Eve’s Birthday
Shaenon: For those of you wondering how long it’d take me to exploit my child, here’s a page from a book Robin and I made as a holiday gift, with his stories and my illustrations. Our cat Eve is the protagonist of many of Robin’s stories. She drives a fire engine, is friends with our friends’ cats, and regularly flies to Portland where she stays at a hotel and eats fondue.
Channing: Fictional Eve is living a charmed life. I was going to come into this space and say how great it is that Robin has someone who will draw any crazy story he comes up with but then I realized that is basically my relationship with Shaenon as well and now I don’t know what to feel about that.
I love the BART train full of cats. There needs to be an actual CatBART.
Shaenon: I should add that when Robin tells me these stories and I turn to the real Eve and say, “Eve, is that true?” Robin says, “Eve can’t talk, Mama! She’s a cat!”
Who among us really knows what cats do behind our backs?
A while back, I was driving home on Vermont back roads after midnight, and had to slam on the brakes because I came upon about a dozen cats sitting in a neat circle in the middle of the road, looking at each other. As I screeched to a halt, they all turned their heads in unison to stare at me, then got up, and the circle dispersed as each cat casually sauntered off in a different direction.
So, yeah, I don’t know, and I’m not sure I want to.
Cat world domination society.
Read Diane Duane’s ‘Feline Wizards’ series (first book is “The Book of Night With Moon”) and you’ll get it just fine; they were probably having a Seniors meeting.
I, for one, would welcome feline overlords.
I have two feline overlords
WANT!!!!
I don’t know about Cat BART, but our friend Ben Seto drew San Francisco’s MEWNI: https://spree-res-5.cloudinary.com/image/upload/c_crop,h_2047,w_2047,x_0,y_0/c_fill,w_450/a_exif/v1/images/JMGBAF8SSMQ2M/products/590fb78cb2b54d000c365749.jpg
I’d buy a book about that cat!
A regular Jenny Lenski.
We have Jenny’s Birthday Book, which I’m sure was a strong influence on the story of Eve’s birthday party.
I should add that when Robin tells me these stories and I turn to the real Eve and say, “Eve, is that true?” Robin says, “Eve can’t talk, Mama! She’s a cat!”
Oh, that takes me back. I remember playing with my niece when she was wee, and she was developing this complicated backstory for one of my old toys. And then when I joined in, I got a pitying look and “It’s a puppet, Uncle Davey!”
They can’t talk? Our cat talks a blue streak—noisiest one we’ve ever had—‘course, we can’t understand a word he says…
Siamese?
Ex-feral.
Burmese can be quite talkative too, nyao.
We had a cat who talked up a blue streak, too, and we generally understood him quite well. Most of what he said was, well, “blue”, so to speak. He was a scrappy gray tabby.
If you published and sold that book, I’d buy 2. One for me and one for my nephew.
Your and Robin’s books about Eve could be the next Axe Cop!
Unfortunately, the perfect title for such a collection of stories is already taken by an old Bette Davis film.
Going to book a hotel and buy a fondue set. BRB.
There _IS_ a cat train! In Japan.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeKrATn2M5o?ecver=2%5D
If you were to ask me, “Quick, what country has a cat train!” the only reason I would not immediately answer “Japan” is if I thought you were trying to trick me into answering “Japan” ’cause it’s so obviously a Japanese thing.
I have the feeling that if any country were to create catgirls in real life, it would be Japan, nyao. (As if I really needed yet another reason to learn Japanese, right?)
Now, if Eve had a pajama party that would be… pretty special.
Adorability overload!
Hey, nyao, _I’m_ a cat and I talk, nyao! All cats talk–it’s just that most of us don’t bother to learn to speak two-legger language because anyone who can’t be bothered to learn cat language obviously isn’t worth talking to, nyao! -_^
Please release these! They sound amazing!
Forget the cat-cafe train. Japan has a CAT STATION MASTER. The original, Tama, was deified after her death as the Eternal Station Master.
https://youtu.be/qwjB2DiVetw