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The current strike by writers is explained pretty well in this short video.  It’s hard to imagine the studios fighting over 4¢, but it seems that’s what’s happening.

Spooky may technically belong to Elke, but he has made himself at home with us in recent months. It has been a remarkable transformation, though, since when she brought him from her old neighborhood, which was being razed to make way for the new cancer hospital at Shands, he wouldn’t come near us. Spooky was part of Operation Catnip, a program wherein strays are trapped, spayed or neutered, and released with their ear snipped, to alert Alachua County Animal Control that the cats are fixed. But Spooky has become amazingly affectionate for a stray. Now he greets us when we come home, and when we leave the house, and he tries to run in the house when the door opens. I can pick him up any time I want, and he likes being petted.

Alas, he went missing this week. I was aware that I hadn’t seen him since Sunday when Elke came by on Tuesday night asking about him. He Bela tolerates him, but Mr. Meow picks on him, and other feral cats in the neighborhood give him a hard time. Wednesday and Thursday I searched the yard for hints of a fatal catfight, or, worse, his corpse. But there was no sign of anything amiss. He had simply disappeared.

This morning, though, he was waiting by the front door when I arrived home from grocery shopping. I picked him up and looked him over, and he seems healthy. So, let us be thankful for the return of Spooky, and watch this clip of “Kitty’s Back” from October 30 in Los Angeles.