My cat started to feel unwell after the summer. As always he spent most of it outside. One of my uncles inherited my grandparents farm but they gave all the other kids a little piece of land each and we always spent there weekends and vacations. So whenever my mother stayed there for a week or two she would take the cat with her. Years ago I did ( Read more... )

I have long weekend now and we suddenly have all the summer weather this summer was missing so far (it's humid and hot and it is to be even hotter - up to 36oC on Tuesday) so I'm wasting my time this weekend on shopping, swimming and cat videos. I caught up on Simon's Cat today - I have tendency to binge watch channels and then forget them for a ( Read more... )

Some very useful terms from different languages. I've always wanted a word that means sunlight filters through the trees. And mångata is one of my favourite sights.I also felt dépaysement - the feeling that comes from not being in one's home country -- of being a foreigner, or an immigrant, of being somewhat displaced from your origin. And Malazan ( Read more... )

I was to write something interesting and coherent but I got distracted by this list of most amazing cat gifs. Ignore the title - and just watch your brain turning into awww.

For the rest of you you can get suitably annoyed by Americans appropriating even the hurricanes for their internal politics

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And the victim blaming among zombies

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Today is International Cat Day and all I'm can do for you today is drawn you in cuteness. From the old photos of big cats to some of the cats I took care of two weeks ago


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I'm I'm taking care of my friends cats and there is something purring snuggled at my side. It feels good. Unfortunately, it turns out I am allergic to cats. Not deadly - I'm going to land in hospital if I stay in your presence any longer - more like - I feel short of breath after just walking up one flight of stairs which is how I usually know my ( Read more... )

I know it's a commercial but it has less product placement then some (many) movies and it's so beautiful. I was about to switch a channel when the ads started during the OUaT and I ended up watching the whole thing. It was the most magical thing on this evening. The beautiful fantasy adventures of a leopard who races a troika and a Chinese dragon, ( Read more... )

Latest The Hobbit update from Peter Jackson. Dwarves and helicopters leave me with cognitive dissonance but dwarves in barrels - that's how it should be.

In other Hobbit news Benedict Cumberbatch went down there to record his parts and laugh at Martin Freeman's Bilbo looks. It was the feet. Not everyone can take hobbit feet ( Read more... )

The internet is full of those who make fun of Rob Liefeld and the Psylocke pose went full meme lately but that's only tip of iceberg. The Escher Girls shows how widespread it really is. And this comic sums up how unfair it is too. Unfortunately, comics aren't the only perpetrators. We've all seen women photoshoped into having no internal organs and ( Read more... )

Wisława Szymborska died yesterday. I'm one of those people who don't like poetry but I did like hers. She wrote one of the few poems that actually moved me:

Cat in an Empty Apartment
Dying--you wouldn't do that to a cat.
For what is a cat to do
in an empty apartment?
Climb up the walls?
Brush up against the furniture?
Nothing here seems changed,
and yet ( Read more... )