With last night’s light snow and this morning’s kerfuffle over the Nobel Peace Prize, Turkish decided it would be a perfect day to debut his one-cat show, an impression of Darth Cheney in exile that he calls “Why Am I Sitting On My Ass Out Here In the Cold When I Should Be Killing Something?”
The score is a work in progress — shotgun blasts and a friend screaming, lightly armored Humvees encountering IEDs, the shredding of the Constitution by a flabby pair of bloody hands — so you’ll have to make do with the visual for now. An imperfect performance, to be sure, but so are they all these days. As the villainous theatre cat Tom told the cockroach Archy in “The Old Trouper” by Don Marquis:
the stage is not what it
used to be tom says
he puts his front paw
on his breast and says
they don t have it any more
they don t have it here
• Late addendum: Kevin Jones of Mother Jones.com, who does a weekly cat-blogging feature as part of his daily blog, recently asked readers for pix of special guest cats to plug into his newsletter, Drum Beat (you can subscribe to it here). Turkish is the second guest cat, with a special guest appearance by Miss Mia Sopaipilla. Shots of table cream all around!
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