"The best cat pictures on Facebook"

Tiny reflects upon her name in the early morning light.

"I wanted you as a friend because I know you will have the best cat pictures on Facebook," Rick Moran of Right Wing Nut House — who is also associate editor at The American Thinker and Chicago editor for Pajamas Media — wrote on our Facebook "Wall" this afternoon. Facebook, you ask? Wikipedia defines it as a "free-access social networking website" with "more than 150 million active users worldwide." Founded in October of 2003 by a Harvard student "blogging about a girl and trying to think of something to do to get her off his mind," it "has been blocked intermittently in several countries including Syria and Iran, so it can't be all bad. As Rick wrote on his own Facebook Wall earlier today, "Rick is struck dumb by how many people he knows on Facebook. Is he the only human who didn't know about this?" We kind of stumbled into it ourselves a few months back when our totally awesome non-blogging heartland niece Mabs "SuperPoked" us.

Turn the image 90˚and you've got a Rorschach Test to read your own preoccupations into. Tiny's inner cat brooding over the issues of the day?  The shadow of the smile of her late brother tormenting her soul?

Our blogging juices jogged by Rick's request for Facebook friendship, we Googled "sisu Rick Moran" and were delighted to find a couple of 2007 posts incorporating the ailurophilic words of Mr. Moran in our headlines [Cute cat pictures alert!]:

1. "More cat pictures, please," a quotation from an email Rick had sent us.

2. "The uses of 'a well modulated meow,'" a reference to Rick's post "THE INEFFABLE “EFFABLE EFFANINEFFABLES.”

"I wonder when they developed the ability to tug at our heartstrings with a well modulated 'meow?'" Rick asked rhetorically in that last-referenced post:

At what point did they realize that the simple act of looking us right in the eye, showing a face that defines animal beauty and comeliness, would make us fall in love with them? Wouldn’t it be interesting to find out when cats discovered they could get more by giving less; that the ability to manipulate us, wrap us around their paw meant that they could dole out their affections by the teaspoon rather than the bushelfull as lesser creatures like dogs do?

A friend, indeed.

Update: Lots more heartstring tugging at Modulator's Friday Ark #230.

Comments

[goomp]

Cats are great people as are dogs and some humans. I believe the big difference is that they are much less a pack animal than either humans or canines. Nonetheless they return our love on an equal basis. But let's face it, they are the most photogenic of the three species.

[retriever]

As always, Sissy, love, love, love your cat pictures and am sick with envy that I can't do as well with my cats.
Facebook?, I've done it since last summer (got badgered to do it by the other Sunday School teachers, I think because they thought it would make it easier to track me down to sub for them when they go away skiing!) Find it fun sometimes, but I cannot believe the vacuous nonsense people post about: one friend has 600 other friends and we all get pop up email notices telling us of her status update and it turns out to be that she has written 'I am longing for a cookie. Should it be a gingersnap or a chocolate chip...." Almost as bad as Twitter...

Here are some funny links on it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHi-ZcvFV_0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrlSkU0TFLs