Posted by Loulou on Apr 30, 2015 | 4 comments

  One example: Jose Eduardo Dos Santos. Net worth: 20 billion Everyone is saying, gee, why doesn’t the EU do more for the boat people and patrol the open seas in a better way to save lives and why doesn’t the EU organize aid groups for immigrants, but wait a minute!!! Why don’t their countries shape up and provide jobs and homes and...

Posted by Loulou on Apr 29, 2015 | 0 comments

Maybe better not to mess with this dude… Well, I just have to bring your attention to a story mama read to me this morning about a boy and a dog, from The New York Times Opinionator/Menagerie section, A Boy, A Dog, A Decision, and written by a very, very sharp mama, Leigh Ann Henion. Would that all mamas could have a little of her insight and empathy...

Posted by Loulou on Apr 28, 2015 | 6 comments

Imagine days of this and no help… Mama and I are in tears over the 800 immigrants who paid 1000 dollars each to get out of their dangerous lives and died at sea last week. The wonderful Italians tried to instigate Mare Nostrum, a system that saved any boat in danger and then dealt with the problem on land after saving the people aboard. The...

Posted by Loulou on Apr 27, 2015 | 2 comments

Protesting the closing of Sweet Briar (The Lynchburg News and Advance) Well, mama says there is talk of closing down a school where she went for a year, Sweet Briar college, in Virginia. She has been reading about the difficulties they are having, and she has also been seeing how much support for the college has been stirred up about what was considered a...

Posted by Loulou on Apr 26, 2015 | 2 comments

Unimaginable… Today I only wish to say how sad we are for the disasters that have occurred this week in Chile and Nepal, and all of us in this house send hopes that the Chileans and the Nepalese will recover from these horrendous acts of nature. One also wonders when these things happen just where they come from? There seem to be more natural...

Posted by Loulou on Apr 25, 2015 | 6 comments

Really? Yes, really. Well, I’m actually talking about food here and maybe I haven’t covered this before except cursorily, whatever that means, but when I help in the kitchen, I am instructed to cut vegetables for soup, say, or for a stew, into small increments so that there is more surface area to volume ratio. That means that what you want to...

Posted by Loulou on Apr 24, 2015 | 6 comments

I’m so happy to have new readers! It really tickles me… I just have to say thank you to the new readers who have signed up from all over the place, and I wish I could contact every one of you to say thank you personally, and if you leave a comment every now and then, I’ll know how to find YOUR blog and read it and send you MY comments....

Posted by Loulou on Apr 23, 2015 | 0 comments

Tian de Courgettes (all onion, zucchine, tomato, garlic, olive oil, salt and pepper–bake at medium high temp for 45 minutes–what’s not to like?) You know, things look so simple to a kitty. These anthros make their lives too complicated, I have observed, and often expend much energy that might have benefited them in other areas, such as...

Posted by Loulou on Apr 22, 2015 | 4 comments

Mama’s shrimp curry plus condiments. Whatever they are. Thank you, Island Cats, for reminding me that today is Earth Day, which was begun in 1969 to make humans/anthros more aware of the grand ball they live upon and have a day of celebration! Well, I, kitty that I am, am not going to waste a New York minute, whatever that is, and I’m going...

Posted by Loulou on Apr 21, 2015 | 6 comments

Ready for pecorino Yeah, well, I’m ‘falling back’ instead. There is no spring around these parts even if all mama’s roses are just about to burst open and surprise us all and I’ll be able to help in the garden with my fertilizer system, but I can’t even find a weed to chew on, much less a lizard anywhere to play with. Spring...

Posted by Loulou on Apr 20, 2015 | 6 comments

These beauties are all over 80, and the one in the middle, 98. See, there is hope for us all. Mama tells me they used to say that when she was young when someone pushed in front of you through a door or somewhere. “Age before beauty,” the kids would yell, and then crack up. But now, being a bit more…er…sophisticated and over, say, 40, mama is...

Posted by Loulou on Apr 19, 2015 | 6 comments

Well, my auntie, which is mama’s ex-sister-in-law, suggested a book for mama, The Lives of the Artists, and now mama is going bananas over Jasper Johns, Damian Hirst, Cindy Sherman, Richard Serra (said to be the world’s greatest artist right now according to the author, Calvin Tompkins), and more, not so much for what they create but HOW they...

Posted by Loulou on Apr 18, 2015 | 6 comments

Mama was showing me some lovely works by Sally Mann, the artist who followed her childrens’ lives from birth to the present with photography and whose books have always caused a stir, especially recently, both pro and con, with their subject matter. Some of the children are photographed nude. Some are half-dressed the way children often are who are...

Posted by Loulou on Apr 17, 2015 | 12 comments

Well, it’s more like ‘united we lie down and snuggle’ because I couldn’t hold up the sulk too long and that’s because I was pretty glad to be back to normal again and I even gave papa a bath when he was rubbing my stomach as he does every time he passes by me, it seems. Just can’t resist and so the bath. I even cleaned...

Posted by Loulou on Apr 15, 2015 | 5 comments

I forgot, narrow your eyes, too. Suspicious-like. Okay, okay, I’ll be writing again tomorrow, but today I’m on strike so that I can sulk properly when they return. Sulking takes skill and coordination, after all, as most of you friends out there know, be you animal, vegetable or mineral. First you have to get a completely straight mug. No...

Posted by Loulou on Apr 15, 2015 | 3 comments

Gargle with warm salt water, like this. Mama with no voice, oh, boy. And it’s papa’s birthday. What a present. So they’re going to celebrate when the baddies go away. Well, if you ask me I think it’s traveling all over creation that gave mama that bug she has. And naturally, she can’t talk to ME with no voice, so it’s...

Posted by Loulou on Apr 14, 2015 | 4 comments

Well, mama just reminded me that I never did tell you the follow up story that a young waitress recounted to mama and papa at the Japanese restaurant in Texas.  And sorry for the delay in newsy bits.  I was waiting for a call from THEM and it never came.  But they’ll be on the way home soon. They say. So, young waitress, lovely blond, great smile,...

Posted by Loulou on Apr 11, 2015 | 10 comments

Uh, oh. Is this a possible ménage a trois? Wow, a friend just read me the NYTs artcle about the problem on airplanes now that deals with orthodox Jewish men unable to sit next to women, which is forbidden in that sect of the Jewish religion. What a quandary. BUT…a plane is a public place with limited choices and to move around the whole passenger list...

Posted by Loulou on Apr 10, 2015 | 2 comments

Well, actually, that should be baciami (my baby, as in a song mama says is a gazillion year old but what do I know?), which is a nice thing, too and anthros do it to me all the time. Kiss me, that is. So there they are, working their fingers to the bone but with a few minutes to kick back and hit the bocce court next to where they are staying. Now, in...

Posted by Loulou on Apr 9, 2015 | 6 comments

(Thank you, kilban cats) Aloha today. Whatever that means. Well, they’re off again but only for one night and then back to wherever it is they are. Maybe they’ll bring me a hula skirt or some macadamia nuts. As far as I am concerned, they are BOTH nuts!!! They are saying hello to papa’s sister after the hello to mama’s brother. It...