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A collection of 8 issues

Mantis Monday

I'll start off this week with these side and rear views of the mantis at Container Park. Trivia note: it should be no surprise the mantis has a Burning Man pedigree, but it was also an anniversary gift. Continuing the creature simulation theme, here's the opening of Tim Ho Wan

Anthology Puzzles

Well, I pulled another unnecessary all-nighter, this one due to a cat jigsaw puzzle. It was happenstance, as I decided to check out the aftermath of Life is Beautiful and see if there's any new street art. Amid the post-festival cleanup, all I found was this. Pretty much everything was

Coworking with Cats

My standard procedure in cat cafes is to hang out until the cats decide to bother me. It helps if you bring a book or laptop, just don't plan on getting to use them. Tinker's Cat Cafe in Salt Lake CityBut even just a phone works. One time at the

Tinker's Cat Cafe

As part of my cross country cat cafe tour, I visited Tinker's Cat Cafe in Salt Lake City. Really, it was just an excuse to get out of town for a few days, but it was worth the drive from Vegas. The cafe is a good cafe in its own

Cat Cafes of America

I have two requirements for a place to live: decent selection of Asian food, a good bookstore, and a cat cafe. Especially when downtown living gets too loud (subwoofers should be outlawed), I need a place to go and relax. And cats know how to relax. So here in Vegas

Save the Cat!

I've piled up a lot of unread books during the pandemic, so I've learned to treat them like other projects – if it looks like I'm not going to finish it, move on, maybe hand it off to someone else (in the case of books, the public library). Honestly, I bought

Sea Sirens

My sister Amy Chu has written enough comic books by now that I haven't kept up with them, but of the ones I've read so far, my favorite is Sea Sirens, a take on a Frank L. Baum story (which I haven't read, although I worked my way through a

For Cats Only

One way to halt the ever-rising heaps of unread books I'm accumulating is to just stop buying books. But that's not going to happen, so Plan B is to buy books that I can read quickly. Today's short read is For Cats Only, a photography book of cat trees. I