Three Fun Pics: Part 1

That Darn Cat!

So in the course of running around Lawrence with my friend Natalie this weekend, I saw some pretty amazing things. Camera-phone to the rescue! My next few posts will simply be of a few of the things that made me smile and the stories behind them.
This particular pic is of a cat that was tending shop at a small store on Mass Street. The reason I took the pic was because the cat was sitting so austerely in the doorway (at least until his doting public tried to photograph him) that it honestly made me laugh out loud. Even more hilariously, the cat was wearing a sweater.
Now this wouldn't mean much if this was one of those foul breeds of cat that "naturally" have no hair, but this was not the case. The cat had, at one point in its life, come equipped with a perfectly good coat of fur, but for some reason the owner had decided to shave it off. I suppose that as soon as it got cold the owner realized her folly, but rather than simply let the cat grow its hair back she bought it a sweater.
After rolling this over in my mind for a while I simply stopped thinking about it and started laughing. Some dumb bastard had actually gone so far as to circumvent nature in order to make herself a target for corporate American greed. That is just fantastically hilarious to me.
So to all you hippies out there bitching about how corporate America's greed and all-encompassing veil of advertising and sensory onslaught are forcing America into the undeath of consumerism, make sure your cat isn't sitting right behind you wearing his fucking sweater.

Falcon out