Cat-tastic

Long time, no blog (not that anyone was missing this) but I've been working, and it's not like I've had a lot to blog about...UNTIL TODAY

I'm not sure which makes me a bigger dork, the fact that I found myself in the middle of the Madison Square Garden Expo center at the CFA-IAMS Cat Championship show or how I'm blogging about it on a Saturday night. Well, needless to say I found myself smack dab in the center of what might have been the most absurd scene this side of "Best in Show." Officially now I am a New Yorker, and I was lucky enough to grace MSG for the first time which should have been done long before Cat Fest 06 rolled into town, but I digress: Upon strolling into the Expo center one recieved a hearty whiff of cat piss and and excitement for watching old men fondle cats while literally tens of people watched on in excitement. Seriously, these swave motherfuckers held these cats with such grace how could they not be picking up all the Cat Fancy ladies after the show? I can say with some degree of certainty that it was quite the intimidating force to be in the prescence of such great athletes.

Walking through the aisles of cats locked up in fabric cages I was left stunned not so much at the variety of cats themselves, or the way the breeders were completely wrapped up in the lives of these cats with stupid names like Mr. Bojangles as well as one breeder who named all of her cats after all the members of *Nsync, but at the number of fuckin' crazy people who would spend hours haggling over the price of a cat nip pillow. I wanted to slap the shit out of this woman who was sniffing one, and when I gave her a befuddled look, her only half brain retort was, "If I like it, my cat will." Hey lady, I think it's time for you to step away from the cat nip.

God help these people, and may they find the companionship in their cats that they were unable to find on the internet.