Christen McCurdy

@christenmccurdy

Editor, reporter, cat fancier, plant parent, enthusiast. Currently: freelance. Past: Willamette Week, Oregon Business, UPI, The Skanner, The Lund Report. christenmccurdy.net, christenmccurdy at gmail.

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Christen McCurdy@christenmccurdy· 1d

Bart, Marge, Maggie, Lisa and Homer are in a bedroom. Bart is sitting up in bed and all are looking out the window as a green fog seeps in. The caption reads: Uh-Oh. It’s seeping in.

Christen McCurdy@christenmccurdy· 2d

Here’s Flannery cuddling with her peacock stuffie. Incredible win for nominative determinism.

A sleeping orange cat rests her head against a stuffed peacock toy. Her back feet are stretched out over a folded quilt and she is surrounded by indistingushabkd stuffies and pillows. She looks very relaxed.

Christen McCurdy@christenmccurdy· 10d

that having been said, Flannery has been losing her mind with boredom this summer so we need to find her a buddy soon

an orange cat lies on her back with her legs splayed and her body twisted, looking plaintively at the camera. she has a very soft white belly

Christen McCurdy@christenmccurdy· 17d

many people are saying this www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Christen McCurdy@christenmccurdy· Jun 18

Also: there were no banker’s boxes around when I packed up my desk today. HOWEVER, for reasons I will not get into, I happened to have a cardboard cat carrier in my cube. So

A cardboard cat carrier sits open; a folded newspaper, a stuffed Garfield and a Simpsons playset are visible inside it

A closed cardboard carrier with a black and white photo of a cat and the text:

OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY
Feel the Love

Christen McCurdy@christenmccurdy· Jun 14

Christen McCurdy@christenmccurdy· Jun 12

Anyway I also brought her ashes home last week and Flannery immediately started batting the urn around like a toy. So…she remains very much herself

An orange cat sits on a patchwork cushion hunched forward with very subtle airplane ears. There is a small, pink textured box near her front paws. She does not think you have any business scolding her because everyone grieves differently

Christen McCurdy@christenmccurdy· May 31

screenshot of a tweet from Jan 13, 2012 by user @dril. It reads:

see this watch? i got it by Crying. my car? crying. my beautiful wife? Crying. My perfect teeth? Crying. now get the fuck out of my office

Christen McCurdy@christenmccurdy· May 26

current mood:

Christen McCurdy@christenmccurdy· May 24

I deleted this app from my phone a while back and am mostly happier this way, but I’m reinstalling to share a few last photos of Harper, who left us yesterday. She was an ex-stray who was terrified of indoor living at first, but became the most loving cat you can imagine. We loved her so much.

A brown cat lying on a messy bed in a sunny room

Christen McCurdy@christenmccurdy· Apr 28

I have somehow reached a point in my life where I'm getting advertorial emails for a $350 toaster with the name of a luxury car brand on it

Christen McCurdy@christenmccurdy· Apr 7

see. it's not well attended

a still from The Simpsons. Homer is imagining himself at an arena watching a bear wearing a fez driving a small pink car. There are only five other people seated at what appears to be a large arena

Christen McCurdy@christenmccurdy· Feb 23

Anyway I bought a new shower curtain recently and finally got around to hanging it up today. I like it

An orange cat stands on the edge of a clawfoot tub inspecting a shower curtain. The curtain has a large image of a squid encircling a sailing ship. There’s a paining of a ship on the wall to the right of the curtain, and two mismatched blus towels below the painting.

Christen McCurdy@christenmccurdy· Feb 23

funnily, Twitter is what broke me of any interest in most strangers’ food opinions. All of you clowns spent years arguing about what counts as a sandwich and I failed to take that as my cue to move into the woods

Christen McCurdy@christenmccurdy· Feb 14

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19.

the cover of Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs

Christen McCurdy@christenmccurdy· Jan 25

not a sex subreddit but r/catbongos has drawn a line in the sand

Christen McCurdy@christenmccurdy· Jan 21

I was mostly in London + pretty touristy areas (Bath, Stratford-on-Avon, Stonehenge) which undoubtedly colored my interactions. As an American print journalist it was heartening to see how much print media there still is there, but then you read the headlines and WELP. With some fun exceptions

Christen McCurdy@christenmccurdy· Dec 25

current status: Cainemaxxing

A still from The Muppets’ Christmas Carol in which Scrooge and the Spirit of Christmas Present are dancing in the street

Christen McCurdy@christenmccurdy· Dec 11

this is what they took from us

A still of the cast of Feiebds hanging out at Central Perk, laughing. Their other friends are out of frame, laughing too. We are the other friends. All of us

Christen McCurdy@christenmccurdy· Dec 11

Finished the sweater last night. Suck it, Lemon

A white woman standing in front of a Christmas display with a white tree and a reindeer covered with lights. She’s wearing jeans and a green cardigan with wooden buttons.

Christen McCurdy@christenmccurdy· Dec 10

anyway pics or it didn’t happen

A yarn-tied nine-patch quilt made of corduroy and denim in shades of mostly blue and brown lies in a hardwood floor. An orange cat steps gently across it.

An Irish chain quilt with mostly white patches (in differing shades) but chains of blue lies on a jute rug.

A quilt block featuring a red and gray house and a star pattern, turned into a pillow with red binding. There are dozens of satin stitched sections embroidered on the fabric.

A T-shirt quilt with several print T-shirts, yarn tied, lies on a hardwood floor. An orange cat examines it curiously.

Christen McCurdy@christenmccurdy· Nov 27

no man in history has ever worn corduroy like Redford wore corduroy

a still from All the President’s Men with Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford leaning toward each other at a desk, with intense concentration on their faces

Christen McCurdy@christenmccurdy· Nov 19

Harper had dental surgery earlier (she’s fine, but needed a tooth pulled) and has chosen to spend her afternoon staring at a single spot on the hallway floor

A brown tabby sitting on a hardwood floor next to a doorway, staring at the floor intensely

Christen McCurdy@christenmccurdy· Nov 15

The Norman Rockwell image “Freedom Of Speech,” which portrays a white man in a brown jacket standing up to speak in a crowded room

Christen McCurdy@christenmccurdy· Nov 12

A random selection from the very large Memes folder on my phone

Christen McCurdy@christenmccurdy· Nov 10

Ned Flanders’ beatnik parents sitting at a table. The text reads: We’ve tried nothing, and we’re all out of ideas.

Christen McCurdy@christenmccurdy· Nov 6

Flannery has done a bit of work to earn her name as well

An orange cat sits next to a plush peacock on a gray couch. The cat is smirking slightly.

Christen McCurdy@christenmccurdy· Nov 6

in fairness Harper had no use for me at the beginning of our time together, and that’s partly how she got her name

A brown tabby sits on a pine shelf behind a pair of black high heels, wearing a murderous expression

Christen McCurdy@christenmccurdy· Nov 5

Flannery and Harper went to the vet for their annual checkup yesterday and they were nice to the vet AND each other.

A brown tabby hunkers down behind an orange tabby in a green, slightly rain-splattered carrier on a tile floor. The orange cat appears to be grooming the brown cat.

Christen McCurdy@christenmccurdy· Oct 28

YouTube comments went from being the worst thing on the internet to the best thing on the internet in the space of maybe 15 years