I'm a superhero.

Mutterings continued.

"Which superhero are you?

You are Bat(wo)man, dark and mysterious, operating outside the rules in a film-noir landscape you know like the back of your hand. You scowl a lot and look great in leather. Colleagues regard you warily. You're not much fun at parties."

Explains a lot.

Double cat looniness this morning. Both Gus and Milo were sitting in the shower recess, alternately looking down the plug hole and up at the pipes above. The last time Gus pulled something like this a picture fell off the wall. I was expecting to come home to find the bathroom flooded after she telepathically caused the pipes to burst. Still don't know what was up with them. Gus has been known to lose her ping pong balls down the hole in the floor in the toilet (no, I don't have a French toilet - it's the plug hole but the grating thing disappeared years ago leaving a hole in the floor which attracts ping pong balls). I have to suck them out of the bend in the pipe with a vacuum cleaner.

Fun stuff on the doorstep - a box from Cafe Press with a Leece designed travel mug (with unicorns!) and a Get Fuzzy journal.

I had another fantasy-ish dream last night that involved lifts that turn into planes (I got into a lift on the outside of a building and instead of it stopping at the floor I wanted, it just kept going and started to fly. One of the other people in the car said matter-of-factly that it's the new flying lift). I landed miles from home near a huge second hand furniture store. They had hundreds of washing machines which they were...washing. I was looking for bar stools for Mum (which I was) but ended up buying a lovely small wooden box which was marked at $47 but I was only charged $39. I then had to work out how to get home. I dream a lot about lifts and I don't know why. I also dream a lot about second hand or antique stores. They usually have a lot of cool stuff.

From the "Oh dear" files:

"NEW YORK (Reuters) - David Hyde Pierce, Tim Curry and Hank Azaria were named on Wednesday as the leading trio for next year's Broadway-bound production of Monty Python's "Spamalot."

"Spamalot," to be directed by Oscar and Tony Award winner Mike Nichols, is billed as "the musical lovingly ripped off from the motion picture, 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail,"' the 1975 comedy directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones.

It tells the tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and their quest for the Holy Grail. A chorus line of dancing divas and knights, flatulent Frenchmen, killer rabbits and one legless knight are featured.

Pierce, who was Dr. Niles Crane in the long-running U.S. sitcom "Frasier," will play Sir Robin. Curry, known for his star turn in the cult film, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," will play King Arthur. Azaria, best known as the voice of Moe the bartender on the animated series "The Simpsons," will portray Sir Lancelot.

The corresponding film roles were performed by Eric Idle, Graham Chapman and John Cleese of the British comedy troupe.

Idle wrote the book for the new musical and collaborated on the music and lyrics with John Du Prez, whose film scores include the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" series and the hit, "A Fish Called Wanda."

The show is scheduled to have a world premiere engagement in Chicago from Dec. 21, 2004, to Jan. 16, 2005, before beginning Broadway previews on Feb. 7. "

I do like David Hyde Pierce and I do really like Tim Curry but ....