OK, but what about this cheery Cookie Monster? He should be able to stow away in your luggage somewhere, right?
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![For instance, Luc Besson (Léon: The Professional, The Fifth Element) has written a new mob drama that is, by most accounts, as violent as it is absurd. Directed by Barthélémy Grossmann, the movie is set in New York City in the 1990s. Kiefer Sutherland plays the titular [added note from me: the title is "Father Joe"] religious leader, a man of the cloth by day and an avenging angel by night; TheWrap calls him "Catholic Batman." Decked out in a long, flowing black coat and a cappello romano, Father Joe kills drug dealers to stop them from selling to people under the age of 21, although he also tries to reform some by injecting them with a poison and only giving them the antidote if they show up for mass. He gets more resistance when he tries this technique on mob boss Gio Falcone (Al Pacino).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:apfzpvtlfelytc5p735qbzpn/bafkreicqex23td3jgk5gj3ruo5of6dufddjmf5jsvnwcefvjjad4g2evdq)
![She remembered sunshine on her face and rain in her hair, she remembered stars and wind and ocean spray. She remembered hotels with their high firm beds and aseptic air conditioning. She remembered sparse snow on sand dunes, the beach pebbles slick with frozen spray. She remembered the smell of myrrh and the classroom it conjured, cartoonish capital letters capering along the top of the green blackboard. She remembered Christmas at the city house, the children (the *grand*children, and how was that possible?) sledding down the hill in the back forty, the tree hung with fragile glass and bubbling lights, garlands and thin strips of silver that flashed and twinkled. She remembered the boys, her sons, having a hushed conversation that stopped when they noticed she'd tottered with her gnarled-wood cane into the room. (Cane? She remembered pain in her hips, her knee, her ankle, but there was no pain anymore.) She remembered the blast of humid heat as she left the mall's climate control, high summer in the city, nothing like it. She remembered lakewater and the faint smell of fish that you never get at the poolside. She remembered Nathan above her, *in* her, naked, both of them sweating in the summer's languid heat, the ceiling fan useless against it. She remembered her father's funeral, the hard ground, the bitter wind, the snow crunching underfoot. She remembered the plane banking over Heathrow at night, seeing London for the first time as jeweled lights glowing softly, diffusely through a mist. She remembered ink on the side of her hand, the left-hander's curse, after signing that first contract, and the second, and after a while it became a ritual, a tradition, a private celebration as the sums on the $______ line grew fatter and fatter. She remembered Peter's terrified face after he'd blurted out "Mom, Dad, I'm gay!" and the way his face cracked as she and Nathan embraced him and they all cried, weeping with love and the collapse of fear into relief. [cont'd]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:apfzpvtlfelytc5p735qbzpn/bafkreigrvegrbufjorsflfe2fjfyrtvgs7sudtisd7x7joq4vd7snk6lte)
![advice from a veterinary manual:
Handling: General considerations
The cat is faster and has sharper teeth and nails than you do. It has no "code of ethics" or considerations in a fight for its own future. In a fair fight it will win.
[these 3 points are highlighted in yellow and written in all caps]
1. DON'T FIGHT A CAT
2. USE YOUR BRAIN
3. USE DRUGS](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:apfzpvtlfelytc5p735qbzpn/bafkreig7yp2ky3jlps4mt7pe6aly4kuwgaqrx347umekvbr5r4l7loikty)
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