Wordless Wednesday

I found Chey!

Hey, guess what -- I found Chey last Friday! I've been looking and looking and finally found Chey! Of course, because of the SOPA Black(cat)out, Huggy Bear got his picture featured. But that's OK, because I got the credit. Plus it was a great river otter picture of HB that Chey used, so I don't mind one bit. Can't wait until this Friday to search again.

Black (cat) out against SOPA

Since I'm not confident about blacking out the blog in protest of SOPA, I'm instead giving you a black-cat-out -- lots of pictures of Huggy Bear. I hope the overall protest across the internet helps raise awareness of this shortsighted bill that, under the guise of privacy protection, gives power and influence to large companies and has the potential to stifle the voice of the individual on the web. So here is our black-cat-out... just say no to SOPA (you can say no to SOAP too, because we're cats and don't need soapy baths).














Huggy Bear says, "Don't mess with my freedom of internet speech!" I hope you enjoyed the black-cat-out! Go here for more on the strike.

Anti-SOPA

I know a lot of websites are blacking out Wednesday in protest of SOPA. I support the blackout, but don't know how to black out my blog -- my luck, I wouldn't be able to undo the blackout, and that would make me sad. So in solidarity of the blackout, I will nap all day because with my eyes shut everything is blacked out.

(If you don't know what SOPA and PIPA are a big deal, I think Cory Doctorow sums it up pretty well...)

Oysters

Mom and Dad went to an oyster boil a few weekends ago. It was an unseasonably warm weekend and a perfect day for it.


Look at these things. Aside from being steaming hot, I have no idea how a cat is even supposed to get one open to get to the goodness inside. I don't know who even thought to pry one of these things open and see if it tasted good. But Mom and Dad said they were good. They had shrimps too. And no, they didn't bring us any at all.

Mom and Dad are now doing lights and sound for the musical John & Jen at Mom's theatre. It is fun for them, but takes them away from us some. So we have to be persistent about getting attention from them when they are home. Maggie's new "look at me" technique is headbutting the monitor when Dad is on the computer and turning it away from Dad so he has to pay attention to her. It's not his favorite trick of her's (but he does think it is funny when she accidentally opens the CD drive). I'm still partial to laying on the mouse -- works every time!

Maine's state cat

Who knew? Since I'm part Maine Coon, that means I am part of the state cat of Maine. I guess that makes sense, but I never really thought about it. Thanks KibbleKat for that little tidbit of knowledge.

Cold and windy night

I started to say it was a dark and windy night, but night is always dark. But it was cold and windy. Well, cold for us -- down in the upper 20s (which I know is the high right now for some of our friends). I like this colder weather because I get to snuggle up with Mom in the mornings after Dad leaves for work. We like to try to pin Mom in to bed so she can't get up and go to work. Some days work better than others. I'm pretty optimistic about today!

Updated with photo evidence of how I try to keep Mom in bed...

Cats in a weightless environment

Now who would do such a thing? I guarantee there was a hairball in someone's shoe after this "experiment."