Tatiana Azundris

Contrary to folk wisdom about the leopard being unable to change her spots, here in Cat Central we of course heed the fashion, and with the upcoming Winter, an upgrade to Snow Leopard seems very much the order of the day.

Except of course nothing ever goes smoothly.

Here are the notes from the front – unabridged and glossless admittedly not so much to provide an unadultered account but because I'm busy beating the doggone thing into submission. Maybe there is some truth to the whole static spots thing after all …

2007. I'm still not Gia Carangi, and I'm still not Nikki Craft. I'm just a year older, one that I likely won't admit to. Is this success? Is it something Buddha would have done? I've done taken down a picture of Angelina Jolie from offa me wall, and put up nudes of self. So maybe that's success. Maybe not. But it's something Jesus would do. What else? I got a new pet/toy, and maybe, the blurring of the line will upset some people (a fundamental difference remains for the time being; this one feels no pain). Does Azundris dream of electric cats? Yeah, seems so. Aside from the amusing recursion, Yume Neko Smile (vid) is fun exactly for that blurring of the line. It's as strokeable as any cuddly toy, and when it sits a few yards away meowing over the music, the effect can be eerie in one way, while when it sits in your lap and you hear the servos work, it can be spooky in an entirely different way. But then, I'd likely also have gotten it had it just been an animated steel skeleton, for extra Edge of Human value. (Much stronger book than Replicant Night, which was disappointing for more reasons than killing my favourite character.) Sure, they can't mechanise the song and dance brigade, and they certainly can't mechanise the miracle of the cat, but maybe, it's one of those transformative things, and maybe, it's just keeping your hands occupied while you read, kinda like knitting where you can't stick the needles in someone's eyes. But hey, the first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible, right? Time to get the razor-blades out of the house.

This is one of my new kitchen towels. So what's up with the green cat, anyway? Maybe, they're Kinky Kittins™, one for each kink. This one's Spankerella. Eat your heart out, Smurfs!

If life sucks, wear a helmet, they say, and judging from how big the cat helmet looks on the DVD's cover, life in Catwoman-world seemed to suck pretty badly.
 
The rumours seemed to support this, focusing on how little of Selina Kyle, the "real Catwoman", survived.
 
Yes, but was it good? Read on for no-spoilers look at the Catwoman movie by yours truly, impatient cat, reader of Catwoman comics, and role-player of DC characters.

An introduction to the normalisation of databases that requires no prior knowledge and serves as an excuse to sneak in some cat content!

Garv has the sweetest cat. No, seriously. Go look.

Philips has an interesting project featuring (immobile) robotic cats that can display a wide array of facial expressions to be used as social cues in human-robot interactions. True, the cat may be sausage-lipped, tell bad jokes, and move in a slightly jerky fashion, but it's definitely a step in a very interesting direction, and I for one applaud them for taking it. (See the site for more info, images and movies to reach your own conclusions.)

To the left: a mou— cat pad I was given (thanks Steffi! thanks Ofu! : ) as a birthday gizzie. Click on the image to see what it looks like when you plug it in! Meow!

Bonne année! Here come the new year's resolutions.
Quick, to the cat-mobile! (via Erdferkel).
Fur & purr, hiss & claw (via catwalk).

Mal sagt es Mau!, mal sagt es Bäh!

What will you be? A mysterious Egyptian Shadow-Cat (Bubasti, left), an exiciting exotic ocicat, or the curly-haired star of the cat-world (LaPerm, right)? Find out now with "What breed of cat are you?"

Nein! Katzpuff!
Jagan erklärt das Netz (inkl. Pinguin), Cthulhu hat einen schlechten Tag, TAP klebt Enten an die Decke, und Colani baut lange Autos.

Sister I'm a poet. And a weblogger! Fear my l337 emoticats! Hear me roar!

You're A Bishoujo (Attractive Young Woman)! You are loved by all, and you know it. You love the attention you get, because or your sense of style, and perfect face. Congrats.

You are... Purple Pussy! The star of the show! You have some real issues, but you stand for what you believe. You are plagued by monsters of the past, but you kick those monsters in the teeth. You are awesome. You are hardcore. You're a WOMYN.

Im Supermarkt an der Ecke gibt es jetzt Maus am Stiel -- da schnurrt die Katz', und der Laie schüttelt sich.