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Party gras

Today marks the eve of Lent, that serious season when folks make a spiritual practice of fasting from such things as injustice and selfishness and chocolate and Facebook. But before all that introspective stuff, folks get fat, Tuesday-style. So, of course, do cats.

Do not touch the kitten

Sometimes we are given impossible instructions. “Do not heckle the sub tomorrow,” says your 7th-grade teacher. “Don’t take this the wrong way,” says the clod about to tell you your hair looks like Brillo. “Respond to this in dignified fashion,” say the 100,000 people who signed the official government petition to deport Justin Bieber. And, […]