Jonathan Mardukas in the House

This photo of my cat, Mardukas, is featured as the “Pet Photo of the Week” in Seattle Pacific University’s faculty/staff newsletter this week.

And the fact of the matter is, quite simply, that he is the most handsome cat on the planet.

He looks like a black cat, but he isn’t — he has white fur that is tipped with black. I named him after Jonathan Mardukas, a white-collar criminal played by Charles Grodin in the film Midnight Run.