Cats say no.

And another cat, a clay tile. Cats sell well.

Yesterday I learned that Mick Jagger was inspired by The Master & Margarita to write "Sympathy for the Devil".
 The Russian stanza!
"I hung around St. Petersburg/ Anastasia screamed in vain".

The devil in Jagger's song, like Bulgakov's, is not a sexy beast, he is more  like Stalin, Putin... (and "you and me"). 

If a reader knew nothing of Stalin or Jesus, what would they would make of The Master & Margarita? Pontius Pilate is a character---do modern people know who he is?
The novel would probably still be a fun romp.
The cat stands alone!
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Time to garden?
I don't garden, but I did see my first green shoots coming up, so I gathered some oddments for a display. I brought home a big pot for geraniums--the one effort I make toward outdoor beautification.
However, after reaching 70º yesterday, today it's in the 30s and supposed to snow.

This display ^ is a jumble--mostly plant pots--and an unrelated UNDERWOOD typewriter.

"Where's Tom Hanks when you need him?" a customer said.
People like that TH collects typewriters. One said I should mail one of my typewriter prints to Hanks, but I don't have a special feeling for him.
There are many other people I should write to first.

I did send "You are made of stars" to Rep. Al Green, to thank him for standing up to Trump.
I  wrote to Rev. Mariann Budde again too--a star print. After her inauguration sermon, for too long it seemed she was the only one with public power who was going to say anything.

I'm hopeful that next week's April 5 protest will be big. A friend who's active in Indivisible told me 800 actions are planned for that day, all around the US.

I have not settled on an idea for a protest poster. I think something new for me--not Star Trek again.
I like the idea of a cat...  The Cheshire cat? "We're all mad here."
I just discovered, Cats saying NO is a meme.
That would be sufficient.

First though... the Wisconsin supreme court election this Tuesday, April 1--the one Musk has spent millions on.
An April Fool, for real.