Everyone Must Get Stoned: The Shirley Jackson Award and, Er, Cat Pics
(Jango, aka Bango aka Fango aka Wango, holding the Jackson finalist stone for “The Third Bear“)
Finally our cats serve a purpose, as in the above photo, where Jango is guarding the very cool token of appreciation the Shirley Jackson Awards gave to finalists last year (don’t know if it’s an annual thing, but hope so). Like the pins you get for being a Hugo or World Fantasy Award finalist, it’s a very nice idea. Right now, the Jackson Awards committee is raising additional funding. Go visit and make a donation to ensure we can all keep getting stoned.
Alas, our cat Jackson thought the awards were named after him (although we pointed out that if they had been, it would be called the Shirley Jackson “Poofy Cat Clown” Award), and then promptly staged a monochromatic protest with our giant penguin (literally, he stood that way with the penguin for, like, five hours):
Still, he’s at least again being useful, unlike their normal state of being.
It takes a lot of effort to rest, so rest again they must…
Until Jango takes it upon himself to do a kind of clockpunk Blair Witch and stare for a couple of hours into this corner…
January 17, 2009 at 4:14 pm
That is a kick ass rock.
The cats are also nice. I just realized that I may have transgressed on cat-etiquette by noticing the rock before the cats, but as a dog person, I feel it necessary- consciously or unconsciously – to take cats down a notch. So perhaps I shouldn’t notice the cats at all and only mention the rock.
Congratulations, btw.
January 17, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Ha! We like dogs, too–as long as they look like cats.
Well, it was last year, but they’re looking for donations now, so…
January 17, 2009 at 4:24 pm
There’s no way a dog could ever manage to look like a cat…most of them are too needy to lose that look of needing acceptance! I say this as a Lab owner who loves most animals, even if I’ll never be able to afford keeping a Fennec.
Speaking of the Jackson Awards, are the finalists going to be announced this spring or later? And as for the cat, why not have a Fluffy Cat Clown Award for things that bemuse you? I’m certain many of us reading your blog would love that.
January 17, 2009 at 7:12 pm
Jackson is actually a penguin, and he misses his pop.
January 17, 2009 at 8:51 pm
They are warming your sheets for you and you call their work useless. Shame on you!
December 23, 2010 at 2:34 pm
At first I thought you told Google to call the library, and it did, and that blew my mind.
Then I realized that you actually called the library, and my mind became unblown.
I’ll get back to work…
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