An Afternoon With Kitty Malone
and yes, she survived it.
Thursday, November 19, 2009 by starkers | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Well after a couple of years, and with some trepidation, I might add, Kitty Malone yesterday plucked up the courage to drive down the highway to visit mrs starkers and I.
Now, before I go any further, I must stress, this trepidation was not over finally meeting mrs starkers. Nope, it was related to my love and avid consumtion of curried cabbage... buckets of it, and the possible after-effect of lunch and/or the previous night's meal.
Fortunately, that was not an issue and a pleasant afternoon was enjoyed by all.... tho Kitty did express her concern and said she had packed a gas mask just in case. Thing is, I knew the night befote that it was going to be a particularly hot day, and I didn't want to exacerbate that, so I abstained from curried cabbage and turned on the air-con early so we'd be more comfortable. And just as well I did... it got up to 45c outside.
Anyway, it was quite pleasant inside, and once the initial getting to know each other was do we had a rather enjoyable afternoon. While Kitty and Shaunna (mrs starkers) initially chatted between themselves (with me adding bits here and there), I added a 1tb drive to Kitty's Vista PC and partitioned it for her. I then re-installed XP, thus allowing her to skin for XP again... and when her Win 7 upgrade disc arrives, there's a pre- named and formatted partition ready for it.
Hehe, I mightn't be a WB skinner, but now I can now say that I had a hand in some of the best WB's to grace the pages of WC... cos I tinkered with Kitty's machine. Seriously though, I enjoyed helping out... not to mention getting to play with an Intel i7 based machine for the first time.... very nice, very nice indeed, but I digress
Although I had spoken with Kitty over the phone and enjoyed our conversations, I must admit that she is not like I imagined she would be. For one, there was no Goth get-up and no jet-black hair, spikey or otherwise... no Medieval tattoos or upside-down crosses for earrings. In a way I was a bit disappointed... it's a bit quiet around here and I thought a bit of true Goth might get a bit of neighbourhood gossip or something going, but no such luck. Nobody blinked an eye and it's the samo, samo here today.
And another thing, I was hoping that Kitty would roar into our street with a rod straight out of the Munsters, but nope, no such luck there, either. What we got was an average little sedan in white... in white fer crying out loud (fer a Goth girl,?) with pink 'Hello Kitty' seat covers. Now that ain't a car that any self-respecting Goth girl would be seen dead in, so yeah, I was somewhat disappointed that Kitty turned out to be Ms Pleasantly Spoken, Clean-Cut and Average. A lovely, lovely girl, I might add, but not the Goth shocker I had hoped would liven up our quiet little street some.
What's more, she didn't even have the obligatory broomstick in the trunk, her alternative means of transport in case of car trouble, but oh well, I suppose being a member of the auto club is the next best thing.
Seriously, though, it was a most pleasant afternoon and Kitty's visit was the highlight of our week and more. It was fun and entertaining, but more to the point, we immensely enjoyed having her here.
Thanks, Kitty, for a very lovely afternoon. 
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Reply #62 Sunday, November 22, 2009 7:32 PM
dealing day to day with my own lil domestic werewolf (my wolfee) im sure taking care of a vulcan will be a walk in the park....
And if he's not willing to co-operate, he's got plenty of ear to twist until he does. 
*remember back in the day when teachers had some authority, and when you were up the back of the class misbehaving, the school ma'am would come twist your ear and lead you to the front of the class by it to be ridiculed before your peers?*
Hehe, I can see it now, Fuzzy being unwilling to sit down to be bound, gagged and tickled by feathers... and you latching on to one or both of his ears and twisting 'em until he does. Oh how a picture would be worth 10, 000,000 words.
You do know how to use Image Shack to post that here, don't you Kitty???
Now he might think it logical that he be disciplined by way of being tickled by feathers... I just don't know how he'd handle the embarrassment when the video went viral on the www.... sitting there bound and gagged in just his Y-fronts.
Reply #63 Monday, November 23, 2009 12:58 AM
Well I don't know to much about that stuff,
but it sure sounds like a good time. Wish I could bring you my pc. Updating Windows 7...A lot of hassle
Still don't have everything right. Dang! Anywayy.... If you's are so close it would have been a shame to never meet. It must have been neat. Now I also would have expected somebody as you described starkers.Or maybe from another era, say the 30s/40s. Only because I heard Vampothica sing, and it was a really old song. Well done on that by the way. Now you see a real person behind the avatar. 
That must be really cool. Congrats on meeting. Couldn't be nicer folks both ways. Good on ya mates!
Reply #64 Monday, November 23, 2009 1:55 AM
Sure does! Whips; chains; leather underwear; feathers and bondage, oo-ooh-oo-oooooh. 
Ya know, add a bit of whipped cream and a cherry and I'd volunteer to be tied to a chair in my Y-fronts as well.
If I could fix it for you I would... however, you could always PM me with the details and we could work something out via PM/email.
Yes, it would have been a crying shame, and yes, it was totally neat, meeting Kitty.... can't remember the last time I had such a pleasant afternoon.
Now that's just it, we see people's avatars and often form a mental image of what that person is like, but often we are so far from the truth. For example Michael (Fuzzy Logic) doesn't have pointy Vulcan ears... and Kitty isn't the vampirical siren, either. I don't look like a pirate, either, though I can talk like one. I'm just an ordinary bloke and that's that.
Same with Kitty, she's an average, every day lady with no major eccentricities... well none that I noticed. 
Well you're one up on me... guess I must've missed that while I was going cross-eyed and red in the face. I'd love to hear Kitty sing, though not necessarily something old... well not 'that' old. I was thinking something Rocky Horror Picture Show... perhaps Tim Curry's: "Come up to the lab.... and..... see what's on the slab...." OK, but after missing out on the Goth getup, the hotrod straight out of the Munsters and no fangs, it'd go a long way to fulfilling my mental images, expectations and fantasies.
Right back at cha, IROKONESS... you're pretty darned nice yourself. 
Reply #66 Monday, November 23, 2009 5:43 AM
Hehe, yeah! Hence the embarrassment if it went viral on the net 
I remember Y-fronts from when I was a kid in primary school... ah, the days of innocence.
Or were they?
We had to do PE in our undies... 5 - 6 year old kids, it didn't matter back in those days... until a girl noticed my Y opening: "Why have you got a pocket in yours?", and promptly put her hand in.
Like I said. was it innocence... or getting in early on the sex-ed???
Probably the latter! But a few years later, when I wanted her to, she wouldn't.
Reply #67 Monday, November 23, 2009 2:35 PM
Ya never know your luck in the big city
Reply #68 Tuesday, November 24, 2009 5:23 PM
guess what starkers, sunken treasue is being revamped and updated as we speak.....so finally yr wish is coming true.........
im gonna leave the original one up just for sentiments sake.....but i think you will like the new version. its more 'piratey' as you requested. xx
Reply #69 Tuesday, November 24, 2009 6:15 PM
im gonna leave the original one up just for sentiments sake.....but i think you will like the new version. its more 'piratey' as you requested. xx
Arrrrh! That's the ticket, Vampy!
Reply #70 Tuesday, November 24, 2009 9:51 PM
im gonna leave the original one up just for sentiments sake.....but i think you will like the new version. its more 'piratey' as you requested. xx
Oh ye be a real darlin', doin' that fer I, an' thank ye... a real treasure, ye be,
Well there you have it folks, a Kitty Malone and (remember, I worked on Kitty's PC) starkers collaboration.
Actually, I had more of a hand in the rebirth of Sunken Treasure than working on this sweet lady's PC. I asked about the possibility for a Vista compatible version a while ago, and during Kitty's visit here we did discuss it again.
As it so happens, I have the original Sunken Treasure on my Win 7 desktop right now. I was copying over some of my fave WB's and thought I'd give it a try. It looks much better on Win 7 than it did on Vista... while there is some magic pink in the progress bars, etc, the main body of the skin is magic pink-free, unlike in Vista, where it was present on the taskbar and windows toolbars.
Still, pink (even if'n it's only a lil bit) bain't be tha colour fer any self-respectin' pirate, so I be lookin' forward to tha update.... aaaarrrrr.
Reply #71 Tuesday, November 24, 2009 11:36 PM
i think you will like the newbie version MUCH betterer.
Reply #72 Wednesday, November 25, 2009 3:14 AM
I no doubt will... I'm sure I'll love it. A piratey WB.... YIPPEEEEEE!!!! 
Reply #73 Saturday, November 28, 2009 5:20 PM
Was it anything like this?
Reply #75 Saturday, November 28, 2009 7:52 PM
Except your stick shift doesn't look like a fancy dildo.
Looking at the interior in the pic (dildo stick shift n' all), that's Liberace's car. 
Reply #76 Saturday, November 28, 2009 8:47 PM
The piano's in the rear seat with the bed, rhinestones and glue.
Reply #77 Saturday, November 28, 2009 9:44 PM
And Elton John's glasses... apparently he left them behind after a 'duet' which was prompted by a Liberace rendition of "Heaven's in the back seat of my Cadillac."
Reply #78 Saturday, November 28, 2009 9:49 PM
You guys need to talk on Skype from your computers. They work all around the world. I have a client who's husband work out of China and when he is there that is how they stay in touch. FREE too....!!!!
Reply #79 Sunday, November 29, 2009 3:54 AM
Gargh! That Car! It spoils the illusion.
I always imagined you having a car like this:-
Reply #80 Sunday, November 29, 2009 5:36 AM
Um, Kitty has a car exactly like that... her spare, blow-up one that she keeps in the boot in case of breakdowns.
What bothers me about it is the hot exhaust melting something and igniting its contents.
One would hope, then, it is never inflated with a cannister of curried cabbage gas.
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Reply #61 Sunday, November 22, 2009 3:31 PM
im on my way vulcan....
dealing day to day with my own lil domestic werewolf (my wolfee) im sure taking care of a vulcan will be a walk in the park....