Happy Hour at Chez Animal Hair Can I get you a drink?

I’ve seen this a bazillion times nad it never fails to make me laugh out loud:

“Why I eyes ya!”

[HERE] Buy a T-shirt (get one for me too)
[This seems to be the Official Store]

Swear. My next cat will be called Don Piano, even if it’s a girl.

Have a good weekend!

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I found this article via Reddit:

[Back to Black]
(if NYT has decided you need to register, just use username cyberpunk: password: cyberpunk)

I know I don’t have a real stake in this, being a Scandinavian white girl, but it has always bugged me, this term. If I can be called “white” when I am clearly more of a pink-ish beige hue; why can’t people with darker skin be called black? Or brown? or whatever. It’s not putting anyone in a box. I see it simply as being a descriptor, like I am a blonde (and yes, I know that may come with some stigma as well). Heck why not African (if they are from Africa), or Jamacian, or Indian, or Haitian. But then I suppose you’d have to call me ‘English, Dutch, Scottish, Welsh, Russian,Norweigian’ and that can be a little time consuming.

I worked with a woman who couldn’t be more white-looking (pale skin, red hair) and speaks with a British accent, but she’s from South Africa, living here so she is an African-American, right?

I also knew someone in college who was very dark skinned and from Jamaica. He hated being called African-American. No one in his entire family had ever even set foot in Africa. Unless, you want to go with the theory that we ALL came from Africa, if you look far enough back. but they we’re all African American.And if a person from Africa moves to China are they called an African-Chinese?

Discuss…

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I went to lunch with my mom today.

I wanted to go to the Bulldog over here because I’ve not been to this one yet and I know the other one is good. We’re in the car and I said to my mom, ‘I was thinking we’d go to the Bulldog, they have good fries.” and she said, “I can’t have fries, or hamburgers.” (this after I just asked her what she wanted to eat and she said, ‘anything, it’s up to you’). Apparently she gave them up for some silly religious reason.

Then as we’re sitting at Panera eating our sandwiches and soup she said she was eating a lot of potato chips since she can’t have fries. I said “what? That’s like giving up Milky Ways but allowing yourself to eat Snickers’. But oh no, that’s very different. Why? Because she said so. And she’s my mother. Can’t argue with that.

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OK I have been really lagging here. I haven’t really been updating my other blog either. I would use the excuse that I am at work all the time (unless I am at home watching TV or at Aura drinking too much whiskey) but the reality is that much of my time spent at work could be used to write. Which is what I am doing now.

I saw this story yesterday online. An example of why it’s a good idea to have your pet friends microchipped!!

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A cat that fled a house fire is back home in Albuquerque, N.M., after turning up some 240 miles away. The black and white cat named Miko disappeared in December, on the night of the fire.

[Read whole story here]

I’ll write more later…work you know…

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