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Friday Catblogging: The Alley Cats of Japan

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French photographer Alexander Bonnefoy went to Japan to photograph, and then publish as a book, photographs of the alley cats of Japan: The kitten-laden adventure took Bonnefoy from Okinawa to Hokkaido, down back alleys and up into trees. The cats he found ran the gamut of badassery as well. From the delicate ones with stunning…

Animals, Cats, Film

Friday Catblogging: “The Private Life of a Cat”

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A great find, from Alexis C. Madrigal @ The Atlantic (The Best Experimental Film About Cats Ever Made): During the mid 1940s, Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid made films together as a husband-and-wife team. Who did what and who deserves the credit for directing or shooting their films remains disputed scholarly territory, but suffice to…

Cartoons & Comics, Cats

Friday Catblogging: What?!!?

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Carolina Miranda of the LA Times reports that Hello Kitty’s not a cat, and even worse, she’s British: Hello Kitty is not a cat. You read that right. When Yano was preparing her written texts for the exhibit at the Japanese American National Museum, she says she described Hello Kitty as a cat. “I was corrected — very…

Cats

Friday Poll: Hysterical humans or furious felines?

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Alleged Cat Attacks: Hysteria or Fury? There have been two stories this year about cats that have allegedly trapped their owners in a room, forcing those people to call the police for assistance. Most recently, to my knowledge, is a call for assistance in Chula Vista, CA (“California women call police over cat’s furry fury”):…