Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Cats

  • Hungry Tuxies Break their Fast

     

  • Saturday Night at the Oldies: Cats

    Loving Spoonful, Nashville Cats, 1966. They's playin' since they's babies. Harry Chapin, Cat's in the Cradle. For you fathers out there. Bond with your son when he's five. Wait till he's 50 and he won't give you the time of day. Harry Chapin was a major talent who died young.  Here is his great Taxi. We Boomers are damned…

  • Friday the 13th Cat Blogging!

    In the foothills of the Superstition Mountains! Friday cat blogging is an ancient and  venerable tradition in the blogosphere. We pioneers of the 'sphere aim to keep it going. To hell with all you change-for-the-sake-of change 'progressives.' I Ain't Superstitious, leastways no more than Howlin' Wolf, but two twin black tuxedo cats just crossed my path.  All…

  • Rise and Shine

    I quit the bed of sloth at two this morning.  I slept in a bit. But I understand that not everyone prefers the monkish life. Kant arose at five. It's now 5:30 or so. Rise and shine with Manny!  Or at least with Boston.  If this '70s tune doesn't get you bangin' on all eight,…

  • Cat and Man

    From the journal of a cat man. The cat is happy to reside within his limits: he does not aspire. He is incapable of hubris. There are no feline tragedies. A cat can be miserable, and so can a man, but only a man can be wretched. A man is an animal, but an abyss…

  • Halloween: 15th Typepad Anniversary

    The Typepad incarnation of MavPhil is now 15 years old. It has racked up 6,637,776 page views, which averages out to 1211 page views per day.  It boasts 11,838  posts and 14,342  comments. And this despite shadow banning. I thank you for your patronage. Double your money back if not completely satisfied. "If you like…

  • Cat Blogging Lives! Tuxies at the Door

    The tuxedo cat is the most 'iconic' of cats; so it is  only fitting that Max Black and his brother Manny K. Black should guard the entrance to the inner sanctum. Felix was a tuxie as was Sylvester. And who can forget Socks the presidential pussy when the Clintons occupied the White House?  Like all…

  • Cat Blogging!

    I haven't done any cat blogging in a righteous spell. Call me a slacker. Friday is the official cat blogging day here at MavPhil and elsewhere in the blogosphere, but this Friday is Good Friday. Cat man Dave Bagwill sends this:  

  • Friday Cat Blogging! Trump Cat

  • They Have No Views

    My cats eat, sleep, play, and sleep some more. They have no views. But the value of being adoxastos is lost on them.  I do not envy them.  I am glad that I am a man. Man alone among the animals is more than an animal.  Man's distinction consists both in his having views and in…

  • Friday Cat Blogging One Day Deferred: Palindrome Pussy

  • Saturday Night at the Oldies: Cats

    Before we get on to tonight's feature presentation, a little tribute to John McCain. Here he is in Bomb Iran. But the old neocon needs a history lesson. The Regents did it first, in 1961, before the Beach Boys covered it in '65. The Regents in their dotage, live. "I tried Peggy Sue, but I…

  • Friday Cat Blogging! Proof that I am a Racist

    I have two black cats and they are never allowed off my plantation. The following graphic proves the opposite of what it intends. It is obviously white supremacist in excelsis for a white man to own black cats!

  • Friday Cat Blogging Three Days Late: A Puzzling Image

    When I travelled in China, I saw not one pussy cat. But I had a Chinese student at CWRU who said that the Chinese eat anything with four legs except the kitchen table. And now I recall eating something in Wuhan that tasted like chicken but a tad gamier. Now North Korea is not China.…

  • Are Cats Liquid?

    Meow