Tom Stearns @tomstearns@octodon.social

Fuck fuck fuck

My cat is dying. It was a bad tooth. He got worse waiting for surgery. Now it's probably cancer. Fluid in his lungs. Maybe order more tests, while he spends the weekend in a cage in a clinic an hour away and maybe dies alone. Or euthanize him today.

My daughter will be destroyed. She's five. He's her brother.

I am destroyed. I rescued him from dumpsters 10 years ago. He's my witness and companion. He is me in animal form, warts and all. I've never loved an animal this much.

Now that I am a parent I have questions about kindergarten homework.

My 5-year-old's movie poster for A Bug's Life.
#BetterThanTheOriginal

Cat vampires don't exist because, if they did, nothing else would.

Here's my cat doing his best Smaug impression. Yes, it's just some wooden disc toys he decided to sleep on, but go with it.

When I go out I put on my
dark shades
they're especially made for going
out
then I
slip in to my
old soft jacket
it don't make no racket when I
go out

From notebook I wrote in 25 years ago. #badpoetry makes good #lyrics

OK seriously I ave to go to bed now, but this place is so cool I wanted to binge on uploading photos before my schedule eats me for a few more days.

Here's my friend J in about 1999 or 2000, complete with spots from my darkroom technique that did not exactly stand the test of time.

Here's a really really cold beach. No, like _really_ cold. OK, not Arctic cold, but pretty cold.

Pretty sure she was just hanging out waiting for a cab or something.

"Shannon," formerly fire breather then dominatrix on Bourbon Street, now writes poems for tourists. She's the tall one; her friend is in her seat.

"Why yes, I do vape, now that you ask."

Oh no now I'm posting Mardi Gras beads on razor wire like some kind of tourist which if course I was. Somebody stop me. But I still haven't seized the day.

This dog has seen some shit.

NOLA last month. I wanted to tell them to adopt me. Or come to my house and get a good hot meal. They sang beautifully.

This was like impromptu Shakespeare in at midnight in NOLA.

Huge pine cone.

I have too much to do and I'm not good with stress and I need sleep but I didn't accomplish enough. So I'm going to post a couple more photos before bed.

Here's my cat's paw. He has 7 toes on each hand. He's very sick right now so this pic makes me misty-eyed.

OK here's my kid a while back. The skating rink hand stamp was missing the "Y" so we just went with it.

Why did I take this? What is it? I don't remember. I love it.

So this is Mastodon.
It's dark.
I like it.

#helloworld