Cats and Colours
I recently noticed something funny. Cats seem to prefer their own colours. For instance, one of them, who is orange, absolutely loves the colour orange. It doesn’t look that great to me, but she insists on lying on a surface that clashes the most with her own colour. Pink (and similar shades) are ok too, as far as she’s concerned. I keep wanting her to lie (read pose) on something white, grey, blue or green. No such luck. Besides, getting her to pose for the camera (read lie still for a few seconds at a time) is more or less impossible.
Another of my cats – grey this time – adores (you guessed it) the colour grey. In this case, I wouldn’t say that grey clashes with grey, but in my book, another colour, like white, red, blue and so on, would look a lot prettier. That is if I ever got her to stay in one place long enough for me to get a few pictures of her.
Oh, well, I’ll have to commit the images to memory and maybe, once in a while, I’ll be able to snap a few shots of them before they take off…
Irresistible seeds
Today I noticed that my cockatiel, Alexander, had pecked a hole in a bag of bird seeds I’d bought for him. He was sitting there, eating seeds, looking pleased with himself. And so he should. He’s such a smart bird. I was so impressed. He wasn’t too happy when I poured the contents of the bag into a glass jar though. Oh, well. He’ll get it all, in time. I only wish I’d been able to take a photo of him. Maybe some other time.
The Only Two Writing Tips You’ll Ever Need
I just read this article
, and found that I quite agreed with the writer. Sure, there are plenty of other tips that might be useful for some people, but those two are so basic, they deserve to be stated. What are they? Read the article and find out. 🙂
Mysteries and fantasy
I have found that many of my interests and hobbies are relatively rare. That is, not everyone shares my obsession with them. In fact, many of them never even heard of some of my favorites in a given area of interest.
It’s kind of like my favorite types of animals. (Though listing my favorite animals will take time and blog post space. It might be easier to list the ones I’m not too keen on, but I digress.)
So, to get to the point, it occurred to me that my two favorite genres of books are a bit like cats and dogs. Let me explain.
Crime novels, in general, are crime novels, though there are of course historic ones, thrillers, puzzles etc. So that is the same as cats. A cat is a cat, regardless of its breed or appearance. (Though to make this a little more complicated, most people haven’t heard of my favorite mystery writers either, so maybe I shouldn’t take this metaphor too far.)
Anyway – With me so far?
Fantasy is more like dogs. What’s a dog? A big tough, impressive one, like a – Eurasian? Yes. A lively, medium sized one, like a Tibetan Terrier? Yes. A small, adorable one, like a Lhasa apso or a Bolognese? Yes. A – you get the picture. My favorite fantasy books do have other followers, but really not that many. If I meet an average fantasy fan (yeah, I wish), I’m betting he or she might not even have heard of my favorites.
So there you have it. When it comes to crime novels, I like many different kinds. Fantasy, particularly my not so well known authors.
What is a vegan?
To me, who’s been vegan for several years now, veganism is something so natural and self-explanatory, I hardly even think about it. However, I’ve realized that many people simply don’t have a clue what it is. (And many of those who do, really don’t care, but that’s another story.)
So, just in case anyone’s wondering – What is a vegan
?
And, here‘s the answer. (One definition, at least.)
The nine intelligences
I just read an article
about the nine types of intelligence. Just as I’ve always suspected, I belong to the linguistic type, which is all very well in itself. Maybe I’m being unreasonable, but I was kind of hoping I’d have a little of at least one of the others, but it doesn’t look that way, never has. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining. Linguistic intelligence suits me fine. It was just that I was thinking that maybe – Oh, well. You can’t have everything. I’ve know a number of people who didn’t seem to have even one of those intelligences, so why am I whining about it?
Porn for feminists? -again.
I just read another article about ‘feminist’ porn. What all these people are missing is that after all these years, the female is still an object. As far as they’re concerned it’s like the past thirty years or more never happened. For them porn still equals naked women. I don’t mean lesbians. I think it’s perfectly cool that lesbians make lesbian porn for lesbians. What I’m referring to are the so called straight feminists who claim that their movies with naked women are good porn.
Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. For me, it means naked guys. That kind of gay porn means hot guys having fun together, not ugly old men having sex with and degrading women. The naked (young) male body is attractive. Females are just soft and saggy. How can that be sexy?
Well, to each their own, but I really think that if you want to call yourself a feminist, why not leave the female body alone? Hands off our bodies.
