Ed Lynskey's Blog: Cracked Rearview Mirror - Posts Tagged "cats"

Some more well-known fellow cat lovers (also known as ailurophiles) includes:

1. Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland had the Cheshire Cat)

2. T.S. Eliot (Macavity Award for mystery authors is named after his cat)

3. Raymond Chandler (and by extension PI Philip Marlowe)

4. Eartha Kitt (appropriately she of Catwoman fame)

5. Mark Twain (Huck and Tom liked cats)

6. Honest Abe (White House cat named Tabby)

7. Amy Carter (hers was named "Misty Malarky Ying Yang" Huh?)

8. Vanna White (has anyone heard her mention them on Wheel of Fortune?)

9. The Brontes (no wonder they're such famous writers!)

10. Lord Byron (the cats helped to settle his mercurial nature)

11. John Lennon (have I seen a photo with him holding a cat?)

12. Freddie Mercury (dedicated his debut solo LP to his kitties)

By Ed Lynskey
Twitter: @edlynskey
Author of Lake Charles
"Definitely recommend you take a fictional journey to Lake Charles."
Elizabeth A. White's Musings of an All Purpose Monkey

It's Like This, Cat is a YA novel written by Emily Cheney Neville. I see it won the Newbery Medal for American children's lit in 1964. That seems right since I recall reading and liking it back then, and I've always liked the ironic title. As if you could ever tell a cat the way it is. Nope, that's not going to happen except in your dreams.

Our vet, a wise man, once told me that cats at best tolerate their owners. I thought he was kidding me. I had a lot to learn. We had a calico for 21 years, and ended up putting her down. That was sad, but a pretty good run, I believe.

Cats make for good company. I'm not going to bore you, and me, with all the cute stuff they like to do. You can see it all on Youtube. One habit I've noticed is they have to keep tabs on you at all times. They also abhor shut doors. Sometimes they just barge right in on you. That can be embarassing.

I used to be just a dog person. But cats have woven their way into my life, and I'm better off for it, I'd say. They provide me with an amusing muse.

Happy reading to you and yours!

By Ed Lynskey
Twitter: @edlynskey
Author of Lake Charles
"Definitely recommend you take a fictional journey to Lake Charles."
Elizabeth A. White's Musings of an All Purpose Monkey

In a few days, we'll leave our cat at the vet's office for some minor surgery. We've grown quite fond of Frannie, and I'll worry, no doubt. That got me to thinking again about pets, and how attached we get to them. Of course, it's silly because they're just animals, but that's just the way it is. I'm also a dog lover (except for the big, mean dogs that like to attack folks). I noticed around the neighborhood flyers tacked up for a lost cockatoo named Bella. Birds never did much for me, but I hope poor Bella makes it home. I'll keep my eyes peeled. We've always kept our pets indoors since motorists like to regard our neighborhood as a fast shortcut to avoid the traffic light at the corner. But that's a different matter. For now, have you hugged your pet today?

By Ed Lynskey
Twitter: @edlynskey
Ask the Dice (Newest Stand Alone Washington, D.C. Crime Noir)



The Zinc Zoo (Newest P.I. Frank Johnson Mystery)

Say hello to Frannie (with me holding her in my arms). She's a tuxedo cat an animal group rescued from a local junkyard, and we adopted her a couple of years ago. She's a sweetie pie, and I've used her photo as an avatar on some of my social media spots like Facebook and here at Goodreads. She likes to sleep a great deal of the day. Currently, I'm working on my third cozy mystery series and have included a tuxedo cat like Frannie in it. So, when you're reading my cozy mysteries (or other crime novels) with the tuxedo cats in them, you'll know what their inspiration is.