Today is an important day for both Hili and Professor Ceiling Cat. It is a day for celebrating the relationships between felids and their humans.
Yes, tonight is the New Yorker Festival event “You, the Jury: Cats vs. Dogs.” Team Cat has its claws sharpened and many tricks up its forelegs, but I’m not at liberty to divulge them. Our members include Anthony Lane, Ariel Levy, Joyce Carol Oates, Jesse Eisenberg, me, and Anthony Hutcherson, who breeds Bengal cats (and a breed I hadn’t heard of, “Toygers”) in Washington D.C. Have a look at Anthony’s website, Jungletrax Cattery, to see some of the gorgeous cats he produces.
Posting may be very light today: I must change hotels and prepare for The Big Challenge. Cats must win!
And Hili has an appropriate dialogue:
Hili: At last, serious people in New York will be debating a serious matter.
A: What matter is that?
Hili: What do you mean, what matter is that? The superiority of cats over dogs. Jerry will be wearing THIS shirt!
In Polish:
Hili: Nareszcie w Nowym Jorku poważni ludzie będą debatowali o poważnych sprawach.
Ja: O czym?
Hili: Jak to o czym? O wyższości kotów nad psami. Jerry będzie występował w TEJ koszuli.
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And just a few minutes ago I got a good-luck note from Japanese artist Hiroko Kubota, who designed, embroidered, and also made the shirt depicted above (as well as the one below). She said,
My newest cat. This was made just now. (^-^)
Good luck Jerry. Anthony’s cats are amazing. I’d love to have one.
Have fun!
To think that’s done with thread, and probably by hand! Her embroidery work is really amazing.
(I think there might be a typo in the name, though. I thought it was “Kubota”.)
Indeed, a bad typo. I fixed it and added a link to her site. And yes, the embroidery is indeed done by hand; no machines are involved (except when she makes the shirt itself to one’s measurements).
Any word on Cyrus?
Cyrus is MUCH better. He is having an IV drip, but is much more alert and apparently feeling better. The vet thinks he will be fine. There will be a dialogue on this tomorrow.
Bon courage!
(and YAY for Cyrus getting better)
That’s wonderful news about Cyrus.
A good omen (since we all believe in that sort of thing around here)for your debate: In my blog reader, post above this one and below it are also about cats.
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I’m told that perhaps I wouldn’t be allergic to bengals. I should go sniff some & see. 🙂
Best of luck tonight Jerry. Glad to hear that Cyrus is better.
Looking forward to the debate. Should be fun! Those Bengal cats are beautiful. Wow!
Thanks for the Cyrus update. Glad he’s on the mend.
Somehow I missed the Cyrus update, but very glad to hear he’s better. Is he bavk chez Hili?
Hili’s expression in that photo with you makes me grin every time I see it!
She is one very happy/smug kitty in that picture.