So Robert's cat, Merlin, besides thinking my cat, Nermil, is a giant hissing play-toy, also enjoys the taste of houseplants (as well as horking them back up in inconveniant places). Nermil, on the other hand, is a little angel. (We'll ignor the whole dookie behind the couch thing for the moment.) She has never chewed a plant in her 12 years.

Merlin's taste for live greenery was never a problem when it was just he and Robert, because Robert has a black thumb of death. However, my house has a multitude of plants, both inside and out. Merlin saw it as a 24-hour salad bar.

So Robert brought home this stuff called Yuck! It's the bitter spray that is (suppose to) deter cats from chewing on plants. Well, we haven't had a ton of luck with it so far, but I am being as persistant as I can (meaning I spray the plants when I think about it).

So I work from home on Thursdays, and I was on the porch smoking, watching the rain come down while the sun was out and wondering where the rainbow was. While I was out there, I figured I'd spray the plants, since the Yuck! was on the porch, there are plants on the porch and both cats enjoy hanging out on the porch.

In the process, some of the spray settled in/on my drink. After spraying the plants, I took a drink.

The look on my face must have mirrored that of a baby who gets a lemon stuck in her mouth. And no amount of smoke or Sunny Delight would quell the appalling taste in my mouth. I had to brush.

So I have discovered two things from this experience. First, Merlin is one determind cat if he continues to chew plants with this rank substance on them. And two, you never know what new things you are going to discover when you move in with someone -- some of them sweet, some of them that make you want to gargle peroxide.

Good energy out to my friend Ian, who left last night to work in Mexico for a month. Don't worry, we'll watch over Rob while you are gone. Zombie movies and game nights will abound.

And people wonder why I'm not Catholic anymore! They cause more Satanic/sexual stir than all 1 million American Pagans combined.

I love getting weird press releases by the way.

from eMediaNewswire:

Satanic Porn Monk Shuffled to Monastery for Artwork Scandals as Cover-up Continues
Complaint and evidence being filed with Anti-Defamation League

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) May 11, 2006 -- The satanic pornography artwork scandals in the Catholic Church profiled in the new feature film documentary "Rape of the Soul" continues with the Church shuffling of Marianist Brother Steve Erspamer.

Operating for many years under the watch of Archbishop Raymond Burke in St. Louis, Erspamer has recently been moved to the suspect monastery of St. Meinrad in Indiana and put on religious probation, after being caught by artist and film producer Michael A. Calace, who profiles a multitude of Erspamer's sexual and satanic artwork in "Rape of the Soul."

"This is yet another example of the hush culture in the Church, as none of the blasphemous artwork has been removed and nobody has been publicly scorned, yet the quiet shuffling continues," said Mr. Calace.

Erspamer's artwork is featured on several of the hymnals and missals of the Oregon Catholic Press (OCP) published by John Limb, including the 2006 Music Issue featuring the swastika, which is now being shown extracted live among other newly selected movie clips on the film's website, www.rapeofthesoul.com.

Several American bishops including Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles and Cardinal George of Chicago have covered OCP hymnals including the 2006 Music Issue with an adhesive sticker to hide the artwork, but have not removed them from the pews or cancelled OCP contracts.

World-renowned experts Dr. Judith Reisman, Dr. Wilson Bryan Key, Dr. Stanley Monteith, and Dr. Marc Oster join Calace in the film, as the art has affected a vast multitude of churchgoers, especially Erspamer's works, as the monk is a specialist who has steadily supplied the world with over 1,500 blasphemous works of sexual, satanic and occult art, which were always readily showcased by Catholic publishers.

SSI will file complaints along with the pictorial evidence focusing on the swastika currently on the cover of the 2006 Music Issue with the Anti-Defamation League in various offices in the U.S.

"Rape of the Soul," the new documentary film that exposes real satanic and pornographic images embedded in religious artwork, and the Church's subsequent attempts to avoid their detection, is expanding now in its eighth week to theaters in Washington, D.C., and metro Philadelphia May 12.

Everybody better love the Summer Fun Guide, coming out May 24, because my eyes are bleeding after reading all that copy -- especially the calendar in that tiny little font. If your event didn't get in, either A) you were too lazy to send it in or B) you sent it to me today or yesterday, and I didn't have time to get it in. I mean, the thing has to be DESIGNED and PRINTED, so you can't expect me to take stuff right up to the last minute, you know? The paper copy of it hit my desk Wednesday, so by then, unless there was a glaring error, there wasn't much I could do about missing events.

In any event, I have turned it back over to the production department, so it's all out of my hands. I need a pack of smokes.

In other news, blatant ignorance rose its ugly head in Louisiana (what did I expect?) when two boys were kicked out of Boy Scouts for being Wiccan. Bunch of savages in this country. Their mom is looking at starting a chapter of the lovely Spiral Scouts in their area. There is no active Spiral Scouts group in Indiana (as much as I am not fond of children, I would help with one, but you have to be a parent), but you can find information about people in Indiana interested in the Spiral Scouts here.

Watch "Across Indiana" tonight at 7:30 p.m. on WFYI to see all NUVO all the time. My segment on the Well-Read Witch Book Club will air, as well as a segment about Indy-Prov, featuring Bill Skaggs, and a segment that Jim Poyser was involved in.