My cat Chili Palmer is looking at me funny these days. Perhaps it's the weather, or that she senses I'm on vacation after today and will be crowding her, or maybe that leash I attached to walk (drag?) her in the park because, well, she seems so jealous when Mojo gets to go all the time.

Like Hannibal Lecter said: "How does one covet, Clarice? One covets what one sees every day." I don't think he was much of a cat person.

Anyway, I'm keeping Chili away from this week's Friday Fromage pick, a 1977 trilogy of attempted terror called The Uncanny. In the movie, an author attempts to sell a publisher on his idea of a book about the evilness of cats, using three tales of sociopath felines to illustrate his point.

"There are millions of them," the narrator threatens. "Everywhere. Spying on us. Watching. Waiting. When will they pounce?" That's a good question that hadn't occurred to me before.

Chili? Where are you, sweetie? 

Check out this Velveeta cast: Grand Moff Tarkin (Peter Cushing), Dean Wormer (John Vernon), Dr. Loomis (Donald Plesance), the Man with the X-Ray Eyes (Ray Milland) and Capt. Picard's wife (Samantha Eggar). Doesn't get any fromagier than that. I just can't figure out why the flick wasn't titled The Uncatty.

It all makes sense: Cats love chasing mice, mice love chasing cheese and so do we.

Enjoy!