Posted in cats, silliness on November 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From the annals of things you never imagined you needed: a wig for your cat.
This lovely model – a pink version of the wig Flip Wilson wore as his female alter-ego, Geraldine – is unfortunately sold out. And what a pity! To quote the Kitty Wigs! website: “Pink makes your kitty feel elegant, modern and quintessentially [...]
Posted in food, health, lucky me, public health, science, silliness, weirdness on November 17, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Yippee! I am always tickled to hear that yet another ostensibly bad-for-you food has been Officially Declared Healthy. Today, it’s chocolate milk, according to the New York Times.
Move over, red wine. Make room for chocolate milk. A new study suggests that regular consumption of skim milk with flavonoid-rich cocoa may reduce inflammation, potentially slowing or [...]
Posted in food, kids, silliness on November 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We celebrated the Bear’s tenth birthday today (only six days late) with a few of his friends and lots of Legos. The cake was a giant yellow Lego surrounded by Duplo people.
It’s made from a 9 x 13 rectangular sheet cake with eight cupcakes. (Since two mixes are required for this, you end up with [...]
Posted in politicians, silliness on November 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Apparently it’s poetry week here at Kittywampus. Following up on Rumsfeldian penis-spam poetry, we’ve now got the next literary contender from Wasilla. If you didn’t hear William Shatner’s dramatic reading of Sarh Palin’s tweets, you’ve got some catching up to do.
All caught up? Then you’re ready for Shatner performing Levi Johnston’s twitterpoems – if indeed [...]
Posted in politicians, sex, silliness, unreliable narrator, wingnuts on November 3, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The one semi-redeeming quality in Donald Rumsfeld was his poetic streak. Who can forget this classic?
The Unknown
As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don’t know
We don’t know.
(From [...]
Posted in Germany, history, silliness on October 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The German Democratic Republic built a lot of apartments from prefab material in an effort to alleviate their perennial housing shortage. They had a great name for it, Plattenbauweise, which is only a long word when you consider the technique is called “Large Panel System building” in English. Basically, the builders took a bunch of [...]
Posted in media, memory, music, silliness on October 20, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Maybe it’s just ’cause I’m the daughter of a mother who has sung in barbershop quartets for the last quarter century. Maybe it’s because I remember Jaw, ET, the original Star Wars trilogy, and Indiana Jones from their big-screen debuts. Maybe I’ve got a secret Wookie fetish, but if so, it’s hidden even from me. [...]
Posted in music, silliness, weirdness on October 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
From the land of Hello Kitty and Rabbit vibes comes a really freaky interpretation of Debussy from electronic music artist Isao Tomita. Blame Debussy for the racist title, Dance of the Golliwogs, which might have sounded prettier in French but was probably no less problematic. I’m not sure if the whiteness of the kids in [...]
Posted in media, privilege, racism, silliness, wingnuts on September 27, 2009 | 7 Comments »
In response to the comments sparked by my post last week on reverse racism, I’d like to let Stephen Colbert have the final word. But first, I’ll try to be concise for a change and offer the two best reasons I know for not using “racism” to refer to hatred or prejudice against the dominant [...]
Posted in blogging, kids, parenting, silliness, wild rumpus on September 24, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Both my boys just got tucked in for the night, but I expect them to come untucked again momentarily. They’re a bit like Weebles when you try to coax them into bed: Weebles wobble but they won’t go down. And if you’re old enough to know how the original Weebles slogan went, you might just [...]
Posted in cats, silliness on September 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
You’ve got to be a hardcore lover of feline foolishness to watch this clip to the end. I am. I did.
Physically, the cat looks remarkably similar to Grey Kitty, except her whiskers were more irregular and she had a small scar on her chin from when she did a five-point landing from a tree and [...]
Posted in LOLcats, animals, beauty, cats, silliness, unreliable narrator on September 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday this important Emergency Message appeared on I Can Has Cheezburger?
We here at Kittywampus will NOT cave to the demand for a cat-free day on the Internet. As you might have noticed, today is 09-09-09. Now, remove the zeroes. Turn the number upside down. The truth is revealed: a day without [...]
Posted in LOLcats, blogging, economics, health, public health, silliness on August 20, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Most days, Kittywampus is fairly sleepy (as befits its patron cat), but yesterday traffic on my blog just exploded. You might have thunk it was my post on erotica for women that drew a crowd, but no … it was my half ranty, half wonky post on health care. WordPress put it on their front [...]
Posted in Germany, silliness on August 8, 2009 | Comments Off
Ha. Some of you are saying, “But Sungold, you’re already way out there, orbiting some dark star.”
This video clip freaked me out because I was at the top of the Berlin TV tower – that apogee of East German Communist design and engineering – just a few weeks ago. My kids, my mate, and I [...]
Posted in childbearing, gender stereotypes, motherhood, music, parenting, silliness on August 5, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Boy, I wish I’d seen this video, “Pregnant Women Are Smug,” during my first pregnancy! (h/t Deborah Siegel at Girl w/Pen, who’s expecting her first baby – yay!) I wasn’t so much smug, myself, as slightly irreverent and deeply terrified. I’d lie awake, wondering how the heck I’d ever survive labor. But I wasn’t scared [...]
Posted in LOLcats, cats, kids, parenting, silliness on July 30, 2009 | 9 Comments »
This has been my kids second-favorite toy this summer, topped only by the decrepit typewriter they unearthed while we were in Berlin.
It’s the box from our beloved front-porch furniture. The kids have turned it into a house, of course. Two months later, the porch furniture is still wonderful, but the box has achieved a state [...]
Posted in Germany, animals, food, kids, silliness, stupidity, weirdness on July 28, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I haven’t seen our bunnies since I returned from Germany. They’re probably pouting about the cage we put over my chard. So I got all excited when I heard a rustling sound while my husband and I were sitting on the front porch.
It wasn’t a bunny. It was a squirrel, having a big fight with [...]
Posted in Germany, animals, books, childbearing, embodied experience, gender stereotypes, kids, motherhood, parenting, sex, sexism, silliness on July 19, 2009 | Comments Off
Following up on yesterday’s post on the romanticization of labor pain: The other evening, my sons were watching clips on YouTube, and suddenly I heard the sort of moans that made me wonder if they’d stumbled onto YouPorn instead. But no. They’d found a “Maulwurf” video illustrating how birth works. “Der kleine Maulwurf” – or [...]
Posted in Germany, kids, music, silliness on July 12, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Yesterday, while we adults tried to sort out some of the old junk still hanging around the Berlin apartment, the kids intercepted this gem and saved it from the dumpster.
It’s a “Reiseschreibmachine” – a portable manual typewriter that I bought in 1991 when I first arrived in Germany and was waiting for the first real [...]
Posted in books, history, local news, politicians, silliness on July 1, 2009 | 8 Comments »
A colleague of mine, Kevin Mattson, appeared on Stephen Colbert last night. He’s one of those people who proves what a small town we live in: He works in the history department, so I know him through professional channels. He lives just two blocks away from me. I worked with his wife on the Obama [...]
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