The Cat Attack Continues

Isn't she just precious? She sure is! And very silly, too:

But how is she getting along with her cat-uncle, the notoriously ornery Rowdy? Well, they certainly enjoy playing together:

 How do the gruff old tom and the new tiny terror do outside of playtime? Pretty good...

I think that's enough cuteness to get anyone through the second-to-last workday this week!

Cat Attack Thursday!

Look at these cuties! 

On the left we have the elder Frankish statesman: Anri Rowdy les Chat,

 on the right, his darling young Latin cat-niece: Lilliana Bella las Gato.

  They are getting along fairly well, even maintaining civility at mealtime:

I'll have to keep the camera handy and snap some of photos of their cuteness in action, come playtime...

We Interrupt This Regularly-Scheduled Broadcast...

...to bring you a kitty!

I brought her home from the shelter on Tuesday, and she has hardly stopped purring since! It was kind of meant to be; I went looking for a smaller 8-week-old kitten, but the one I was looking at was taken. Curiously, while I was looking at the younger kitties, this slightly older black one in the next cage over was mewing at me. When they told me that the small gray guy I was holding had already been adopted, and was just awaiting pickup, I then went over to this little gal's cage to check her out...and she cautiously crept to my outstretched hand...then started enthusiastically loving on me! We totally bonded then, and I knew that I just had to have her...

...I've since named her Lily, and she's been following me around the house, only pausing her demands for petting and cuddling to eat, sleep, and explore. She's even been getting along great with our old-man kitty, Rowdy. We were worried he might feel that he was being 'replaced', but just this morning they were laying on the same chair, and he was grooming her!

Say it with me now: "AWWWWW!"

War Story Wednesday: Chicken VS Turtle

 If you have been around chickens, you know that in the picture below, the chicken is giving the turtle "the one eye", prompting the little reptilian to retreat into his shell:

Cat Attack Tuesday!

There exists no better blues-banishing companion, perhaps, than adorable and adoring cats.

 You know them, you love them, Eva & Gabby just can't help but love to rock. I guess they learned from Mr. Bombs! Although, it just might be that these speakers are carpeted and make an epic indoor cat tower:

...And sensing my emotional state like a cat-yoda (which she is), Gertrude snuggled with me right through the crisis hours:

 

You have my frank and sincere thanks, faithful felines!

Kitteh Weekend Bonus Edition

If you love cats like my friends and I do, if you have a soft and pliant sweet spot for our fastidiously furry friends, then you'll want to check out The Kitty Comp from Burger Records. An adorable feral stray was rescued after being run over behind a California cassette-tape label, and the story just reminded me so much of our long-gone family dog Cisco that I had to share it. Cisco was thrown out of the back of an SUV in front of my mother's office in Tucson along with his five or so litter mates. The disowning driver then actually reversed a bit to get pointed out of the parking lot, gunned the gas, and ran over all but two of the puppies. I wasn't there, but my mother relayed the story to me, her having rescued the two survivors. A coworker took one pup and Mom brought home the second, Cisco - who was much-beloved for years in Tucson and now rests faithfully beneath our SLC herb garden. So maybe the Kitty-Comp and my nostalgia is comparing cats and dogs, but the compilation tapes aren't no-account doghouse jams. There is previously unreleased material from Ryan Adams, among many talented others:

I've had the pleasurable good fortune of meeting several interesting cats during my travels. Remember the green-thumbed friends I made in Lincoln? They have an unassuming house-cat that leisurely greeted each guest in turn before settling in at her own spot within the conversation circle. I hadn't quite figured out how to work my camera's flash back on July 4th, and the image was too dark to see, so I messed with the colors of the picture similar to the stylized band pictures on my old MySpace page:

 

Also in Lincoln was the Game Room store cat, who was friendly enough to crawl up my clothes in search of loves:

Most recently, here in Tucson, are the catty companions of some of my dearest. Meet Gabby; she's a little bit skittish, but will warm up to you eventually. Here she is hanging outside, talking cat-trash with a neighborhood stray on the other side of the fence:

Inside, her younger gal-pal is taking a break from it all:

Enjoy your weekend!

The Internet

I personally think that the internet is pretty fantastical and ridiculous. Instantaneous (almost) transmission of data all over the world? There are whole economies that exist only in cyberspace? Last night in one of my classes the entire chapter was about hacking and other malicious goings-on online. Then there are internet memes? Yes, there are...look at my vacbot posts. They fit this definition:

meme |mēm|
noun Biology
an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, esp. imitation.
DERIVATIVES
memetic |mēˈmetik; mə-| adjective
ORIGIN 1970s: from Greek mimēma ‘that which is imitated,’ on the pattern of gene.

I saw "I can has cheezburger" years ago, looked at lots of silly internet pictures, and recently made my own. So the internet has infected my body like a genetic disease? "I've gone mimetic!"

Like I said, fantastical and ridiculous!

You Know Not the Power of VacBot

Revenge of VacBot

A little silliness is in order...

Kittens + Zeppelin = Amazing

That is all. Valentine out.