Thanks to his borderline-viral and insanely cute YouTube videos, Maru is the most famous cat in Japan, or so the captions say. And who am I to say otherwise? Maru jumping in and out of boxes. Maru eating. Maru sleeping. Maru sliding across the floor with his hind legs splayed out behind him. If I […]
A few members of my tribe are struggling just now. Health problems, financial problems. We earn our livings by dint of our imaginations, so our incomes rarely exceed our expenses and our insurance polcies, when we have them, cover our assets about as modestly as hospital gowns. There’s no margin for error. Reading Sister […]
It’s pronounced “meem.” Rhymes with cream. Had to look it up. A meme, it seems, refers these days to any concept that’s enjoying wide distribution, usually online. Hence, the term “popular internet meme.” Unfortunately for memes, unvetted as the vast majority of information available online is, they lack credibility. They’re more a matter of […]
