kuddle kittens

It’s the one year anniversary of kuddlekittens.com.

Maybe i’ll have an ice cream sundae to celebrate, or, like the kuddle kittens, have a nice nap! Both wonderful choices.

Then on to Year Two!

Thank you everyone for reading!

The weather has been so warm all the flowers are coming out and even the cherry trees are about to bloom a month early. And yesterday I heard an ice cream truck going down the street! Is it summer already?

Because of some crazy circumstances I missed a post last week, totally messing up Kuddle Week. So, Kuddle Week is getting extended! Another whole week of kuddling!

My new coffee maker! The instructions very helpfully say, ‘after a few minutes the water will boil and you will hear the familiar sound of coffee percolating into the top part and the wonderful smell of coffee will fill the kitchen.’

They’re right!

Now I’ve drawn pictures of my stove, my little league town championship trophy, my coffee maker, and my lamp. Pretty soon I will have drawn a picture of everything in my apartment!

My stove is back. Evidently, seeing another stove getting attention was too much. As seen below, last summer, my stove liked to perform in front of the kittytown cam, trying to get noticed. And, then, wanting to audition for American Idol, spent a few weeks practicing singing in my shower (for the good acoustics). What next?

What I did this week:

Successfully avoided doing laundry. Each day I was able to think up new excuses, justifications, and other things to do, rather than wash a very menacing giant pile of dirty clothes.

Seeing the first flowers of spring is always a big event, and on Thursday I saw a couple snowdrops! (They’re blooming about two months early. It’s been a very warm winter.)

Coming Monday: The One Hundredth Kuddle Kittens Comic! (the exciting conclusion to today’s cliffhanger!)

It’s a New Year and I’m going to try to write more blog posts. More artist’s journal kind of posts, keep everyone up to date on what I’m doing: thoughts on my comics, news about my site, my awful procrastination on making t-shirts and mini-comics for the site ‘store’, etc. etc…. Plus, all the other exciting things I’m doing! (Actually, I’m not doing much, mostly drawing and writing, reading, and sitting around my apartment with my stove, my lamp, and my little league town championship trophy watching Sixers games. But, I’ll try to find interesting stuff about what I’m doing  to write about, and, if that doesn’t work, I can always MAKE THINGS UP! Ha, ha, ha!)

Lots of stuff was left behind when the flood waters in the valley where the kittytown cam is receded, and king kitty and the kuddle kittens have spent the last two days cleaning it all up. They found some interesting stuff! Here is a list of some of the things they found: a yoga mat, an old clock, the number 5, a smoke alarm, four salt and pepper shakers, last year’s christmas decorations and one of their old easter baskets from five years ago, my stove, a blue sock, a set of fine luggage, a bunch of cool alien ray guns, jump ropes, a bowl of jello, six marbles, a cheese grater, corporate reports from 2005 tied up with string, a pile of rocks, a pink step ladder, four yellow markers, a calvin and hobbes quilt, a broken ‘caps lock’ key, a torn acl, some purple dots, some dinosaur fossils, six mean spiders, and three glasses of sour milk.

I’m eating breakfast and staring at a picture of a spoonful of cereal on the front of my box of cereal. In tiny print next to the spoon it says, ‘product enlarged to show detail’. A different brand says it is the cereal’s texture they want to show. My brain is going, ?????????. I really think the pictures are enlarged for design reasons. A cereal box is big and in order to have a big bold design the box needs a big bold image, not a silly-looking tiny life-size picture of a teaspoon of cereal. I have no problem with that! Why are they lying? Is design something to be ashamed of? I’m actually more confused by the Life cereal box where the spoon is held up next to two human heads and appears to be twice the size of those heads. Shouldn’t there be tiny print next to the heads saying they’ve been shrunk in order to hide texture? Maybe because they have ugly pores and split ends?

(found flipping randomly through a copy of Sky and Telescope magazine.)

lunar crescent, california nebula, giacobinid meteor storm,

radio galaxies, einstein error box!

crab and vela pulsars! cosmic-ray protons!

unidentified gamma-ray objects,

gibbous moon, the orionids, astrometrics,

kleopatra in the hyades (the 10th magnitude asteroid in the hyades cluster),

a large amplitude eclipsing binary star in the heart of the orion nebula!

chinese constellations: black tortoise of the north, celestial slanderer, azure dragon of the east, wagging tongue and the hairy head.

and, finally-

the auriga pentagon.