The Cat Visits the Past, Present & Future

The title is a little vague so I'll give you the 411. I'll be hopping all over the place like a crazy hare. The flashback fotos are from my past, the Friendly Fill-Ins are my present thoughts and I have some thoroughly modern art. If you've come for a taste of everything, you're in the right place. Let's get the pawty started with some fotos from the past.

PAST

Our first flashback foto #6661 was chosen by Lola the Rescued Cat! She shows excellent taste picking this stunning foto from May 2014. I often act like I have nothing to play with. TW likes to prove otherwise so she dumps some toys around me. These are some of my favorites. Moments after this foto was taken, I started playing with the little "beach ball" toy and my rockets. I do like to play like a kitten but it has to be inneractive. TW has to join me in my game whether it's to toss me the ball or shoot the rocket.

One of the only single digit numbers we had left was #4 from way back in June 2007, which was picked by Andrea and the Celestial Kitties. When they sold their house, Pop noticed that their artist neighbor was throwing out a few paintings. He was drawn to this one so it was gifted to him. They hung the tasteful nude at the back of the hall over the record shelves so it wouldn't be front and center. When I was a kitten, I used to jump up on those five-foot-high shelves. I wouldn't even break a sweat. I don't think I could get up there now but don't bet against me. I used to jump up on everything including doors. Nothing was too high. TW had the analog camera back then and didn't take too many fotos but she captured how comfy I look atop the records.

PRESENT

The Friendly Fill-Ins are hosted each and every week by 15andmeowing and McGuffy's Reader. They make up the fill-ins and I make up the answers. Today I let TW answer number three. Each week my image relates to one of the fill-ins. This week it's number two.

1. I would like to ask PeTA why do they hate companion pets so much but I'm afraid I know. I just saw this quote about PeTA's Ingrid Newkirk on the Huffington Post site. "Newkirk's seeming indifference to domestic dogs and cats is chilling. It is not simply that she kills them so easily. She just does not appear to like them very much: in her ideal world, 'eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship—enjoyment at a distance.'" You can read the entire piece here. TW used to belong to PeTA a long time ago until she started reading what they stood for.

2 My favorite fast food restaurant is Number One Chinese. I love Chinese food and this one is the closest to us.  I'm going through the menus in the image to pick out what the peeps should order. TW is sticking her nose in here to ax if iHop counts as fast food cos she only eats the fish sandwiches at Burger King or Mickey Dee's once or twice a year.

3. If I could go to any concert of someone still performing, it would be Bruce Springsteen. The boss always wins out with this Jersey girl. He's old and grizzled but he still knows how to rock. I've only seen him three or four times and he never disappoints. I tried to get tickets to his shows on Broadway but I'm sure even using the lottery method, scalpers got them all. Honorable mentions go to Soul Asylum and Patti Smith, both of whom I've seen many, many times. For years I went to two or three concerts/shows a week but I don't go anymore for lack of money and stamina. The last show I saw was Paul MacCartney at Yankee Stadium because I had to see at least one Beatle in concert in my lifetime. [CK: OK, Woman, shut up now. You said enough.]

4. My Winter pastime is usually sleeping, because TW is too busy doing nothing to play with me otherwise I'd be running around the condo. When the weather is cooler, it's perfect for zoomies. She's too busy doing nothing to play during the summer also but it's too hot to play even though the a/c is on.

FUTURE

Click to biggify drawing.

This little ghetto kitteh might not be posting art on Caturday no more but I'm still creating daily. Every once and again I have a piece worthy of this blog. This is one of them. I find sketching is my true art passion, even better than painting. I autographed it for you too. I'm also sharing this on tomorrow's art blog hop hosted by the lovely Athena Cat Goddess Wise Kitty and her mum. You can see digital art created on one of the online apps, Photoshop art and art that is painted or drawn by those with true talent.

Thanks to those who participated by answering the 25 questions from Wednesday's blog. I had fun reading them. I'm working on some other questions.