Happy Valentine's Day!!!

What are you giving your sweetie for Valentine's Day?

I am giving Lee sleep. He worked all night so that's the best gift.

Dru is doing his St. Sebastian impersonation in front of the door behind which Lee is sleeping though, wailing up a storm, so I have to keep chasing him away.

Even when I feed him, he does that. He misses Lee. According to Desmond Morris, Lee is his parent and I am just Dru's feline sibling. So I can never rank that high. I get affection when Lee's not around but I am "in competition" with Dru for Lee's love.

Dru will win hands down probably, as he has a much better body temperature.

And Dru likes to watch the same things on television that Lee likes to watch.

Dru thinks tennis is wonderful.

Finally, humans understand the virtue of small objects darting back and forth rapidly! Cats have known how enthralling this is since time immemorial.

I'm thinking about making a short film by reading what's written on the back of some old postcards, like 100 years old. They always mystify me. Like novels in miniature.

I know I have Valentine's Day postcards but I'm not sure if they're written on.

I think people got chatty most 100 years ago on the Thanskgiving postcards. They were talking about slaughtering turkeys and getting ready for winter and such.

Yesterday, Lee admired some Valentine's Day decorations in the picture window of some house we were driving past.

They were made out of melted down plastic. Probably little beads that they melt down and they fuse together to make Cupid with his bow and arrow, or just a giant heart.

Remember those?

We were both remembering how popular they were once and now they seem to have vanished. Probably because they are horrible for the earth.

I remember the Halloween ones. I had some years ago. I didn't like them much but now that they are gone I like them better.

Probably they are already selling as "vintage" on EBAY and elsewhere. OOP. Etc.

Somebody probably still sells them. They can't have completely disappeared.

If I were rich, I hate to admit it but I would collect vintage and antique Halloween items all the time. Everybody wants the delicate, celluloid ones. The best ones are always from Germany.

The Sledworks in Duncannon is an antiques buff's heaven but I can't face the drive up there but once every year or so. I used to be more industrious and drive up right after my shift at work.

That's one of the few places around here where concessionaires actually have great prices on great items. I would always find a lot of celluloid toys marked very low there. Usually dogs or horses. Usually American.

But they break so easily. It's like trying to give a butterfly a massage. I rarely buy those things.

Just remember: HPV is in Happy Valentine's Day.

Don't kiss a stranger just so you kissed someone on Valentine's Day.

"Kiss."

Don't let capitalist and greeting card ingenuity and alcohol engineer a carnage in the lovetrees.