Julio's friends dressed up for halloween too:




from : http://i-love-cartoons.com/

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A cat (who looks very much like Julio the I) is an accredited hypnotherapist

http://bit.ly/3SNLmd

Julio's friend Nermal has a wiki:
(which makes me think Julio should get one too:-)

http://garfield.wikia.com/wiki/Nermal

PS: I thought Nermal was Garfield's cat toy/stuffed animal, not a 'real' cat, and his cousin at that. It turns out that's Pookie/Pooky, Garfield's teddy bear.

Peter's revenge

It was a bright and sunny day. The rain had stopped, the birds were chirping, the breeze was breezing...and then I heard it. Meowwwwwowwwww....A screeching, piercing, decibel-busting scream that cut through the woods in the jungle, rolled in the air, reached the building across the dry cleaner's, gathering momentum along the way, then bounced off in the opposite direction to create a horrendous echo that rippled across the sound waves over the back yard, the jungle, and half of Squirrel Hill I bet.

I thought the building where our stalker lives had gotten new cats that were flighting.

But no, a look out the window and sure enough, Julio was running for his life, faster than the speed of light, chased by Peter who had reached him and started punching him already.

Peter, GO!

He turned around and kept running in the opposite direction, towards the neighborhood trash cans, his latest habitat.

Peter, it seems, is taking a revenge on my cats. I expelled him from the jungle, so now he won't let anybody, definitely not Julio, approach the trash cans, his residence of choice.
Which is all the best by me, this might turn Julio off from the trash cans once and for all. Peter, do me a favor, and chase my cats away from your stinky habitat, but if you hurt them in the process, you'll have to deal with me.

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Where's Julio?

I havent seen him in 2 days and I'm worried, he never misses meals / eating opportunities, and never lets the other cats eat without joining them.
Smores is hanging out by himself, without his best friend...

-he emerged from the garage 2-3 days later, still having lint from my pink blanket and clothes on his fur. I guess he didnt move or scratch himself for 3 days, just slept in a single place without moving until the rain stopped. Julio...

Internet slowness persists. On/Off all the time,back and forth...I'm losing patience with this situation.

Julio seems to be pretty mad at me lately (see his Twitters on the right), even skipped his dinner. I bet he's over-eating someplace else, this morning he ONLY WATCHED Stubbly eat her own food without even getting close to it, let alone grab some for himself. Something is going on here...

Julio is making progress with his domestication, only scratched me twice in the past few days. Then once he sees me carrying food he forgets about his fears and acts as if nothing happened. I can't have him declawed, he won't be able to defend himself against the petercats of the jungle. Speaking of which, Peter is STILL in the trash, in it, on top of it, and proud of it, while the 3 others cats are looking on.

Rant!

freaking Internet is slow again, switching from 24mb to 54 to 36 from 'good' to low to excellent, WTF! We've tried 3 freaking routers in the past yrs and still the slowness persists.

Peter IN the trash

A look in the far corner of the back yard and, sure enough, who jumps out of a trash can but Peter! then casually sits on top of it while Julio looks on.

I thought that damn petercat had moved his yellow ass away from here, but no, he's back and full of it.

Way to go, Ben, petting trashy petercats like there's no tomorrow.

If I ever catch Peter I'll throw him in the trash can and close the lid on top. Then the garbage pick up people can give him a ride to his proper habitus, the wasteland.

Julio pics

On TV


Oil painting


On Multiple Planes


Impressionistic


Warhol-style


Magazine


Van Gogh-style

Of cats and mice

I was wondering why Julio was being so nice today and let me pet him for a long time, then I remembered I hadn't fed him last night, and I look around and sure enough, two dead -but completely intact- mice are lying next to the door steps. Is that what it takes to end up with mice? 1 missed dinner? What would happen if I left town for 5 days?

Marbles is back and acting exactly like Panther, even in the way she walks. Unbelievable what a few months away can do to a cat.

Habitus Demystified

Sharon and I concur: Bourdieu's "habitus" is just a fancy made-up word for culture, which I'm guessing he preferred not to use as such because it's an overloaded term and would have had to contest with the anthropologists' use of it. Better to coin a new term.
Btw, "hysteresis of the habitus"? That's traditional Freudian psychoanalysis straight up, not really a distinct "practice" process. If the habitus effects its influence through hysteresis, what's uniquely practical about it? And how does the practice theory account for individual choice/will, the way that individuals deal with the habitus-induced hysteresis/hysteria? Shouldn't that also be part of a theory of practice? The theoretical/explanatory mechanism behind the theory of practice seems to be a psychological one. Which might be just as well, since what "practice theory" seems to counteract is ideological and structural accounts of social behavior.

On to the "archeology of knowledge"... another psychoanalytic-heavy social theory text.
A lot of social theory seems to be psychological accounts dressing up as sociology. What is sociology anyway? How is it different from social theory?

Somebody called "ThePublicZoo" is following Julio in Twitter, ha ha :)

First time in a long long time that Julio missed his dinner tonight. Stubbly and Smores were eating slowly and noisily, yet Julio didn't show up, he normally rushes to the door,seemingly starved for food, the moment he detects any sounds by the door/windows/other cats' munching their food.

it's Dejavu all over again

The garlic nebula, the animal print slippers, the empty water pitcher...
I would add to the list PeterCat except that he's disappeared lately.
Grace's new slippers are exactly like Peter's : animal print fluff. Now, if you can combine those with red sweatpants (or orange cutoffs) that would complete the experience.

eating, petting, smacking

Julio doesn't mind petting after all...as long as he's not eating at the same time. That must remind him of Panther's smacking him while eating. Panther is gone but the memory remains, and, sure enough, Marbles, who is back full-time, has adopted Panther's habit of slapping other cats while they're eating.