November 30, 2007 11:30 PM
Open Thread: Nora!
Nora returns. What can I say...I love cats...
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FIRST!
Cats are for petting.
You like piano watch this!
if these monkeys want you dead, youll be dead!
Alrighty then!
The Bad Plus - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OruzDa0He-g
We don't run Washington and no one really does
Ask not what you can do for your country
Ask what your country did to you
The only reason you're still alive is because someone
Has decided to let you live
that should have been the previous post--
awww cute!
Frederic Rzewksi - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkymJYTemsw (I really wish I could find a performance of "Stop the War") brilliant!
Bush hates domestic defense.
Best LNMC is forever! :-P
in forever....
cats and music. doesn't get much better than that
;)
Forget cats, the big news is teddy bears: ISLAMISTS NOW CONDEMN CHICAGO BEAR NAMED MUHSIN MUHAMMAD
Cat piano anyone?
Have you guys seen this one yet??? I laughed so hard when I first saw this. KINDA stupid but SOOOO funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjfbS_Kj-J0
Kitty's got to bust out the metronome and hit the finger exercises or she'll never make the bigtime.
Does the cat gives lessons?
What the kitty needs is *MORE COWBELL*!!!! ;-)
Oh my God, John! That was a scream! Imma get me one of them thar pie-anos for my kitty. Too much! I almost hate myself for being so amused. Almost.
States are now reluctant to get tough
on juvies.
The great debate among those of us on the Economy Deathwatch seems to be whether the debacle we observe around us will resolve as a crash or a slow-motion financial train wreck.
http://tinyurl.com/2b9raa
I love this cat.
Oh yeah, I got a video of a dog on an Akai MPC2500 triggering samples of cat's playing pianos.
Political campaign attack ads:
Help voters understand how candidates differ 7% 7236
Are a "pox" on both parties 93% 91390
Total Votes: 98626
www.cnn.com
HEY! Fred Thomson...listen to the people...egghead.
Here's what I got (sorry, no accompanying audio) -
http://www.thesequencers.us/various/brighteyes.jpg
Outstanding cat.
That is one fat cat.
Here is a more entertaining cat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTtkl4P4U80
More of a dog person myself...
The sour look on Nora's face when the student butchers Ode to Joy is priceless.
I'm pretty sure that cat speaks Italian when you're not looking.
Thing Fish @ 6 "The only reason you're still alive is because someone Has decided to let you live."
Wow, what repugnant nonsense.
What, does it make people feel hip to hold the darkest possible worldview? Satan is coming after you, Think. The only reason why you're still alive is that the check on your soul bounced.
L.A. Confidential @ 22:
Great blog! I've never read his stuff. In my diggings there, I found this scary video in Peak Oil Premonitions :
http://peaknik.blogspot.com/2007/12/this-clip-is-pathetic.html
Man, we dumb
That cat is way smarter than this human;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juOQhTuzDQ0
I should ask the cat to give me some piano lessons.
well, like,... I was diggin' this cat Nora,
sorta a sparse Basie 1 note thang, and yet
at the drop of a paw, she closes in on the keyboard
for some textural clusters that harken
back to early Cecil Taylor, while never losing
her dedication to leaving space for the other cats to
get their groove on, yeah...... solid...
"US says it has right to kidnap British citizens"
I'm glad American government attorneys said this in a U.K. courtroom. They're (Blair) one of the Igors to our Dr. Frankenstein in unleashing the beast we've become.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article29826...
The next time the DCC asks you to donate ask them to help Jay Fawcett.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/10/12/105219/21
Back to cats...one of my cats will swoon and drop to the floor if you ask her if she's going to faint. The other one is a headbutter. He needs a helmet.
I hate cats... NO, I am indifferent to cats.
But that was nice... No, that was O.K.
Feh, that's nothing. I've got a ferret that plays sousaphone. I would YouTube him, but I don't like exploiting animals.
I've got one who plays the wind chimes. As far as I'm concerned, cats are proof of the original alien infiltration. Nothing else explains it.
I loved that! What a way to break up the monotony. I'm sitting here in front of the TV watching a re-run of the republican debate. Mitt Romney is the greasiest man alive.
I really hope Mitt gets the nomination. Any dem would rip him to shreds.
As I was saying, I'm actually nerdie enough to be sitting here watching a rerun of the republican debate.
But I was just noticing that Fred Thompson has the ugliest lips. They are big and floppy, taking up the width of his entire face. They are thin and red, looking like an old mailbox or something. How on earth was this man once hailed as the next great Reaganesque-Alqua-Velva-Cigar-Older-Charismatic-Type-Guy???
I mean, he's GROSS.
Hype-Jersey @ 42:
Well, it beats arguing with idiots on You Tube - that's what I was doing.
I agree this is just what I needed. (I also agree that Mitt is greasy and Thompson is gross)
I couldn't decide if Nora was trying to tune the piano or play a Phillip Glass tribute.
I have a cat name Sarah. The only thing she can do is look at herself in the mirror. I love Sarah. Ahh! And eat.
Vladimir Horowitz, reborn as a fat pampered pussy. I would know him anywhere.
Cats - so much better than Republicans its almost painful.
/loves cats as well
Hype-Jersey @ 42:
Have you seen his opponents?
Let me say my piece about Open Threads
This being one some insight is all i want to shed
I like cats
Don't get me wrong
But when you start an Open Thread with them
Perhaps it is time to sing this song
Because i come to an Open Thread to talk about shit
And to be totally honest
Cats isn't it
A thread that is open
To me
Is a place
Where i can rant and rave and get in your face
Not a place where people say "AWWW!!!" all over the place
I want to argue
And piss and moan
Cute cats in the headline
Don't stiffen my bone
I want to be provacatated
I want to be challenged
These cute little kittie
They make me unballanced
I need something more than cuteness and talent
I need to get pissed off
Show me an idiot
I want to get down to it
Show me a wingnut
Hell bent on my rights
Show me a spinner
Telling us its alright
I need to get angry
Don't show me a cat
Show me injustice
I can kick ass with that!
For the record, and before some nice person decides to correct me i am well aware that provacatated is not a word but provoked did not fit my mood.
I wasn't going to post, but since you insist xoites here is a picture of my friend nancy as a cute, oh soooooo cute, kitten.
Hazy @ 50:
Melt my heart!
Go AHEAD
Damned Sadist!
xoites defends Constitution @ 48:
Sounds like someone's got a case of the Mondays.
Accute cute
This we must dispute
Before the cute get cuter
And Olberman gets any ideas
Old Billy @ 52:
You must be way on the other side of the planet if it is Monday already. In fact i conjecture to say you are one and a half times around the other side of the planet.
Hazy @ 50:
By the way, very nice pic of a very cute kitty.
But i digress...
To change the subject here is a question for anyone who cares to answer:
Who is going to be our next President, in your humble opinion?
To clarify, i am not asking who do you want to be our next President, but who do you honestly think will be our next President?
Ok, if that is too hard how about this for a question?
(Actually a three part question.)
When do you think American dissidents will start to be disapeared?
When do you think people will notice?
How long before people become outraged?
Sorry, nevermid.
Who has a cute kitty story?
xoites defends Constitution @ 57:
I think it might be Obama, and I'd be happy to see it happen. Sure, he's not as leftist as I am, but he's a lot better than some. He can bring people together, and at least he's put together bills on ethics reforms.
I haven't heard him talk much about the environment, and I don't like everything he's said about carbon credits and a kind of duct tape approach to healthcare in this country. But he's getting the money together, and he's more savvy than people with a lot more experience than him.
Usually I think I know, but this time, I don't know. There just seem to be those I fear would become president and those I fear less. Wait! It is like last time in this.
Thanks for the compliment also, I won't start about the cat, though.
I don't know. I can't see the general public get worked up about anything political.
We've got Cheney and Co. robbing people blind, and just about saying "laws, we don't need no stinking laws," and no one cares. But Christina Aguillera gets another belly button ring and we've got a 60 min in-depth special on CNN.
But the crap part about it is that real people eat this shit up for some reason.
Hazy @ 61:
I agree, Hazy. Very cute kitten.
I'd put up pictures of mine, but I've never taken the time to figure out a web photo posting site.
I might have said clinton, but bill really nailed my off switch the other day. Not that I wouldn't go left, but the taste...
Anybody see Elinor fronting for Rudy on the Mclaughlin group? Too transparent by half.
Congress not acting on the higher alternative tax is hurting refunds.
Bush blames the Kyoto Protocol for his failed economic policies.
xoites defends Constitution @ 57:
Giuliani.
Giulianicus Rex doesn't stand a chance in a legal election.
He's the Federalist Society implant, the follow up on their Boy Wonder 2.0 insert.
But we've busted up the vote-fraud quite a bit, with more to come.
Anything like a legal election, and Hillary Clinton is #44.
Tequila @ 67:
He's so far into the bottle that he can't tell any more if he's just Protocol-ed down his leg.
Today is the start of Zappadan!!Get bulbous or jesus will think your a jerk!!
It's nice to know that HILLARY IS NOT INEVITABLE!!!!!
The cat has more talent in one repeating paw than all the Pop and Rock "musicians" in the past 50 years lumped together!
Loved the intermission!
The hostage taker--a convicted felon--wrote to the Bob Dole campaign:
“Require politicians to be legally responsible for their campaign pledges and prosecute those promises which result in perjury, fraud, deceit and deception to national trust.”
What a crazy guy.
xoites defends Constitution @ 57:
Hillary Clinton. I think it's been predetermined.
Really good jazz piano...wonder if she sings though...maybe some sCat ;)
A police detective once told me about the difference between cats and dogs...although I love em both.
If I were to die in my home, and I had a dog...the dog would guard my body until he starved to death.
a cat...will eat you
although that one looks well fed.
very cute!
ConcernedCanuck @ 75 "Hillary Clinton. I think it's been predetermined."
Mainly because most of America including a lot of ex-Republicans consider the Clintons, in comparison to Boy Wonder the Worthless, experienced and capable. And crucially, they know the name. It's an established brand, and their own has ripped them off like rubes at the fair.
It's also started to dawn on some former Republicans that quadrupling the price of oil is the biggest income tax increase since the system began.
Nora rocks
The world is a more civilised place because of the likes of Nora.
That's nothing. Look at the YouTube video of Bush, nude, drunk, falling into the White House harp.
xoites defends Constitution @ 57:
That really is tough. The national polls seem to point to Clinton but as we come up on the primary for each state the numbers get fuzzy. I was reading on TPM about how these caucuses work and it appears that often the winner is the majority of caucusers' second choice. IMO that would be Edwards - he seems to be almost everyone's second choice.
P.S. I'd love for it to be Biden just to see him take on one of those bereft-of-ideas, ethically-challenged republican candidates. He'd clean their clock!
I kinda like cats too, but you gotta make sure you drain their bladder before you saute them, lightly, with just a pinch of garlic juice.
xoites defends Constitution @ 57:
Looking over the candidate pool, and reading the polls, I'll predict...In fact, I'll make it a SURE THING......and bet ANY AMOUNT YOU WANT....... AT ANY ODDS you say........
That you'll (I'm not voting for any of these ass*oles) elect ANOTHER DOOFUS.
Hopefully, not as calamitous as Bush (PLEASE, PLEASE, stay away from the God-Consulting imbeciles), but only time will tell.
Remember, BB (before Bush) NO ONE would have bet that some president could have sunk us lower than Nixon.
And now, look where we are.
xoites defends Constitution @ 58:
1. Last year
2. Never
3. Never
xoites defends Constitution @ 59:
Lindsay Lohan's car seat
I love cats too. One year ago I had one cat Zoe. Due to circumstances I now have four. My neighbor cat, Sebastian, moved in my house thru the doggie door and refused to leave. He wasn't treated very well by my neighbors and they don't want him back - not that he would go, he's now a very happy cat. Then, unfortunately, my neice died and I went to Ohio and got her cat Ernie. He's a very cool cat. Then my granddaughter found this beautiful little orange kitty in the road and brought him home to me, of course. He's a very busy cat and we have named him Oscar Wilde-kitty. Maybe I need to get a piano.
I love cats too John, that made my afternoon. (My fiance was crying...yeah, she's a sap for cats).
Paul in LA @ 78:
Perhaps. Or maybe they were just better crooks and liars than the Bushies. I think the Clintons are just as corrupt, if not more, than the Bushies who seem to be best buddies. Not find that a little odd?
Our beloved cat, Butoh, was killed by a hit and run the other day. Butoh was a paragon of feline dignity and magnificence. He was THE "cat under the stars." Now he is IN the stars.
Please could folks be kind enough to say a prayer for Butoh, that he may reach the light he so richly deserved.
And he REALLY hated the Bush administration.
Cloudbusting @ 32:
The more interesting question is, what country does Nathan come from?
That cat is adorable, you can see it wants to play just like mommy and she's a ham to boot.
What's it going to take to open all the doors to an impeachment investigation of VP?
Local citizens wrote resolutions calling on the US government to act: Investigate the President and VP.
Encourage your friends to discuss resolutions calling on the House to remove all roadblocks to the impeachment investigation.
Awww.. what a cute kitty. But PLEASE... play with that cat some more. It's too fat! The way it's going, there won't be a cute kitty around much longer.
Tequila @ 10:
The reason the Rethuglicans are doing is that they're hoping to instigate and attack on the United Stated.
Their trying to stir up the hornets nest, and offer up some of our populace for an attack, just so they can then use it as an excuse to take away more of our rights.
And if you think I'm wrong, remember that some of those fascists have stated that they hope that the US does get attacked.
So, it's not exactly a 'hidden' conspiracy. They doing it right in front of our faces.
ConcernedCanuck @ 89 "I think the Clintons are just as corrupt, if not more, than the Bushies who seem to be best buddies."
So you think the Clintons are more corrupt than the Bushies.
A-HAH-HAH-HAH-HA.
That's the stupidest thing you have said yet, TMK.
Preacher Boob @ 84 "Remember, BB (before Bush) NO ONE would have bet that some president could have sunk us lower than Nixon."
THESE ARE THE SAME PEOPLE.
Nixon was a better president than Boy Wonder EVER could be, but that's besides the point that these ARE Nixon's people, the younger set at least.
Paul in LA @ 98:
My point, exactly. You think all the bushies are going to die, or disappear, just because The Dummy is leaving the presiduncy? We must be vigilant, or the Bush travesty could recur. Maybe we could distribute free condoms, impregnated with HIV, that would eliminate all the republican Congressmen. But what to do about those Regent Law school 'graduate' paralegals?. Those CIA and DIA wizards with their Ouija boards? Those FBI sleuths with their gumshoes stuck to Hoover's graven images implanted in the flooring at Headquarters? All the myriad of bureaucrats speculating in SIV's and 'Mortgage Packages' with stolen shrink-wrapped bundles of Treasury funds, borrowed from the Chinese and designated for Social Security payment? All the republicans who have taken out fourth mortgages on their mistresses' second homes, to pay alimony to their third wives?
I'm tellin' ya, things are more complicated, and dangerous, than they seem.
Very cool!
Notice Nora tries to get the rhythm and tempo correct, and when there is a key change she tries to follow it.
Pretty sharp for a kitty!
C'mon PiL and Boob! This is about a piano playing kitty for Bob's sake!
Make the stupid political noises on a political thread, mkay kids?
xoites defends Constitution @ 48:
OK, but what's the tune? ('Onward Christian Soldiers' would fit)
OK, Nora's pretty cool, but I'd like to see her compete with Lohan's pussy.
(Or maybe they could do a duet)
What a clever cat!
Any cat owners relate to this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmwqpHsMExg
Shredder:
So sorry to hear about your Butoh. My heart goes out to you. Hang in there.
airliebird58 @ 104:
I do something similar to my husband..........but without the baseball bat
This cat is smarter than the leader of the free world. Crazy!
Mirror:
Thank you. Means alot to hear your support. At least Butoh was 16+ and had a fortunate and charmed life. Right now Im working on forgiving the heartless (or clueless) person who barrelled through our neighborhood too fast (there were witnesses) and then didnt stop.
Cars are killing machines. No one should ever forget that.
Thanks again -- really!
i never get tired of Nora, but i think it is safe to say that if this cat was born after 1975, i'm sure one of the snobbier music posters hates this simply on general principle and would probably like to remind us that Fritz is the only cat worthy of this sort of attention.
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