Alohpaw!

One year in the making
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I thought of you

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Best Coast - Sun Was High (So Was I)
Best Coast - When I'm With You

http://www.myspace.com/bestycoasty

Because if it's not Love...

...Then it's the meowcals that will bring us together.

http://meowrissey2.ytmnd.com/

thanks R.

C.A.S.P

cats against sarah palin

CAtBERt REPORt

Stephen Colbert and kitty station managers in japan.
Starts at 2:33

meowtrosexual

New York Times - "Sorry, Fido, It’s Just a Guy Thing"

"As a writer on adventuresofacitygirl.blogspot.com put it: “Single men and cats are like a burger and broccoli. Separately they are okay, but together it just seems off.”"

"Stacy Mantle, the founder of Petsweekly.com, a magazine for pet lovers, said that men are becoming more “cat literate” because they themselves are evolving."

"“Only intelligent, aware, caring men love cats,” one reader said" (Exactly)

"They are quick to point out other well-known macho cat owners: Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Victor Hugo and Marlon Brando, who reportedly found a stray cat on the set of “The Godfather” and incorporated it into a scene." ("What's the matter with you? Is this what you've become, some Hollywood finnochio that cries like a woman?")

"Single men were also almost as likely as single women to break a friendship rather than lose their cat, and would consider choosing their cat over their partner." (Later, Helena Bonham Carter!)





The New York Times - At Home With Wayne Coyne

Martin Keamy, Cat Lover and Former Marine

Martin Keamy from the hit television show LOST

keamysparadise:
"After his retirement from the dog show circuit Keamy turned coach to win an award for his prized pure breed kitty. He holds his ribbon with pride. This is the first win for the Keamy-Kitty duo and many more victories are anticipated."

"Martin Keamy becomes part of a once popular Internet trend. "

das friends

"The feline, which struck up the unlikely friendship with the 40-year-old Asian bear eight years ago, now can't bear to be apart from her friend. In fact, the pair are so close that zookeepers at Berlin Zoo had to reunite them after Muschi, or 'pussy' in German, pined for Maeuschen - 'little mouse' - after they were separated. "

Daily Mail - The cat and bear best friends who simply can't bear are to be apart

Blogdom

"The will to blog is a complicated thing, somewhere between inspiration and compulsion. It can feel almost like a biological impulse. You see something, or an idea occurs to you, and you have to share it with the Internet as soon as possible. What I didn’t realize was that those ideas and that urgency — and the sense of self-importance that made me think anyone would be interested in hearing what went on in my head — could just disappear."

- Emily Gould

Catstronaut

Steve The Cat

Steve is an active participant in NASA's Phoenix Mission to Mars. The Phoenix Mission will land in the northern polar region of Mars in late May 2008 and stretch out an instrumented arm to dig into the soil and ice















Steve The Cat at NASA space camp

"Meowing kittens alert humans to fire"

Hell YES they did. They got lots of play-time to look forward to...

UPI - "Meowing kittens alert humans to fire"

Jezebel loves cats.

Xenu is not a cat

San Francisco Sci-entology Protest

Saint Mr. Waffles

I'm thinking if Benedict XVI was sitting on the papal throne a few centuries ago we'd have at least one cat with sainthood today.

The New York Times - Cat Lovers Appreciate Soul Mate in Vatican

"Benedict’s kindness toward the strays of Rome is already the stuff of Vatican legend. His house in Germany, its garden guarded by a cat statue, was filled with cats when Benedict lived there full time before he was posted to the Vatican in 1982.

And Benedict is, without a doubt, the first pope to have had an authorized biography of him written by a cat — Chico, a ginger tabby who lives across the road from Benedict’s old house in Germany. "







THANKS G !

Red a n d Purple Dodos Fools

It's very nice ... like dancing in the kitchen when you are alone.

The Dodos - Red And Purple
The Dodos - Fools

Drums of Funny

He's like a real life muppet

"Track A Ghost Through The Fog"

They The Intro - Angel Deradoorian (of thedirtyprojectors)

C.A.T. D.I.Y

Ikea Hacker Blog - Build Your Own Cat Furniture




















Stairway to Cat Heaven

Thanks M !

"...because you have another eyelid"

Because reading Dean Wareham's "Black Postcards" took me back to some good memories and because it was funny and true. We give it a 3 out of 3 eyelids. Read It.

Galaxie 500 - Spook ("Everett True asked me if the song was about a cat, because cats have an extra eyelid, too. Not cat, I said, but Vulcan")

Gustaf

http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article2249534.ab

No translation needed



Thanks P !

Theremin J A M

Thanks N !

The Cat Champ

"when my soul starts glowing"

my ipod shuffled it up pretty good tonight, this is all back to back:

5:08 Fucked Up Kid By Broken Social Scene Presents: Kevin Drew
2:05 Ponytail By Panda Bear
3:40 Head Full Of Steam By G0-Betweens
2:53 Parking Lot By Galaxie 500
3:39 Misery And Mountains, Arrows by New Buffalo















Cats Love Macs Flickr Photo Group

Invisible Violinist

This interesting article "Pearls Before Breakfast" by Gene Weingarten about a world-famous violinist playing incognito for subway riders just won a Pulitzer Prize for Best Feature Writing .



"IF A GREAT MUSICIAN PLAYS GREAT MUSIC BUT NO ONE HEARS . . . WAS HE REALLY ANY GOOD?"

Charlie and Eli

The Daily Coyote Blog rules

"Charlie came into my life when he was just ten days old, orphaned after both his parents were killed. He lives with me and a tomcat in a one-room log cabin in Wyoming."


August 14th 2007

"Charlie and the cat are so tight, fast friends, bros. I went outside to check on Charlie the other day and he and the cat were lying side by side on their backs under the little tamarask tree in the canyon, just looking at each other and the leaves around their faces, telling stories.

Charlie's got a bit of an identity crisis going on - he comes when I say "Charlie" and also comes when I say "Kitten!" There's one large tree on the route of our daily walkabout that the cat often climbs for the fun of it - scrambling up to the top branches and then straight down - and yesterday Charlie was trying so hard to figure out how to climb the tree. He put his front paws on the tree trunk, and I could just see him thinking, "OK, I reach my front legs up, THEN WHAT??""

THANKS C

On Sale!!

The Chemung County SPCA in New York is celebrating April as Weird and Wonderful Month.

"Throughout the month of April, adopt any weird and wonderful shelter cat at a 25% discount (provided that the adoption application is approved). What is "weird and wonderful"? Any cats with extra toes, cross-eyes, or any other unique traits will be available at a discount. Come add a weird and wonderful feline to your family! "

Some of our "weird and wonderful" felines:

* Ken (2 different colored eyes)
* Jiminy (masked face--he's our resident "Batman"!)
* Gardner (unusual looking nose)
* Lucky B (likes to play in water)
* Dennis (polydactyl)

They also have a "Lonely Hearts Club" that features those cats who have remained at the SPCA for the longest amount of time





"Ginger, Club President, has been at the SPCA since July '07. "

Christian The Lion At World's End

These 2 guys reared this lion from a baby in England but the authorities would not allow them to keep it once it reached maturity so they were forced to give it up, they took it back to Africa and placed it in a wildlife sanctuary, a year later they went to see it and were told it would not remember them.



WATCH VIDEO FIRST

"Both believed that lions were possessed of a sixth sense and George was convinced that a scientific explanation would one day be found.

And here, it seemed, was the proof.

"Christian stared at us in a very intense way," says Rendall. "I knew his expressions and I could see he was interested. We called him and he stood up and started to walk towards us very slowly.

"Then, as if he had become convinced it was us, he ran towards us, threw himself on to us, knocked us over, knocked George over and hugged us, like he used to, with his paws on our shoulders.

"Everyone was crying. We were crying, George was crying, even the lion was nearly crying." "

Full Story

THANKS Z

Best Idea Ever

InventorSpot - Calico Café Caters to Cat Cuddlers Craving Kitten Companionship

" Living in Tokyo, the world's largest metropolitan area, isn't easy - even more so if you have a pet. Landlords are increasingly restricting pet ownership by tenants in the city's high-demand rental apartments.

The solution? Rent a cat at one of the city's popular new cat cafés! For just 800 yen an hour (about $8), you can get your fix of feline fellowship from - in the case of Calico - one of 19 "staff" kitties. Located in the Kichijoji district of western Tokyo, Calico has been a roaring, er, meowing success to the point where reservations are recommended on weekends and holidays."

WTF

"They were selected by nature to use us"

Salon.com - The cat whisperer; Will she be the next TV star animal trainer?

"Her goal isn't to train cats, per se, but to teach their owners to get inside the minds of their feline friends

One thing that I immediately liked about Nagelschneider's approach was her assertion that we focus on rewards, not punishment. She suggested a few "aversive techniques" to try when Thompson misbehaved, but they were pretty mild -- rattling a soda can filled with quarters to startle him, or simply ignoring him altogether. "We don't want to traumatize him," she explained. "The idea is to achieve the desired results with the least amount of invasive measures possible.""

This pro-active approach made sense to Alice Moon-Fanelli, a clinical assistant professor of animal behavior at Tufts University. "Cats are very responsive to positive reinforcement," she said. "Usually what happens is the pet gets attention when it's doing something wrong.""

Hearts Cat

Do Cats Reduce the Risk of a Heart Attack?

"The researchers found that over a 20-year period, participants who had never owned a cat were 40 percent more likely to die from heart attack, and 30 percent more likely to die from any kind of cardiovascular disease."

Kattens of Vinter

A whole minutes worth of footage of cats being cats in the snow but accompanied by our buddies The Ladybug Transistor song "Fjords of Winter".



Thanks G.