grendel likes barf

this should not necessarily be a surprise as he loves his meat (and doritos, obv.), but still!

baby cat fun!

cheap cheap cheap but can't help it

this is so awesome you all MUST see:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8610362188397291938&safe=active#

thank you my fav wonkette commenter in MN who does not know i exist though i worship him from afar.

the naming of cats is a difficult matter

but now it is done and in honor of tom* and because of harry (and just cold ignoring the dicks), i think we have - at long last - found our grendel**.








* tom technically does not deserve this honor as some of us in chicago are still mad at him (for the brilliance). but nonetheless and after many years and a couple of margaritas, we have found grendel. i hope some of us still have The Shirt.

** also technically this is not a grendel-y shot, but harry knows how grendel-y grendel is.

teachable moments

it is a well established fact that baby kitteh (loki? sure, why not. let's go with loki today.) likes his MEAT. meat and only meat. meat up high on the kitchen peninsula. meat down low in the basement. meat on the plate. meat on the BBQ. kibble meat from harry's bowl, kibble meat from kerfuffle's plate.

all meat all the time.

Except!

DORITOs!!

here is the meat man himself - with delicious non meat flavored snack food product.

i sincerely hope

my new computer is not coming from one of those suicide factories in shenzhen.

HOW is this possible?

i don't even officially OWN this animal yet - hell i don't even have a name for him (moth? grendal? shambles? smaug?) and somehow, someway he has developed a pooch-y tummy that makes him look like one of the who's down in whoville.

clearly, if i had children my children would be wall-e children and feast on marshmallow fluff, potato skins and vanilla frosties with chocolate sprinkles.

with that plethora of mixed literary references pooch-y boy and i leave you all.

almost as heartbreaking as 2004 and thanks CA.

if california is so damn visionary and golden state-y and land of lotus dreams and teslas and 1/8 biggest economy anywhere etc. WHY DID WE WAKE UP TO A FUTURE WITHOUT ORLY TAITZ, CALIFORNIA!?!?!????

this is not the behavior we have come to expect from the CA electorate and i demand to see CA's long form birth certificate.

also: it is NOT 'the year of women'. this is the year of a handful of random elected candidates in random primaries in random states in JUNE that happen to have an X chromosome some of whom were already elected.

that is just stupid, stupid media.

also, if it really were the year of the women orly taitz would be in office now wouldn't she?

recking his own rede.

the other day someone very dear to me asked about this. here is what i think:

it's being a hypocrite or speaking one thing (rede) while doing another (recks not his own...), as in:

1. laertes nannering on to ophelia about hamlet's immoral intentions all the while (laertes) planning to go to paris and schtup many marais whores.

2. be a republican and nanner on about the immorality of the godless and the homosexual and the non-child creater and then be caught in the primrose way with a young boy who is toting your luggage.

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2010-05-06/news/christian-right-leader-george-rekers-takes-vacation-with-rent-boy/

3. or that other dude with the wet suits and unmentionables in FL (obv FL).

but i could be wrong.

the great thing about kittehs?

every night is a night of dancin.

this statement would horrify roz.

dec 2004 i wrote this (SERIOUSLY) pissed and (probably) tipsy:

2004 philosophy and fuflans:
___________
i don't think the problem lies with the democrats or their message or their strategies or kerry's election campaign or political consultants or right wing morality or left wing populism or the politics of hope vs. despair.

i think in fact, a portion of our citizenry is basically a bunch of under-educated medieval peasants who fear the witch and the homosexual and the darkening of the seasons by lucifer. somehow -- unwisely in my book -- we've let them believe that they can leave the demesne without their lord's permission, speak without mockery and vote.

so the good news is we can stop beating ourselves up. the bad news is that those wattle and daub houses are REALLY unsanitary. also, it's likely the Albigensians were ahead of their time too and look how well THAT ended.

______

and it's gone so well from there.

altered reality #1

kerfuffle coming to grips

new kitteh

needs kleigs and bounceboard to be properly viewed.

new kitteh is hazy in outline and smoky in tone. tiny. also.

altered reality #2

harry, resigned.

we have seen the enemy

and it is peapod.