Today is the penultimate Hump Day before the start of both Christmas and Coynezaa, so get your shopping done now. For those shopping overseas, twenty years ago today the name “Euro” was adopted. On December 16, 1866, Wassily Kandinsky (one of my favorite painters) was born. Today marks actor Liv Ullman’s 77th birthday, and it’s the Day of Reconciliation in South Africa—a place I’d love to visit before too long. Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Hili is bragging (as usual) and making Cyrus feel bad:
Hili: Cats are the most magnificent outcome of evolution.
Cyrus (to A.): Do you think so too?
In Polish:
Hili: Koty są najwspanialszym efektem ewolucji.
Cyrus (do mnie): Też tak uważasz?
Meanwhile, Reader Sarah, traveling in Spain, found a Hili lookalike (she regularly visits Hili and her staff). Sarah’s notes and photo:
You might think at first glance that this is a picture of Hili, but in fact it is a cat I saw a couple of weeks ago in Guadalest in southern Spain. When I showed it to Malgorzata she said they could be littermates by the look of this Spanish cat. Interesting the way the coloring and patterns can be so similar over a large geographical area. There are no doubt many cats between Guadalest and Dobrzyn that also look like this.
Andrzej has provided a photo of the real Hili in a similar position so we can compare. Looks pretty similar to me, though the Spanish cat’s ears aren’t as prominent, it has whiter cheeks, and its white bib is larger.
I prefer COYNEZAA!! Another festivus miracle!!
Wrong place to send this, but I couldn’t for some reason find the correct one on the website.
In the November -December issue of The American Rationalist (published by the Center for Inquiry), one Jenin Jones writes a review entitled “Why Ayaan Hirsi is Wrong,” which, appearing in such a journal, seems to require a thunderbolt from the august Ceiling Cat Itself.
Sweet kittehs (and d*gs)!
I find “the way the coloring and patterns can be so similar over a large geographical area” tickling my funny bone. Hili is now at least as svelte as Guadalest Kitteh, no reason to refer to her fur as large area…
Hili is just practicing her quantum teleportation skills, I think. She might not need them much around Dobryzn, but it’s still important to maintain currency.
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