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Where does your cat go when he’s missing, and what would you do to find out?
Rumpus contributors Caroline Paul and Wendy MacNaughton went all the way, employing kitty-stalking gear like cameras and trackers to peer into their pet’s secret life.
...moreErnest Hemingway fell in love with polydactyl (six-toed) cats after he was given one by a ship’s captain.
Now the descendants of his cats live free on the property of his former home turned museum in Key West. Well, the forty to fifty feline residents have lived without regulation until recently — the USDA has been locked in a federal case with the museum over the licensing and care of the cats.
...moreRemember “spinster aunt and gentleman farmer” Twisty Faster?
Her blog I Blame the Patriarchy, a perpetual source of fantastic writing and radical feminism, has grown quieter and quieter these past several months, due, according to her sidebar, to “[t]he crushing demands of patriarchy blaming.” We can all relate.
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This week the Rumpus will be in Yorkshire, England. Or at least the triumvirate will be. On exhibit there at the Chris Beetles gallery until September 13 will be the work of “cat artist” Louis Wain, who died in 1939. Wain’s cats have seen renewed popularity, as much for their quality as for the legendary madness of the man who made them.
Whoops… Houston, We Erased The Apollo 11 Tapes.
Your cat is smarter than you think.
On the anti-Nazi photomontages of John Heartfield?
Not enough pictures of terrible people to start your weekend right? Well how about this Life photo-essay on the KKK?
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