Thistlethwaite does not like to talk about it.

In 2005, there was an incident involving a cat, a bathtub, and a laptop computer. Certain computer files and website access codes were destroyed.

There were no backup files.

Alcohol was a factor.

The cat was fond of Baileys.

The result was that the website was plunged into darkness for a decade and that the printing template for the Thistlethwaite chapbook was irretrievably lost.

The name of the cat was Katsu! He died of cirrhosis in 2007.

For more on cats, see Kipling's classic story:  The Cat that Walked by Himself