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Frederick Woodruff

Nov 14, 2025

Welcome, George (left) and Maze. Bros. 7 months old.

“I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.” — Jean Cocteau

I HAD A BANG-UP time yesterday with astrologer

Dabney Lawless

over on her YouTube channel, Lawless Astrology. We took on the new tranche of Epstein files by studying the transits to both Trump’s and the US’s natal charts. Toss in the incendiary Scorpio new Moon on the 20th, and, wow, fasten your seatbelts. (And don’t ask me how, but somehow Lorena Bobbitt made her way into our convo.)

Seven more weeks until 2026, and I've started to finalize my music picks for best new and old music of 2025 in my Luigiesque playlist over on Spotify.

887 tracks and 60 hours of playback. Wheeeeeeeeee.

You can follow along here. Be sure to set playback to ‘shuffle’ for maximum enjoyment.

Different photo, same cats! It’s been almost ten years since my Bengal Liliuokalani died. As I’m sure any pet parent will tell you, taking your animal in for euthanasia (as I did with Lili) is soul-wrenching. I was such a wreck after she died I told myself, “OK, that’s it. I can’t ever experience this again.” (The dreaded ‘shot’ at the vet’s office).

I’m not sure why or what prompted me exactly (astrologically, I’m pretty sure it related to Jupiter transiting my Sun), but I thought I’d just ‘take a look’ at the cats that were up for adoption at Vashon’s pet protector shelter. And then, boom, you know how it goes. I saw these two brothers, and that was it.

I kept the names that the foster family that was housing them had given them: George (after Curious George, and Jesus Christ, is that fitting—he’s discovered items in my house that I didn’t even know had gone missing) and Maze, because of the crazy-gorgeous patterns on his coat.

As the boys are only 7 months old, this is, well, it’s the equivalent of having two teenagers romping around the house non-stop (thank god they can’t drive). I’m counting the weeks until the post-kitten-into-adult stage kicks in. But regardless, they are both charmers.