To Shave Or Not To Shave?

That seems to be a serious question going on in blog land lately. And since I have no inspiration to create anything new today, I'm going to punt to two of my favorite blogs.

First off, there's my pal skypigeon (also known by his nickname, "Jeff"--or is it the other way around?). Jeff's most recent post is called, "CAT SHAVING: Fashion Statement or Hideous Evil?". It's worth checking out. In fact, it's worth leaving a comment as he specifically asks for your opinion.


And then there's Tappity Tappity (Thomas Kingsley Troupe) with his "Mom Won't Shave Me. Jesus Can't Save Me." post from a few days ago. He's growing a mustache along with several other volunteer fire fighters where he serves.

Not only are both posts worth reading, they are blogs that you should bookmark and read regularly. I highly recommend them to both of my readers!

If you're still interested in cats and don't want to click away from the safety and security of Big Doofus Blog, you can watch a movie that I liked about flying cats by clicking here.

NOTE: I borrowed the shaved cat picture from The Hudsons Blog which looks like an incredible wedding photographer's site (I just Googled, "shaved cat" and found it--imagine that). The straight razor is from some site called "The Art of Shaving" that sells really expensive shaving paraphernalia. If people are willing to pay over a hundred dollars for a razor, I may need to start a business/web site called "The Art of Toenail Clipping."

57 Weird Fact Things About Me (I was double-tagged)

I don't normally respond to "tags" or "memes". In fact, I'm not exactly sure what a meme is. I think I had a meme one time when I was seven and the doctor removed it for me. However, I was "tagged" by both Scott of Honey, I Fed the Kids and Elisa of My Journey Begins Now! for the same thing on the same day. So, I'm interpreting this as some sort of special revelation. To be precise, Scott tagged me to write "5 Weird Facts about me" and Elisa tagged me for "7 Weird Things About Me." I did the divine math and came up with "57 Weird Fact Things About Me." I don't care about the "rules" of the tag. I just feel like responding to them. However, I DO think it would be interesting to hear from my pal Uvulapie and his wife Uvalapie's Girl. I'd also like to hear from scott at Java Jesus, but his blog may not be the right place to respond.

Here goes...

1. I count my steps when I wake up and when I walk down the stairs in the morning. I have no idea why I do this, but I do.
2. I am used by many of my friends as a telephone information service. I actually USE my cell phone's handy contact list to keep all of this information which makes it very easy to call people. Instead of emulating this behavior, my friends have chosen to harness it and take advantage of it...and, thus, me.
3. I'm a sucker for movies, tv shows and commercials with talking pets--especially dogs.
4. I've never been out of the country (i.e. the United States). I've looked at Mexico from the border in Southern California, but I've never stepped foot on foreign soil.
5. I've memorized most of the movie Fletch...and Meatballs and Anchorman (which is wrong, I'm sure).
   
6. I make up weird things to say in place of today's more popular colloquialisms. Sure, I slip up every now and then and say the actual word, but I'm much more famous for screaming, "Cats!!!" when someone cuts me off while driving. It just feels good to scream out something. Sometimes the things I say are not even words.
   
7. There are a few people on this planet that "get" me. And I mean, they "get" to hear all of the disturbed things I come up with and they don't disown me. My wife has learned this art very well and then there are probably a handful of others.
8. When I was a kid I wanted to be an ornithologist. I even wrote it down on my "Big Dog of the Week" interview from 7th grade.
9. There is no # 9.
10. When I see myself in a mirror and I'm alone (or think I'm alone) I almost always make a weird face.
11. I sometimes sweat like a banshee dog in bed. I'm not even sure what a banshee dog is.
12. If I happen to look up at telephone poles passing by while I'm driving or riding in a car, I feel the need to click my teeth or move my toes up and down in between the poles. This makes NO SENSE AT ALL, but I do it. In fact, there were a whole bunch of odd things like this that my in-laws all shared with each other one time at a late-night family card game. I wish I could remember all of them. Even I thought some of them bizarre...and I'm me.
13. There are a lot of words that I find funny: robots, monkeys, grannies, cats (see #6), gravy, ninja, to name just a few. When you combine these words to make phrases or sentences, they're even better (e.g. The fighting Ninja Robot Granny Monkey Cats eat gravy to gain their super strength.).
14. I was once a stand-in blind date because a friend of mine couldn't make it. I married her. So far, it's been a great date!
    

15-57. Come up with on your own or just keep reading this blog.

This Movie is About Cats Flying

Don't ask me how I found this. Honestly, I don't know. However, I can tell you that it has instantly become one of my favorite videos of all time. It's brilliant. It's about flying cats. We can all relate.