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:

Tito

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”:


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Caturday: the parrots of pendants…

It started with another bright idea from Kit “Maz” Whang as he played in the bathtub…

.. Yarrrr! Hang 'em from the yardarm!

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”.

Wait. What?

With perfect timing, we received these wonderful pendants from Flumpytail yesterday, and all was right in the world:

Tito's pendant
Kitsy's Penzance

Swashbuckling in the bathroom…

Parlay!!!

And for more zaniness, enjoy “les limites” by French singer Julien Doré, great-great-great nephew of illustrator Gustave Doré:


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Friday Night Cat Blogging: Sports Edition

Time to shine for the boyz again… And highlight the madness which courses through their veins, turning them into dashing blurs racing around the apartment.

I sing the body electric!

First, we have Tito doing his “monkey boy” routine in the cat tower…

Tito
Monkey boy…

Then lazy Mazuzu “Maz” Whang? stirs and photobombs….

I's gonna eat that camera...
I’s gonna eat that camera…

Now, the house I grew up in had tiled floors, and in the summer, cat racing was huge… Just to spice things up, we’d spread talcum powder on the floor to get more “action”. This video captures the sport very well…


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Friday Night Cat Blogging: fierce creatures

Time again for the boys to bask in the limelight, with other creatures added to the mix…

Yawwnnnnn....
It's contagious..!

And now, more of Eldritch’s Stigmatas, known to the locals as Mapaches!

Run: a biped!!!

The elusive Elvis Pike in a grainy FBI surveillance photo…

"Old Spice". Indeed...

And finally, an older video of a heroic dog. Can be difficult to watch but uplifting, still…

Friday night cat blogging: all is NOT quiet on the Western front

Time again for the boys to shine, and share the spotlight with the wildlife I work with at night. And I am talking wild life.

But first, Kitsy showing off his magnificent wrinkles:

Wrinklepuss

Then, Tito contorting himself in pleasure while sleeping…

Contorti-cat

Now, a couple of nights ago, while at work, I had to go break up a fight. Usually things are pretty calm, even if a bit weird.

Yeah. It's like that.

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Friday Night Cat Blogging with Lastech

Time for the boys to shine.

Tito with laser eyes
Tito with laser eyes
I'm in the bag
I’m in the bag

This is the city. I carry a badge. Okay, a holographic access badge, and I work nights. Many of my ‘encounters’ involve wildlife, raccoons, skunks, possums and feral cats, beasties whom I’ve grown fond of…

I love my job. At night, ‘laser eyes’ stare back at me as I throw scraps of food at them. I never knew raccoons ate yogurt, but there you go. My apologies, I digress…
The area I work in covers about 10 square miles, and my favorite corner is ruled by a black cat I call Mack, as in Mack The Knife. Mackie Messer.

Mack the Knife
Mack the Knife before the Jack the raccoon

I have no idea how old Mackie is, that mildly scruffy black cat with his entourage: Pirate Jenny, another black cat which I assume is female, Jack, a young raccoon who backs down every time Mack stares at him, and Paulie, the nervous skunk.

Mack the Knife facing raccoon
Mack the Knife facing Jack the raccoon

Yes, I feed them, but not in such a way as to make them dependent on my visits. I do enjoy the look of recognition from Mackie and respect the pecking order he has created.The shots show Mackie alone, then approached by Jack, and finally Mackie alone after Jack backed off, as I dispensed food….

Mack the Knife after Jack the raccoon
Mack the Knife after Jack the raccoon

Curious about Mackie..? here is the original video from “Three penny opera”.

Here is the Pirate Jenny song as done by Marianne Faithfull. The original is great, but this is also well done.


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No accounting for taste: some favorite movie themes and songs

This isn’t any kind of top 10 list, or “best of” by any means: the following clips are posted in no particular order, either.
Some are amusing, some evocative, maybe sad, but they have all stuck somewhere in my mind.

And this sample isn’t exhaustive: I left out Henry Mancini, Roque Banos and Bruno Coulais to name just a few.

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