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My cat just spent a knee-slapping 40 minutes stuck behind some insulation the attic. Classic hijinks!

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Jan 2, 2022Liked by Jeff Maurer

Thank you for this. Both the OZ item and the cat-in-a-harness left me giggling helplessly, which I've been sorely needing recently. I honestly don't think I'd get to 5 either unless at least 3 of them were alcohol-based.

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Apparently, you are not alone in your fascination with Cats. According to ReelSEO.com, a website about video marketing, there are more than two million cat videos on YouTube. People have watched these videos more than 25 billion times, which equates to an average of 12,000 views per cat video. And, these are statistics from a 2015 study. By now the numbers are likely many times as high.

The statistics speak for themselves, but if you wish to learn more here is the source information:

https://theconversation.com/study-shows-the-paw-sitive-effects-of-watching-cat-videos-43454

Almost as impressive as the attention paid to "I Might Be Wrong."

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One thing that I liked this year was "KID A MNESIA EXHIBITION," a free video game/art installation using the Unreal Engine commemorating the 20th anniversary of Radiohead's Kid A album, along with Amnesiac. The latter album featured the hit song "I Might Be Wrong," which is referenced in the game but doesn't get its own exhibition space.

Let's go down the waterfall

Think about the good times

And never look back

Never look back

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"You’d think that a $400 million blockbuster would be more entertaining than an 8-bit graphic of an airplane inching its way across North America." Well, not on that tiny little screen with crappy earphone sound and the roar of the engines and crying babies in the background ... that would ruin even the very best movies ever made.

But Sturgeon's Law has always been true. I don't think it's any different now than it ever was.

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That's it?! What a terrible year. I at least enjoyed not having to commute, and I enjoyed it every day!

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Cats, hats. I want to know what might have made the beaver artist draw two groin cysts on the poor animal. Was he working from his own image in a mirror?

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Cats are truly a gift - and reflections into the part of our souls that we find all-too-poignant when externalized in a floof casing.

Good #1 pick.

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