Full of Kitten

I read an interesting book this week by a political theorist named Jane Bennett called The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics.  It’s basically an argument against the Weberian theory that modern life is characterized above all by “disenchantment.”  One of the categories of modern “enchantment” she considers concerns what she calls cross- [...]

Pot Luck Becomes a Man (sort of )

Yesterday was the long-awaited/feared day when we had to bring Pot Luck in to the vet for his operation.  There was a scissors icon drawn on the date on the calendar for the day Pot Luck would become a man… or not.  Sort of.  It’s the responsible thing to do, in any case. I heard [...]

Holloween Pot Luck Totem

I came home today to discover this cool Pot Luck totem the girls had made with Sarah.  Sarah explained that it represents Pot Luck’s (laughable) actual self-image as a terrifying creature with bloody fangs.  You can seem him (the actual Pot Luck) sort of attacking it in the second photo.

The Little Kitten, Baby Mouse, & Baby Snake

Iris came home with another doozy of a story. Once upon a time there was a little kitten.  And he found a baby mouse.  And the mouse said, “I live in a farm.  And they make fun of me because they think my body is very small and I’m so small that I can climb [...]

Bassets for Obama

A photo stolen from Andrew Sullivan: I’m psyched to see that the bassets are rallying around Obama.  The cats on Ruby Lane are still, annoyingly, claiming to be “persuadable” in what I take to be a not-so-subtle bid to get chosen for some t.v. focus group.

Live-blogging the Presidential debate w/ kitten

9:12 p.m.  We hear noises upstairs (girls went to bed by 8:30).  We each stall and try to wait to see if the other guy will go deal with it.  Finally when the steps creak on the basement stairs I go and find the girls, who report that we didn’t snuggle on the couch on [...]

Kitten Thinks of Nothing But Murder All Day

That’s a funny Onion t-shirt (I think it may originally have been a headline with no article, just a photo — brilliant).  It definitely evokes Pot Luck these days.  In other words, he is thriving: he’s a real tussling, pouncing, biting fighting kitty now.  He’s off the bottle and eats slightly diluted canned food in [...]

Introducing Pot Luck

So, we somehow ended up naming the kitty Pot Roast.  No, wait, that’s not it… Pork Chop?  Oh, that’s right — it’s Pot Luck.  I think it’s kind of cute, actually.   We can call him Lucky for short. He is still soldiering along.  He’s gotten a lot better at drinking from the bottle, and [...]

New kitty!

Here’s the new kitty (the one Sarah brought home in the middle of Obama’s speech)! Sarah was visiting her friend Julie; Julie’s daughter Haley had brought this little guy home the day before — I think a teacher at Haley’s school had found an abandoned litter.  We have not yet formally committed to keeping him [...]