Category: Cats
Friday Cat Blogging: ‘Cat’ with Cat
Cat Blogging Friday: The Real Housecats of the Blogosphere
A take off on The Real Housewives series, a show the vapidity and vacuity of which makes one wonder how long we can last as a country. Somehow, 'real' is not the adjective I would attach to these pampered pussycats of suburban decadence.
Cat Blogging Friday: Kerouac and Cat
Holding up my
purring cat to the moon
I sighed.
—- Jack Kerouac, American Haiku, 1959
Cat Blogging Friday: Catitude
You talkin' to me?
Cat Blogging Friday: Atheist Cat
Because I'm a rational animal.
Because, unlike you, I was made in the image and likeness of God.
Max the cat responds: Because I'm a logical positivist. The God question is devoid of cognitive significance. Meaningful questions pertain to such matters as mice, cheese, birds, and catnip. And now I think I'll go take a long nap, a car nap.
Cat Blogging Friday: Alekhine and his Cat, Chess
Reuben Fine, The Psychology of the Chess Player (Dover 1967), p. 53:
In 1935, an international team tournament was held in Warsaw. Alekhine played top board for France, of which he was a naturalized citizen. However, on this trip he arrived at the Polish border without a passport. When the officials asked him for his papers he replied: "I am Alekhine, chess champion of the world. I have a cat called Chess. I do not need papers." The matter had to be straightened out by the highest authorities.
Catblogging Friday
As you know, Friday is official catblogging day here in the blogosphere, a tradition started in aught-four by Kevin Drum. So, in lieu of a substantial post, I present you with: