shake that cat2008-08-20T03:17:45Zpardon me, but there's a bear in your hot tub.tag:www.shakethatcat.com,2009:/mt//1Movable TypeCopyright (c) 2008, BrendenT minus One2008-08-20T03:17:45Z2008-08-19T22:59:27-05:00tag:www.shakethatcat.com,2008:/mt//1.742008-08-20T02:59:27ZOrientation, day two: More welcomes, introduction to the library and library resources, basic introduction to school's email system. No explanation as of yet as to why email from outside takes 9+ hours to arrive. General IT introduction, and usual Mac...Brendenbkootsey@gmail.com
Orientation, day two: More welcomes, introduction to the library and library resources, basic introduction to school's email system. No explanation as of yet as to why email from outside takes 9+ hours to arrive. General IT introduction, and usual Mac...
T minus Two2008-08-18T23:19:01Z2008-08-18T19:03:30-05:00tag:www.shakethatcat.com,2008:/mt//1.732008-08-18T23:03:30ZOrientation, day one: Welcomes from the Big Cheeses (Dean, President, Rector of Board of Visitors, President of Alumni Association). Community service and outreach (fundamental to the philosophy of the school, the only grass-roots-organized medical school in the nation). The honor...Brendenbkootsey@gmail.comschool
Orientation, day one: Welcomes from the Big Cheeses (Dean, President, Rector of Board of Visitors, President of Alumni Association). Community service and outreach (fundamental to the philosophy of the school, the only grass-roots-organized medical school in the nation). The honor...
Celtics 131, Lakers 922008-06-19T01:56:41Z2008-06-18T21:53:18-05:00tag:www.shakethatcat.com,2008:/mt//1.722008-06-19T01:53:18ZIn 1986, I was a senior at a parochial boarding high school in Virgina. A couple of years earlier, a Boston school in the same system had closed and a number of its students from around New England had come...Brendenbkootsey@gmail.com
In 1986, I was a senior at a parochial boarding high school in Virgina. A couple of years earlier, a Boston school in the same system had closed and a number of its students from around New England had come...
It's probably not the catalytic converter2008-04-29T19:36:18Z2008-04-29T15:32:25-05:00tag:www.shakethatcat.com,2008:/mt//1.712008-04-29T19:32:25Z "I don't think society's going to disintegrate. It's gonna smell funny for a while, but it's not going to disintegrate." Frank Zappa, in a 1968 WFMT Radio Chicago interview with Studs Terkel...Brendenbkootsey@gmail.com
"I don't think society's going to disintegrate. It's gonna smell funny for a while, but it's not going to disintegrate." Frank Zappa, in a 1968 WFMT Radio Chicago interview with Studs Terkel...
I can think of a couple of images...2008-03-29T14:45:10Z2008-03-29T10:33:22-05:00tag:www.shakethatcat.com,2008:/mt//1.702008-03-29T14:33:22Z David Hockney on Pictures and Power, via Andrew Sullivan: We do not have debates about images. The world of art is separate from the world of images, but the power is with images, not art. An obvious problem is...Brendenbkootsey@gmail.com
David Hockney on Pictures and Power, via Andrew Sullivan: We do not have debates about images. The world of art is separate from the world of images, but the power is with images, not art. An obvious problem is...
"Life is like high school..."2007-12-11T22:30:26Z2007-12-11T17:21:03-05:00tag:www.shakethatcat.com,2007:/mt//1.692007-12-11T22:21:03ZFrom Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind, pp. 1-12, by Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth, excerpted by Fresh Air: Any way you look at it, most of the problems facing baboons can be expressed in two...Brendenbkootsey@gmail.com
From Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind, pp. 1-12, by Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth, excerpted by Fresh Air: Any way you look at it, most of the problems facing baboons can be expressed in two...
When they say, "check references," is this what they mean?2007-11-24T01:47:59Z2007-11-23T20:47:08-05:00tag:www.shakethatcat.com,2007:/mt//1.682007-11-24T01:47:08Z This can be considered a literary blog only in the way the proverbial infinite number of monkeys with typewriters can be considered a literary endeavor, so we'll be the first to admit we're not intimately familiar with the works...Brendenbkootsey@gmail.comWords
This can be considered a literary blog only in the way the proverbial infinite number of monkeys with typewriters can be considered a literary endeavor, so we'll be the first to admit we're not intimately familiar with the works...
New Orleans, Lower Ninth Ward, September 26, 20072007-09-29T04:16:15Z2007-09-27T12:04:15-05:00tag:www.shakethatcat.com,2007:/mt//1.672007-09-27T16:04:15ZBrendenbkootsey@gmail.comRemember, if your subject is a primate, get a photo release (or a belt)2007-11-24T01:55:37Z2007-09-25T19:10:12-05:00tag:www.shakethatcat.com,2007:/mt//1.662007-09-25T23:10:12Z From the September 25, 2007 Guardian: "Orangutan rips off tourist's trousers:" An orangutan who objected to having its photograph taken by a French tourist snatched her backpack before ripping off her trousers. The woman, known only as Odile, was...Brendenbkootsey@gmail.com
From the September 25, 2007 Guardian: "Orangutan rips off tourist's trousers:" An orangutan who objected to having its photograph taken by a French tourist snatched her backpack before ripping off her trousers. The woman, known only as Odile, was...
Watch out for guys selling monkeys2007-11-24T01:54:44Z2007-08-16T22:53:39-05:00tag:www.shakethatcat.com,2007:/mt//1.652007-08-17T02:53:39ZFrom the PBS/American Experience documentary Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, forty-some years before Craigslist: June Cordell, Relative of Peoples Temple Member: "The first time I met Jim Jones was Easter 1953. My mother-in-law, Edith Cordell, had a...Brendenbkootsey@gmail.com
From the PBS/American Experience documentary Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, forty-some years before Craigslist: June Cordell, Relative of Peoples Temple Member: "The first time I met Jim Jones was Easter 1953. My mother-in-law, Edith Cordell, had a...
Where, exactly, is that cat spending the rest of his time?2007-11-24T01:54:02Z2007-07-27T08:38:09-05:00tag:www.shakethatcat.com,2007:/mt//1.642007-07-27T12:38:09ZOn July 26, the Wall Street Journal's Health Blog published "Final Exit, Pursued by a Cat," reporting on a short article in the New England Journal of Medicine: So there’s this cat that lives in a nursing home in Providence,...Brendenbkootsey@gmail.com
On July 26, the Wall Street Journal's Health Blog published "Final Exit, Pursued by a Cat," reporting on a short article in the New England Journal of Medicine: So there’s this cat that lives in a nursing home in Providence,...
Readings, part 2: Ryszard Kapuscinski, 1932-20072007-11-24T01:51:14Z2007-01-27T20:08:45-05:00tag:www.shakethatcat.com,2007:/mt//1.632007-01-28T01:08:45ZFrom Ryszard Kapuscinski, "When There Is Talk Of 1945," Granta 88, p. 255, translated from the Polish by Klara Glowczewska: We who went through the war know how difficult it is to convey the truth about it to those for...Brendenbkootsey@gmail.com
From Ryszard Kapuscinski, "When There Is Talk Of 1945," Granta 88, p. 255, translated from the Polish by Klara Glowczewska: We who went through the war know how difficult it is to convey the truth about it to those for...
Readings, part 1: C.S. Lewis2007-11-24T01:50:51Z2007-01-15T23:35:12-05:00tag:www.shakethatcat.com,2007:/mt//1.622007-01-16T04:35:12ZFrom C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves, p. 22-23: I turn now to the love of one's country. Here there is no need to labour M. de Rougemont's maxim; we all know now that this love becomes a demon when it...Brendenbkootsey@gmail.com
From C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves, p. 22-23: I turn now to the love of one's country. Here there is no need to labour M. de Rougemont's maxim; we all know now that this love becomes a demon when it...
"Curse you, Red Baron 24-oz. collector's fountain beverage cup!"2007-11-24T01:50:23Z2006-11-24T10:30:22-05:00tag:www.shakethatcat.com,2006:/mt//1.612006-11-24T15:30:22ZFrom the AP via the Seattle Times: "Idaho Zamboni drivers fired for midnight trip to drive-thru:" BOISE, Idaho—Two employees of the city's ice skating rink have been fired for making a midnight fast-food run in a pair of Zambonis. An...Brendenbkootsey@gmail.com
From the AP via the Seattle Times: "Idaho Zamboni drivers fired for midnight trip to drive-thru:" BOISE, Idaho—Two employees of the city's ice skating rink have been fired for making a midnight fast-food run in a pair of Zambonis. An...
"And he's got a nickname with, ah, your name on it!"2007-06-13T20:11:46Z2005-10-10T11:20:48-05:00tag:www.shakethatcat.com,2005:/mt//1.602005-10-10T15:20:48Z From "Wading Toward Home," by Michael Lewis in the 10/09/05 NYT Sunday Magazine, already not to be missed for the story of Haywood Hillyer and the cats, comes this: On St. Claude Avenue, just below the French Quarter, there...Brendenbkootsey@gmail.com
From "Wading Toward Home," by Michael Lewis in the 10/09/05 NYT Sunday Magazine, already not to be missed for the story of Haywood Hillyer and the cats, comes this: On St. Claude Avenue, just below the French Quarter, there...