Another one without a flash; love that morning sunlight. Mingo is so CUTE I could just wiggle.
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Friday Catblogging: Big Eyes
In order to get a picture of wide open beautiful kitty eyes, I need bright sunlight, because the flash makes ’em squint. Hardly ever capture the right moment, so I’m delighted with this one.
Things Witches Say
There’s wax on the cat.
Friday Catblogging: Return of Kittenblogging
I was cleaning my files and I found this beauty from January of ’06 (which is about when I figured out how to upload photos from my new camera). My little darlings would have been 3 months old in this shot. Ah, memories. Ain’t they cuties?
This photo has never appeared on the site. There were so many cute kitten pictures from around this age, it didn’t make the cut.
So here it is!
Inexplicable
Arthur had a doctor’s appointment in Westchester yesterday morning.
So we get in the car and as we start to pull out of the driveway, Arthur says “How come it’s always cold when we go to see Dr. R.?”
He asks me these sorts of inane questions all the time. I mean…what? What?
“Arthur,” I said, “How can that possibly be true? I make these appointments weeks in advance. We go in different seasons and at different times of the day. Oddly enough, it is kind of overcast today. But if by some bizarre coincidence it is true, how could you possibly imagine I’d know why?”
“Well, maybe it has something to do with the how the weather is over there.”
“But Arthur. We’re here now.”
“Oh! We are!”
Arthur: An Introduction
Hi. This is Arthur speaking. I asked my mom if I could blog on here, and she said “Sure.” So here I am.
I am the oft-mentioned teenage son whose thoughts and actions are at times wise and odd, naive and unexpected, insightful and provocative, and just generally unique. I think about a variety of things, and blog often about my take on pop culture, as one who is both fascinated and perplexed by the world he should be a part of, but sometimes is not. I notice things about my friends’ taste in music, fashions senses, youth vernacular, and other assorted teenagery things. An anthropologist in malls, you could call me.
Still, I make an effort to keep relatively current on political and social issues, although I’ve been so busy lately that it took me over a week to notice that Karl Rove had resigned. I’m still not sure that his resignation is real. Nothing makes sense anymore in this world and especially this administration, not even the few quasi-good things that the White House spews.
I also think a lot about philosophical problems and hypothetical dilemmas. I will conclude this post with a relatively short one.
Two research psychologists are studying brain wave patterns. They are studying prisoners convicted of violent crimes, especially multiple violent crimes. The two scientists are analyzing the brain wave patterns of these criminals, and also of an equal-sized control group made up of normal, everyday people.
The first scientist comes up to the second one, and says, “I have good news and bad news. The good news is that we proved our hypothesis. The anomaly we were looking for was present in100% of the prisoners, and absent from the control group.”
“Well, what’s the bad news then?”
“The anomaly was present in one of the members of the control group.”
The question is, what happens next? What should happen next?
Here’s a bit of advice
When getting a baking dish from the bottom rack of the oven, use the hot mitt, not the hot pad.
Ow.
Friday Catblogging: Stand up!
I don’t know what Mingo is doing here. He was desperately trying to climb up that closet door, and was staring at a spot near the ceiling, but there was nothing there, not even a bug.
Whatever it was, it kept him busy for quite a long time, and it was pretty noisy, too.
Friday Catblogging: Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Kill the toy! Kill the toy! Kill! Kill!
Busy, busy weekend
On Saturday, my youngest sister got married, and I served as the officiant. That was a two hour drive south. On Sunday, there was a big party in honor of Orien Rose, and that was a one hour drive northwest.
I am exhausted (y’think?).
And haven’t written a movie review or a meditation or anything. I do have some thoughts about my weekend which I’ll be writing up shortly, and also I did see a movie or two earlier in the week so you may get that later today.
But phew.
