Let go of what is no longer needed. Manifest what is to come…

Drive safe!

Ringing in the new

Celebrate New Year’s Party With Your Pets

Walken Around The Christmas Tree

Walken in a Winter Wonderland  

He's a real pet lover... "We have domesticated many animals, but cats seem to have retained a sense of the forest. Their cleanliness is famous. They have grace in so many ways. From the tintinnabulation of their walk, to the way they tend to leave a small amount of food in the bottom of their bowl in what looks to me like an offering. Their self assurance and ability to articulate their needs to us with such clarity and insistence. They pose for us as naturally as Garbo because they are entitled to." -- Christopher Walken
K.I.S.S. Guide to Cat Care  Foreword by Christopher Walken

What I've Learned.  The actor on golf as torture, the connection between funny and scary, and why he's sick of playing messed-up characters

Christopher Walken is a Non-violent Cat

Christopher Walken in Puss in Boots

Let's Cook!  

Walk on the Wild Side

THE CATS MEOW: THE CATS THE STAR

A melodrama staring Jane Fonda among others. The most interesting part of the film is the opening title sequence, (by Saul Bass), where a black tom strolls nonchalantly around before picking a fight with a white cat. The slow tracking shots serve to emphasize the grace and majesty of the cat, which is shockingly juxtaposed with the viciousness and brutality of the fight, revealing the cat as a the truly wild animal it really is, as opposed to the pet we would like to believe we own.

WALK ON THE WILD SIDE (1962) Tom cat title sequences
Location: The Doll House, a 1930's New Orleans bordello.

Despite Walk on the Wild Side's scandalous story, the film adaptation's title song has become something of a gospel standard.

THIS IS AN ADULT PICTURE!  Movie titles

    With Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda, Anne Baxter,   Barbara Stanwyck, Joanna Moore

A side of life you never expected to see on screen.

Saul Bass  -  title sequence

 SMOKING IN BED

Walk On The Wild Side -BEST title/credits sequence Ever!!! HD

SCIENCE OF CATS

More than 600 million claim residence in households across six continents ... and now they may have dethroned dogs as the most popular pet on earth. An exterminator, fierce hunter and favorite companion, aloof and affectionate at the same time, the cat leapt out of the wood and adopted us on its own terms thousands of years ago. But how did man and beast form their unconventional relationship?

Most unusual relationship Fum and Gebra

And you thought cats only ate birds?      Dinner?

Publicity Postcard for the Fight of the Century:  "That's what they called the epic fight in 1916 between Mr Jinxie, the American fighting cat, and the German dachsund, Ludwig von Breslau-Menken. In the cruel sport of animal fighting these two were the champions in the light weight category. Because of the the Great War and growing concerns by Humane Societies about these fights, it was held at a neutral site, Berne, Switzerland. Gamblers came in large numbers from the US and Germany. Animal Rights advocates showed up and began street protests outside the fight venue."

  TURBO CAT  ~ offensive weaponry from a 16th century German manuscript

County Animal Services have feral cats that will work for food.

Familiars and Familiar Spirits

Cat Discrimination

Why don’t you love me?

We’re just a week from Halloween, which means that owners of black cats across the country are starting to keep a nervous eye on their loving pets, lest they be subjected to holiday-inspired pranks. Around this time of year, says University of California, Berkeley, black cats “can be associated with bad luck and witches,” a prejudice that persists not just for a few months in the fall, but actually has important consequences year-round for the fates of these felines. People ascribe certain personality traits to cats of different colors, a bias that skews adoption rates and leaves some cats—particularly black ones—in the lurch.

Surveying cat owners, Mikel Delgado and colleagues found that people are “more likely to assign positive personality traits to orange cats and less favorable ones to white and tortoiseshell ones. Orange cats were largely regarded as friendly, white cats as aloof and tortoiseshell cats as intolerant.”

“What about black cats?”

Don’t be so fast to judge a cat by its color, study warns

CHAT WITH CATS 
"Give me the precious back!"

B L A C K   C A T S

Cary Grant's Daughter Pens Memoir of Her Legendary Father

Cary Grant   (1904–1986)

North by Northwest (1959)

Cary Grant Movies

tURNIER cLASSIC mOVIES, cARY gRANT

   Suzy,    A  French air ace discovers that his showgirl wife's first husband is still alive.

Ultimate Cary Grant  
Poeskine:  "Cats always see more than any photographer"

Señor Wences

Wenceslao Moreno (April 17, 1896 -- April 20, 1999)  better known as Señor Wences, was a Spanish ventriloquist. His popularity grew with his frequent appearances on CBS-TV's Ed Sullivan Show in the 1950s and 1960s.
Wences was known for his speed, skill, and grace as a ventriloquist. His stable of characters included Johnny, a childlike face drawn on Wences' hand, which he would place atop an otherwise headless doll and with whom Wences conversed while switching his voices between Johnny's falsetto and his own voice at amazing speed.

Señor Wences

Born in Spain, Wences became famous as a ventriloquist through his repeated appear-ances on The Ed Sullivan Show, where his act typically includ-ed a puppet face made from his hand, and a disembodied head in box that growled ¬ìS¬awright.¬ He became a pop-cultural icon in later years, with references to his act cropping up in TV shows such as Scooby-Doo, South Park and The Simpsons. He died in 1999, three days after his 103rd birthday. A section of 54th Street in New York, just around the corner from the Ed Sullivan Theater, is named Senor Wences Way in his honor."

Nutty for neti   +   This blog is for information only!    +   Wenceslao Moreno, Señor Wences   +   MUPPET WIKI   +  Spanish ventriloquist, considered the best in the world    +    bailey unleashed

ww: she's standing right behind me, isn't she?

"Of course they do"

THE IMPORTANCE OF WORKING ANIMALS

WORKING ANIMALS
Ask scientists if animals do work, and they'll answer,
 "Of course they do."

WORKING DOGS

SERVICE DOGS

Cat at work

Exhibit honors hardworking, heroic animals

Celebrating Our Hard Working Animals on Labor Day!

Alaskan cat elebrates 15 years as Mayor

CUTE ANIMALS AT LABOR

Messy Beast:  Cats became domesticated through their ability to control vermin around grain stores. This happened around the same time in 2 widely separated locations, once in Egypt and once in India.
                            Top 10 Animals that Work Hard in Order to Survive
 The Importance of Constitutional Peasants

Anarcho-syndicalists regard the state as a profoundly anti-worker institution. They view the primary purpose of the state as being the defence of private property and therefore of economic, social and political privilege, even when such defence denies its citizens the ability to enjoy material independence and the social autonomy which springs from it
Cleaning Windows

Jonny Justice

Pits and pit mixes now make up anywhere from 

30 to 70 percent of dogs in shelters nationwide.

Jonny Justice, Rescue Pit Bull Terrier, Wins Top Spot and the Hearts of Voters

Top 5 Myths about Pit Bulls

Teddy WARNS: Sharks in the Water

GREAT WHITE SHARK

Hosted By Teddy The A--hole Cat

 Sea Lion Attacked..  Jul 24, 2012  Hungry Shark in Waters Near Santa Barbara
Great White Shark Warning Signs Posted Between Leadbetter Point & East Beach In Santa Barbara
8.15.2012 6:21 p.m. Santa Barbara Beaches Quiet in Wake of Great White Shark Sighting

  Sharks in the Water

Warning Signs Posted After Great White Shark Sighting Off Santa Barbara

Great White Shark Spotted off Southern California Coast

August 9, 2012  Shark Sightings at Gaviota State Park Pier

7.03.2010  Attacks on sea lions prompt advisory; surfer bitten off Shell Beach

WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGE:  June 29, 2010
GREAT WHITE SHARKS TERRORIZE SANTA BARBARA

How do you treat stray animals?

Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot  Animal welfare activism

Friday quotes - Brigitte Bardot   Actress and Model, b.1934 

Paris, France   "Percentages are why I am rich"

"They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself."

"What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it."

"What does it mean, being a woman?"

"Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer."

"Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands."

 ...Jane Fonda...She readily admits that she allowed each of her three husbands to reinvent her, starting with Roger Vadim, the French film director who turned her into Barbarella, a sexy sci-fi secret agent, with an emphasis on sexy.

Following Brigette Bardot…

Filmology... Arguably film's first sex kitten, Brigitte Bardot grew up in a wealthy, conservative French Catholic family.

Voulez-vous danser avec moi?
Is Brigitte Bardot Bashing Islam? 
Brigitte Bardot, the actress and animal rights campaigner, has offered to take the place of the founder of the Sea Shepherd marine conservation group in prison.

BRIGETTE BARDOT YOU TUBE 

mother of invention 

TheLastDaysOfLeftEye

Lisa Nicole Lopes ~May 27, 1971 – April 25, 2002~ better known by her stage name Left Eye, was an American rapper, dancer, and singer-songwriter. She is best known as a member of the R&B/hip-hop girl group TLC. Lopes contributed her self-written raps to many of TLC's hit singles, including "Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg", "What About Your Friends", "Hat 2 da Back", "No Scrubs", "Waterfalls", and "Girl Talk". Lopes won four Grammy Awards for her work with TLC.

Have you seen 

Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes 

Documentary?

The Day the ’90s Died: Remembering 

Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopes

  

the last days of left eye

ADORABLE. The owl and the pussycat

One has fur and the other has feathers, but that doesn't mean they can't be friends.

GUARDIAN:  What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. 

~Aristotle (384 BC – 7 March 322 BC)

The owl and the pussycat

Adorable: Black cat and barn owl playing together
FUM AND GEBRA OFFICIAL SITE

FACEBOOK FUM AND GEBRA

YOUTUBE FUM AND GEBRA

Falconry

Owls in Falconry Today

RIP: Andy Griffith, 86

A Face in the Crowd

In 1957′s A Face in the Crowd,  directed by Elia Kazan, Griffith plays a likeable Arkansas drifter who becomes a radio personality known as Lonesome Rhodes. Rhodes offers homespun homilies and tunes on his guitar to the masses, who adore him. As his fame increases, he moves into television and becomes a political kingmaker–and an egotistical, power-mad man.   It is a fine film with a stunning performance by Griffith, and a theme that still resonates today–that power and fame can and do corrupt.  It’s a film definitely worth seeking out if you’ve never seen it.

FILM CLIP:   A Face in the Crowd (1957) Walter Matthau

Andy Griffith (1926-2012), Actor and Comedian
WIKI ~ Andrew Samuel "Andy" Griffith (June 1, 1926 – July 3, 2012)
WIKI ~ A Face in the Crowd
Timelessness: A Face in the Crowd
Andy Griffith: Remembering his 'Face in the Crowd'
IMBd: Andy Griffith
Already Buried

Ron Howard remembers Andy Griffith

WaPo: Remembering Andy

NYT: The Folksy TV Sheriff From Mayberry

Magic in the air

BUDDY

F i g

 Crape Myrtle

LONESOME George, the last Pinta Island giant tortoise

"Lonesome George's legacy will be an increased effort in both research and management to restore his island of Pinta and all of the other giant tortoise populations of Galapagos," it said.
The Galapagos Islands, situated about 1000km off Ecuador's coast, are considered a haven for tortoises.
There are about 20,000 giant tortoises left in the Galapagos, according to the park's website. They are believed to be able to live up to the age of 200.
The Galapagos gained fame when Charles Darwin visited in 1835 to conduct landmark research that led to his revolutionary theories on evolution.
The archipelago has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1978 for the rich plant and animal life found both on its land and in the surrounding sea.
In 2007, the organisation declared the island chain's environment endangered due to the increase of tourism and the introduction of invasive species.

June 25, 2012:  Galapagos tortoise Lonesome George, last in subspecies, dies

 Darwin 200 years 

Things you didn't know about Charles Darwin

George


Lonesome George, the last of the Pinta Island giant tortoises and a symbol of human destruction of the Galapagos Islands, died on Sunday, cause unknown.

Ray Bradbury RIP

August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012
Ray Bradbury dies at 91

Ray Bradbury

WIKI-Bradbury

When Legends Gather #657

Ray Bradbury remembered by game developers at E3

Author Ray Bradbury, who wrote 'Fahrenheit 451' at UCLA, dies

In Memoriam: Ray Bradbury 1920-2012

Remembering my interview with Ray Bradbury

Why Bradbury's words will live forever

Waukegan's landscape, values never left Bradbury

Author's hometown, under the pseudonym 'Green Town,' was setting for some of his novels

"Keep on Truckin' "

What I Saw June 15, 2012

it was a warm pre summer night in beautiful santa Barbara California. my father and I were talking about my future of how i wanted to become a pilot in the National Guard. As we were talking i decided to look up at the stars and noticed something odd. At exactly 9:33 pm i saw what seemed like a triangle of lights flying smoothly through the sky. it was arranged in a perfect series of seven lights forming a triangle and the lights were not blinking like normal planes or jets.  they were just at a constant rest point.  i have never seen that in my life.  at this point i thought it was a stealth jet, but it looked way to big. i told my father to look, i begged him but he didnt see it. I can only wonder what this strange flying object was.           Alex Fowler

The Mysterious Visitor

Solstice   June 2012

Skateboarding Laws 

An old-fashioned educational practice 

may be set for a comeback


X-37B ‘space plane’ lands at Vandenberg Air Force Base

SUPER SECRET PLANE

Boeing X-37


A subscriber caught the International Space Station roaming through our skies yet again. (06/30/12)

The mysterious visitor

Myssi the mysterious.  Where did she come from and why did she move under the house?
More than anything how can we ever explain this to Buddy? He is incensed.

 LOST CAT....6-17-12

Other BREAKING NEWS:

Julia di Sieno of Animal Rescue Team reports that a coyote pup rescued last month is doing well

                 Courthouse Bell Tower Restored

History of the Hollisters

Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society Giving Presentation on the Family

WTF? The Freakiest Shaved Cat I’ve Ever Seen!

CUTE DOG AND CAT

Tail as old as time: Family cat Thomas O'Malley Flufferpants falls head over paws for Murkin the dog

Mr. Roger Remix

A conversation with Fred Rogers

Fred Rogers, John Waters and Self Esteem in America

Mister Rogers & Me, A Documentary Film About Fred Rogers 

by his Real-Life Summer Neighbor

Fred Rogers Wikipedia

You may be familiar with John D. Boswell's Symphony of Science music videos, which take the titans of academic inquiry and turn their words into song. For Boswell's latest video, PBS contacted him to euphonize the immortal lessons of the late, great Fred Rogers.

Anything Manageable...My Beloved Brother...

Did You See This? Mr. Rogers Remixed

... last chance to see it before 2117

VENUS SUN

Transit of Venus: Your last chance to see it before 2117

How To See The Astronomical Event (PHOTOS, MAP)

NASA LIVE STREAM:
SCROLL DOWN FOR PHOTOS, VIDEO AND RECAP

Live coverage   
"Ring of Fire" eclipse  +++  The first annular solar eclipse in 18 years
Super Non-super Moon


Earth Could Reach Devastating Ecological Tipping Point by 2025

Gotye Dog Parody - Somebody That I Used To Know

26th Annual I Madonnari Street Painting - Santa Barbara Mission -

 26-28 May 2012

 "Somebody That I Used To Know"

 CUTE DOG AND CAT

The first annular solar eclipse in 18 years.

Arizona tribes talk significance of solar eclipse

Baje Whitethorne Sr. displays a book at his home in Flagstaff, Ariz., that he wrote about his experience as a Navajo boy with a solar eclipse.

San Francisco> homemade viewer

 Southeast Asia

Lafayette, Louisiana

 

 PHOTOS OF ANNULAR SOLAR ECLIPSE

'RING OF FIRE'  

An annular solar eclipse is seen in the sky over Yokohama near Tokyo Monday, 

May 21, 2012.

 

"Ring of Fire" eclipse

The first annular solar eclipse in 18 years will take place this evening.
An annular solar eclipse is when the moon passes between the Earth and the sun, and at the peak of the eclipse, only a ring of fire is visible around the sun.
Peak viewing will be in the western part of the United States and overseas in Asia.

Archive for the ‘Eclipse – Occultation’ Category

Cerena Childress

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For Mother's Day

BROOKLYNOLOGY

   CAT BATHROOM!

Crazy cat Loves Water

30 stuck kittens

Why is this man ironing a cat?

BOHEMIAN 

MOTHER'S DAY

Caterday

Catting around town:
Won Ton, the Winning Cat

Rex the Cat is King of Santa Barbara Elementary School

Dog, cat, rat

Dog, cat, rat [movies]

At the Arlington.... Kitty cat mischief

The other day when Alex came inside from his midnight catting around, I noticed that he had some fur missing from the back of his neck. Against the furball's wishes, I washed the area and put some antibiotic ointment on the wound.

Tuesday, May 8th 2012  Goodbye, Maurice

Stephen Colbert’s tribute to Maurice Sendak     

    Yesterday, we lost another great, as beloved author and illustrator Maurice Sendak passed away at 83 from complications of a recent stroke. The creator of Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen and many other children’s favourites appeared on The Colbert Report back in January to discuss Stephen Colbert’s ambition to become a celebrity author of children’s literature in a segment called Grim Colberty Tales. Sendak’s blunt, cranky answers were hilarious, and made him one of the more memorable guests to appear on the show in some time.

Where Maurice Sendak's wild things live on

  +  R.I.P. Maurice Sendak  +  Farewell, Maurice Sendak  +  

Maurice Sendak Dies at 83-Years Old  +   My Time With Maurice Sendak  +
~

May 2, 1906

HAPPY BIRTHDAY azar!          *  $595  1930s Tortoiseshell and Cat Eye neckless   *

  $625  Cateye cufflinks    MORE INFO ON CAT EYES

In The Netherlands we use only one word for these cats and that is

  'lapjeskat' which means 'patched cat'

Tortoiseshell and Calico Cats come in a great variety of the colors Black, Red and White.  Tortoiseshell and Calico Cats come in a great variety of the colors Black, Red and White. Unlike some people might think, they're not a breed, but hey are cats with a special color pattern. In this article I'll tell you about the color pattern of tortoiseshell cats in comparison to galico cats. Both have the same colors white, orange, black, but the pattern is different, where the tortie might not have white at all, like the cat on the photo and the calico always have white.


Tortoiseshell Cat

Medium Long Hair Tortoiseshell

The Tortoise-Shell. (Sometimes Called Spanish Cats.)

Carmina the Cathedral Cat   *  Christmas kitties  *  Tortoiseshell Cats Picture Gallery  *  Vintage halloween cats  *  Four Black Cats  * Covered in cat hair  * Cat Postcards  *  c a t   w o m e n  *  cat runs  *  Loves black cats  *

Mimi was born on this date in 1906 or 1907 in Indian Territory Oklahoma.

 She worked for Governor Holloway.

Precious

It's A Grilled Cheese Cat!

Bud Ruff Channel

Cat Breeds

Cheezburger

Precious (Cirque du soleil)

Slow Jam The News

     The Obama Diary    *      History Channel

        The president dropped by The Sink

for the birds

April 20, 2012: Birds strike Joe Biden's plane as it lands in California; nobody hurt.  It's not clear what kind of birds collided with the giant Boeing 757. Biden was in Santa Barbara for a fundraiser.

And a bird also interfered with Hillary Clinton's plane while she was flying from Brussels to Paris. NBC’s Pete Williams reports.

KEYT:  Air Force Two, a modified Boeing 757, was inspected for damage and departed Santa Barbara for an undisclosed location Saturday morning.

August 11, 2010: Vice President Joe Biden's Air Force 2 in minor accident with small plane on Long Island runway.  There were no injuries as the Bidens' 747 jet lifted off from Francis S. Gabreski Airport in Westhampton.