Neatorama

---

• Zombies and Inverse Zombies
• Scuruchi's Carved Apple Art
• It’s For Your Own Good
• Crazy Crafty Japanese Guy Builds Robot Tongue To Lick His Computer Screen
• Bizarre Photos of Upside Down People With Clothes Right Side Up
• An Honest Trailers for the 1990 <i>Captain America</i>
• "What Brought You to Florida?" -- A Hoax Guestbook by Obvious Plant
• Prince Logo Plowed Into Field
• Guys Read Mean Tweets About Female Sports Reporters To Their Face
• Don't Feed After Midnight - Easy Instructions Are Often The Hardest To Follow
• The Worst Restaurant Customers
• Hoodies Made Specifically for Hugging
• How <i>Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice</i> Should Have Ended
• Artist Brings "Real Life" Internet to the Elderly Residents of a Village
• How Common Is Your Birthday? Consult This Chart And Find Out
• Boingy Boingy
• How To Visually Identify Any Language At A Glance
• Close Encounters with übertool
• The Star Wars Kid Is Now An Anti-Cyberbullying Attorney
• 12 Flexible Facts About the Game Twister
• Starkiller - Bond's Newest Adventure Is Out Of This World!
• Steve Harvey Has Hair Again!
• Epic Rap Battles of History: J. R. R. Tolkien vs. George R. R. Martin
• Beer Made from Belly Button Lint
• A Tale of Two Famous Kitties ...and The Librarian Who Loved Them

Zombies and Inverse Zombies Posted: 04 May 2016 05:00 AM PDT The following is an article from The Annals of Improbable Research, now in all-pdf form. Get a subscription now for only $25 a year! Classics from the zombie and inverse zombie research literature Compiled by Alice S. Kaswell, Improbable Research staff Zombi(e)s (1) “The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombi,” E. Wade Davis, Journal of Ethnopharmacology, vol. 9, no. 1, November 1983, pp. 85–104. The author, at Harvard University, reports: For many years students of Haitian society have suggested that there is an ethnopharmacological basis for the notorious zombies, the living dead of folklore. The recent surfacing of three zombies, one of whom may represent the first verifiable case, has focused scientific attention on the reported zombie drug. Zombi(e)s (2) “Preparation of the Haitian Zombi Poison,” E. Wade Davis, Botanical Museum Leaflets, Harvard University, 1983. Zombies (3) Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie, E. Wade Davis, University of North Carolina Press, 1988, ISBN 0807817767. The author explains: Evidence suggests that zombification is a form of social sanction imposed by recognized corporate bodies--the poorly known and clandestine secret Bizango societies—as one means of maintaining order and control in local communities.... “Critically, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Of greater interest is the empirical observation that the bokor [the people who are doing the zombification] recognize the toxicity of these fish [puffer fish] and include them in the powders, and that at certain times of the year these fish contain a toxin known to have induced apparent death.” (YouTube link) Inverse Zombies “Inverse Zombies, Anesthesia Awareness, and the Hard Problem of Unconsciousness,” George A. Mashour, and Eric LaRock, Consciousness and Cognition, vol. 17, no. 4, December 2008, pp. 1163–68, DOI:10.1016/j.concog.2008.06.004. (Thanks to Lee Odkent for bringing this to our attention.) The authors, who are respectively at University of Michigan Medical School and at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, explain: Philosophical (p-) zombies are constructs that possess all of the behavioral features and responses of a sentient human being, yet are not conscious.... But what if we were to invert the characteristics of p-zombies? Such an inverse (i-) zombie would possess all of the behavioral features and responses of an insensate being, yet would nonetheless be conscious. While p-zombies are logically possible but naturally improbable, an approximation of i-zombies actually exists: individuals experiencing what is referred to as “anesthesia awareness.” Patients under general anesthesia may be intubated (preventing speech), paralyzed (preventing movement), and narcotized (minimizing response to nociceptive stimuli). Thus, they appear—and typically are—unconscious.... The current investigation compares p-zombies to i-zombies and explores the “hard problem” of unconsciousness with a focus on anesthesia awareness. _____________________ This article is republished with permission from the January-February 2009 issue of the Annals of Improbable Research. You can download or purchase back issues of the magazine, or subscribe to receive future issues. Or get a subscription for someone as a gift! Visit their website for more research that makes people LAUGH and then THINK.

Scuruchi's Carved Apple Art Posted: 04 May 2016 04:00 AM PDT Italian artist Fruttart Scuruchi (translation) felt inspired when seeing an elaborate pumpkin carving for the first time. Since then, s/he (?) has been turning fruits and vegetables into fine sculptures, including, recently, several colorful apples. This Rubik's Cube began as an apple, as you can see from this video illustrating it partially complete.  A video posted by fruttart scuruchi (@scuruchi) on Apr 20, 2016 at 1:26pm PDT -via The Soul Is Bone

It’s For Your Own Good Posted: 04 May 2016 02:00 AM PDT These cats are playing out a scene happening all over. Children need fresh air and room to stretch their imaginations. But more importantly, parents need them out of their hair. Being your own bad example requires privacy. This comic is the latest from The GaMERCat. -via Geeks Are Sexy

Crazy Crafty Japanese Guy Builds Robot Tongue To Lick His Computer Screen Posted: 04 May 2016 12:00 AM PDT You know when the terms “crazed loner” and “homemade robot” are used in the same sentence you're about to see something strange, but fear not. Because Japanese Youtuber mansooono isn't a total psychopath, he's just a guy who likes to lick his computer screen as a way to "worship" his favorite anime characters.  But mansooono grew tired of wiping saliva off his screen, so he built a simple yet effective device to do the screen licking for him- a robot tongue. (YouTube Link) Using a servo motor, realistic silicone tongue and Arduino circuitry, mansooono built a device that is exceedingly creepy yet effective, a robot tongue that can lick screens for a lifetime. He also may have inadvertently come up with a convenient new way to paint our walls, look at those clean strokes! -Via The Daily Dot

Bizarre Photos of Upside Down People With Clothes Right Side Up Posted: 03 May 2016 11:00 PM PDT French photographer Patrice Letarnec calls his series "Head over Heels." In a surreal alien world, humans flail about awkwardly (from our perspective) as their bodies are inverted, but their clothes are like ours. The fashionable subjects stride down the streets of Paris a bit more slowly than we do. -via Laughing Squid

An Honest Trailers for the 1990 <i>Captain America</i> Posted: 03 May 2016 10:00 PM PDT It’s hard to believe now, but movies featuring Marvel comics superheroes used to really suck, bacon the 20th century. One of the worst was the 1990 movie Captain America. So Screen Junkies went for the low-hanging fruit and stepped back in time to give it an Honest Trailer. But stepping back in time does not mean 50 years ago. Why did they make this video look so ancient? To me, 1990 was pretty much yesterday. (YouTube link) If you haven’t seen the movie, or if you conveniently “forgot” that night that everything else at Blockbuster was already rented, this will tickle your funny bone. -Thanks, Paul Panday!

"What Brought You to Florida?" -- A Hoax Guestbook by Obvious Plant Posted: 03 May 2016 09:00 PM PDT Obvious Plant is an ongoing prank series in which Jeff Wysaski prints official-looking signs and flyers and leaves them in public places. In the past, he's made in-store IKEA product reviews, library signs, and Halloween costumes. Most recently, Jeff created a fake guestbook for an Airbnb rental in Florida. The owners will be delighted to see fairly positive reviews of the state, which will hopefully generate new customers.

Prince Logo Plowed Into Field Posted: 03 May 2016 08:00 PM PDT Gene Hansen of Edgeley, North Dakota, is not only a retired farmer and landowner, he’s an artist with a plow. The 75-year-old recently paid tribute to the late Prince by plowing a football-field-size love symbol, which was his name for a while, into a field. "I thought to myself, maybe I should try something like that," Hanson said Monday, May 2. "I didn't tell anyone I was going do it, I didn't even tell my wife I was going to do it. But it's been fun." He used a drawing of Prince's "love symbol" that he pulled from the internet as his guide, he said. "I don't have a cab on my tractor. I just have a three-point disk in the back," he said. "I taped that little sign on the hood of the tractor and just went by that." When he was finished, he flew his airplane over the field to take a picture. It’s a good thing- the symbol will be gone soon, when the field is completely plowed for a new crop. -via Uproxx (Image credit: Gene Hansen)

Guys Read Mean Tweets About Female Sports Reporters To Their Face Posted: 03 May 2016 07:00 PM PDT People like to say really mean things to others on social media, sharing their ugliest thoughts without a care in the world about who might be reading their mental dump. The comments get even meaner when they're directed at females, with women in sports taking far more than their fair share of the textual abuse. Reading this stuff online would ruin anyone's day, but how will guys feel when they read mean Tweets to the female sports reporters who received these comments online? (YouTube Link) Sports writer Julie DiCaro and ESPN radio host/columnist Sarah Spain are brave to face the online commenters in such a direct way for this #MoreThanMean video by Just Not Sports. And hopefully showing people what it feels like to receive such hate filled and crappy comments will make the online community think twice about leaving mean comments like it's no big deal. -Via Esquire

Don't Feed After Midnight - Easy Instructions Are Often The Hardest To Follow Posted: 03 May 2016 06:00 PM PDT Don't Feed After Midnight by Ed Harrington The Mogwai don't come with instruction manuals, and they're not as easy to care for as one might assume, so don't bring one home unless you're willing to assume responsibility for their actions. Like most little critters they will often want to do the opposite of what's good for them, and although they will steer clear of water whenever possible they're munchie machines who have no grasp of time. So it's up to you to make sure your Mogwai stays out of trouble, or face the green skinned gremlin consequences! Educate the world about the proper handling and usage of a Mogwai with this Don't Feed After Midnight t-shirt by Ed Harrington, it's the stylish way to help prevent a gremlin based apocalypse. Visit Ed Harrington's official website, Instagram and Tumblr, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more horrifyingly funny designs: Drinking Problems That's Not Honey Battle Cone Of Shame Eterniaconda View more designs by Ed Harrington | More Movie T-shirts | New T-Shirts Are you a professional illustrator or T-shirt designer? Let's chat! Sell your designs on the NeatoShop and get featured in front of tons of potential new fans on Neatorama!

The Worst Restaurant Customers Posted: 03 May 2016 06:00 PM PDT C.A. Pinkham shares stories from restaurant servers about their worst customers ever. Ray wrote him about a couple who came into the burger joint where he once worked and ordered two double burgers and fries. They didn’t even try to hide what happened next. "The wife ate her burger normally, but the husband took the patties off of the bun and ate them by themselves. We all thought this was strange, because if he didn't want to eat the bun, he could have just ordered the burger without the bun. But hey, he paid for it, so he could do what he wanted with it. After they finished their burgers, the husband picked up his tray with an empty bun on it and walked up to the counter. He flagged down our manager and said we forgot to put the patties on his burger. He literally took the patties off his bun, ate the patties, then presented us with a meatless bun, saying he never got any meat. "The manager comped him his meal and made me make him a new burger." -- Ray Davidson [Editor’s Note: I don’t want to believe that there exists a manager that stupid, but lived experience -- and editing these stories all the time -- has taught me otherwise.] There are plenty of other, longer stories of horrid restaurant patrons in the first edition of a regular column about terrible customers at Thrillist. If you have such a story, you’re invited to send it in. Otherwise, you can learn what drives servers crazy. -via Digg   (Image credit: Miyagawa)

Hoodies Made Specifically for Hugging Posted: 03 May 2016 05:00 PM PDT Would you like to enjoy human contact for once? I've heard that it's a wonderful experience, but holding a "Free Hugs" sign out in public isn't helping. Perhaps Together Wear will. Mashable reports that this new line of hoodies has pockets in the back that encourage someone to hug you, especially in chilly weather. Pro tip: slip a $5 $20 bill in each pocket to seal the deal. -via The Presurfer

How <i>Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice</i> Should Have Ended Posted: 03 May 2016 04:00 PM PDT Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice wasn’t the blockbuster hit that it was expected to be. Maybe the folks from How It Should Have Ended can make it a little better. (YouTube link) Or maybe they just made it more incomprehensible. I don’t know, I have yet to see the film. -via Tastefully Offensive

Artist Brings "Real Life" Internet to the Elderly Residents of a Village Posted: 03 May 2016 03:00 PM PDT You want to chat about what's going on in your life? That's for the Twitter bench. Did you catch that new viral video on the YouTube screen? Civitacampomarano is a village of 400 people in central Italy. Most of the residents are elderly and many are out of touch with web culture and the social media utilities available in the world. So the street artist Biancoshock created low-tech simulations of them around the village. They include a knowledgeable elderly woman who is a talking Wikipedia, a local newspaper labeled as an RSS feed, and a bulletin board called Facebook. You can see them all at Design Boom.

How Common Is Your Birthday? Consult This Chart And Find Out Posted: 03 May 2016 02:00 PM PDT A lot of people think of their birthday as a special day, a day made just for them, and they totally trip out when they meet someone who was born on the same day. But if you've ever wondered how rare the day of your birth actually is consult this chart created by Matt Stiles of The Daily Viz and you'll see- if you were born in the summer your day isn't that rare, born in January and you're a rare breed indeed. Matt created this chart based on data gathered from The New York Times, and Lane Harrison gave it the 2.0 treatment by making an interactive version with information spanning 1973-1999. -Via Laughing Squid

Boingy Boingy Posted: 03 May 2016 01:00 PM PDT It doesn’t take an entire minute to put a smile on your face when you’re watching a kitten learn to hunt. The prey in this case is a ping pong ball.   (YouTube link) Now share this with someone who needs a lift. -via reddit

How To Visually Identify Any Language At A Glance Posted: 03 May 2016 12:00 PM PDT You don't have to understand every language in the world to be able to identify the language in which words are written, you just have to know a little something about their alphabets and look for identifying marks. Lover of linguistic lore James Harbeck shared his method of uncovering the language in question on The Week, which basically revolves around looking for accent marks and characters that are unique to specific languages: Ã, ã: When you see this sign of a nasalized A (as in São Paulo), you're almost certainly looking at Portuguese, especially if the language looks a lot like Spanish. Ă, ă: This A with a cup on the top is your surest way of knowing you're looking at Romanian (unless you're looking at Vietnamese, but read on for more about that). For further confirmation, look for Ț/ț and Ș/ș (that's T and S with a comma beneath). Ő, ő; Ű, ű: These vowels that look like their hair is standing on end are the most unambiguous signs of Hungarian. The clever Hungarians just combined ó and ö to make a letter that means "long ö," and did same with ű. Bonus: How can you tell Chinese and Japanese apart? There's one special character that will give away Japanese every time, and it's only fair to tell you. Japanese uses three writing systems, only one of which is the same as Chinese uses, but unless you know them, you're out of luck. But Japanese makes frequent use of the character の, which is a grammatical particle and does not exist in Chinese (Chinese characters are never round). Read How To Identify Any Language At A Glance here -Via Boing Boing

Close Encounters with übertool Posted: 03 May 2016 11:00 AM PDT Over the weekend, Mark Glavin published his 200th comic on the website übertool. But he didn’t draw most of it. Instead, 17 webcomic artists from all over contributed one panel each about their encounters with übertool, “Bigfoot’s lesser-known cousin.” You’ll recognize most of guest panels right off, as they come from many artists we’ve featured time and again at Neatorama.

The Star Wars Kid Is Now An Anti-Cyberbullying Attorney Posted: 03 May 2016 10:00 AM PDT Remember that lightsaber swingin' guy they called the Star Wars Kid? He was one of the first viral video sensations, one of the first people to get the meme treatment, and one of the first to discover how trolls and cyberbullies can ruin your life with their hateful words. (YouTube Link) The Star Wars Kid's real name is Ghyslian Raza, and ever since his private video went viral after classmates uploaded it back in 2003 his life has never been the same, but mostly in a bad way. Ghyslian was mercilessly mocked, lost all of his friends and says he was told he should “commit suicide” on a daily basis, but he overcame it all and grew up wanting to help others who have been bullied online. Ghyslian is now an attorney specializing in cyberbullying, an area of law sorely lacking in legislation and legal representation, and he excels in this field because he knows what it's like to have your life ruined by the internet. -Via GeekTyrant

12 Flexible Facts About the Game Twister Posted: 03 May 2016 09:00 AM PDT Reyn Guyer came up with a novel idea for a board game, which became Twister. You know, the excuse for people to wrap themselves around each other. It didn’t sell well at first, because retailers didn’t want to put it on their shelves. But that changed after Johnny Carson demonstrated the game on The Tonight Show fifty years ago today. Talk show hosts and board games could make for an interesting pairing; Art Linkletter had famously endorsed Milton Bradley’s The Game of Life in the 1960s, his picture even appearing on the box and the game’s currency. But airtime on The Tonight Show was a different beast: Johnny Carson was the most popular late-night personality on the air. Before Milton Bradley threw in the towel on Twister, they had already paid a public relations firm to secure a segment on Carson’s show. On May 3, 1966, the host played the risqué game with buxom actress Eva Gabor. “It reversed the engines pretty quickly,” Guyer says. “By Christmas 1966, we were the game of the year.” Read about the process of bringing Twister to the masses, and its amazing notoriety when they finally got a chance to play, at mental_floss.

Starkiller - Bond's Newest Adventure Is Out Of This World! Posted: 03 May 2016 08:00 AM PDT Starkiller by Ninjaink James Bond had taken care of any and all hostile targets on Earth so he set his sights on the stars and flew away to another world to continue fighting for freedom from the shadows. As soon as his ship touched down on a planet called Tatooine he realized that the trick spy gear Q had given him would be virtually worthless here, as the Empire's forces were heavily armed and armored. So he devised a long term plan that would get him geared up and deliver him to the heart of the operation at the same time- take out a stormtrooper, then assume their identity... Get geared up for the Bond film we'll sadly never get to see with this Starkiller t-shirt by Ninjaink, it's a heroic way to show love for that war in the stars and agent 007 at the same time. Visit Ninjaink's Facebook fan page, Twitter, Tumblr and official website, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more mighty geeky designs: King Of The Firehouse Wok This Way Super Zero Bros Chozen View more designs by Ninjaink | More Movie T-shirts | New T-Shirts Are you a professional illustrator or T-shirt designer? Let's chat! Sell your designs on the NeatoShop and get featured in front of tons of potential new fans on Neatorama!

Steve Harvey Has Hair Again! Posted: 03 May 2016 08:00 AM PDT (Photo: unknown) Game show host Steve Harvey has shaved his head for years now. But it looks like he's grown back his coiffure. An unknown barber made good use of the cut hair on his shop floor to shape a realistic portrait of Harvey. -via Pleated Jeans

Epic Rap Battles of History: J. R. R. Tolkien vs. George R. R. Martin Posted: 03 May 2016 07:00 AM PDT Who is the king of fantasy novels- JRR Tolkien or George RR Martin? They come from different eras and have different styles. Can you really compare The Lord of the Rings with A Song of Ice and Fire? They both have plenty to brag about, as you’ll see in this Epic Rap Battle. There are plenty of insults, too. Contain NSFW language. (YouTube link) When it’s all said and done, does it really matter? I’m sure their fandoms have a large overlap.   -via Tastefully Offensive

Beer Made from Belly Button Lint Posted: 03 May 2016 06:00 AM PDT (Image: 7 Cent Brewery) To brew beer, you need yeast. And where should you find yeast? The truth lies within yourself--and specifically, your belly button. 7 Cent Brewery in Australia has developed a new beer from the bacteria found in the belly button lint of one of the founders. It's called Belly Button Beer. 9 News describes it: As for how Belly Button Beer tastes, the brewery has described it as being "in the style of a new world-ish Belgian-ish Witbier with fresh orange zest and toasted coriander seeds". "The yeast exhibits qualities of Belgian beer with the key characteristics being spiciness, clove and light banana esters. The orange zest and coriander seeds were used to help complement the yeast and a calculated amount of Riwaka and Mosaic hops were added to increase the citrus qualities and give it a refreshing hop kick," they said. "Four different grains were also used to add both body and complexity including: barley, wheat, oats and rye." This isn't the first time 7 Cent Brewery has used unique ingredients in a beer recipe: The brewery also made an oyster stout, and launched a 'hipster beer' at GABS 2015, which was made with quinoa, chia seeds and kale. -via Ace of Spades HQ

A Tale of Two Famous Kitties ...and The Librarian Who Loved Them Posted: 03 May 2016 05:00 AM PDT Neatorama is proud to bring you an excerpt from the new book The True Tails of Baker and Taylor by Jan Louch and Lisa Rogak (previously at Neatorama). It's the true story of two library cats who brought an entire community together beginning in 1983.  It all started with mice in the library. Assistant librarian Jan Louch and a coworker decided that what the library needed was a cat. Or, even better, two cats. Soon, they found a pair of Scottish Folds who were perfect for the job. Jan named them Baker and Taylor, and they took up residence in the library. But these cats were much more than mousers. Visitors to the library fell in love with Baker and Taylor and their antics just as Jan had. And then, after Jan let the cats be photographed for a poster, they became feline celebrities. Children from across the country wrote them letters, fans traveled from far and wide to meet them, and they became the most famous library cats in the world. In The True Tails of Baker and Taylor, Jan Louch looks back and tells the remarkable story of these two marvelous cats and the people―readers, librarians, and cat lovers of all ages―who came together around them. The patrons who loved Baker and Taylor were a diverse lot. From the young mothers and toddlers who came in for story time to the retired business executives who came in each morning as soon as the doors opened and headed straight for the reading room where they could read the newspaper for an hour or two, a cross-section of the community walked through the door every day, and I loved that about the library. (Image courtesy of Jan Louch) In the early afternoon, there was usually a bit of a lull at the library; the patrons who came in the morning and others who returned a few books on their lunch hour were gone. The next rush consisted of the high school kids who would come in to do their homework. Baker was a people cat – the staff’s nickname for him was “Library Slut.” It was not uncommon to see him jumping onto the tops of the bookshelves, sleeping on somebody’s purse, or pushing a pile of books out of the way so he could get a few extra head scratches. He didn’t recoil from endless squeals of “Oooooh, a cat!” from adults and children alike, and if a patron was standing in the New Books section when he happened to stroll by, he’d start playing with their shoelaces. Taylor was a more reserved cat and preferred to hang out in the staff workroom, busily supervising his co-workers. (Image courtesy of Jan Louch) Both cats loved kids. In fact, Baker couldn’t wait for school to let out. He actually camped out by the front door and when the first few started to show up, he’d escort them over to the reading area so he could jump up onto their books and backpacks and sit on their homework. There was one high school student who came in almost every day to do his homework after school, and Baker liked to hang out with him because the kid wrote with one hand while petting the cat with the other. Taylor preferred to hang with the younger kids. I was always amazed that he let them do things that he’d never let an adult do, like pet his fur the wrong way and let them crawl all over him. He even liked to hang out in the children’s section whenever there was a special program going on. One day an author came in to give a talk about dinosaurs and brought in some fossils for the kids to touch. Taylor was right there, mingling with the kids and upstaging the author with his bag of rocks. I’d sometimes see a toddler who didn’t know his ABCs yet try to “read” a book to Taylor. The kid would have a picture book open – more often than not, he was holding it upside down – and Taylor was right there by his side while the kid babbled away, usually something like, “And the cat said meow meow meow.” (Image courtesy of Jan Louch) Some of my the biggest fans of the cats lived 2000 miles away. Leslie Kramm, a second-grade teacher in Ohio and self-professed crazy cat lady, had read an article about Baker and Taylor in Cat Fancy magazine, and decided to have her class write letters to the cats as a writing project. I wrote back, they replied, and soon The Baker and Taylor Fan Club was in full swing.   The kids sent piles of crayoned greeting cards made from construction paper. Each card had a drawing of two cats that somewhat resembled Baker and Taylor in terms of color, though some of the kids had preferred to use orange and green. The ears ranged from the proper double fold to nonexistent. One young correspondent had attempted to draw them several times before finally giving up and drawing big black X’s over them. Here’s one of those first cards. Dear Baker and Taylor, My name is Thomas. I am seven years old. I think you are cute. You are probably smart. I want to visit you but the teacher said you lived in Nevada. I changed my mind. Hope you have a good time in the library. And here’s what I wrote back – writing as the cats – after thanking the kids for their letters: Our mother is going to put all your letters and pictures on our display wall so that the children who come to the library will see that other children know about us. Keep up your good schoolwork and keep on loving animals. Your friends, Baker and Taylor The fan club got a new crop of members with each new class, and we continued our correspondence for almost ten years. (Image courtesy of Leslie Kramm Twigg) Most of the elderly patrons would come in during the day since many didn’t drive at night. And if Baker happened to be sprawled out on his back in his usual spot near the entrance, more than a few would drop to the floor the moment they came through the door. Human and cat would then spend a few rapturous minutes attending the latest meeting of the Baker Admiration Society, but before long he’d take off in search of new opportunities; that cat wasn’t known for his lengthy attention span. Sometimes, the patron couldn’t get up by herself, and I’d rush over to help her stand upright again. But that was a small inconvenience; it didn’t matter if her hip hurt or his knee had locked up. When they stood back up, they were always wearing a big smile.   And so was I. (Image courtesy of Baker & Taylor, LLC) This is just a small excerpt from The True Tails of Baker and Taylor, available today in both hardcover and Kindle editions. Visit Lisa Rogak at her website, where you can read more about The True Tails of Baker and Taylor.

You are subscribed to email updates from Neatorama. To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now.	Email delivery powered by Google
Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States