It’s HIS corn and he says “MINE”. Teddy Bear doesn’t want to share.
Screwing with Maz Whang: the call of the Kookaburra
This made the naked food thief perk up… He is feeling much better after all.
Raptor Jesus be praised!
Day two: Hedwig and the angry hiss..?
Hmmm… Is Nightshade Jenny trying to tell us something, I wonder?
Previously, on this channel, butt-head Maz Whang hissed at Jenny and at my wife when she picked him up to, let’s say “decrease the atmospheric pressure” in the room. Made me wish I had the camera ready, it looked like something out of the first “exorcist” and all I could think of was:
Not Mazuzu Whang, but close enough. Tito, on the other hand, seems much more mellow and just very curious about the little ball of fur. There is a possibility that Tito could help in bringing her out of her shell, but we’ll explore that later.
In another post, this one about Mazuzu, I’d mentioned that it’s sometimes better to wait for the newly adopted to come up with their own name. And well, beyond the oh-so-sweet blinking gaze of Jenny’s blue peepers, I now sense something more than just the cute, vulnerable fuzzy-wuzzy that makes us go all kajagoogooey and ghoo-buh-ghee? Goo-buh-ghee-ish.
What happened yesterday, I can’t quite discount or otherwise sweep under the carpet. When in the safe room with my wife in the evening, Jenny decided to do a bit of exploring. Wonderful! Yes?
But when my wife was perceived to be getting “danger close” to the dish of wet food, Jenny fixed her with her ice-blue eyes and hissed a clear warning. Sooo-eee! We got us a handful there I think, so let’s see:
Hedwig \he(d)-wig\ as a girl’s name is of Old German origin, and the meaning of Hedwig is “contention, strife“. Actress Hedy Lamarr was born Hedwig Kiesler.
Hmmm. Hedy… Hedwige… Hedda…
Klingon for cats: a “Kajagoogoo” revival of sorts…
Everyone does it. It’s only a problem when you actually do it on purpose, and a sickness when you work at making it into a language.
Baby talk. Whether with infants or pets. Maybe it starts with the ‘shorthand’ people develop when they live as a couple for a while, sharing an ever increasing frame of reference. I was reminded of this while watching “date night” with Tina Fey and Steve Carell, a pretty funny and fresh take on marriage.
Here, in the realm of jellybeansofdoom, Tito and Maz Whang do it in their own way: the cooing, meowing, purring and other vocalizations.
And I’ll confess we imitate them, only to have them both look at us as though we speak in a heavily accented version of cat. Silly humans and their funny walk…
For having led such a sheltered life (by comparison), Maz speaks in harsh tones (unless he’s cold, in which case he whimpers ‘sotto voce’). His language is positively Klingon and I’m certain I heard him more than once calling Tito a p’tahk, whatever that means.
But where it gets really questionable is when I find myself (this is hard to admit, gimme credit) pulling the covers away from Maz’ sleepy head and whispering…. Buh-ghee! Buh-ghee! Ghoo! Ghoo-ghee..?
No, I don’t even know what it means but it does make us both feel good. I think.
Oh and speaking of Kajagoogoo, this guy wouldn’t last a minute around cats with this hairdo, and that’s before he put beads in. Hey, you know, I guess I do remember the ‘80s after all…
Twofer Tuesday: Presenting Cyriak
Musical archeology: where the switchblade came from…
Made you look. Okay, what was with the switchblade waved by Julien Doré in his video “les limites” posted here previously.
Glad you asked, because thanks to some hardcore detective work (okay: reading comments on youtube), we knew the video was inspired by an old Serge Gainsbourg song, back when they were called ‘clips’. Question was: which one? After hours of research fueled by coffee and aspirin, we found it in Gainsbourg’s song “les yé-yés”.
More can be found about the yé-yés here.
Now, Gainsbourg was always a better songwriter than singer and had a hit in 1965 with “laisse tomber les filles” sung by France Gall, then 17. This song might sound familiar as Quentin Tarantino used it in “Kill Bill”:
Now you know. Let’s bask again in a bit of retro-cool with another version of Doré’s song: it’s got dogs, a rooster, a pony!
Frightnin’ night cat blogging: Happy Halloween!
This is a bit of a tour de force: Rhudha-an carved the pumpkin, set up the background, lured Kitsy to pose and shopped the photos in a short afternoon:
Of course, Tito appears as his favorite Halloween character:
As some of you know, we’re huge fans of the Mighty Boosh here. Watching the series episodes again, it was amazing to see how many unique ideas for Halloween costumes they provided. Thrown in for good measure in position number two is a music vid from Kasabian with Noel Fielding from the Boosh as Vlad the impaler. Enjoy.
Mighty Boosh (Noel Fielding Julian Barratt) “blackfrost” from the “Tundra” episode:
“Vlad the Impaler” by Kasabian with Noel Fielding (Mighty Boosh):
Mighty Boosh “super magic men”:
Mighty Boosh “Nannageddon”:
Manic Monday with Zombies, Poo and Farting
UPDATE: An amazing thing happened. I woke up Monday and posted this thing. Then I took a nap and woke up on Sunday. Good heavens! Einstein would be amazed. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Yet another manic Monday rolls around. Since Halloween is tomorrow, I thought I would share a vid or two.
Thanks to a friend of our blog, Nekoneko, we found very funny Taylor Swift music parody by VenetianPrincess.
From there, we found another funny vid.
That led to yet a third vid. This one isn’t by VenetianPrincess. It may no be safe for work either, so be warned. It’s rude, but no real foul language.
Caturday: the parrots of pendants…
It started with another bright idea from Kit “Maz” Whang as he played in the bathtub…
With Halloween almost upon us, he told Tito they should disguise as pirates of Penzance. Unfortunately, because of Maz’ thick accent, Tito thought he meant to disguise as “parrots of pendants”.
With perfect timing, we received these wonderful pendants from Flumpytail yesterday, and all was right in the world:
Swashbuckling in the bathroom…
And for more zaniness, enjoy “les limites” by French singer Julien Doré, great-great-great nephew of illustrator Gustave Doré:
Friday Night Cat Blogging: otherworldly weirdness
Late edition tonight, with a rare photo of Kitsy “Maz” Whang’s homeworld…
The cat who fell to Earth…
Earthly brother Tito…
And now, the fate of the masturbating bear…