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Hello and welcome back to Big Mood, Little Mood. I am your host, Daniel M. Levery.

And with me in the studio this week is my guest Angelica Jade Bastienne,

a southern born critic and essayist for New York Magazine site, Vulture.

She lives in Chicago with her Tuxedo cat, Professor Butch Cassidy.

She also lives in Chicago with at present counting three superfluous cats that she has had to

take in in a hurry. So if anyone in the Chicago land area is listening to this and has been

thinking, I can really use a cat. Angelica, could I send them your way?

Hell yeah, you can. Please take these beautiful, well-behaved, very quiet Tuxedo cats off my hands

that my mom left with me because she had to evacuate Hurricane Ida and then just decided,

I guess that she couldn't take them home. I don't know what to say about her.

Listen, if you have a loving yet complicated relationship with your own mother

or if you just like cats, Angelica is the one to turn to and you could potentially help find a

home for some very fancy little gentleman it sounds like. Yeah, very fancy gentleman.

Their names are Judah, Levi, and Jude Law.

I love it. The shifts went from biblical to, I guess, it boys at the 1990s who later,

parlayed their good looks into being something of a character actor in later life.

Yeah, and this totally turns me on as a critic. So, you know,

did Jude Law fan? I was like, Jude Law, this is his cat's name now.

That's amazing. I remember back in like 2010 when Jude Law started doing interviews

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