I enjoy the very specific look on the cat's face of 'this is deeply humiliating but I love this small human and am putting up with it.' it's the same look our cat used to have when my sister would tuck him in bed and read him stories. https://t.co/qjRGlS9hZd
— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) November 3, 2022
Frida has taken a new approach to this puzzle. pic.twitter.com/pZWRmNrPCq
— Jort-Michel Connard (occasionally parody) (@torriangray) November 7, 2022
“This puzzle will keep your dog occupied for hours”.
Frida five minutes later: pic.twitter.com/tjZKxJ587U— Jort-Michel Connard (occasionally parody) (@torriangray) November 7, 2022
Damn it, Frida. pic.twitter.com/S8XijRhaBD
— Jort-Michel Connard (occasionally parody) (@torriangray) November 7, 2022
every day i explain my life and actions to the tiny medieval serf who lives in my skull and every day she goes ??æ? ??á?? and i say Keep Up Hildewald It's A Fucking Iphone
— Rave Sashayed (@_sashayed) November 7, 2022
Fair Economist
Frida is a smart dog!
NotMax
“No Politics”
Bwa-ha-ha. Pull the other one.
:)
Martin
My daughter is 21 and still treats cats like that.
trollhattan
In dog world, every toy is a rat.
Cameron
@trollhattan: In space, no one can hear you squeak.
Splitting Image
Listening to P.D.Q. Bach on the Air, third album by Peter Schickele dedicated to the “youngest and oddest of J.S. Bach’s twenty-odd children”.
Ken
@Fair Economist: That’s nothing, you should see the video where Frida puts all the carrots back into the right slots.
(Disclaimer: Video may not exist, or may be one of the above videos run backward.)
Hoosierspud
My cat, Simone, had the same look on her face when my two year old niece would carry her around under her armpits with her back legs dragging on the floor.
NotMax
Fascinating.
Very preliminary human trial of lab-grown blood.
trollhattan
@Splitting Image: Don’t throw the term around frequently but Schickele is a genius. He conducted our orchestra once and it was one of the funniest nights of my life.
mrmoshpotato
Watching travel videos on YouTube. I could go for a thunderstorm, but that’s always true.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Vampire scientists?
trollhattan
@NotMax: That’s very cool tech. Heard an interview and they noted while the transfused amounts are small, because the cells are all “new” the blood lasts much longer. Normal transfusions contain a lot of aged cells that do not last long, something new to me, but “duh.”
Of course it will cost ten bucks per corpuscle and Peter Thiel will buy it all.
Anoniminous
Monkeys, smarter than the average Republican.
trollhattan
Is that what the kids say now? I remember “Netflix and chill” but I’m old.
trollhattan
@Anoniminous: Wish someone would have thrown a monkey at Ted Cruz in that parade.
Ken
@mrmoshpotato: Vampires switching to synthetic blood has been the premise of some stories, such as Charlaine Harris’ True Blood novels.
JoyceH
@Ken: This synthetic blood research was probably funded by a vampire billionaire.
Splitting Image
@trollhattan:
I only got into his music recently, but I’m loving what I’ve listened to so far. Definitely a man who marched to his own drummer.
mrmoshpotato
@trollhattan: Dunno. I’m a fan of thunderstorms.
Jerzy Russian
@trollhattan: I saw Schickele in grad school, back when mastodons roamed the Earth. It was indeed funny as hell.
mrmoshpotato
@trollhattan:
Why do you hate monkeys?
Bruce K in ATH-GR
@Splitting Image: I’ve also read references to P.D.Q. Bach as “the last and least of Bach’s children”. Trollhattan is right, Schickele is a genius – think of a classical-music version of Weird Al Yankovic.
(I checked YouTube to see what there was of P.D.Q. Bach, and the first hit was … something else. Peter Schickele and Itzhak Perlman on violins, backed by the Boston Pops Orchestra conducted by John Williams, performing P.D.Q. Bach’s “Konzertshtick for Two Violins.” That’d be like … something like Weird Al doing a duet with Dolly Parton, while being backed up by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.)
prostratedragon
PDQ Bach suite which, having been found, should be forever again lost*
I. Allegro: “Fanfare for the Common Cold”
II. Moderato cantabile: “Last Tango in Bayreuth”
III. Scherzo: “Little Bunny Hop Hop Hop”
IV. Presto: Bachanale
_____
* Well, not really …
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: Pretty damned cool. I await the conspiracy that this blood is derived from the blood of sacrificial newborns, because that blood is “newer.”
OzarkHillbilly
@mrmoshpotato: So was I, but over the years I have been caught in a couple of life threatening situations. I have a lot more respect for the destructive power they generate and the randomness with which it strikes.
There go two miscreants
Now I will have to dig out my copy of Music For An Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion.
Torrey
@trollhattan:
Many years ago, I attended a Schickele concert with some friends, one of whom was a musicologist, who spent the concert trying desperately to hold in his laughter because he was afraid he’d miss something. Needless to say, he caught all kinds of things the rest of us missed.
The Pale Scot
HaHAaa.
Memory of BFF’s daughter wearing her princess outfit, putting a bonnet on the family cat and carrying him around with her arms wrapped around his stomach. Our eyes met and all I could see was “hey, it’s a living”