The way the animals live, everybody envies them, because look, a cat, when it walks—did you ever see a cat making an aesthetic mistake? Did you ever see a badly formed cloud? Were the stars ever misarranged? When you watch the foam breaking on the seashore, did it ever make a bad pattern? Never. And yet we think in what we do, we make mistakes. And we’re worried about that. So there came this point in human evolution when we lost our innocence. When we lost this thing that the cats and the flowers have, and had to think about it, and had to purposely arrange and discipline and push our lives around in accordance with foresight and words and systems of symbols, accountancy, calculation and so on, and then we worry. Once you start thinking about things, you worry as to if you thought enough. Did you really take all the details into consideration? Was every fact properly reviewed? And by jove, the more you think about it, the more you realize you really couldn’t take everything into consideration, because all the variables in every decision are incalculable, so you get anxiety. And this, though, also, is the price you pay for knowing that you know. For being able to think about thinking, being able to feel about feeling. And so you’re in this funny position.
During a usual lengthy night of chatting with the Fords, a trashy series of books came into conversation and evolved into the topic of werecats. During this conversation I recited what I thought was the most common cats – Apparently not the same as everyone as could be told by the uncontrollable bursts of laughter.
I was told I had to write down what I know without research, so here I introduce “Everything I know about big cats by Zach Inglis”
As far as authentic superhero cosplay goes, this cat dressed up as the Red Lantern kitty Dex-Starr for Comikaze Expo 2011 pretty much takes the cake, as it is both 1) an actual cat and 2) angry as hell. Since pretty much any cat you try to dress up like a human will instantly turn into a Red Lantern, this seems like a rich, untapped vein of cosplay that I very much hope other fans will explore and photograph for my amusement. (via DTJAAAAM and Geektrooper)
Oh god, Dex-Starr is a perfect costume for my cat.
Phonse got a new toy for Willow. It’s a bunch of feathers on the end of a stick. Pushka either hates it or loves it, I can’t tell. Either way: she fucking wants it.
