Silly Human, We Reject Your Primatonormative Agenda

[akirlu]

There I was wondering what I was actually going to do with the roughly 6-10 yards of bright fuchsia peau de soie silk that leapt into my arms at Village des Voleurs, er, Valeurs the other day, tearfully begging to go home with me at the insane bargain price of $9.99. Silly me. Tinka has it all sorted. Clearly it is meant to be a kitty bolster, the perfect final touch converting my ironing board into a comfy couch of kitty iniquity. Sigh. I guess I didn't need to put away that ironing board tonight anyway.

And speaking of helping cats, I really ought to write a letter to the Pentagon, because if someone could figure out what drives the unerring feline sense that allows them to leap precisely into the geometric center of the next garment you were about to put on, just as you are reaching for it, then we could scrap our whole elaborate network of geosynchronous spy satellites and still bomb the crap out of terrorists just as they're trying to put on their panties.

Comments

[u-must-b-joking.livejournal.com]

LOLLLL!

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

heh! You are so right.

[replyhazy.livejournal.com]

peau de soie! *swoons*

I am very glad that the Siamese are more interested in sleeping on silk than in killing it, as Smokey was.

[saoba.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine did Very High End custom sewing- mostly one of a kind wedding gowns with a sideline of holy-crap-that's-amazing Elizabethan garb.

Her go to method for finding the center of yards and yards of silk/velvet/satin/brocades- (1) carefully cover carpet with butcher paper held down with double-sided tape. (2) spread out fabric, smoothing out all wrinkles and folds (3) go pour a glass of iced tea (4) return to find the cat with most contrasting color fur asleep dead center of fabric.
She swore it was the most highly calibrated method she'd ever found.

[janeehawkins.livejournal.com]

My favorite picture of a long-gone cat friend shows him in snug-Sphinx position, looking up at me, sitting on the one piece of paper I wanted next, looking very pleased with himself.