I'm so Sorry for this

Alohpaw!

2009-12-29T00:51:00.000-08:00

One year in the making
http://alohpaw.blogspot.com/

Thanks Nick for the badge help

I thought of you

2009-12-09T01:06:00.000-08:00

Good

Best Coast - Sun Was High (So Was I)
Best Coast - When I'm With You

http://www.myspace.com/bestycoasty

Because if it's not Love...

2009-11-23T20:55:00.000-08:00

...Then it's the meowcals that will bring us together.

http://meowrissey2.ytmnd.com/

thanks R.

C.A.S.P

2008-10-19T18:03:00.000-07:00

cats against sarah palin

CAtBERt REPORt

2008-10-16T19:26:00.000-07:00

Stephen Colbert and kitty station managers in japan.
Starts at 2:33

meowtrosexual

2008-10-14T22:39:00.000-07:00

New York Times - "Sorry, Fido, It’s Just a Guy Thing"

"As a writer on adventuresofacitygirl.blogspot.com put it: “Single men and cats are like a burger and broccoli. Separately they are okay, but together it just seems off.”"

"Stacy Mantle, the founder of Petsweekly.com, a magazine for pet lovers, said that men are becoming more “cat literate” because they themselves are evolving."

"“Only intelligent, aware, caring men love cats,” one reader said" (Exactly)

"They are quick to point out other well-known macho cat owners: Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Victor Hugo and Marlon Brando, who reportedly found a stray cat on the set of “The Godfather” and incorporated it into a scene." ("What's the matter with you? Is this what you've become, some Hollywood finnochio that cries like a woman?")

"Single men were also almost as likely as single women to break a friendship rather than lose their cat, and would consider choosing their cat over their partner." (Later, Helena Bonham Carter!)

The New York Times - At Home With Wayne Coyne

Martin Keamy, Cat Lover and Former Marine

2008-06-16T15:17:00.000-07:00

Martin Keamy from the hit television show LOST

keamysparadise:
"After his retirement from the dog show circuit Keamy turned coach to win an award for his prized pure breed kitty. He holds his ribbon with pride. This is the first win for the Keamy-Kitty duo and many more victories are anticipated."

"Martin Keamy becomes part of a once popular Internet trend. "

das friends

2008-06-13T16:48:00.000-07:00

"The feline, which struck up the unlikely friendship with the 40-year-old Asian bear eight years ago, now can't bear to be apart from her friend. In fact, the pair are so close that zookeepers at Berlin Zoo had to reunite them after Muschi, or 'pussy' in German, pined for Maeuschen - 'little mouse' - after they were separated. "

Daily Mail - The cat and bear best friends who simply can't bear are to be apart

Blogdom

2008-05-31T18:46:00.000-07:00

"The will to blog is a complicated thing, somewhere between inspiration and compulsion. It can feel almost like a biological impulse. You see something, or an idea occurs to you, and you have to share it with the Internet as soon as possible. What I didn’t realize was that those ideas and that urgency — and the sense of self-importance that made me think anyone would be interested in hearing what went on in my head — could just disappear."

- Emily Gould

Catstronaut

2008-05-21T16:14:00.001-07:00

Steve The Cat

Steve is an active participant in NASA's Phoenix Mission to Mars. The Phoenix Mission will land in the northern polar region of Mars in late May 2008 and stretch out an instrumented arm to dig into the soil and ice

Steve The Cat at NASA space camp

"Meowing kittens alert humans to fire"

2008-05-15T00:47:00.000-07:00

Hell YES they did. They got lots of play-time to look forward to...

UPI - "Meowing kittens alert humans to fire"

Jezebel loves cats.

Xenu is not a cat

2008-05-13T11:31:00.000-07:00

San Francisco Sci-entology Protest

Saint Mr. Waffles

2008-04-22T15:46:00.000-07:00

I'm thinking if Benedict XVI was sitting on the papal throne a few centuries ago we'd have at least one cat with sainthood today.

The New York Times - Cat Lovers Appreciate Soul Mate in Vatican

"Benedict’s kindness toward the strays of Rome is already the stuff of Vatican legend. His house in Germany, its garden guarded by a cat statue, was filled with cats when Benedict lived there full time before he was posted to the Vatican in 1982.

And Benedict is, without a doubt, the first pope to have had an authorized biography of him written by a cat — Chico, a ginger tabby who lives across the road from Benedict’s old house in Germany. "

THANKS G !

Red a n d Purple Dodos Fools

2008-04-21T19:53:00.000-07:00

It's very nice ... like dancing in the kitchen when you are alone.

The Dodos - Red And Purple
The Dodos - Fools

Drums of Funny

2008-04-20T21:32:00.000-07:00

He's like a real life muppet

"Track A Ghost Through The Fog"

2008-04-18T14:12:00.000-07:00

They The Intro - Angel Deradoorian (of thedirtyprojectors)

C.A.T. D.I.Y

2008-04-18T10:07:00.000-07:00

Ikea Hacker Blog - Build Your Own Cat Furniture

Stairway to Cat Heaven

Thanks M !

"...because you have another eyelid"

2008-04-16T17:01:00.000-07:00

Because reading Dean Wareham's "Black Postcards" took me back to some good memories and because it was funny and true. We give it a 3 out of 3 eyelids. Read It.

Galaxie 500 - Spook ("Everett True asked me if the song was about a cat, because cats have an extra eyelid, too. Not cat, I said, but Vulcan")

Gustaf

2008-04-15T12:24:00.000-07:00

http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article2249534.ab

No translation needed

Thanks P !

Theremin J A M

2008-04-14T21:10:00.000-07:00

Thanks N !

The Cat Champ

2008-04-12T20:28:00.001-07:00

"when my soul starts glowing"

2008-04-08T20:38:00.000-07:00

my ipod shuffled it up pretty good tonight, this is all back to back:

5:08 Fucked Up Kid By Broken Social Scene Presents: Kevin Drew
2:05 Ponytail By Panda Bear
3:40 Head Full Of Steam By G0-Betweens
2:53 Parking Lot By Galaxie 500
3:39 Misery And Mountains, Arrows by New Buffalo

Cats Love Macs Flickr Photo Group

Invisible Violinist

2008-04-07T17:11:00.000-07:00

This interesting article "Pearls Before Breakfast" by Gene Weingarten about a world-famous violinist playing incognito for subway riders just won a Pulitzer Prize for Best Feature Writing .

"IF A GREAT MUSICIAN PLAYS GREAT MUSIC BUT NO ONE HEARS . . . WAS HE REALLY ANY GOOD?"

Charlie and Eli

2008-04-04T18:14:00.000-07:00

The Daily Coyote Blog rules

"Charlie came into my life when he was just ten days old, orphaned after both his parents were killed. He lives with me and a tomcat in a one-room log cabin in Wyoming."

August 14th 2007

"Charlie and the cat are so tight, fast friends, bros. I went outside to check on Charlie the other day and he and the cat were lying side by side on their backs under the little tamarask tree in the canyon, just looking at each other and the leaves around their faces, telling stories.

Charlie's got a bit of an identity crisis going on - he comes when I say "Charlie" and also comes when I say "Kitten!" There's one large tree on the route of our daily walkabout that the cat often climbs for the fun of it - scrambling up to the top branches and then straight down - and yesterday Charlie was trying so hard to figure out how to climb the tree. He put his front paws on the tree trunk, and I could just see him thinking, "OK, I reach my front legs up, THEN WHAT??""

THANKS C

On Sale!!

2008-04-02T12:35:00.000-07:00

The Chemung County SPCA in New York is celebrating April as Weird and Wonderful Month.

"Throughout the month of April, adopt any weird and wonderful shelter cat at a 25% discount (provided that the adoption application is approved). What is "weird and wonderful"? Any cats with extra toes, cross-eyes, or any other unique traits will be available at a discount. Come add a weird and wonderful feline to your family! "

Some of our "weird and wonderful" felines:

* Ken (2 different colored eyes)
* Jiminy (masked face--he's our resident "Batman"!)
* Gardner (unusual looking nose)
* Lucky B (likes to play in water)
* Dennis (polydactyl)

They also have a "Lonely Hearts Club" that features those cats who have remained at the SPCA for the longest amount of time

"Ginger, Club President, has been at the SPCA since July '07. "

Christian The Lion At World's End

2008-03-26T16:54:00.000-07:00

These 2 guys reared this lion from a baby in England but the authorities would not allow them to keep it once it reached maturity so they were forced to give it up, they took it back to Africa and placed it in a wildlife sanctuary, a year later they went to see it and were told it would not remember them.

WATCH VIDEO FIRST

"Both believed that lions were possessed of a sixth sense and George was convinced that a scientific explanation would one day be found.

And here, it seemed, was the proof.

"Christian stared at us in a very intense way," says Rendall. "I knew his expressions and I could see he was interested. We called him and he stood up and started to walk towards us very slowly.

"Then, as if he had become convinced it was us, he ran towards us, threw himself on to us, knocked us over, knocked George over and hugged us, like he used to, with his paws on our shoulders.

"Everyone was crying. We were crying, George was crying, even the lion was nearly crying." "

Full Story

THANKS Z

Best Idea Ever

2008-03-25T19:26:00.000-07:00

InventorSpot - Calico Café Caters to Cat Cuddlers Craving Kitten Companionship

" Living in Tokyo, the world's largest metropolitan area, isn't easy - even more so if you have a pet. Landlords are increasingly restricting pet ownership by tenants in the city's high-demand rental apartments.

The solution? Rent a cat at one of the city's popular new cat cafés! For just 800 yen an hour (about $8), you can get your fix of feline fellowship from - in the case of Calico - one of 19 "staff" kitties. Located in the Kichijoji district of western Tokyo, Calico has been a roaring, er, meowing success to the point where reservations are recommended on weekends and holidays."

WTF

2008-03-24T01:01:00.001-07:00

"They were selected by nature to use us"

2008-03-19T16:20:00.000-07:00

Salon.com - The cat whisperer; Will she be the next TV star animal trainer?

"Her goal isn't to train cats, per se, but to teach their owners to get inside the minds of their feline friends

One thing that I immediately liked about Nagelschneider's approach was her assertion that we focus on rewards, not punishment. She suggested a few "aversive techniques" to try when Thompson misbehaved, but they were pretty mild -- rattling a soda can filled with quarters to startle him, or simply ignoring him altogether. "We don't want to traumatize him," she explained. "The idea is to achieve the desired results with the least amount of invasive measures possible.""

This pro-active approach made sense to Alice Moon-Fanelli, a clinical assistant professor of animal behavior at Tufts University. "Cats are very responsive to positive reinforcement," she said. "Usually what happens is the pet gets attention when it's doing something wrong.""

Hearts Cat

2008-03-17T12:34:00.000-07:00

Do Cats Reduce the Risk of a Heart Attack?

"The researchers found that over a 20-year period, participants who had never owned a cat were 40 percent more likely to die from heart attack, and 30 percent more likely to die from any kind of cardiovascular disease."

Kattens of Vinter

2008-03-12T15:38:00.000-07:00

A whole minutes worth of footage of cats being cats in the snow but accompanied by our buddies The Ladybug Transistor song "Fjords of Winter".

Thanks G.

Get Faraday On This

2008-03-11T12:14:00.000-07:00

Mr.Lee CatCam

The principle for a wireless pet camera would look like this:

1938 – 2008

2008-03-11T12:11:00.000-07:00

My Screenplay

2008-03-07T22:06:00.000-08:00

A new state ban on smoking in restaurants and other nightspots contains an exception for performers in theatrical productions. So some bars are getting around the ban by printing up playbills, encouraging customers to come in costume, and pronouncing them "actors."

At the Rock Nightclub, a hard-rock and heavy-metal bar in suburban St. Paul, the "actors" during "theater night" do little more than sit around, drink, smoke and listen to the earsplitting music.

"They're playing themselves before Oct. 1. You know, before there was a smoking ban," owner Brian Bauman explained. Shaping the words in the air with his hands, like a producer envisioning the marquee, he said: "We call the production 'Before the Ban!' "

"The law was enacted to protect Minnesotans from the serious health effects of secondhand smoke," Minnesota Health Commissioner Sanne Magnan said. "It is time for the curtain to fall on these theatrics."

full article

When the world must come together as one

2008-03-06T15:32:00.000-08:00

I agree anonymous so i've taken this down .

Quantas 815

2008-02-20T12:01:00.000-08:00

The staff will be on vacation (Yes, the editors let the writers at "I'm so Sorry for this blog" go on vacation) in Australia for a bit... so here is a fable from down under.

PerthNow - Curious Cat Back After 11 Years

War Kittens

2008-02-18T14:53:00.000-08:00

Kitchen-Floor Conflict Intensifies As Rival House Cats Claim Same Empty Bag

MAPLEWOOD, MO—"It is beginning to appear that any long-term solution may have to involve deployment of the disciplinary squirt bottle," said one U.N. investigator.

"What people unfamilar with the history here must understand is that this seemingly empty and barren paper bag has rapidly become the third most important site in the area after the scratching post in the living room and the breakfast-nook windowsill," former CIA analyst Brian Haddox said. "Not only is it seen by both Boswellist and Johnsonian interests as a crucial location for establishing territorial control in the kitchen-floor region, but it also makes a crumpling sound that both sides find irresistible."...

"Reports from the ground indicated that Johnson, once in possession of the perimeter region up to the cat dish, was forced in the early afternoon to retreat to the green rug zone, where he licked his paws with apparent disinterest for an estimated 10 minutes. Without warning, Johnson then launched a full-frontal assault on Boswell's forces, pouncing from behind and eventually chasing his rival all the way to the bathroom sink. The heavy leaping and grappling was broken only by periods of intense mutual licking. At one point, the conflict escalated into full-fledged upside-down kicking of each other in the face before Boswell was distracted by an errant ball rolling across the floor, bringing the factions to an uneasy standstill."

mid life

2008-02-16T22:45:00.000-08:00

matador is releasing a prank phone call double cd by earles and jensen. from what i've heard so far, it sounds hilarious with nods to garfield, odie and pooky!!

"My Friends Call Me Ditchweed. Don't Ask. OK, Go Ahead and Ask"

A meow at a comedy show? It's just cats laughing .

2008-02-13T15:56:00.000-08:00

Michael Showalter is in the comedy group Stella

"Last July, while recording a show for the album at Union Hall in Park Slope, Brooklyn, Mr. Showalter heard a noise emanating from the floor beneath a young woman sitting in the front row. “She had a cage with two meowing cats in it,” said Mr. Showalter, who was quick to note: “I love cats. I had a cat for 14 years.” But the moment he heard the meowing, he abandoned his act to confront the woman (“Either leave or kill the cats,” he said. “That’s fair.”) until she eventually left her seat.

“I thought it was very funny,” he said. “She stayed after the show. We took some pictures. It just seemed fitting that we call the album ‘Sandwiches and Cats.’ ”"

Cats Love Comedy Too!!!!

The New York Times - Kill the Cats, but Keep the Career

Michael Showalter on his own cat, Lester!!!

"This is my cat, Lester. He is about 12 or 14 years old. I skipped the number in between because I'm superstitious. Lester's hobbies are eating cat food, meowing, scritching things, fighting with my roommate's cat, drinking water and sleeping. Lester's kidney's are failing him and he has trouble retaining water so he pees alot. Luckily, he's potty trained and uses the
toilet but he's not strong enough to lift up the seat, so sometimes there's cat pee on the toilet seat which I'm fine with, but my girl roommates Andrea and Sandra hate it. They always scream at him, "Lester! You forgot to lift the seat!" Lester is always very apologetic, but he's just not strong enough to lift the seat so it continues to be an issue. Luckily his penis is small so as long as he aims correctly it's very difficult for the pee to spray to the seat but Lester has a drinking problem and whenever he's drunk he wobbles when he pees so he always misses the toilet bowl and hits the seat"

The Band

2008-02-13T00:15:00.000-08:00

I wish for this shirt

HDDN CMRS

2008-02-12T21:20:00.000-08:00

there's awoot of people on stage.

Surf Bum

2008-02-08T11:17:00.000-08:00

Video of Nicolasa the surfing cat.

Make your own judgement.

I'm afraid of the ocean, can you imagine how a 4 month old kittten feels.

I Am Animal Video

2008-02-08T10:46:00.000-08:00

My favorite non black metal band from Norway

"'The Mystery of Marie Roget' directed by Amund Hesbøl taken from the Je suis animal album 'Self taught magic from a book' released feb 18th on Perfect Pop Records "

OG

2008-02-08T09:26:00.000-08:00

Hospitality

2008-02-07T20:24:00.000-08:00

I listened to the song "Liberal Arts" eleven times today.
And the rest are just as good.
Pete's Candy Store Residency

You can stream "Liberal Arts" here as well

Iriomote Who

2008-02-06T14:10:00.000-08:00

I've actually visited Iriomote Island and despite my excellent cat karma , no wildcats showed themselves.

The New York Times - As a Japanese Island Grows Less Remote, a Wildcat Grows More Endangered

"The Iriomote wildcat is said to have roamed this small, subtropical island in the East China Sea for 200,000 years, but proved so elusive that it was not discovered until 1967. To this day, many islanders have never seen the wildcat, and some even stubbornly deny its existence." "...Today’s old-timers, like Kimiaki Fujiwara, 78, came here as children and tend to be skeptical of all the attention the wildcat is getting. Mr. Fujiwara said he had never seen a wildcat in his 68 years here and actually doubted its existence. “I think they’re just house cats that ran away and are living in the mountains,” he said.""

Michael Vick still a giant dick

2008-02-04T13:14:00.000-08:00

We were lobbied by Mr.Waffles, the president of B.A.C.O.N (Bay Area Cats Organize Now!!!) to include this heartbreaking story about the current lives of 22 dogs saved from the clutches of the butcher Michael Vick.

The New York Times - Given Reprieve, N.F.L. Star’s Dogs Find Kindness

" Scars from puncture wounds on her face, legs and torso reveal that she was a fighter. Her misshapen, dangling teats show that she might have been such a successful, vicious competitor that she was forcibly bred, her new handlers suspect, again and again. But there is one haunting sign that Georgia might have endured the most abuse of any of the 47 surviving pit bulls seized last April from the property of the former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick in connection with an illegal dogfighting ring. Georgia has no teeth. All 42 of them were pried from her mouth, most likely to make certain she could not harm male dogs during forced breeding."

Kitten Halftime Show IV

2008-02-02T18:09:00.000-08:00

Airing Sunday Feb 3rd during Animal Planet's “Puppy Bowl IV" at 3pm PST

"And censors need not worry: there are no wardrobe malfunctions during the kitten halftime spectacle, in which 15 or so cats climb on and play with toys. This year’s version is more sparkly, with falling confetti and a background of silver streamers. “We took more, like, a burlesque approach,” Mr. Schechter said."
The New York Times - Just Fine as Tackles, but They Can’t Pass

Clip of last years extravagancy

"Finally, cats can relax!"

2008-02-01T10:50:00.000-08:00

"Why won't the grey cat in the video leave the SCRATCH LOUNGE"

Do You Has A Flavor

2008-01-31T23:44:00.000-08:00

An ad for teh new fragrance Flavor from I Can Has Cheezburger?

Tom Cat Are Serious Cat

2008-01-31T23:40:00.000-08:00

Kittens for Sale

2008-01-30T16:14:00.000-08:00

The Ashera Cat- GD model (Hypoallergenic)

From Lifestyles Pet

$28,000

+ $1500 for delivery costs

Estimated Delivery Times: 9-12 months (Add $6000 for quicker shipment)

Includes 1 year guarantee (see purchase agreement for terms and conditions)

Catgility

2008-01-30T15:55:00.000-08:00

"Persians will do a couple of obstacles, then rest."

"Some cats will get in there and then quickly decide 'I'm just not doing that' and sit in the middle and take a bath," says Carol Osborne

USA Today - "Agility contests for cats? It's purr for the course"

More photos

("Maybe I will, maybe I won't: Donna Hinton tries to get Eragon, Dragon Slayer, a Maine coon breed, to climb steps at the feline agility competition at the Houston Cat Club show".)

Diamond Dave

2008-01-29T14:35:00.000-08:00

I laughed really, really hard the other night at 5 AM, in bed...shattering the quiet of an entire sleeping neighborhood...listening to this played on some talk radio show... the isolated vocals of David Lee Roths during the recording of the song "Runnin' with the Devil"

Diamond Dave

Last Waltz

2008-01-28T12:57:00.000-08:00

My weekend was spent with Levon Helm

Cats Up

2008-01-28T09:00:00.000-08:00

Domingo Pianezzi persuades little Nicolasa to hang ten off Peru's San Bartolo Beach.

I brake for Morrisilly

2008-01-25T12:00:00.000-08:00

"It looked like the gig of a lifetime for a Morrissey fan, touring America with the man they call Moz. But our writer lasted barely a day – and still doesn’t know what went wrong"

The London Times - I was Morrissey's Roadie

Photo by A. Graham

R.I.P LOLSECRETZ

2008-01-25T10:21:00.000-08:00

A staff favorite, LOLSECRETZ, the site that fused the ideas of I Can Has Cheezburger and Post Secrets together has called it a day...

"So we had our 15 minz, and now we feel it's time to move on"

Applause.

Busch Light

2008-01-24T17:00:00.000-08:00

powers firemen hose much to the chagrin of cat.

Far Away Mae

2008-01-23T10:19:00.000-08:00

"How many lives did little tabby Gracie Mae use up when she crawled into her owner's suitcase, went through an airport X-ray machine, got loaded onto a plane, thrown onto a baggage belt and mistakenly picked up by a stranger far from home?"

Sun Sentinel - Cat sneaks onto Dallas flight in owner's suitcase

Snap

2008-01-22T19:24:00.000-08:00

Cat Margarita

2008-01-22T12:37:00.000-08:00

Sand Cat = Rad Cat

Who Knew Wareham

2008-01-16T09:20:00.001-08:00

Dean Wareham from Galaxie 500 is coming out with his memoirs

Dog's Best Friend

2008-01-15T19:00:00.000-08:00

Dog and cat's friendship continues after death

"...Oscar the dog and his best friend, Arthur the cat, were inseparable in life.

So, when 17-year-old moggy Arthur died, Oscar was left inconsolable. Their owners, Robert and Mavis Bell, buried Arthur in the garden.

But Oscar's love for his friend would not die – and during the night, he pulled the cat from his grave, carried him inside, laid him in the basket they used to share and gently cleaned him up.
Mr Bell found the pair curled up together in the basket. He said: 'Oscar had watched me bury Arthur. They had been inseparable.'

Arthur is now buried in a secure grave in the garden at the Bells' home in Wigan and Oscar has a new playmate kitten called Limpet."

Rise Above

2008-01-14T15:00:00.000-08:00

I've spent the last few weeks obsessing about The Dirty Projectors record "Rise Above", which is their re-imagination of the 1981 Black Flag classic "Damaged". It might be all the pretty harmonizing or the Edwyn Collins'ish of singer Dave Longstreth voice but whatever it is, it's working.

Listen first to the Black Flag version and then hear the Dirty Projectors translation.

Black Flag - Rise Above
Dirty Projectors - Rise Above
Dirty Projectors - What I See

More songs from their Daytrotter Session

Clip of "Rise Above" performed on chairs

I Know "Hello"

2008-01-14T09:00:00.000-08:00

Tiggy the Cat speaks! (with translation)

You're a Donut

2008-01-13T02:22:00.000-08:00

This is perfect...a 6 min. Beach House interview on German Television.

Non Fiction

2008-01-11T10:35:00.000-08:00

"Every Kid in the Universe Wants a Psychic Alien Cat Friend"

From Gawker Media's excellent new Sci-Fi site io9

"Recently, we talked about animal uplift stories, where non-human creatures gain human-like intelligence. Well, there's a subclass of that genre: the smart cat book"

Cat Disguise

2008-01-11T10:22:00.001-08:00

Kitty Wigs

Blonde sets off your kitty’s eyes and makes your kitty look tan.

Silver makes your kitty feel sexy and smart, like a cougar on the prow

Thanks T

Trip

2008-01-10T19:34:00.000-08:00

Thanks M.

Cats Without Us

2008-01-09T09:41:00.000-08:00

This book sounds pretty fascinating..."The World Without Us" by Alan Weisman

"Let us try a creative experiment," Alan Weisman proposes on page three: If humans disappeared from earth, what would happen? To your home, for example. To our cities, farms, and oceans. To the animals that remain. Or to the billion tons of plastic we'd leave behind."

From an interview with the author at The Washington Post

So I assume our pets are toast?
The creatures we have domesticated to the point of dependence would fall prey to predators. Chickens I'm not too confident about. Dogs will eventually lose to competition by coyotes, wolves, other canids. Our cats? You put a cat outside, they start to hunt. Very clever. The cat is here to stay.

Catistics

2008-01-07T10:39:00.000-08:00

According to the 2007-2008 National Pet Owners Survey done by the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association.

Thirty-nine percent of Americans own dogs and 34 percent own cats, but the average dog owner has 1.7 dogs while the average cat owner has 3.4 cats

The average cat owner has had cats for 19 years

78 percent sleep on a family member's bed at night and 68 percent receive gifts.

The top benefit of having a cat, reported by 93 percent of cat owners, is "companionship, love and company." Sixty-four percent of owners said their cat is like a child or family member. And 60 percent said an important benefit is "relaxation/relieves stress."

Taken from The Cat Lady column in The New York Post

Ain't No Cure for Love

2008-01-07T08:40:00.001-08:00

I'm so Sorry for 2007

2007-12-31T14:07:00.000-08:00

Fleetwood Mac - Tusk Documentary Spoon - Me and The Bean Eux Autres - Cold City Times New Viking - Live Je Suis Animal - Unreleased Album Kanye West - Graduation Amy Winehouse - Me and Mr. Jones Bowerbirds - Hymns For A Dark Horse Modest Mouse - Photo Blog Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam New Buffalo - Cheer Me Up Thank You Video The Ladybug Transistor - Terry Yellow Fever - Cats And Rats EP Bob Lind - Cool Summer Vampire Weekend - Cape Cod Kwasa Kwasa Dirty Projectors - Rise Above St.Vincent - Marry Me Camera Obscura - Tears for Affairs Video Jens Lekman - Into Eternity

Little kitties in a big city

2007-12-21T15:51:00.000-08:00

Yes!

The New York Times - To Dismay of Inspectors, Prowling Cats Keep Rodents on the Run at City Delis

And YES!!!

Working Class Cats Blog

Baby it's cold out there...

2007-12-20T19:29:00.000-08:00

...and it's getting colder

Our friends over at Owley Patrol posted two perfect songs for this exact moment.

Vashti Bunyan Coldest Night of the Year
Yoko Ono Remember Love

Thanks Owley

Till There Was Ringo

2007-12-19T15:21:00.000-08:00

If you think too hard you'll hurt your brain thinking about how famous The Beatles were.

The Beatles - Till There Was You

Poor Pete Best

Forward Thinking

2007-12-19T12:18:00.000-08:00

An interesting story from the other day about how some pet owners have made plans for the care of their animal in case of the owners death.

Owners encouraged to care for pets' future in estate planning

"A Los Altos group, 2nd Chance 4 Pets, says that an estimated 2 or 3 percent of the 8 million to 12 million companion animals that go into animal shelters each year are there because their owners have died or can no longer care for them"

(Ellen Maurer has mapped out a plan of care for her cat, Shasta)

Time Travel

2007-12-17T18:38:00.000-08:00

Shit, I love this band.

I'm proclaiming that my favorite record of 2008 is Beach House's Devotion, it makes me fucking shiver everytime I listen to it.

I still can't get enough of their first record that came out in 2006, in fact I consider that record one of my top favorites for 2007. It's like Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, it never falls off the charts. (BTW, listening to Devotion has seriously put a dent in the amount of atttention that has been directed towards the Mac's Rumours/Tusk era the past two months, more on that in another post)

This post is already in the future so no need to time travel back here in twelve months.

You love their first single Gila, how warm is that organ sound, how hot is that guitar lead, how blown is your mind.

More posts on Beach House

Three 1's

2007-12-17T16:08:00.000-08:00

My favorite record, song and live show this year is all M.I.A

Kala
Boyz
Fillmore

The video for "Paper Planes"

BFF - Tom & Jerry

2007-12-14T13:15:00.000-08:00

"Scientists at Tokyo University say they were able to successfully switch off a mouse's instinct to cower at the smell or presence of cats — showing that fear is genetically hardwired and not learned through experience, as commonly believed."

Japan scientists develop fearless mice

Night Lights

2007-12-13T20:25:00.000-08:00

I guess this would come in handy if the power goes off...but I have to say this sounds like bad news to me.

South Koreans clone cats that glow in the dark

"South Korean scientists tinkering with fluorescence protein genes say they have bred white Turkish Angora cats to glow red under ultraviolet light"

Get Detective Sprinkles on this case...

2007-12-10T14:14:00.000-08:00

The secret double life of Sergeant Podge is baffling his owners.
By day he is a sleepy, home-loving moggy. But by night he has more distant horizons.
Owner Liz Bullard has no idea where he goes. All she knows is that he needs a lift home.

The Full Article

Rare Photo Detective Sprinkles

I have become an aerial view of a coastal town that you once knew.

2007-12-08T16:01:00.000-08:00

Fionn Regan's "Be Good Or Be Gone", one of my favorite videos I've seen this year

Solidhilarity

2007-12-07T13:57:00.000-08:00

The Colbert Report Writers: Sorry, InternetFunnyOrDie.com

Winter

2007-12-03T12:03:00.000-08:00

Is anyone else cold?

Updates soon.

Lance

2007-10-22T16:23:00.000-07:00

R.I.P Lance Hahn

Lance Hahn who fronted the San Francisco band J Church passed away because of complications from kidney disease.

I had the pleasure of running into Lance often back in the Epicenter days of San Francisco.

He was always such a nice guy, in good spirits and always supportive of anything music.

A good man who'll be missed.

Twain Brain

2007-10-22T09:00:00.000-07:00

"Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat."

"That cat will write her autograph all over your leg if you let her."

- Mark Twain

Das Wii Gamenschowzen

2007-10-17T14:33:00.000-07:00

Katzenfreunde!

Sunni, Shiite or Kitty

2007-10-15T12:39:00.000-07:00

An article from yesterday's New York Times that I found interesting...about the Baghdad Bureau Chief John F Burns encounters and involvement with some cats during his tenure there.

(Iraq’s strays inherit land said to have given rise to all domestic cats)

The Garf

2007-10-12T15:46:00.000-07:00

I Just Discovered This Hilarious Comic Strip Called 'Garfield'

On The Road

2007-09-25T15:41:00.000-07:00

For a few weeks.

This is a lonely place. This was a home of mine.

2007-09-25T15:11:00.000-07:00

I'm so into these songs that I've heard from The Bowerbirds

My Oldest Memory
Dark Horse

Bowerbirds at Bowery Ballroom from sarahana on Vimeo.

lolsecretz

2007-09-21T15:44:00.001-07:00

The meeting of two of the internet's most famous memes– PostSecret and LOLcats.

http://lolsecretz.blogspot.com/

Stare Avey Tare

2007-09-17T15:00:00.000-07:00

Hopefully I'll see you T-shirt tonight.

Animal Collective - Fireworks (Live on KEXP via The Smudge of Ashen Fluff Blog)

More Vick-tims

2007-09-13T13:33:00.000-07:00

Michael Vick: 'I Also Ate Kittens'

RICHMOND, VA—In yet another installment in his series of recent confessional and contrite televised press conferences, suspended Atlanta...

Cat Mind

2007-09-12T14:43:00.000-07:00

The New York Times - For Memory to Last, Cats Need to Do, Not Just See

M.I.A coming back with power power

2007-09-12T11:05:00.000-07:00

Her father is a member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam , a Sri Lankan militant organization labeled as terrorists by 32 countries including the United States.

These songs are the bomb

Bamboo Banger
Paper Planes live on KCRW

The video for Boyz, maybe our favorite single of the year.

Back To Back

2007-09-08T12:00:00.000-07:00

Ochi Yosuke did it again! He repeated as the Air Guitar World Champion. He also wins world's best sweater!

Oh no! I overslept ! I'm late ! For my nap.

2007-09-07T14:33:00.000-07:00

The Garfield Randomizer

According to this SITE, Garfield comics make just as much sense if you throw random panels together.