CAT Tracks for February 6, 2010
FERAL CATs

What did I do to deserve such harassment on a Friday???

DAMN, if y'all can't mellow out on TGIF Day...there may, in fact, be no hope!!!

I mean...you would think that CATs would be in a good mood...another week of unappreciated toil for CSD #1...COMPLETED!

So, why y'all pickin' on little ol' me???


I related earlier today...a loyal reader taking me to task over whether we should be looking for pigs or donkeys cavorting in space as a sign of an impossible mission accomplished.

Now...sitting at my computer - innocently listening to the album "I am...Sasha Fierce" by Beyoncé, playing endless games of Free Cell while watching the snow fall - my reverie shattered by an e-mail from another CAT who is forwarding an article brought to his attention by, yet, another CAT...an article from a just-this-week, banned-by-CAT Tracks, anti-teacher magazine.

Damn...did y'all have a bad hairball day or something?

Here is the intro to the e-mail I received...

While acknowledging my act of rebellion on behalf of CATs and teachers everywhere, two CATs take it upon themselves to push for the publication of an article from this despicable publication...providing a link, no less.

Well, as "luck would have it", TIME magazine evidently follows the policy/tradition of Cairo School District Number One...refusing to acknowledge outbursts of passion by pee-ons that run counter to their beliefs.

I.E. - TIME magazine still darkens my mailbox...

I confess...being the tight-pawed CAT that I am, I did not throw the magazine away as was my cat-gut feeling, instead dropping it in the magazine rack next to my porcelain litter box. So...when I received the aforementioned e-mail, I retrieved the actual magazine, scanned the article, and present it below for your enjoyment - an article on the newest business in Cairo, Illinois, the Ace of Cups...


Postscript:

Over the weekend, I shall pen a new gospel that reflects my personal trials and tribulations of today, entitled...

BCS...Battered CAT Syndrome


CAT Tracks Editor's Note...

Pardon the "tense" of this introduction...the grammatical "tense", not the "tenseness" or terseness of the post which I have already explained. You will note the article was posted in the wee hours of Saturday, yet reads as if it were written/reported on Friday.

Due to circumstances beyond my control...

This post WAS written/attempted on Friday, but then my satellite broadband crashed...along with my DirecTV. Must have been one big fat cloud that parked over my house...refusing to drop its load of snow. I mean...we got a literal dusting of snow, but the "blizzard" sure knocked out my cyberspace connections.

Maybe it was a "sign"...a Higher Power reminding me of my vow regarding TIME magazine. If so, all I can say is "Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa"...and my traditionally CATholic three "Our Fathers" and three "Hail Marys".


Dang...probably shouldn't have mentioned the "hail" part! I'll let you know if I receive THAT follow-up sign...

From the TIME.com Website...

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