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"Of all God's creatures,

there is only one

that cannot be made

the slave of the leash.

That one is the cat.

If man could be

crossed with a cat

it would improve man,

but it would

deteriorate the cat."

     -   Mark Twain

I'm a boogie woogie kind of piano man, and I remember the title of one old, old song called "Kitten on the Keys".  Click on the title and go to a page that plays that 1921 creation, if'n ya want to tap your toes a bit! (Note: if you don't have Quicktime installed on your computer, I don't think it will work...sorry!)

An early morning email from a pet food company had a little story about Nora the piano cat...which led me to search for this 'amazing' cat that has put out her own CD.  OK, take it with a grain of salt...found a YouTube video of her in action...would have liked to see her really go at it for a period of time, but the video is full of jump cuts which tells me Nora has a limited attention span when it comes to tickling the ivories.

However, I did find Nora featured in a "Catcerto" that was cute and nicely composed and edited...give it a second for the feline to get doing her thing as an orchestra plays to Nora's video interpretation of...something....

(note: Blogger's column width is cutting a little of the screen off on the right...you can double click on the screen below and go to the YouTube entry and actually enlarge to full screen)

"Are The Felines Mutual?"

Back to work time again, and not led any particular direction in which to blog early this morning. Broaching the whole Paris Hilton fiasco would be like taking candy from a baby....oh, wait a minute...

...but I did 'stumble' upon what is a 'majorly big thing' in cyberspace that you should know about if you don't already, and simply from the standpoint of "yeah, I've heard of 'em" in water cooler conversation. That's about my level of knowledge and involvement, but at least after reading this we can pretend to be hip. Or not.

LOLcats. Kitty pidgin.
Basically, words added to animal pictures...but apparently more.

I'd seen examples but just not really understood the phenomenon (and still don't, really). The idea is to take a cute picture of kitty and add bad grammar to it, or more of the truncated and unique grammar found in the emailing and blogging world. In itself that is is like the Cliffs Note version as there is supposedly a 'right' and 'wrong' way to go about "lolcatting".

I won't profess to go into more detail...just figured I'd post some of the ones that made me chuckle or smile...

...which is always called for on a Monday morning...

Here's hoping you have a purrfect day, and that you don't have to put up with too many catty remarks...