Enchanting Cats

Garbage cat is only happy when it rains.

I’ve been saving this one for a rainy day, but it looks like it might not ever happen here in sunny Southern California- this place you may think of as a glamorous paradise, but is in fact a desert wasteland in a chronic state of drought.

Oscar the Grouch was the original grumpy cat- er, green fuzzy monster thing… though now that I think of it, my childhood is peppered with characters whose defining trait was their almost willful unhappiness, ranging from the slightly cantankerous Grumpy Bear to the clinically depressed Eeyore.

And also, Garbage! What a fantastic band. “Only Happy When it Rains” will probably be played on some Southern California radio station every time that it rains here until there cease to be radio stations.