Giant Ottoman of Cats

 

Picked this big ottoman up off the side of the road. The cats like it. 18 year old, 15 year old, 4 year old.

True Grit - Charles Portis

 

Trade paperback movie tie-in. General Sterling Price the cat. One of the best books I have ever read. Plus the John Wayne movie tie-in. My rescue cat is named General Sterling Price. Found him in a McDonald's parking lot. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Grit_(novel)  

You don't have any family, do you?

Except Chen Lee and that lazy cat.

General Price don't belong to me.

Cats don't belong to nobody!

He just rooms with me.

Course I depend on him...

Stray Cat Strut - Stray Cats

 

MTV staple back in the day. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stray_Cat_Strut

General Sterling Price - Three Years

 

The night of 12/4-12/5 three years ago was when I caught him in the McDonald's parking lot. He has come a long way since then. This photo was 2023.

True Grit (1969)

 

Directed by Henry Hathaway. DVD coming up next. One of my favorite books. John Wayne, Kim Darby, Glen Campbell, Dennis Hopper, Robert Duvall, Strother Martin. My cat is named General Sterling Price.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Grit_(1969_film) 

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/true-grit-1969

https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/16483/true-grit#articles-reviews?articleId=91152 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jun/11/true-grit-john-wayne-1969-henry-hathaway 

https://cinemacats.com/true-grit-1969/

Broken and Archie Goodwin 11/3

 

Right in front of the box spring photography backdrop is a cat bed and a couple of baskets with thrift store blankets. My two old cats. 17 and 14 years old respectively.

General Price 11/3

 

General Price sitting on top of the old box spring that I use as a photography backdrop with a white sheet. Not enough light at this time of day so the photos were all soft.

The Long Goodbye (1973)

 

Directed by Robert Altman. Found on Tubi. Elliott Gould, Sterling Hayden. I have the Raymond Chandler book. Marlowe's cat looks exactly like my own General Sterling Price.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Goodbye_(film) 

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-the-long-goodbye-1973 

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-long-goodbye-1973

https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2025/cteq/just-good-friends-or-its-ok-with-me-robert-altman-and-the-long-goodbye/

https://cinephiliabeyond.org/long-goodbye-robert-altman-leigh-bracketts-unique-fascinating-take-chandler-film-noir/

https://crimereads.com/50-years-of-the-long-goodbye/ 

https://trailersfromhell.com/the-long-goodbye/

SCTV Monster Chiller Horror Theatre: The House of Cats

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0697122/

General Price 9/28

 

Third attempt today to get a picture.

Puzzle Cat

 

This makes it a little harder to work a puzzle. General Price. Watching The Critic on Tubi.

https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2023/02/old-marthas-vineyard.html

General Price 7/5/25

 

Sitting on top of a box spring and being unhelpful while I try to change the sheets.

Mardi Gras Cat

 

General Sterling Price in season. I change the blankets often according to the time of year. There is a jigsaw puzzle underneath.

Christmas Cat

 

https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2024/12/coffee-table.html

General Price Two Years

 

Two years ago today I trapped General Price in the parking lot of the local McDonald's. Old pics from then. He was about four months old.

General Price 10/7

 

General Price looking more like his namesake every day. General Sterling Price, from the John Wayne movie True Grit, who was depicted as a layabout.

Buzzer the cat, portrait photograph

 

• Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942, photographer
• ca. 1912.
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2018706861/
  

Cats 9/6

 

I just washed that particular cat blanket and threw it on the couch. They have been jockeying for position ever since. It is very soft.

[Cat on sidewalk]

 

• Rizzuto, Angelo, 1906-1967, photographer
• [May 1959]
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2021636522/
  

Broken 9/5

 

Broken is 16 this year. And a lifelong cripple.