I realize I am really scraping the bottom of the relevance barrel here, but I am now fascinated with Gilded Age presidential pets as a way to not write my book. For instance, did you know that President Rutherford B. Hayes was the owner of...
cats
The art of Harry Whittier Frees, 1914: Cats firing a cannon. Can't beat that. And never let it be said that cats taking over the internet is some kind of.
It's been awhile since LGM had a cat mascot. So allow me to nominate my cat Torvald, who turned 11 today (or yesterday if you are on the east coast)..
If Obama had any willpower and was a real leader, he'd use some of these cat rockets against Moscow. That would totally cower Putin and peace would come to Crimea. John McCain would use cat rockets. That's why he should be president.
It would be difficult, nigh impossible, to create a tumblr more dedicated to my interests than Communists with Cats.
I may not have any boxing cats for you tonight. And I may not have any firefighting cats either. Or any LOL-style cat photos from the 1870s. But I do.
Martin Scorsese gave a great talk for the 2013 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities. It's reprinted in the New York Review of Books and is on the importance of preserving our language of film in a culture that values little but the weekly game of...
This collection of cat images used during the suffrage movement is outstanding. Thanks to djw for sending this my way.
This evening, LGM passed 500,000 readers in a month for the first time in its history. Kind of a milestone. There's only one way I can think of celebrating this.
Tonight's entry in our tour of odd historical boxing videos continues with the glorious theme of cat boxing, this time from a bizarre short put out by General Motors in 1937. Some of this could actually be slightly disturbing to you so you are warned....
More Gilded Age pugilism--except tonight it is boxing cats! The past is a strange place.
This is why I study the past: Cat as an old-time photographer. Nothing more awesome has ever happened.