State of the cats address

I’m currently preparing a state of the cats address to cover the last several months of cat images, language, and events in my brain. Stay tuned for the final edition.

Cats and engineers

This is a bit old, but it’s one of the funniest cat videos I’ve seen!!!

 

Metronatural: Discussion about the appearance but not substance of environmental lifestyles

 
Look at the picture of the underwear ad, and ask yourself how wearing fashionable panties prepares you for recreational activities, the hearty outdoors (notice the ice and mountain climbing background in the ad), or an active lifestyle. Seattle’s slogan “Metronatural” is believed to capture the spirit of the Northwest, big city and eco-friendly–urban lifestyle and rugged [...]

The significance of cats

If one were wondering about the purpose of blogs and blogging, and especially if one were comparing the genre of weblog to academic discourse, it would be too easy to devalue the power and social consequence of self-sponsored digital writing.
Especially if the blogger were merely writing about her cats. Or LOL speak. Or stuff like [...]

How can you do that to a cat??????

 
 Kevin’s former boss just posted these pictures to his blog. Why would anyone do that to his cat?
So of course, Kevin had to do it too. Here is Tiger Lily as purrito.
 
And one with Kevin’s new jazz hat

But notice that Ralph was not impressed. It takes more than fancy clothes to make an impression on [...]

Michael and Wanda Dodd’s cats

This weekend I met the most wonderful cats, ever. I wanted to take pictures, and could only borrow the owners’ camera. Now I don’t have the images. I’m sad. The owners are Michael Dodd and his wife, Wanda. Dodd works with Kevin.
Wanda showed me a picture of her 3 cats all atop of her when she was [...]

Picturing life when languaging fails

 
 In my English 301 class, I’ve been teaching about blogging as a social action, and we read a cool piece of scholarship that theorizes why bloggers blog. What do they get out of it? How is the whacked-out genre of personal diary expressed to the world functioning in the lives of the millions of people [...]

Ralph with a cookbook

LaRae made a comment about Ralph cooking. Actually, here he is, comtemplating the cookbook.

Professor Pumpkin Puss

Ralph Ames (a character in J. A. Jance novels) is aka Professor Pumpkin Puss. He has a pale orange spot on his nose and under his chin. It looks as if he was lapping the pumpkin pie. There’s also a trace of it on his front paws. He probably needed to hold the pan steady.

 He’s [...]

Reading and writing interests

Tiger Lily seems to be interested in reading and writing. She likes to rest on the written word. Literally. In my writing studies class today, we talked about the authority of the written word, especially the pre-approved value of academic writing. I wondered why we automatically value academic meaning-making, but fail to see other kinds of textuality [...]