Posted by Loulou on May 31, 2016 | 5 comments

I am the Great Hypnotist, Loulou Lassitude the Lackadaisical, about to hypnotise.  Whatever that is. A cat who ended up hypnotising herself. A cat who ran into a camera. Cata Hari This is your brain on nip. Where’s the lens, did you say? Okay, no smart remarks on my photographing abilities, okay? You want me to pose HOW? Okay, just who’s taking...

Posted by Loulou on May 30, 2016 | 5 comments

(Cincinnati zoo photo) Above you see Harambe, the gorilla who was shot and killed so that he would release a three-year-old who fell 10 feet after climbing through the barrier  into area where Harambe lives at the Cincinnati zoo.  Lived, that is. I wish they could have used tranquilizers.  There are tranquilizers that can drop a hippo instantly, so this...

Posted by Loulou on May 29, 2016 | 21 comments

Should one of us kitties or doggies run for a government position and make sure whoever is president keeps on her toes?  I vote for Marcus…he speaks Goose and we’re going to need him if that other goose is electe FIRST: Obama’s achievents since 2009 I read a lot.  I read with mama and I read on my kitty kindle and I’m beginning to...

Posted by Loulou on May 28, 2016 | 9 comments

Well, they exposed me to THAT DOGGY again, Mya. Yes, THAT one above looking so cutesy-pootsy. She comes over here with her parents to dinner and wiggles around all over the place and when mama picks up a lemon that fell from our tree, she goes bananas, thinking it’s the tennis ball that mama throws for her sometimes and then mama get the ball and...

Posted by Loulou on May 27, 2016 | 10 comments

Anchovies at our fish market…num, num.  Toss them in flour, salt and pepper and sauté in olive oil until crisp, about 5 minutes. Well, here in our little ville there is going to be an anchovy festival on June 1st and I will personally take some candid shots of the goings-on and get them to you in a blog next week if I can balance the camera. ...

Posted by Loulou on May 26, 2016 | 8 comments

Oh, boy, what can’t we females do?  A story in today’s NYT touched me very deeply, because mama and I are always discussing why anthros can’t get along with one another even though they are from other countries and cultures, especially if they are from different backgrounds (!), and this story says it all.  Just imagine how it feels when...

Posted by Loulou on May 25, 2016 | 12 comments

Unapprove | Reply | Quick Edit | Edit | History | Spam | Trash Well, I am trying to get my comments box to function, meaning that I get all of your comments, but when I click on Reply, I cannot get it to come up with its nice clean box in which to do that!!! So I am replying to comments from my AOL emails and I hope the replies are getting to you...

Posted by Loulou on May 24, 2016 | 6 comments

Unwanted attention? Oh, boy, I was impressed to read today that a guy in the National Assembly here in France was discovered to be sexually harassing some of the women in his office over a long period of time, and several of them have come forward to say that they will not stand for it any longer and that he needs to be ousted.  Which he was. Now, France...

Posted by Loulou on May 23, 2016 | 6 comments

Oh, boy, mama is really causing some action around here.  I smell that chocolate melting and I sort of sidle into the kitchen and look completely uninterested, take a little bath, look out the window at the garden, you know the drill, but I am FULLY aware of melting chocolate and cream and know that fairly soon, there will be little balls of that stuff...

Posted by Loulou on May 22, 2016 | 7 comments

You put your right paw in, you put your right paw out, you put your right paw in and you shake it all about… You do the hoky-poky and you turn yourself about… That’s what it’s all about! Then… You put your left paw in, you put your left paw out, you put your left paw in and you shake it all about. You do the hoky-poky and you...

Posted by Loulou on May 21, 2016 | 5 comments

Our little church tower at sunset. Well, I just went out and took some shots of our little ville because it’s so nice now that the summer appears to be happening and I thought you might like to see them. What’s nice is that it’s an old-fashioned little town with lots of older people and mama loves older people (now that she IS one, haha)...

Posted by Loulou on May 19, 2016 | 5 comments

  Well, I’m just here checking out the roses and making sure they’re growing properly.  I love to sniff them, but there was a little spider in one and it jumped right on my nose and scared the living daylights out of me! I’m contemplating him, as you see, but I think I’ll keep my distance.  Those little tiny spiders are the...

Posted by Loulou on May 18, 2016 | 5 comments

Well, mama says emphatically that basically he has none.  If you have time, just take a good look, please, at this article in the NYT about Trump’s attitude toward women.  With the papa we cherish around OUR house, who respects and esteems both of us females and would not in his wildest dreams behave toward women, or anyone, the way Trump has behaved...

Posted by Loulou on May 17, 2016 | 10 comments

I mean, is this doggy cute or WHAT? Even I fell for this one. Well, I’ve been thinking. This little ville of mine is full of some of the cutest, most friendly, most interesting doggies you will ever see. Maybe because so many are here on vacation and everyone is very relaxed, including their canines (I mean their doggies, not their teeth) and so most...

Posted by Loulou on May 16, 2016 | 6 comments

Cabbage? Are you joking? YAY, the vet’s on vacation. I’m not sure ballet is my thing Haha, that’s a good one Too much popcorn (phrase in the 60s for too much indulgence) They told me to go watch TV.  Where’s the TV? Hey, they know I like four olives in my martini! Okay, if not ballet, I’ll teach advanced Cattha Yoga Hey,...

Posted by Loulou on May 15, 2016 | 19 comments

Doesn’t this look as if mama is cuddling me in her arms? Oops, I put my paw in her mouth! Well, mama’s back to her shadow dancing  and these are the latest.  Taking a day to be silly, if you ask me.  I suppose everyone needs that when the world gets too serious. OOPS! I’m falling on my head! Attacking the fava beans. UH, oh. Monster...

Posted by Loulou on May 14, 2016 | 14 comments

So you take an ordinary, sweet little bull terrier…. Wow, Mya, my doggy friend’s mama sent this website to us—it’s hilarious and so incredibly original.  It is a Pinterest site so if you are a member of Pinterest you can sign in to see it, or perhaps you have already seen it on your notices, but mama’s friend said, “Oh,...

Posted by Loulou on May 13, 2016 | 12 comments

Lena lounging Well, one of my best pen pals lives in Santa Barbara in a magic garden and sweet carriage house her mama is a friend my mama has known for a gazillion years beginning at college where they met in a house for girl students run by what could only be described as a madam of a certain age, but of course she wasn’t really. She was just...

Posted by Loulou on May 12, 2016 | 6 comments

Hey, it’s a first step! Well, personally, I think blogs are very serious and are a journal, in many ways, of one’s life and happenings and events and thoughts and emotions and changes of attitude and all of those things that make up a self, but I am thinking I might actually write a book and share some of the things mama has shared with me. But...

Posted by Loulou on May 11, 2016 | 8 comments

(Photo from a story by Lizzie Deardon—thank you) I know I have written about this before but, this is most interesting. I was doing my blog this morning when those news things came up on my computer that AOL flashes across the screen before you can get to your emails or start in on your own writing, and this is what I saw in an article on women who...