The Battlestar Galactica Drinking Game v. 1.0

So we decided to create our own B*G drinking game. (We're about halfway through Season 3 on our re-watch.) This is what we have so far.

When watching Battlestar Galactica at 2201, you must take a drink when:

* Adama takes off or puts on his glasses dramatically.
* Helo is being a douche. (Normally I hate this expression. No one douches anymore, rendering it a pretty obsolete insult. And most of the guys I know who say "douchebag" could not in fact tell you what a douchebag is. Yet "douche-y" is a strangely fitting description for Helo's behavior. So I am allowing it.)
* Tigh growls.
* Someone talks to a Head-Person.
* The AdamaStache is on screen (including flashbacks).
* Dr. Cottle chainsmokes in sick bay.
* The crew of Galactica starts a slow clap.
* The writers break out some civilian cultural issue that we have never heard of and will never hear of again, purely for the purposes of plot.
* Drink twice if the above episode features Helo or Lee.

It's a work in progress...

Ha Ha Very Funny

A conversation over the weekend:

Sweetie: (after the smoke alarm went off while he was cooking eggs) I never thought of this before, but there are only two smoke alarms in the house. And one is in the hallway, and the other one is on the bedroom wall about two feet away.
Me: I guess it would suck if there was a fire in, you know, the rest of the apartment.
Sweetie: It doesn't make much sense.
Me: That is where most of the electrical cords are.
Sweetie: I could move it.
Me: Are we allowed to do that?
Sweetie: Why not? We could stick it in the middle of the coffee table, like a Cylon device.

I think this is so funny to me because it never occurred to me that he might actually do it. Yet there is now a smoke alarm in the center of the coffee table. Like a Cylon device.
Cylon device ----------------->

On "Head Six" and Other BSG "Head" People

Quoth the internet rumor mill:

"Say good-bye to the Six in Baltar's head," a source told SyFy Portal's Michael Hinman. "As much as we like Baltar having this controlling figure literally in his head, we couldn't keep it up forever."

...Who are these personas? The source won't say, but there has been a lot of speculation that they are all tied into the Leoben (Callum Keith Rennie) that Kara Thrace (Katee Sackhoff) saw in her "death" episode, "Maelstrom."

Of course, none of this has been confirmed by SciFi Channel or anyone else -- and is subject to change before the actual episodes air, so treat it as you would any rumor.

I stated this exact theory Sunday night. Just ask Sweetie. Was watching an earlier Baltar/Head Six episode, and it just occurred to me that that one line is probably the key to the whole thing.

"You're not Leoben," says Kara to the Leoben in her head.
"I never said I was."

I never thought they were chips. Before Season 3 I thought they were manifestations of Baltar's guilt and wacked-out psyche. Now I think not. But I still don't think they're gods, either. I personally believe they're from the future. All this has happened before and all of it will happen again.

But maybe I've been watching too much Star Trek: Enterprise...

We ONLY Watch Quality TV

... in this household. Therefore there must be some mistake when our shows don't get nominated for stuff.

How does The Shield consistently get no love from the Emmy Awards? Even Forrest Whitaker got no love for his unnervingly good guest role last year. Is it because it's on FX? I have totally gotten sucked into this show. None of the garbage on network TV can compare to its intensity. And the actors manage to perform at that consistently high level every episode. I've seen Grey's Anatomy and Boston Legal. That's soapy fluff, not drama! No love!

The Battlestar G didn't entirely get shafted, but the actors did. (BSG picked up nominations in writing, directing, sound, and visual effects.) Season 3 was sort of weak, but they could have at least tossed them something for shafting them last year.

I think every article I've seen mentions The Wire, BSG, and The Shield as major WTF omissions, so it's not exactly like we're crazy people clinging to our couch watching crappy shows here.

Star Trek vs. Battlestar Galactica: Equal Opportunity Hotness

In the latest of our household Trek vs. Galactica debates, I questioned why there are no hot guys on Star Trek. Each Trek has at least one hot female character, but the male characters? Not so much. The B-Star G has Apollo, Helo, and Anders. The three of them are solidly in the realm of superhotness. And then? The "lesser" characters like Baltar, the Chief, and Gaeta aren't terribly hard on the eyes either. Clearly humanity is going to make it, having managed to save all the hot people when the Cylons nuked civilization. (Which raises one of my major beefs with the Cylons, actually: How come all the female Cylon models are smoking, while the males are all "ehhh"? Six: hot. Boomer: hot. Three: hot. Cavil: old. Doral: balding. Simon: could be hot if we saw him longer than 3 seconds. Leoben: the Leobens are the best-looking male Cylon model, but they've got that hot-in-a-creepy-way thing going on.)

Perhaps if Star Trek introduced Hot Off-Duty Tank Tops like BSG, we'd know whether anyone had a good body under their yicky 80's spandex. Alas, spandex seems to be the clothing for all occasions. The Trek may be uber-popular scifi, but it doesn't have a history of doing much for its female viewers.

I rank the various Star Treks in terms of guy hotness:

*** no ranking *** Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Now, this is the Trek it's been the longest since I've seen. Therefore I'm not going to pass judgment at this time. I will say, though, that I've gone through the main characters to refresh my memory, and no one jumps out at me as hot. Bashir is cute, but not my type. Eventually I will Netflix these and determine at that time if anyone surprises, and jumps out at me as hot.

4. Star Trek: The Next Generation. I think the following conversation sums this one up:
Mike: But didn't you think Picard was totally attractive?
Me: Eeeeeew!
Mike: I mean, because of the power, and the voice. You didn't find him attractive?
Me: Eeeeew he's old! But I think I did have a mini-crush on Riker when I was a kid, and a girl-crush on Counselor Troi.
Mike: Ew, Riker?
So, yeah, not a lot of hotties on TNG. Everyone's stubbornly average. And Riker doesn't do it for me anymore. Sorry, TNG. I like you, but you're Not Hot.

3. Star Trek: Enterprise. We've watched through Season 2 of Enterprise on Netflix, and this was what prompted the whole discussion. They don't wear spandex on Enterprise, which can only be counted as a good thing. The guys have T'Pol, who is always having to be wiped down in the weird decontamination gel room. Plus Hoshi is also cute. But for the girls? Archer: average. Malcolm: average. Travis: I thought he was cute when he got his own episode, but he always has that "gee whiz!" expression on his face, which is Not Hot. Trip: He seems to get laid the most, and from his decon gel scenes has a pretty good body (which is under a jumpsuit all the time!), but I'd rank him "cute but not hot." Plus his southern hick accent is off-putting to me.

2. Star Trek: The Original Series. This series features Captain Kirk as the ultimate space pimp. The Shatner at that age is pretty good-looking. But no one else is cute. So I guess this Trek is getting its rating purely for the Space Pimp Factor.

1. Star Trek: Voyager. Clearly the winner. I watch Voyager on SpikeTV every afternoon, and therefore consider myself qualified to declare it the Hottest Trek. Tom Paris is a total cutie. Chakotay? Hot. In an older man with bad-ass facial tattoo kind of way. I don't know, am I alone out there with this one? Whatever. Chakotay is hot. Ensign Kim is not entirely uncute, either. Congratulations, Star Trek: Voyager, and thank you!

No More Battlestars

It figures... just when I find a show I actually want to watch, it turns out it's almost over. Season 4 is officially going to be the last for Battlestar Galactica. I have mixed feelings. Of course I would love to watch the show for many more years. Because it is my crack cocaine. On the other hand, I respect the creative team for wanting to definitively wrap it up, without having to wait for ratings, the network, etc. to make the decision. This way there will definitely be an ending, and there's no chance it will be canceled and left up in the air. It's a journey to Earth... they'd logically have to find it eventually. It's a journey with a beginning and an end. So while this sucks, as a fan of the X-Files I know what happens when a show drags on and outlasts what appeared to be its original premise.

There's also a rumor that #3 may be unboxed and make an appearance in Season 4.

Like A Pornstar on This Basestar

I was going to do a huge post about how Star Wars is 30 years old tomorrow and how much I love Star Wars. And then I was going to go watch Star Wars. But I also want to finish this short story I've been working on. And there is no DVD player in this room so I can do both at once. And the short story is unfortunately on the desktop and not the laptop.

So, instead of Star Wars, I give you the Battlestar Galactica Season 3 Gag Reel that had me very entertained on Monday. Particularly the bits with Baltar. And the George Bush joke. (Warning: spoilers for... let's see, you should be OK if you've seen Season 2, or at least Season 2 up through Final Cut. I mean, yes, it's Season 3, but you won't get what's going on anyway.)

But really, nothing is as fun as the hilarity that is Jolee playing with a plastic bag. Which he is currently doing, in between bird watching and chasing Starbuck. So what do I know?

BSG Marathon, Hour 11

The BSG marathon is up to Eye of Jupiter. We watched the first five hours off our tape last night... through the part with the fly-by-night airlock executions. Thought they could have done the battle better. I just felt it was sort of blah. Also, I knew they were going to win because the Celtic Adama theme song played before Lee went off to Pegasus. That song means the Adamas are about to dominate. And we really thought the Kara/Leoben subplot was rushed. It just rubbed me the wrong way, not so much because he was emotionally and maybe sexually abusing her, oddly enough, but because she wasn't acting like Starbuck. If we had seen more of it, it might have made more sense.

Featured today is Number Six. Who is also not my space boyfriend (am refusing to acknowledge his existence until he stops being Fat Lee), being obviously not male, but is undeniably hot. I even like to look at her, and I am a heterosexual female. Six is that beautiful.

Funny BSG Tidbit of the Morning:
I joked last night that Adama was going to symbolically shave off the 'stache when he won his battle. AND HE DID.

BSG Thought of the Morning:
OK, I just saw a Leoben at the Cylon meeting. Finally! And how come the inside of the Base Star looks like the interior of a disco? The Cylons be clubbin'...

Only Related By a Name:
Here are three things Starbuck has crawled under/into in the past 24 hours.
1. The bathmat (I might have stepped on it and squashed her flat if I hadn't seen her crawl underneath)
2. A manilla envelope (yup, all the way inside)
3. The pocket of my pants (she did manage to get her entire head in)
See what I deal with.

BSG Marathon, Hour 3

My Battlestar Galactica marathoning is off and running this morning. We are into Hour 3 of the SciFi season 3 marathon that runs through Friday. BSG seven hours a day, three days a week! We have two VCRs programmed in two separate rooms to catch the marathon, even though I will be taking off for work at 10:30. Hopefully everything works as planned, so I can get all of Season 3. (Tapes... tapes are so archaic... why did it have to be tapes?)

In honor of the marathon, here we have a picture of resistance fighter Sam Anders, who, while not Apollo and therefore not my space boyfriend, is not entirely unhot in his own right. Also he has been particularly badass thus far in Season 3, for which he should be honored.

Best BSG Quote Thus Far:
Sharon (the one from Galactica): Sam. It's been a long time.
Anders: Funny, I feel like I see you every day.

BSG Thought of the Morning:
How come the Leobens don't get to go to the little Cylon meetings? Do the rest of the Cylons think that model is crazy, too?

Brilliant

Edward James Olmos (aka Commander Adama), when asked by Entertainment Weekly where he thinks Battlestar Galactica is headed:

You're going to be very surprised, because I've gotten some inklings as to what [the writers are] thinking. I've come up with story ideas. I personally — this is not [from] any of the writers, but my thing — I wanted to come into [the present day], find Earth, cruise on top of it, see it for what it is, and as we're coming down to it, we're blown up, we're nuked. And then [someone says to] the President of the United States, which is [George W.] Bush, ''They've been taken care of. Thank God you saved the world again.'' And you turn, and you see who told him that, and it's one of the Cylons. [Laughs]

If You Love Me

If you EVER loved me, I beg you, do not let me get busy and forget about this. You have my permission to call me, leave comments and harass me, and beat me repeatedly, etc. But I must not forget that Wednesday, May 16th through Friday May 18th there will be a Battlestar Galactica Season 3 marathon.

Why is this important?
1) We finished the Season 2 DVDs.
2) The Season 3 DVDs do not come out until August.
3) We should all be aware that Battlestar is my new crack.

How is this going to work?
SciFi is going to air BSG from 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM on three consecutive days. Unless my work schedule changes, these are days that either I do not work or I have the evening shift. Therefore, as far as I can see, we're going to do this old school. I am just going to have to sit in front of the VCR for seven hours straight and make sure I change the tapes so I get it all.

This is a very serious matter.

Maybe I need a ticker???

Three SF/F Things I Am Enjoying Right Now

1. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion -- I'm on Level 15. I closed my second Oblivion gate yesterday and came to the shocking conclusion that, for someone who loves the game... I hate hate hate being in actual Oblivion. It has such ugly scenery and, frankly, bores me. You have to go through these dreary towers full of rooms with names like "The Meat Tower of Anguish," "The Flesh Render," and "The Blood Feast." We are supposed to be in hell. I GET IT, OK? I don't care what kind of cool loot is in there, if I have to go through another Meat Tower and fight thirty more of those stupid dinosaurs and ice monsters, I may die of boredom.

I just want to collect all 12 volumes of 2920, pick flowers, and steal things, all right?

2. The Lies of Locke Lamora, by Scott Lynch -- This book was so much fun when I read it this fall. This is my first re-read, and I'm pleased to report that... it's still fun. Cannot wait for Red Seas Under Red Skies, the sequel, which will be out in a couple of months.

3. Battlestar Galactica -- Have watched Season 2 up through Epiphanies. Liked the part where they found Pegasus. Slightly sketched out and suspending sense of scientific disbelief over the Cylon-baby cancer curing blood incident. But when does Season 3, Part 1 come out on DVD? Because I don't want to rush through Season 2 and then have to wait. Battlestar is my new guilty pleasure. You just sit there like, "They didn't!" and then, "Oh, come on," and then, "But I must have more..." Or at least I do. Lee Adama: sohotrightnow.

Anyway.

Oh, Battlestar Cracktica, You Evil Manipulator

I was very excited to get our next Battlestar Galactica disc this weekend, only to discover that it only had two episodes on it. Yes, it seems there was a Season 2 and a Season 2.5, and they celebrated the end of Season 2 by (joy) a huge cliffhanger. I felt cheated out of my regular four episodes. This wouldn't be a big deal if I had the boxed set, but it is kind of a blow when you're ordering DVDs from Netflix. Also, you can't tell this sort of thing ahead of time from the Netflix site, so it's always sprung on you when you rip off the envelope.

That said, though, props to Battlestar for surprising me. It was a moment for celebration: "We found another Battlestar! The whiteboard of life total is back up to 49,600!" And then came the interesting twist that, not only did the Admiral on Battlestar Pegasus outrank Adama, they were a bunch of assholes. Humanity cannot get a break, can it? The interesting bits, I thought, were when Adama was making arguments about what had happened on their ship, and the Admiral kept countering him with perfectly good points. This was perfectly highlighted when she lectured him on letting Starbuck and Apollo get away with being insubordinate, and then they cut to the scene in which they both started loudly protesting their new orders in the same breath. But still, you felt for Adama. "Make her watch the show! Not just read the logs! It's different, because you're our friends!"

You realized the things that had been going on in the fleet were sometimes shady-- but at least the Galactica folks were learning from their mistakes. They were stumbling through a lot of tough questions and progressing. That didn't seem to be the case on Pegasus. I think they also didn't understand the implications of having 46,000 civilians in tow, either. Note that when the Admiral got off her shuttle, she said, "Welcome back to the Fleet." Everyone was kinda like, "Whoa, OK. There is one of you. And fifty of us," but politely pretended to ignore the weirdness of the statement. It sure showed what kind of a character she was, right off the bat.

The scene with Baltar and the other Six in the cell was great, too. Good acting there. Starbuck and Apollo are so cute when they're being insubordinate. I hope Apollo kicks his little Raptor pilot partner's ass. And I hate that they're going to hook him up with Dualla. What about Billy? Poor, hapless Billy. And... and...

Coffee. I need coffee. And more Battlestars.

(Note: Yes, I do know what happened last week, because I spend so much time on the internet that it is impossible not to. But I don't watch the current episodes because I'm not finished with Season Two. Therefore I am not speculating about it, or discussing it, and have in fact blocked it from my mind for the foreseeable future.)

I'm My TV Boyfriend!

You scored as Capt. Lee Adama (Apollo). You have spent your life trying to live up to and impress your Dad; shame he never seemed to notice. You are a stickler for the rules. But in matters of loyalty and honour you know when they have to be broken. Capt. Lee Adama (Apollo) 88% CPO Galen Tyrol 69% Tom Zarek 63% Commander William Adama 56% Lt. Kara Thrace (Starbuck) 50% President Laura Roslin 44% Dr Gaius Baltar 38% Col. Saul Tigh 31% Lt. Sharon Valerii (Boomer) 31% Number 6 13% What New Battlestar Galactica character are you? created with QuizFarm.com

Coincidentally, he is my desktop wallpaper at the moment. Mike said, "Ooooh." Whatev. I told him if he wants to put hot women in bathing suits as his background, I won't say a word. And I will put my TV crush as my background, and everyone will be happy. It's not like it's a wallpaper of The Towel Shot, anyway. (Wait, I wonder if there's a wallpaper of the towel shot out there?? Has anyone found one? Where can I get it?)

Tags: battlestar cracktica, bsg

Various

I have to take the Alpha Fluffball to the vet for his annual shots and checkup this morning, so I am drinking coffee and gearing myself up to be shredded. (The last time this happened, it took two of us to herd him, and he scratched up my hands, and I ended up giving up on the real carrier, because he kept planting his feet and backing out of it, so I dropped him into the cardboard temporary box that he came in. Why aren't pet carriers top loading??) I think the key is to catch him by surprise the first time. Because once he wiggles away the first time and gets wind of what's going on, it's going to be hell getting him in that box. I am not taking the baby cat, even though she still needs some kitten shots, because he is going to be a big enough handful on his own (though surprisingly meek when he gets there, due to his debilitating fear of all people). The vet's office is only five minutes away. It's not out of my way to go back next week.

Let's talk Battlestar Galactica, henceforth to be known as Battlestar Cracktica. Because they are like crack, I tell you, like crack. So here's my annoyance with DVDs. We have one episode left in Season One, and it is on a disc BY ITSELF. This wouldn't be such an annoyance if we weren't ordering them from Netflix. It's a waste of a whole disc. Star Trek: Enterprise pulled this on us too-- the last disc with one episode and a bunch of features. You know they could squeeze it onto the previous disc if they wanted to. It's sort of like the concept of the Season Finale in itself: it will be a cliffhanger, there will only be one of it, and you will not be able to get your hands on another episode for a long, long time. But DVDs shouldn't mimic actual TV! It's why I watch DVDs and not actual TV.

So the 12 colonies of Kobol all have the names of the zodiac signs. Caprica= Capricorn. Gemenon= Gemini. Picon= Pisces. I can't help thinking this is going to become significant in leading us to Earth. Right? Because the zodiac signs represent constellations that have a certain bearing with regard to the planet Earth. (If I'm right or wrong, don't tell me! I'm on Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I. This is all I've seen! I've already read enough about the show online to spoil most of the surprises, so don't tell me about Earth!) Oh! And also-- there are 12 of everything. There are 12 serpents in the vision, 12 Vipers, 12 Cylon models, 12 colonies, etc. Has to be connected somehow.

I loved how Starbuck punched Lee in the face and he punched her right back. There was no nonsense about "hitting a girl." So now she meets up with Helo on Caprica (obviously-- the whole point of her going there is to bring the two plot arcs together. I mean, it's to get this arrow, but really it's to bring two plot arcs together), and is going to realize immediately that there are two Sharons. That should be fun. Oh, straggling 13th episode... get here tomorrow!

Oh boy. Jolee just leaped two and a half feet into the air over Starbuck. He has way too much energy this morning. Help.

Tags: battlestar galactica, tv, cats

Utopia Vs. Dystopia, Or: Trek Vs. Galactica

The story so far: civilization was nuked. There were roughly 50,000 humans left. No one had any clue what was going on, nor did they have a plan. They did have some seriously good-looking military folk. Welcome to Battlestar Galactica.

I am really liking these Battlestar Galacticas so far, which I think I've mentioned. Mike doesn't like them as much as I do. He thinks the version of humanity we've been presented with thus far doesn't seem like it's worth saving. FYI, we have watched the miniseries and Season 1 through "Act of Contrition." So we're not very far into it yet, considering that we have about two more seasons left to watch before we're caught up to what's currently airing. We've got selfishness, angst, and characters' blindness to their own shortcomings. Some people might be crazy. Some people are Cylons being brainwashed into thinking they're human. Things are kind of a mess.

In "33," for example, Mike asks why, by the 200th jump, the leadership hadn't delegated a bunch of science people to figuring out why the Cylons were able to follow them. If it was Trek, they would have figured out a techobabble explanation by the 4th time. See, to me that seems like the easy way out. I think humanity at this point is still shellshocked by the destruction of their civilization and too panicked to dedicate time to that kind of scientific analysis. Plus, scientific analysis is too easy on Trek, isn't it? A lot of Trek episodes have these deus ex machina conclusions, where someone's like, "OH! Why don't we reroute the blah blah from the blah blah converter and blah blah?" And everyone on the ship goes, "Try it!" And of course it works. Even though the viewer doesn't know what any of that stuff is. For all we know, the writers just made it up. I suspect that that is, in fact, what they used to do-- just pulled something out of their asses to get the Enterprise out of trouble.

Mike also wonders why none of the leadership on Galactica has demanded to see this supposed Cylon detector that Gaius Baltar is, in fact, not working on. He's just lying, because the first time he pegged someone as a Cylon, it was a scapegoat he picked purely to save his own ass, so no one would find out he slept with the blonde Cylon and is indirectly responsible for the destruction of civilization. The fact that he turned out to be right is a piece of irony only known by the viewers. Yeah, I don't know, this is a good point. It seems like the leadership dropped the ball on that one. I hope someone realizes how shady he is, and soon.

But me, I'm willing to keep watching, because this show was named one of the top 10 shows on television last year. Plus it's sci fi, and really, I have no shame when it comes to sci fi. All the shows I used to watch are in reruns now, so it would be nice to have something to watch on TV. I think it's interesting that the humans are flawed, and that we aren't sure who we're rooting for yet. I think it's different to start with such a dark premise and see what grows out of it. I like that the civilization we saw on Caprica looks very much like ours, right down to the PR people and cabinet members going around in suits, and I think that's not unintentional. There's even the Whiteboard of Life, which, admittedly, cracks me up. The president takes out her marker and changes the number on the whiteboard whenever the human population count changes. It's like a great big hypothetical. What if civilization was wiped out and we were on the run? What would happen next? How long would it take us to pull our shit together?

What makes science fiction great is that it can tell so many different kinds of story. Star Trek tells us about a utopian version of humanity, and what happens when it comes into contact with other species who have different codes. Mike likes it because it gives us something to aspire to. I am skeptical of it because, honestly, will we really ever give up money? Can we eradicate war and poverty? Will we ever be so hyper-civilized that we look at things like that and say, "Ew. Nobody does that anymore. How 21st century." Trek seems sterile to me. Everyone is so nice, and everything is resolved so cleanly. There doesn't seem to be much real emotion. I prefer the dirt. Let's break us down and see if we can build ourselves back up.

There also seem to be some good female characters. The president is a woman, who often is shown making the choice that is the opposite of the stereotypical empathetic "woman choice." I like that Starbuck looks like she could kick some ass. That's one of my pet peeves about female warriors as depicted on TV and in the movies. Come on. Did you really believe River could knock out all those Reavers in Serenity? Or Eowyn in Lord of the Rings could pick up a sword? Please. The actress who plays Starbuck actually looks like a woman who can fight! This is something I've been waiting a long time to see, and I love it. I look forward to watching the rest of Battlestar Galactica.

I suppose I should mention at this point that I think Lee Adama is really, really, really, ridiculously good-looking. And that doesn't hurt either.

Tags: battlestar galactica, tv, science fiction

Yay Battlestars! Yay Cats!

Our next Battlestar Galactica disc was supposed to arrive yesterday via Netflix, and it didn't show up. This made Sarah very put out, but ended up being OK, because I went to class at 4:30 and to a musical revue in the Quarter with friends from work right afterward. I was too busy to watch TV anyway. But I am now celebrating the fact that... we have Battlestars today! I love how Netflix allows me to watch hours and hours of TV without actually watching, you know, TV. I don't like these Battlestars as much as I like the Fireflies... but then, I've just started. So on tonight's to-do list, we have Battlestars.

We also have cats racing around the living room pouncing on each other. I'm really not kidding about Jolee thinking the baby is a toy. You look at him all squashed flat to the carpet with his butt wiggling, and you clearly see in his eyes, "It moves fast! It flies! What's it going to do next? Quick, get it!" In the photo at left, the Bindo, surveying Starbuck from on high with eyes red as the devil's, prepares to lay the smack down with his pimp hand. Seriously, though, they're getting along very well. The kitten has the run of the house now, and Jolee is roaming around with her. He gave her a bath yesterday. And he did it again just now-- very authoritatively reached down and started licking her neck and back.

Tags: kitten, jolee, starbuck