Steve’s day is proceeding according to schedule:
Every time I walk into the bedroom he is in another ridiculous position. I think he’s doing this to make me laugh and let down my guard.
by John Cole| 82 Comments
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SiubhanDuinne
That is a kitteh belleh just yearning to be scritched.
LAO
As I posted below — today is the big day. Jury Selection in the Bundy Bunch trial, Oregon edition. Opening arguments are tentatively scheduled for Tuesday.
manyakitty
Just wait until I send in Heisenberg’s come-hither pictures for the calendar. ScandOLA!
Ann
That is one happily acclimated cat. Congratulations!!
Geoduck
The main headline on the CNN website right now is almost literally “IT’S A HORSERACE, DAMNIT!!”
yellowdog
@manyakitty: I may send in one of Huxley’s porn poses.
Trinity
Oh to be a Steve.
manyakitty
@yellowdog: It can have a p0rn pets theme.
Patricia Kayden
@Geoduck: And CNN is so happy to announce that there’s a horse race between a dangerous, inexperienced, egomaniacal bigot and Secretary Clinton.
Steve’s eyes look like he is going to get John one of these days. That’s one floofy cat.
TaMara (HFG)
I’m banning the first person who calls this beautiful cat fat. /jk
One of the best days in the new house was when I came home and found all the kithehs in their “usual” spots, adjusted of course for the new location of everything, but they found their spots.
They were so traumatized by the move, it about broke Bixby. He fretted for days because his kittehs were distressed.
ET
My cat does this and it is ridiculous. But they are sooooo cute doing it.
Darkrose
BELLEH!!!
The Red Pen
Clearly a severe case of feline redonkulitis.
Rich Webb
If reincarnation is really a thing, I want to come back as Cole’s housecat. ;-)
HinTN
@manyakitty: What IS that calendar pic email?
manyakitty
@HinTN: I don’t think it happened yet. It’s going to be exciting, though–lots of pent up pics from last year.
Patricia Kayden
@Rich Webb: Or one of his many doggies. They’re definitely living the good life.
shell
Looks like a much smaller Steve head Photoshopped onto a big Steve body.
JGabriel
John Cole @ Top:
Don’t cats mimic their owners?
Villago Delenda Est
@LAO: The judge should only let the Bundy Bunch wear cowboy boots if the cowboy boots are covered in shit.
scav
@LAO: I’m somehow particularly relishing the detail that the ultimate symbol of attractive authenticity (cowboy boots!) is being valiantly fought for. (life isn’t kind enough to me for the ruling of “sure, but they have to be orange or pink.” is remotely possible.)
Villago Delenda Est
@TaMara (HFG): He’s floofy!
Elmo
Cat-based open thread! Goody!
So I’m not experienced with cats the way I know dogs. We have three now, only because my wife picked up an abandoned litter on the side of the road a couple of years ago. Two of them are normal wonderful friendly cats, loving on all the dogs and purring in laps for attention. The third is that way too – eight months out of the year.
But in the summertime, he takes himself out into the woods and won’t come back in. Won’t allow us to approach him either. He hangs around at the perimeter, eats food that we put outside, but it’s like he becomes a stranger. Two summers in a row now.
And it isn’t weather based. It’s still hot as fuck in the DC region, but he’s back now. He climbs in my lap and demands attention, he sleeps on the bed, he talks to us as he meanders around the house. Two weeks ago, he was Intrepid Danger Kitty, like a teenage boy unwilling to admit he has parents.
He’s a giant, too – 20lbs of lean muscle covered in the thickest, glossiest floofy coat. His paws are only a little smaller than my wife’s palms when fully extended.
Anybody else have a cat like this? He’s neutered, so it isn’t l’amour.
Roger Moore
That’s a classic feline pose. I’ve seen big cats in the zoo lying exactly the same way.
Poopyman
Looks like our Archie, although at 25 pounds we like to say he’s capsized. And Archie luvs to have a belly rub. Not catlike at all.
Also too, with the outstretched right hand. I have a pic of him on the kitchen floor on his back with the paw outstretched towards his empty bowl. Caption-worthy, although it reminds me most of the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
RSR
From the holy shit files:
Justice is blind, except after your judge’s football team loses unexpectedly.
Emotional Judges and Unlucky Juveniles
ruemara
Bellehbellehbelleh. That is all. I got proof of life pics of my cats from the h’ex. The floofy one is looking floofy & dignified. The minipanther is looking rather like Steve, but with early JC style photo oeuvre.
germy
@Elmo: The Call Of The Wild.
germy
Our cat will be sitting quietly on the floor (bread loaf pose) but when I enter the room she’ll flip over on her back and writhe around while staring at me. Loves to be petted.
Poopyman
@Elmo: Yes, he whose nickname is my nym. Right now he still spends most nights and days outside, but has become more willing to come in for periods. He knows the days are getting shorter, and I think the (too) few cool nights this past week has reminded him that warm nights are slipping away.
He’ll be 14 next week, and a tad arthritic, so I expect I’ll be seeing a lot more of him in the next couple of weeks. Gonna be hot competition for laptime, though.
p.a.
Cole-cat: the Widening.
WereBear
@Elmo: Sounds like there might be some feral genetics going on. Some cats are just less domesticated than others.
germy
So will this become a regular thing for Steve? A once-a-year shave-down? Got rid of all the fur knots, and he looked comfortable with his hot weather crewcut.
Probably swallowed a lot less fur, too.
germy
@WereBear: I am surprised every day by the intelligence and sensitivity our cat displays.
WereBear
@germy: The happier they are, the more amazing they can be :)
catclub
Fun thoughts:
True? If so, how long?
germy
How is a cat’s tail like American presidential campaigns?
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It’s fur to the end.
ThresherK (GPad)
@SiubhanDuinne: “I want bellyrubs. Exactly three. Then I scratch.”
My Jazz is like that, too.
Our office has no AC right now. I mean power.
Peale
@catclub: I believe the “making them pay for it” part of the whole wall business is in fact imperialism. So there you have your answer.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
Love how he’s looking at the camera like “What?”
CaseyL
@Elmo: One of mine is like that, too.
He’s the son of a stray who turned up on my doorstep 8+ years ago. The whole townhouse complex was feeding her. My theory is that she went into heat and escaped from whatever house she lived in, because she was too socialized to be a feral. She came to our lovely little complex (lots of landscaping, and backs up to a greenbelt) and promptly got knocked up by one of the many cats who roamed here back then. We adopted out all of her kids but one, whom I adopted along with Mama (now Jeannie).
Her babies were raised outdoor for their first 4 weeks, and I think it “took.” One of the adopted-out ones ran away from home and became feral. Mine – Oscar – is happily an indoor-outdoor kitty most of the year, but during summers he goes all Fearsome Jungle Kitty, and stays outside overnight quite often. He used to be gone for 3-4 days at a time, but is possibly reaching the age when that’s not as much fun.
germy
The Bircher Long March
germy
Mnemosyne
@LAO:
I was saying in the thread below that the sovcits got some coverage on one of the wacky morning deejay shows here in Los Angeles. Everyone agreed that they’re fucking nuts, and the lawyer they had on the phone to explain it to them could barely conceal his contempt. It was pretty sweet. When a guy who defends DUIs for a living thinks you’re a jerk …
Mnemosyne
@manyakitty:
I bet we could do a whole calendar just of those. I know I have several of Charlotte, though she ends up looking more like an otter with her paws folded over.
germy
@Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant): I wonder what they think when they see us photographing them.
“He’s holding something up, pointing it at me. Is it food? No. Is it a nail clipper or brush or tasty treat? No. Very strange…”
germy
@Mnemosyne:
Our cat does the same thing. I actually was wondering if she is double-jointed, because she always folds her paws over. She’s a polydactyl, so I thought maybe that had something to do with it.
Mnemosyne
Also, too, Charlotte’s big thing right now is that she likes to lay on her side on the floor and have us thump her ribcage fairly hard (like, it almost seems to echo). She demands that G sit on the floor to do it, every single morning, and she purrs her little head off. It’s weird, but since she’s demanding it, it must not be hurting her.
WereBear
@germy: Our current count is one cat who “flees the paparazzi,” two “whatever” types, and one total ham (Sir Tristan.)
Trollhattan
Pet belly, hooman, PET BELLY!
germy
@WereBear: That photo of Sir Tristan looks like it should be gracing the back of a hardcover, under the “About The Author” blurb. He looks like a young first novelist. Should be posing next to a typewriter.
hovercraft
I guess Kathleen Parker is an animal lover, her contempt for Uday and Qusay just drips from her pen.
Kathleen Parker is lamenting the departure of the staunchest defender of the animal kingdom when Obama leaves.
Mnemosyne
@Trollhattan:
DON’T DO IT, IT’S A TRAP!
(Unless it’s our little cat Annie, who really does love to have her belly rubbed. We think it’s because she’s a longhair and can never really get in there to groom it the way she would like.)
Gelfling 545
@Elmo: I have a cat who was just like that. We called him our part time cat. Now, though, he is elderly, though in excellent health unimpaired by his odd life style choices, and just under 2 years ago he came inside when the cold weather arrived and has remained inside since. He was more of a 6/7 months outside guy in his heyday.
germy
Things I am honored to receive from our cat:
The nose bump.
The head bump (she looks like a bull goring a matador; turns her head slightly to one side and bumps against me while I’m dozing in bed.
The purr
The long, loving gaze
ThresherK (GPad)
@WereBear: Mixed whiskers are a weakness of mine.
germy
@hovercraft:
I thought that post would go to the lion-killing dentist.
Joy in FL
Steve is magnificent.
Trollhattan
@hovercraft:
Wow, Kathleen Parker not merely failing to attack the president, but lauding him? I do declare, it’s the rapture!
VOR
That is a happy, contented cat. Job well done.
Trollhattan
@germy:
He’s probably holding out for HHS secretary. I’m sure he has some…interesting thoughts about overhauling healthcare.
Trollhattan
@Mnemosyne:
Guessing that a hand ensnared by Steve’s enormous catcher’s mitt paws is forever lost. Our puppeh has nearly doubled in weight since we brought him home and is only now approaching Steve scale. Eventually he should be somewhere in the vicinity of 2 to 2.5 Steves.
Frankensteinbeck
@RSR:
It continually surprises me that this would surprise anyone else. Yes, this is just… how people work. Emotional considerations they don’t even notice make small (or sometimes big!) changes in their behavior. Mostly the results are subtle enough that they only show statistically. Racism particularly stands out, showing up in people who have no obvious racism or idea they are racist.
Booda
That cat should really learn to relax
hovercraft
@Trollhattan:
The number of strange bedfellows this election season is mind boggling, but I really think this case is simply about her love of animals. I didn’t click on her links to the pictures, but if they’re the ones I’ve seen before, they are enough to never want those “spawn” anywhere near the Interior Department. I did detect a subtle dig in her choice of words though, Obama is going to “abandon” the Oval Office? Last time I checked that was a function of the constitution. I guess she couldn’t resist.
@germy:
Hopefully he’s still hiding out and being shunned by his neighbors in MN.
Shana
@Rich Webb: My father always said he wanted to come back as a cat in a Jewish household. (We’re jewish) My father, who could be very difficult, was always a softy for his cats and spoiled them terribly. One of the childhood cats always got its own chair at Thanksgiving with bits of turkey on a plate.
Eric U.
one of our dogs likes to lounge on his back. It’s amusing to find him in some random spot lying on his back. I assume it’s cooler.
Mnemosyne
@hovercraft:
Kathleen Parker has a weird relationship to Obama — she seems to really like and respect him but gets mad at herself for it. She was one of his few defenders on the right in 2008, but she also wrote the execrable column about Obama not having the right “blood” during that same election.
sukabi
@Patricia Kayden: I wonder what would happen if these”news” outlets that are really nothing more than drumpf cheerleaders were deluged with actual drumpf NEWS like this or this
It’s just a thought, but something needs to be done.
shell
So Mr. “I Know More About Isis Than The Generals” will demand a plan to defeat Isis from said generals, 30 days after he takes office.
Why do I think that exchange will go like this scene from ‘The Simpsons.’
Homer: (in his new role as supervisor) Um, are you guys working?
Employee: Yes, sir.
Homer: Can you . . . work any harder?
Employee: Sure thing, boss!
sukabi
@JGabriel: sort of… maybe Steve’s still working on his naked human mopping “Oh shit” splattttt! pose..
Cats are assholes that way.
Mnemosyne
@Frankensteinbeck:
Greetings, professional writer! I’m considering entering a contest run by one of the Texas chapters of RWA where the primary benefit seems to be that they’ll fill out a detailed critique sheet for your first 5,600 words. I’m tempted since it looks like it will be a while before critique groups start back up for my local chapter. Thoughts?
sukabi
@sukabi:
@sukabi:
Adding that any actual drumpf news sent to “news” outlets should appear as if it’s coming from thr RNC, more likely to be considered for public consumption apparently.
Cat48
Thanks, John for a picture of Steve. He lucks like such a good kitty. Yesterday, it sent me to look for a kitty to adopt. I found 2 yesterday, but I haven’t gone to the shelter yet. Just not ready yet.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Mnemosyne:
I replied late last night in the original thread. No link ’cause phone.
Mnemosyne
@Steeplejack (phone):
I saw. I’m still considering it because even if all I get back is the filled-out checklist (which is posted on their website), I’ll feel like I have a little direction. I have no idea when the writers’ group is going to get critiques organized, but right now it sounds like after January 1st at the earliest.
And, yes, right now I want avid romance readers to be reading it, not random people who don’t know the genre. I know my writing is good, I’m just trying to figure out if it fits the current genre parameters.
Gravenstone
@Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant): “Damnit dude, we’ve talked about this. This is NOT my good side!”
WaterGirl
@RSR: @Frankensteinbeck: That may not be surprising, but it is depressing!
Pogonip
@TaMara (HFG): I’m banned! I said he was fat–he used to hunt, if I remember right, the local mice and birds must have been buying him off with snacks. I suggested Cole get him tested for diabetes.
Pogonip
@hovercraft: re the new improved Maasai method of determining leadership, by crowning the guy who jumps highest. Do you suppose that Bethany, West Virginia, determines leadership by who has the most accidents, and that all this time Cole has been running for mayor and we didn’t realize it?
rikyrah
Oh my.
That is the first picture of Steve that didn’t scare me. It cracked me up.??
NJ Maine Coon Slave
@Patricia Kayden: I am the proud dad of a beautiful 16 year old Maine Coon gal and that look is normal. They throw shade at everyone. That said they are wicked smart and also extremely vocal. I don’t think in all of her years she has not at least several times a day scolded me or decided to explain to me how things are supposed to be, i.e., her way. Wouldn’t trade her for the world.