alphabet meme, part one

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Kittens

When my apartment mate’s cat Priscilla died, she began fostering kittens. The first bunch were a rowdy crew, but were isolated from the other cat (Inky), as their mother detested him: as a result, we were the brunt of kitten antics, and many a laser pointer gave its life in the service of exhausting same, so that Boogie could have a good night’s sleep. Then, Captain Jack Sparrow came to life with us: utterly fearless when it came to tackling Inky, or pouncing helpless toes, he would yeek plaintively if left alone. He was adopted the first day that he was back at Petco: a relief, but still sad. The current bunch have the opposite situation vis a vis their mother: she doesn’t mind Inky, but hisses if we approach them. Accordingly, the long-suffering Inky had learned to climb on top of the refrigerator when he wants to take a nap, less his tail (a particular favorite for this lot) suffer indignities we will not mention here. (Amusingly, Io et al all turned out to be boys; however, we declined to rename them.)

Palindromes

One of my clearest memories from childhood is of seeing the phrase “race car” in a book (I was young enough that it may well have been Richard Scarry’s Go, Dog, Go!)(and if so, I'm disappointed in my younger self for not realizing that "Go, Dog" is also palindromic) and excitedly running to share with my father the discovery that hey, this reads the same forward and backward- only to have him gently deflate my excitement with the explanation that yes, there are these things known as “palindromes...” Since then, I’ve been underwhelmed by them; it does take a degree of cleverness to assemble one, unless you’re one of those people who use a computer to produce seemingly endless strings of gibberish that, technically, constitutes a palindrome- but remain semantically null. (I never understood the point of this: it seems to obviate the whole point of the palindrome, namely, to demonstrate one’s cleverness. Ah, well- there are people who solve Rubik’s cubes with computers, too.)

So, while “Madam, I’m Adam,” is at least concise, and “Able was I, ere I saw Elba” actually manages something approaching a narrative, palindromes, in general, are lost on me.

Yak Shaving

This picture I found online says it all:



Zombies

I'll simply fill out that zombie meme that's going around:

1) Famous companion: Superman- Get your super-strong, super-fast, invulnerable Kryptonian butt in gear and clean house, sparky!
2) Weapon: A ring of kryptonite- you never know when Superman's going to start hogging the remote.
3) Music: A CD single of "The Macarena" on endless repeat- if Supes fucks up, (un)death will be a blessed relief.