Aside from trips to New Orleans, San Francisco, Austin, and Los Angeles, I do nothing but potter around the house and murmur things like, "But I know I didn't leave that on" or "Why has Mr. Wiggledy have no nose?"

I really have missed you all. Perhaps, come post New Year's, I can do something about that.

p.s. Mirror, the coffee house in question joined forces with Criminal Records in order to become the first "hip" place in Atlanta proper that sells music, comics, and coffee.
 
 
Sax
12:46 / 23.12.05
Nick still wears leather trousers, and I still don't. So things haven't changed that much.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
13:49 / 23.12.05
Ah, Nick's infamous leather trousers. I hadn't thought of them in ages.
 
 
mondo a-go-go
14:22 / 30.12.05
Do you still have the cat with the plastic bag fetish? I feel really terrible that I don't remember his name, though I have been racking my brain for it.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
17:05 / 06.01.06
The cat with the plastic bag fetish's name is Ozzy. I still have him. He's gone from plastic bags to enthusiastically "loving" on small knit socks containing catnip.

$1.50 for something that provides hours worth of pleasure...

If only us humans were so lucky.
 
 
sleazenation
23:00 / 06.01.06
Yeah, sadly comics cost closer to $3 these days...
 
 
Mazarine
08:21 / 07.01.06
Ah, Nick's infamous leather trousers. I hadn't thought of them in ages.

Good lord. I think I still have that picture stashed away on my old computer somewhere, with pictures of sundry others.

Hi darlin', it's good to see you.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
15:29 / 07.01.06
Does this mean there's a pic out there of Nick in said leather trousers!?

Well, I must make it part of my life's mission to see this pic.

I got a $50 dollar gift card to my local comic shop, Sleaze. I haven't used it yet because I am so out of the loop, I wouldn't know what to get anymore. Grrr.
 
 
Mazarine
16:31 / 07.01.06
I'll rummage and post if I find. It's a good picture, as I recall, and Nick looks stunningly good.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
16:41 / 07.01.06
Oh, this would be brilliant! After years of hearing about said trousers and of course, hearing about Nick, that I would lay eyes on both at once....

It's like a damned post-Christmas miracle, it is.
 
 
sleazenation
20:09 / 07.01.06
I got a $50 dollar gift card to my local comic shop, Sleaze. I haven't used it yet because I am so out of the loop, I wouldn't know what to get anymore. Grrr

Always happy to help pimp comics - so, what sort of stuff would you like to read about?
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
15:45 / 08.01.06
Well, sleaze, I'm pretty much game for anything, I am. As long as it's good.
 
 
sleazenation
17:13 / 08.01.06
Well, I'm sure you've done all the Jhoenen Vazquez stuff...

there are solme books I'll always recommend

Berlin by Jason Lutes, a fascinating and engaging tale of between the wars Berlin - Lutes detailed artwork and brilliant grasp of layout design make this book exceptional...

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi a memoir of an girl of educated westernised parents growing up in Iran through the Islamic revolution and the Iran Iraq war... which might all sound very serious and not fun and it probably would be if not for the warmth and humour of the narrator - she manages to convince the guardians of the revolution that a Michael Jackson badge is actually a picture of Malcolm X, the leader of Muslims in the US - how can you not love the story of a girl who pulls that off?

Then there's

Kane and Jack Staff, both by Paul Grist
Kane is a cop comic, Jack Staff is a superhero book probably unlike anything you've seen before...
 
 
Mourne Kransky
17:37 / 08.01.06
Vazquez is a good name. Aliens stalwart. I even named a pet after her once (a fish). But Jhoenen?
 
 
Char Aina
17:55 / 08.01.06
maybe you're just saying it wrong.
how do you say it?
 
 
Mourne Kransky
17:59 / 08.01.06
Buggered if I know. The orthography gives no hints towards any known language. I conclude therefore that it's someone from California.
 
 
sleazenation
18:06 / 08.01.06
Yes i did misspell it, his name is actually Jhonen Vasquez.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
18:19 / 08.01.06
Ah, then it's clearly a dialect construction from the East End of Mars. sleazenation is one of the very few Londoners who are fluent in that tongue.
 
 
Char Aina
18:27 / 08.01.06
ah, right. see, 'buggered if i know' isnt quite right.
i believe he pronounces it more 'jo-nen'.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
18:31 / 08.01.06
Ein Jhon, zwei Jhonen.
 
  
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