photo shoot with a diva

having a camera and a recently opened flickr account, i decided to set up a photo shoot with the aforementioned Iggy. she is my overweight fluffball of a cat.

for this first shoot, i coaxed our model out into our brightly lit studio by giving her one of her favorite things - the catnip lid. she had been trying to tell me something earlier but i had already fed her, refilled her water and emptied the litter box. she probably was wanting her fix, like all those high price runway models. good thing that tyra banks championed plus-sized models on primetime tv or Miss Iggy would definitely not be getting any gigs. it's also a good thing when your agent is the cameraman and provider of the basic daily necessities. i once suggested to her, trying to be the good agent that i want to be, that she get off that high protein atkins diet and go on the south beach one, like fellow blogger JadedManiac suggested - because it obviously wasn't working. she then pointed out she is a carnivore and that the only reason why she eats grass is because she swallowed some fur and would like to wretch. "Yes! Grass makes me f***in' puke my guts out so F*** OFF!" she hissed. so i've never mentioned anything about her diet since.


we started out with some overhead action shots of the buxom Iggy playing with the lid.


when she settled from her sudden initial high, we took some close-up shots of her face, but rarely full on. she despises the typical head shot and will avoid it at all costs.


then, we moved to the sofa. actually she moved to the sofa so I just followed because at this point, i knew the shoot is almost over. she did start to get irritated with my constant presence and started to indicate her impatience by whipping her tail to and fro. in a little while, she was going to crash.

i would like to post the video (.avi) of the final few seconds of our photo shoot. unfortunately, Miss Iggy refuses to sign the release papers so that I can officially publish them. she says, "The f***in' footage portrays me as a violent bitch and it [the punch] would be taken totally out of f***in' context. I was just f***in' tired from all that f***ing work and i just f***ing lost it for a m*****f***in' split second!"

that and i don't know how.

for those of you who missed it in the last post, try this website if you like kittens!

***UPDATE***
as mentioned in my comments, the photos in this post are hosted on blogger's servers. for people who are having problems viewing them, i have uploaded them to my flickr account as well.

sea otter decked out

Sea Otter Decked Out
Originally uploaded by Lester T.

finally got my flickr account going and uploaded a few pics. here's one of them:

my beloved, overweight, sometimes violent cat (not to me,) Iggy. she is lounging like this, trying to entice the other cat of the household, Me'sha to play. Me'sha, incidentally is a tough loner cat who hates all other cats. she hates Iggy and could kick Iggy's butt but she won't fight because she knows Iggy's "in". so she just tries to avoid her like the plague. Iggy likes others and often makes friends with other cats & dogs. she's definitely not a fighter but will inflict horrible pain and rip away human flesh without remorse. stay on her good side and allow her to make the decision on what kind of relationship is going to be formed before ever even THINKING about petting her. ah, she's not so bad. but i'd be cautious...

see more kittys here

the lowest common denominator

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein

"I see dumb people." - some t-shirt

what's your definition of stupid or stupidity? if you think about it hard enough, you'll find that it truly is a difficult question to answer. we all find certain stupid things annoying. yet some stupid things are very amusing and totally laughable. how many people actually paid money to see "jackass" the movie? exactly. and how many people watched mr. bean? ok, so stupidity actually seems to be a attractive quality if shown in the correct way. (could w. really be smart and is actually acting dumb??) why? i believe it is because stupidity, like sex, is to something that which we all can relate. (uh, sorry to all the people practising celibacy (wtfuwt?), abstainers 'til marriage (ditto), and guys who want to but can't and probably never will for whatever reason. take consolation in the fact that you may also qualify to be excluded from relating to this entire post.) take another step and we could call this "common sense". i mean, do we not often say after some stupid episode, "if only common sense was used..." alas, on first reading, it appears to describe the lack of common sense as stupidity, but after some thought, common sense is stupidity, itself. we have to think of all the stupid things that we could do in order to avoid doing something stupid i.e. showing some common sense. therefore showing some common sense indicates that you can imagine all of the stupid situations that may arise proving that you can think stupid, stupid.

toilet debate

has the issue been resolved? seems as though the arguement has existed since the invention of the toilet and accompanying seat. i haven't researched this because i find it trivial at this point. perhaps someday, when there are less amusing things to do. but for now, let me solve the this debate once and for all. once your business is done,

SHUT THE TOILET!

NOTE:-void in public restrooms

just put the lid down along with the seat. i mean, come on. that's the fairest solution to this hole thing! think about it: men and women each perform the same action at the toilet before AND after (and i assume, during) doing their business. this post was inspired in part by Larry's Crappy California Adventure.

while i'm at it, please load the toilet paper roll so the paper hangs at the back.

it's a secret

I came across a blog (via a link on Canadian Dude's blog) that really moved me. No other blog has made me feel the same emotions that I felt. I say emotions in the plural form because it is a whole range of emotions that bubbled forth from my heart & soul. I guess the most emphatic emotions that I felt were compassion and empathy (are those really emotions?) which in turn made me feel closer to the rest of the world. Not just people but closer to Mother Earth. I suggest that you open your mind and visit it by click on the picture above or the title of this entry. Please tell me what you all think and how it made you feel.

clean air day

Recently, a local newspaper printed an opinion article by someone who views the Smart Car as "a waste of highway." His argument was that this vehicle is too ugly, too small and that it's all about superiority rather than function. "The anti-Humvee" as he put it, made to make people who don't drive one feel like a "planet destroyer."

Well whatever. It's great to know that this vehicle has done what the Canadian government is trying to do by declaring Clean Air Day on Wednesday, June 8th. They are trying to raise awareness of our declining air quality and how this can eventually lead to climate changes. The thought goes that if we are aware of it, we will do something about it. Unfortunately, not all people care enough or at all. But we get the word out and persist hoping future generations will be taught better. Such is the slow progress of social evolution.

It takes time but things change. There is even a hydrogen powered Hummer, dubbed the H2H!

By the way, check out another way to help the environment!