Category: Leon monologue

Monday: Hili dialogue (and Leon monologue)

May 21, 2018 • 7:00 am

Good morning on Monday, May 21, 2018: National Strawberries and Cream Day. It’s also St. Helena Day, celebrating the discovery in 1502 of the most remote island in the world (and the one on which Napoleon died).

On this day in 1904, the famous Fédération Internationale de Football Association, or FIFA, was founded in Paris. Exactly two decades later, two very bright University of Chicago students, Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr., murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks, a Hyde Park resident, just because they were confident that their planning and intelligence would lead them to get away with it.  They didn’t: Leopold left his glasses at the crime scene, and was traced readily since the style was unusual. Tried and convicted, the pair was spared the death penalty because Clarence Darrow, their lawyer (also a Hyde Park resident), talked for 12 hours in a desperate attempt to save their lives. It worked; they were sentenced to life in prison. Loeb was murdered in jail, and Leopold was released after 33 years, moved to Puerto Rico, and died in 1971. Here’s a 17-minute movie about the incident (you might look up some excerpts of Darrow’s brilliant speech):

Two aviation firsts for May 21. It was on this day in 1927 that Charles Lindbergh completed the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic, landing at Le Bourget field in Paris.  Exactly five years later, Amelia Earhart completed the same feat, but with a woman (her!) at the controls. She landed in a pasture at Derry, Northern Ireland.  On this day in 1936, the Japanese sex worker Sada Abe was, as Wikipedia notes, “arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover’s severed genitals in her handbag.” She had strangled her lover in a bout of erotic asphyxiation. This was a huge scandal in Japan, and you may remember was the subject of Nagisa Oshima’s movie In the Realm of the Senses, which, though infamous for its explicit (and genuine) sex onscreen, was a good film.  Abe served five years in prison and then went into seclusion. Here’s the trailer for the movie, which leaves out its pornographic aspects. (There is not a man alive who doesn’t clutch his crotch during the scene when Abe cuts off her dead lover’s penis.)

On this day in 1946, in a horrendous episode, Louis Slotin, a physicist working on nuclear reactions at Los Alamos, was fatally irradiated after his hand slipped, bringing two plutonium spheres together and initiating a fission reaction. (He was using the edge of a screwdriver to keep the spheres apart—a big no-no—and the screwdriver slipped.) Sloting died a painful death nine days later. On May 21, 1972, a vandal (“the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth”) damaged Michelangelo’s statue Pietà in the Vatican, knocking off Mary’s arm and damaging her nose and eyelids. Toth served three years in a hospital and was then deported to Australia. Finally, it was on this day in 1991 that former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by a woman suicide bomber wearing an explosive belt.

Notables born on May 21 included Albrecht Dürer (1471, one of my five favorite painters), paleontologist Mary Anning (1799), Henri Rousseau (1844), Fats Waller (1904), Andrei Sakharov (1921), Günter Blobel (1936), Leo Sayer (1948), Al Franken (1951), Jeffrey Dahmer (1960; killed in prison at age 24), Lisa Edelstein (1966), and The Notorious B.I.G. (1972). Here’s a series of Dürer sketches that includes cats.

Those who died on this day include Christopher Smart (1771; author of the best cat poem ever), social-work pioneer Jane Addams and geneticist Hugo de Vries (both 1935), and Rajiv Gandhi (see above).

Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Hili’s in the garden but wants the greater freedom of the orchard:

Hili: Let’s go to the orchard.
A: Now?
Hili: Yes, here I feel claustrophobic.
In Polish:
Hili: Idziemy do sadu.
Ja: Teraz?
Hili: Tak, tu mam poczucie klaustrofobii.

Leon’s family finally got the foundations of their wooden house poured, and, I hope, by the end of the summer Leon and Hili will live only about 10 km apart. Leon and his staff are still in Wloclawek, but not for long!

Leon: Sunbath in a favorite cardboard box—this is it!

In Polish: Kąpiel słoneczna w ulubionym kartonie to jest to!

Reader Barry sent a cat sleeping in such a weird pose that people suspect it was photoshopped. (I don’t think so.)

https://twitter.com/StefanodocSM/status/997786780517699585

Reader Gethyn sent cat armor:

From Grania; what the Internet has come to:

What am embarrassing fate! This student will forever be known as “vagina man.”

https://twitter.com/AwardsDarwin/status/997550496171921408

Do read the short article:

An excerpt from Frum’s Atlantic piece:

More than 70 percent of Trump voters in 2016 described guns as “very important” to their vote, versus only 40 percent who described abortion as “very important” to their vote and only 25 percent who felt that way about gay rights. With the slow fading of battles over same-sex marriage and abortion, and the rapid collapse of other aspects of conservative ideology, guns may now rank as the single most important political dividing line in 21st century America.

. . . According to a Pew survey, only about one-quarter of gun owners think it essential to alert visitors with children that guns may be present in the home. (Twice as many non-gun-owners think so.) Only 66 percent of gun owners think it essential to keep guns locked up when not in use. (Ninety percent of non-gun-owners think so.) Only 45 percent of them actually do it.

Joyce Carol Oates apparently has a new cat, but, like me, doesn’t give a toss for the Royal Wedding. (Cats are, of course, themselves royalty.)

From Matthew, who thought today was World Bee Day (it was actually yesterday), we have a clear-winged moth that mimics a bee: a clear case of Batesian mimicry:

What is going on here? Invasion of the Giant Mallards? The backstory is here.

I’m no fan of the brouhaha around the Royal Wedding, but it sure brought out the termites:

The best use of Twitter is to show stuff like this:

Finally, a comic from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith (h/t: Phil D.)

Monday: Hili dialogue

May 14, 2018 • 6:30 am

by Grania

Here we go again, happy Monday!

It’s the anniversary of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865; the siege of Jerusalem by Roman Emperor Titus in 70 AD and the day of the Black Sunday Dust Storm in 1935.

 

It’s the birthday of geneticist Francis Collins, Scottish actor Peter Capaldi (the 12th Doctor) and British producer Gerry Anderson who produced the cheesy but enduring Thunderbirds among other sci-fi series.

There’s an hour-long documentary on the making of the series that you can watch here.

Today in 2015 Percy Sledge died  after a career that spanned four decades.

Today on Twitter

A bird-dropping mimic. I’m not 100% sure of the species, but there is an article here of swallowtail caterpillars and one on the moth caterpillar, M. maxima here.

Cat tattoos

https://twitter.com/41Strange/status/995793105801527296

Slightly unsettling Soviet propaganda

Let’s go sunning.

https://twitter.com/EmrgencyKittens/status/995621181058318336

And a further installment in the series “Legit artists who couldn’t draw cats.”

The Hogwarts acceptance letter has arrived

Nice escape:

Finally, on to the Polish felids. They seem to have very different philosophies on life.

Leon: I had a busy day

 

Hili: I’ve considered all options.
A: And?
Hili: As usual, I will have a look to see what’s in my bowls and I will have a nap.

In Polish:

Hili: Rozważyłam wszystkie opcje.
Ja: I co?
Hili: Jak zwykle, zajrzę co jest w miseczkach i idę spać.

Hat-tip: Matthew, Barry

 

Thursday: Hili dialogue

May 10, 2018 • 6:30 am

by Grania

Jerry has been laid low by a surfeit of fine comestibles. He is currently in recovery mode and will join us when he can later on today. We can conclude that Jerry exemplifies the epitome of human civilisation; for did not the Great Sage Douglas Adams once say:

“The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question ‘How can we eat?’ the second by the question ‘Why do we eat?’ and the third by the question ‘Where shall we have lunch?”

In 28 BC a sunspot was observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China. 1933 in Germany, the Nazis staged public book burnings. In 1954 Bill Haley & His Comets released “Rock Around the Clock”, and eventually reached number one on the Billboard charts. In 1994 Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as South Africa’s first black president.

It’s the birthday of Sid Vicious 1957 (Sex Pistols) and Bono 1960 (U2), so we get to listen to these tracks today.

Random stuff from Twitter today:

Batgirl!

https://twitter.com/41Strange/status/994387863805415424

Some timely advice. I have a stomach ache just looking at it.

I did say they were random.

When you lie on your CV

https://twitter.com/StefanodocSM/status/994124942441664513

I never get tired of watching these kinds of videos.

https://twitter.com/invisibleman_17/status/993749960788267008

On to the felids! Hili has been reading too many puzzle books. Here she contemplates the Vistula.

Hili: We have to take a boat and go to the other side of the river.
A: What for?
Hili: To return to our side.

In Polish:

Hili: Musimy wsiąść do łodzi i popłynąć na drugą stronę rzeki.
Ja: Po co?
Hili: Żeby wrócić na naszą stronę.

And Leon is tetchy today.

Leon: Not now, I’m very hard-pressed.

Thursday: Hili dialogue and Leon monologue

May 3, 2018 • 6:30 am

It’s now Thursday, May 3, 2018, and in only four days I’ll be winging it to Paris—largely to eat, of course. Eleven days, 10 restaurants (one twice), and 11 reservations.  Food porn galore will ensue, so stay tuned for photos!.Meanwhile, today is National Chocolate Custard Day, but I’ll be tucking into chocolate mousse in less than a week. Today is also World Press Freedom Day, and I wish our students (or the Maroon, our student newspaper) would be celebrating it.

As lagniappe, today’s Google Doodle (click on screenshot below) celebrates the French filmmaker Georges Méliès (1861-1938), who was neither born nor died on this day. But, as Time Magazine notes, “Google is timing the Doodle’s launch to coincide with the release date of one of Méliès’ popular works, ‘À la conquête du pôle (The Conquest of the Pole),’ which was released in 1912.”

When you click on the arrow, you’ll be taken to a YouTube animation with clips from and riffs on Méliès’s famous animation Trip to the Moon (1902). This is supposed to be, as the YouTube notes indicate, the first virtual reality Doodle, but I don’t see what’s so VR about it. Readers, please enlighten us.

The notes:

The Google Doodle, Google Spotlight Stories, Google Arts & Culture, & Cinémathèque Française teams have collaborated to create the first-ever Virtual Reality (VR) / 360° interactive Doodle to celebrate the life and artistry of French illusionist and film director Georges Méliès. Produced by Nexus Studios.

Want to see it in VR? Click here.

A charming illusionist, an adventurous queen of hearts and an evil green man journey through early cinema, film magic and love. Back to the Moon is an animated, interactive Doodle celebrating the artistry of film director and prestidigitator Georges Méliès.

Click below to go to the “virtual reality” animation:

On this day in 1715, a solar eclipse occurred that was visible across northern Europe and Asia, and had been predicted by astronomer Edmund Halley to within four minutes! 77 years later, Washington, D.C. was incorporated as a city.  And, on May 3, 1848, the boar-crested Anglo-Saxon Benty Grange helmet, shown below, was discovered in a barrow on the Benty Grange farm in Derbyshire. It is from the seventh century A.D., and so is very old.

Wikipedia describes its significance and meaning of its iconography:

It is one of only six known Anglo-Saxon helmets, discovered before those from Sutton Hoo, York, Wollaston, Shorwell, and Staffordshire. The combination of structural and technical attributes used in the helmet’s manufacture are unique, but contemporary parallels exist for its individual characteristics. Within this context the helmet is classified as one of the “crested helmets” used in Northern Europe from the 6th to 11th centuries AD.

The most striking feature of the helmet is the boar at its apex, but in a display of syncretism this pagan symbol faces towards a Christian cross on the nasal. This dualism is representative of 7th-century England, a time when Christian missionaries were slowly converting Anglo-Saxons away from traditional Germanic beliefs. With a large boar and a small cross, the helmet seems to exhibit a stronger preference towards paganism; the cross may be added for talismanic effect, the help of any god being welcome on the battlefield.

Here it is!

Also on this day in 1913, the first full length Indian feature film was released: Raja Harishchandra.  Exactly 8 years later,  The “Government of Ireland Act 1920” was passed, which divided that green isle into Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland.  On this day in 1937, the novel Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.  Two decades later, Walter O’Malley, the new owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, to the eternal anger of Brooklynites, moved his team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.

On this day in 1960, the Broadway musical comedy The Fantasticks opened in Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time. Can you name its most famous song? On May 3, 1963, as Wikipedia describes it, “The police force in Birmingham, Alabama switches tactics and responds with violent force to stop the Birmingham campaign protesters. Images of the violent suppression are transmitted worldwide, bringing new-found attention to the civil rights movement.” Finally, the very first bulk commercial email, or spam, was sent by the Digital Equipment corporation to every ARPANET address on the U.S. west coast. A grim day for sure; now they send ads to enlarge male genitalia.

Notables born on May 3 include Jacob Riis (1849), Golda Meir (1898), Bing Crosby (1903), Pete Seeger (1919), Steven Weinberg (1933), Franki Valli (1934), Mary Hopkin (1950), and Christopher Cross (1951). It was a good day for musicians! Notables who died on this day were few: Christine Jorgensen (1989), Jerzy Kosinski (1991), and Wally Schirra (2007).

Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Hili is trying to eat healthier:

Hili: I see health food.
A: Where?
Hili: Over there. It’s running to its burrow.
 In Polish:
Hili: Widzę zdrową żywność.
Ja: Gdzie?
Hili: Tam, ucieka do norki.
And not far away, Leon is still roaming the grounds of his future home:

Leon: I’m exploring native fauna.

In Polish: Badam tubylczą faunę.

Matthew sent some tweets. Do try this at home if you have a candle. I have, and it works!

https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/991640581834203142

Parental instinct gone wrong. What will the bird do when an oak tree hatches?

Grania sent a great astronomy time-lapse showing the gravitational attraction of stars to a black hole:

https://twitter.com/WorldAndScience/status/990727549306245122

A WaPo story I highlighted yesterday, but do read it if you haven’t already:

A spider that supposedly deters predators by resembling a snake:

And two medieval cats in the yard:

Wednesday: Hili dialogue (and Leon monologue)

May 2, 2018 • 7:15 am

It’s Wednesday, May 2, 2018, and National Chocolate Truffle Day. Alas, I have none of these things. And in Bhutan, where I’d like to go if they’d rescind their huge per-diem tourist fee it’s the birth anniversary of Jigme Dorji Wangchuck the 3rd Druk Gyalpo, who began Bhutan’s first steps toward modernization.

On May 2, 1611, London printer Robert Barker published the very first King James Version of the Bible. I still claim it is not a great work of literature, even in that version. On this day in 1920, the first game of Negro League baseball was played in Indianapolis. Blacks weren’t allowed in “major league baseball” until Jackie Robinson started for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947.  On this day in 1945, after the suicide of Hitler and Eva Braun, the Soviet Union announced that Berlin had fallen.  And on May 2, 1952, the world’s first ever commercial jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1, made its first flight: from London to Johannesburg. On May 2, 1986, the city of Chernobyl was evacuated six days after the uncontrolled nuclear reaction and explosion. Finally, it was on this day 18 years ago that President Bill Clinton announced that GPS technology would no longer be restricted to the U.S. Military. “Let there be Siri navigation!”

Here is drone footage of the abandoned city of Chernobyl, filmed between 2013 and 2016, 27-30 years after the accident:

Notables born on this day include Alessandro Scarlatti (1660), Catherine the Great (1729), Hedda Hopper (1885), Manfred von Richtofen, the Red Baron (1892; shot down at age 25), Satyajit Ray (1921), Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, Druk Gyalpo of Bhutan (1929, see above), Lesley Gore, born Lesley Sue Goldstein (1946), and Brian Lara (1969). Those who died on May 2 include Martin Bormann (1945, probably a suicide), Joseph McCarthy (1957), J. Edgar Hoover (1972), Oliver Reed (1999), Lynn Redgrave (2010) and Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. (2014).

Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Hili is practicing her ornithological skills:

A: What are you looking at?
Hili: I’m trying to see what kind of bird that is.
In Polish:
Ja: Czemu się tak przyglądasz?
Hili: Patrzę, co to za ptaszek.

And Leon is still staking out his future home, suggesting a new plant for the garden:

Leon: Catnip aromatherapy? We could try.
In Polish: Aromaterapia kocimiętką? Można spróbować.

Some tweets from Grania; this one shows a concealed-carry kitten:

A sneaky sheep. Look at that coat!

https://twitter.com/41Strange/status/991469182981058560

This belongs in the National Enquirer, but it’s true:

And what did you expect given that the letter said that Trump was “the healthiest President ever elected”? What? With all that junk food he eats?

A lovely full moon over the high mountains of Pakistan:

From Matthew; a spry grandma:

And a painting with a GOOD picture of a cat:

The Einsteins test out a movie gimmick. Watch out, Albert!

 

Tuesday: Hili dialogue

May 1, 2018 • 7:15 am

It’s May! It’s May! The lusty month of May! (Tuesday, May 1, 2018). And here’s an appropriate song that you’ll know if you’re “of a certain age.” If you’re not, you should know it.

It’s also National Chocolate Parfait Day, as well as International Worker’s Day, celebrating the laboring folk. It was and is a huge holiday in the Soviet Union, but this tweet, from Grania, shows that not everyone was enthused:

But in 1886 in the U.S., it began a tradition:

On May 1, 301, Diocletian and Maximian retired for their office of co-Roman Emperor. On this day in 1169, Norman mercenaries landed in Leinster, which, according to Wikipedia, marks the beginning of the Norman Invasion of Ireland.  On May 1, 1328, the Wars of Scottish Independence ended as the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton recognized the Kingdom of Scotland as an independent state. But then, on the same day in 1707, the Kingdoms of England and Scotland joined to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.

On this day in 1753, Linnaeus published his catalogue Species Plantarum, marking the start of plant taxonomy as well as the Latin binomials which has become the modern convention of how to denote a species. Exactly 33 years later, Mozart’s opera The Marriage of Figaro had its debut in Vienna. On this day in 1863, the Battle of Chancellorsville began.  On May 1, 1930, Pluto was officially named as a planet. It still is one, and shut up if you disagree!  In 1948, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) was established under the tyrannical rule of Kim Il-Sung, who is still considered “The Eternal President of North Korea”. Exactly 8 years later, after successful field trials, Jonas Salk made his polio vaccine available to the public. What a hero! Today they’d try to patent it.  On this day in 1960, in the famous U-2 incident, Francis Gary Powers of the U.S. was shot down in his U-2 spy plane, creating a huge fracas. He spent two years in a Russian prison and then was returned to the U.S. in a prisoner exchange, dying in a helicopter crash in 1977.  On May 1, 1999, the body of British Climber George Mallory was found on Mount Everest, 75 years after he and his co-climber Andrew Irvine disappeared on Mount Everest. There’s still debate about whether they reached the summit.  On this day 7 years ago, there were two incidents: Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. Navy Seals, and Pope John Paul II was beatified in a rush job by his successor Benedict XVI.

Notable born on this day include Calamity Jane (1852), Theo van Gogh (1857), Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881), eviscerated by Peter Medawar, Glenn Ford (1916), Jack Paar (1918), Joseph Heller (1923), Judy Collins (1939), Rita Coolidge (1945), and photographer Sally Mann (1951). Those who died on May 1 include David Livingston (1873), Antonín Dvořák (1904), Joseph and Magda Goebells (1945, suicide in the Führerbunker), Spike Jones (1965), Eldridge Cleaver (1998) and Steve “Superman” Reeves (2000).

Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Hili is using woo to prevent a failure of cherry maturation as happened last year. It’s a wonderful picture of Hili, too.

Leon: well, I’m setting of in search for May adventures.

In Polish: No to wyruszam na poszukiwanie majówkowych przygód.

Reader Dean sent a tweet (enlarge sign by going to the tweet and clicking on the right side) that shows a postmodernist message from a landlord about the absence of a fire extinguisher.

And from Ann German via Heather Hastie, an ancient cat is reassured by a modern one:

https://twitter.com/AwwwwCats/status/990605261877465088

From Grania, a splendid aerial view of Central Park:

The hyprocrisy of the rich:

Wonderful high-res photos of Andromeda:

https://twitter.com/WorldAndScience/status/991165423000391680

And another inappropriate use of cats in advertising (are the cats being bathed in cocoa?)

From Matthew; learn from Feynman how trains stay on tracks:

Nature red in tooth and claw—on two levels:

Monday: Hili dialogue (and Leon monologue)

April 30, 2018 • 7:15 am

Professor Ceiling Cat (Emeritus) here: I’m back for a week doing the Hili dialogues, but will then repair to Paris for a week and a half. Let’s all have a round of applause for Grania, who took over this onerous duty when importuned.

Honey is still not back, though Sir Francis continues to guard the pond (and to get his daily rations). I will be bereft if my hen mallard doesn’t return; my one hope is that she’s sitting on her eggs somewhere nearby.

It’s April 30, National Raisin Day, brought to you by California Big Raisin. And it’s a UNESCO holiday: International Jazz Day! Let’s have some jazz, then, and in order not to jar you at this time in the morning, some soft jazz:

It’s the 241st birthday of Carl Friedrich Gauss, and Google has a Doodle celebrating the great German polymath. Note that the letters “oogle” each commemorate one of his contributions; can you name them?

On April 30,1492, Christopher Columbus received his “commission of exploration”, which of course led to his voyage to the Americas that year. On this day in 1789, George Washington was sworn in (on Wall Street in New York City) as the first elected President of the United States.  On April 30, 1803, the U.S. bought the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million. This “Louisiana Purchase” more than doubled the size of the country.  On this day in 1897, J. J. Thomson announced his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle; the work was done at the Cavendish Labs and the announcement made at a lecture at London’s Royal Institution.  In 1905, the “Miracle Year” for Einstein, he finished his doctoral thesis on April 30 at the University of Zurich.  Exactly 22 years later, the first set of footprints were left in concrete in front of Hollywood’s Grauman’s Chinese Theater: they belonged to Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. It’s Hitler Death Day, too: on April 30, 1945, Hitler and his new wife Eva Braun committed suicide in the Führerbunker as Russian troops closed in.  Exactly three decades later, Saigon fell to the Communists and the Vietnam war ended as the South Vietnamese President surrendered.  On April 30, 1993, CERN announced that the protocols for the World Wide Web would be free. Finally, in 2008, skeletal remains found near Yekaterinburg, Russia, were confirmed to be those of Alexei and Anastasia, two children of the Czar. The remains of the whole family, shot by the Bolsheviks, now rest in the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg.

Notables born on this day include Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777), Alice B. Toklas (1877), Bobby Vee (1943), Annie Dillard (1945) and Gal Gadot (1985). Those who died on April 30 include the engineer Casey Jones (1900), Adolf Hitler (1945; see above), George Balanchine and Muddy Waters (both 1983), and Nobel-winning chemist Harry Kroto (2016).

Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Elzbieta, who with luck (and with Andrzej II and Leon) will soon be a neighbor of Hili and Staff, came to visit, bringing Hili a cat sausage:

Hili: How nice that you came.
Elzbieta: I can tell that you are glad to see me.
 In Polish:
Hili: Jak miło, że wpadłaś.
Elżbieta: Widzę, że się cieszysz.

The good news from Wloclawek is that Leon and his staff have at last managed to find a contractor to pour the foundations for their wooden home, previously moved from southern Poland and its pieces stored in Andrzej and Malogrzata’s garage over the winter. Soon Leon will be living only ten miles from Hili! Here’s Leon speaking from the site of his future home:

Leon: The Sunday siesta. Where shall I dig around?

In Polish: Niedzielna sjesta, co by tu pogrzebać?

And we’re lucky to have photos and videos of all three Website Cats today. Here is a video of Gus getting baked in Winnipeg. Staff Taskin reports:

I plucked a bit of last year’s dried out plant from the pot. (It was a tiny bit too.) Catnip doesn’t survive our winters, so I will have to buy a new plant this year.

From Matthew; a Christmas pine cone, over half a century old, brings new life:

Spot the spider! Matthew will answer below:

A drunken cat came home:

From Grania: George Takei seems a bit of a flake!

LOL, these ducks refused grapes, as did mine!

A lovely Calico Maine Coon cat (Grania’s favorite) with a simply fantastic tail:

https://twitter.com/Animallovers77/status/990880687816245250

And cats pwning d*gs: all is well in the world.