Thanks! I'll check that out. I'm sure there will be great advice here - I love these folks!

This story won't help you at all but here goes anyway. Years ago I had a female Siamese, not fixed and when she went into heat the whole neighborhood knew it---and she was an indoor cat. I had a friend (another warped individual) that offered to nail a Vix Inhaler to a table leg for her!!! (I told ya he was warped!!!)

Yeah, that is kind of warped and would be (hhmm, how to put it as delicately as possible) the opposite of throwing a hot dog down a hallway. Also being a bit warped myself, I'm hoping her "brother" will give her some action. That might be the best for both of them! He's old and fixed but it could happen - right!??!

Sorry, sweets, ain't gonna happen. We had two cats Ward and June, brother and sister, he was fixed, she wasn't. She would go nuts, yowling, tail in the air, rubbing up against him and he'd be "go away I'm trying to nap here"!!

Sounds like my marriage!!

Only it was me turning the other paw.
Imagine????

I watched your audition video. FYI - on page one of the application, the last line of the CONTENT section states that the "video must not include any music or singing". I hope I caught this in time for you to re-edit.

Best of luck!

You know that old addage about Dads locking their daughters in their rooms until they turn 30? Yeah. Keep kitty away from the outdoors. Make sure windows and doors are closed. The pheromones they produce are wicked strong. Any male cats in the area will know and might go so far as to mark your door, trees, car tires, anything. That spray is truly horrible. Had one spray me in the car on the way to his neutering appointment. Took weeks to get that smell out of the plush interior of the car... Try Purina website for help and links.
Also, keep a damp towel around for any um accidents. And try your local SPCA, like KK mentioned. Sometimes they'll have a list of places that offer a reduced rate.

Oh well, it was a thought. Love the names, BTW - I could be really crass in reference to the names + the situation + the TV show - but I will refrain.

I told ya---kinda warped around here. We had great fun cause they were named from the TV show. But feel free--get crass if you want, maybe you could come up with something we didn't!!

THANK YOU, seriously!! I have a screened-in porch where she spends a good deal of time. I had thought about males coming around (the pheromones ARE wicked strong) but I HAD NOT thought about them spraying!!! You have just saved me! No more porch time for Lily for a while. I don't like the sound of "accidents", either . I have never had an indoor cat who has gone into heat. As a kidlet, we had cats. They were outdoor and were not fixed (my dad grew up on a farm in S. Ga. and, per his upbringing, animals lived outside and did not get fixed). Needless to say, we were covered in kittens for years!

You asked for it. Thanks, BTW, it was killing me. I am imagining translating June's vocalizations as something to the effect of "Ward, I really need for you to deal with the Beaver".

Wow..... John Do you keep them all inside??
I can't do kitty litter.......I just can't.
But bravo for you.
My mother drilled it in my head.
No smelly cats
That's from the TV show *FRIENDS* btw.

I loved that show and most peeps I know think
I am an idjut for it....I care nowt.
I loved it because I love Chandler Bing.
Could he BE any cuter????

You asked for it. Thanks, BTW, it was killing me. I am imagining translating June's vocalizations as something to the effect of "Ward, I really need for you to deal with the Beaver".

See very close!!! One of our favorite lines from the show---June to Ward *Don't you think you were a little hard on the Beaver last night dear???* She was wearing the pearls of course!

How dare you????????

*slaps face with white gloved hand*


leave it alone

LOL! You are welcome, sweets. After having to throw out the clothes I was wearing the day of "the incident" I certainly don't want anyone else to go through that. Nasty, nasty stuff! The accidents may be a bit of spotting.. sorry not trying to be crude... I remember my dog when I was young running around the house in a pair of my brothers old yellow swim shorts (speedo type) with a hole cut out for her tail. My brother and I thought it was just something funny not the precautionary measure my mom took when the dog went into heat...

Calm down hon. We's just having fun. BJ is my buddy, my pal! Please don't slap that sweet boy's face!!

I might have known you had "gotten there" already. Anytime I think of that show now I am reminded of the movie "Scrooged" and the sequence of holiday trailers for "IBC - Yule Love It".

OOHHH, stop it! RIGHT NOW.

Oh, it is impossible to get out that smell. The Speedo idea is a great one (however amusing it may seem). Unfortunately, given my "voluptuousness", it would be easier for me to fashion a tent from mine and sequester her in it for the duration!

no harm, no foul!

Pffft! I could make kitty condos with my clothes... And good luck keeping kitty in a tent! You're just asking for a blood letting... Yours!

Thanks Rady, it is very thoughtful and kind of you to think of this. I'm not sure how many of us there are out there, but Mother's Day can be a bit tough (especially for those of us who wanted to be a mother and for whatever reason did not become one). It is a time we can take to recommit to investing our lives into the lives of others instead of dwelling on the fact that we do not have children. Thanks for the reminder and the sweet wish!

It doesn't matter. I can't get it on a DVD to enter it anyway! My dvd burner (or maybe it's the software?) keeps having run errors. I just had to throw away half-a-dozen dvds because of the failed burns.

I called a couple of local places that can do DVD burning... and they're gonna charge me a MINIMUM of $25 to burn one disc!

*punches a locker and yells "[expletive deleted]" Dale-style*

NiCi only the sweetest wishes for you!! I truly admire the work you do and I'm sure that you think of them as *my kids*.

Holy crap!! Can you email it to someone and have them burn it?? I'm very close---north of Mt Clemens--maybe I could burn it for you.

Another idea--can you go to another computer and burn it from YouTube?

*very sleepy mumble* Hand over the coffee and no one will get hurt.
*wink*

I tried to watch your video, and my speakers went out. Will say that it looked like you were having fun, and that should be a plus.

Trust the board crew to see what we can do to help with dvd issue and good luck!

Jazz

Te he! Blood letting, heard!

((((Rady)))) So very true....love, care, concern, mentoring, all of that is part of mothering. And yep, I agree..."mothering" is something you do....and you don't need be "female" to mother. And mothering isn't just what we do for our children.....it is what we do to care and nurture each other, daily.
Love muchly
Jazz

What format is your file? What is the error?

That, my love, is where you are wrong! I NEVER beg!

Thanks Jazzie.
Much love right back at you!!

Ours is $3.69..or so.

Why do you hate Antonia?

Also, if you are still in "edit mode", the sound levels are incongruous from beginning to end (at least from my viewing of the YouTube video). As a film maker, I am sure you'd want to confirm/address/correct this.

I am NOT a vet...only an animal lover. My beloved Westie was on prednisone all her life for skin problems. Died at age 11 of kidney failure.

I now have a rescue schnoodle who seems to have allergies/skin problems as well. Our vet has prescribed temaril-p 1/2 to 1 tablet a day for itching. It seems to help a good bit. Now our 2 year old puppy sleeps happily through the night. There is still a little bit of nibbling and scratching but not much. He used to keep us up all night.

I spoke with another animal lover and she recommended Organix dog food, coconut oil, and MSM. We recently bought Organix but have no results to report. Have not tried the other items at this point.

I have never been down the Mersey. I HAVE been known to beg for mercy "de temps en temp"! You got me there!

To answer all questions at once, here:

1) I would not want to burn the Youtube version, as it is a low-quality, low-res 18MB WMV file. What I'd put on DVD is the High-quality AVI file that is slightly over 1GB.
2) the size of the good file also means I can't really e-mail it!
3) the error is a "run error". It keeps going "Burn Failed due to a run error. We've saved...blahblahblah... info that might be useful in figuring out the problem, would you like to save?" I took a look at the "blahblahblah" file and it's basically about 8 pages long of syntax that I don't understand because I'm not a comp. geek.
4) I only know 3 other people with DVD burners. One lives 2 hours away. One only lives 45 minutes away but is out of town for the weekend. One lives 30 minutes away but is at work and won't answer his phone.
5) I can't wait until Monday because I'm leaving on Sunday to go up to Kalkaska to be a camp counselor for the summer! I therefore need to mail stuff out tomorrow morning at the LATEST, as I won't be around after that.
6) I know the sound sucks, but I honestly don't care at this point! It's not one of my films, so it doesn't bother me so much... and I suck ASS at fixing audio problems other than J-cuts and L-cuts. I generally have someone else edit audio for my films.

So, what is your plan? If you don't mind my asking.

Waving a white flag?

the DVD-quality video is a file of over 1GB! No e-mail provider allows attachments that large.

"Speed Racer" finally reached theaters today.

I've been a big fan of the Wachowski brothers since I saw "Bound" many years ago. I thought it was smart, funny, and exciting. Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly were hot as all get out, and I looked forward to more.

When "The Matrix" came out I was in love. This was the film that I dragged anybody I came into contact with, who hadn't seen it, to. It didn't even bother me when "Reloaded" and "Revolutions" left me baffled. I totally bought them while I was watching them, and I own all three films on DVD. I still watch them.

The brothers then took a back seat to James McTeague for "V for Vendetta". They wrote the film, and it had their fingerprints all over it. The direction may not have been as good, but it was still spectacular, and captured the essense of the graphic novel.

Today I took my bestest of best buddies, Denny, out of school so we could go to the first show of "Speed Racer". Walking out of the film, at the end, he said "that was really bad and you owe me a good film."

He was understating it. This film is a waste of great visual techniques, and, since the technique is the only thing there, it's not even enjoyable. It's nice to see John Goodman and Susan Sarandon (as Speed's parents), Christina Ricci (Trixie, a role she was made for) and, even Mathew Fox, as the mysterious X Racer. Too bad they aren't good in a good film.

I couldn't tell if the role was badly written, or Emile Hirsch is a bad actor, but there is a hole in the middle of this film large enough to drive a fleet of Mack trucks through. I've never been less interested in a star of a major Hollywood film. He's not even good to look at.

Do not go to this film. Warn your friends. And, if you suffer from motion sickness, I suggest you don't even enter the local multiplex that it's playing in. So far this is 2008's worst film, hands down.

Gotta be the writting, because Emile Hirsch is an AMAZING actor! 2 prime examples of that are "Alpha Dog" and "Into the Wild"

Have you tried Zipping it? what size then?

Oh, OK. Well, I can put my hands on the flag pole to help with that -if that is your next course of action (no comments from the peanut gallery, please ).

I'm aware that both those films opened to great notices, but, to be honest with you, I never had any interest in seeing another "coming of age" film, and Drew's response to them was, "this is why we have Netflix. They will be the same films in three months".

I did read bits and pieces of the book that "Into the Wild" came from, and if I had seen either film, that would have been the one. Interestingly enough, while they have both been available, we've not seen either. I looked and they're not even on our list.

It seemed as if Hirsch had gotten his pages for the film right before they filmed. He never seems comfortable, and his work with Ricci, one of our finest young actresses, is embarassing. his work with Goodman and Sarandon is even worse, and we won't speak of the total disconnect between Hirsh and Fox, though Fox seems ready to go.

I know there are people out there who will still see this film, even after reading this. Fine. Just don't come to me and say you weren't warned. I've already wasted my cash, and, no matter how much you try, you can't polish a turd. It doesn't work that way.

Heaven forbid that I should annoy anyone with my irritating scrip. I guess that it's fine for some, and annoying for others. Oh f*cking well.

A character, yes. A Top Chef, no.

Love ya, baby! No matter how your letters look!