Here's another fine holiday sweater display from the party at Ron Megee and Jon Fulton Adams' house on Monday (which was also co-hosted by Lou Jane Temple). Naturally, the frolicking kittens on Katie's green sweatshirt caught my eye.
There is no cereal more disappointing when you're a kid than Grape Nuts. The commercials show attractive young adults running, working, driving big cars and talking about how it keeps them going. Plus it has the words grape (yum) and nut (double-yum) in the name, so it has to be good. I should have known I was in for disappointment the first time I ever saw it at my grandparents' house. That should have been my first clue -- they couldn't run, didn't work and barely drove. I poured a big bowl of
William S. Burroughs' shopping listSince William S. Burroughs is going on 12 years dead, it must be time to shake loose the last few dollars from the famed writer's corpse. Someone is selling Burroughs' cat-centric shopping lists from his last days in Lawrence on eBay for the low, low price of $495 and you can "Buy it now." Don't worry. The lists are "authentic."The auction description says:Page 1: Items written by Burroughs -- 1. Cat Pans. 5. Limes & lemons. 6. Dry Cat Food. 7. Canned Cat f
Smudge the CatAnd now, for no good reason at all, a funny story about a cat. Told by Pitch clubs editor Berry Anderson:In the spring of '94, I got a kitten from my 10th-grade history teacher. She was all white with a big gray smudge on her head, so I named her Smudge.Smudge stayed in Long Beach when I moved out here and lived with the rest of my family.
She stayed with my mother on the northside until my mother died, and then she moved in with my brother and sister, who live in a pretty nice nei
The latest dispatch from Christos and co.'s Anarchy Tour comes from the keyboard of DJ Jamel Rockwell.
Rockwell: What's Good, KC? This is Jamel Rockwell handling the tour diary for the 1st and of July. Tuesday nite we did our thing at the Stray Cat in Tempe, AZ, and it felt good to be on the stage again.
The reception was more than positive, and we made a few Industry contacts, one of which might help immediately. We met famed Cali indie MC Xololaxinco (i hope to god i finally spelled that
Our colleagues at our St. Louis sister paper, the Riverfront Times, need your help tracking down a Missouri woman who breastfeeds her cat. See the picture. Take it for what it's worth, but this comes from the Brit tab Closer's profile of Janine Hammond, who resides somewhere in the Show-Me State (and takes the state slogan too much to tit heart), and nurses her cat, Flash.
Another site excerpted the Closer story, and reports that the 25-year-old says:
"People will think I'm weird, but it's
In an essay somewhere between satire and poignancy, author Jonathan Safron Foer wonders why we don't eat dog meat. Despite the fact that it's perfectly legal in 44 states, eating "man's best friend" is as taboo as a man eating his best friend. Even the most
enthusiastic carnivores won't eat dogs.... Our taboo against dog eating says something about dogs and a great deal about us.Foer goes on to examine the cultural mores and history surrounding the cooking and eating of canines, in large part
