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CATURDAY: The Lightness of Lord Buckley Bean

Xeni Jardin at 8:00 am Sat, Sep 17, 2011

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Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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  • dculberson

    I see diabeetus here, here, over there, here, oh man he’s got diabeetus too, that bird, this squirrel, hey, you too camera man!  Oh, here, here, there, here, and even here.  Whoops!  Not there.  But over here, yeah, here too.  [sigh] so much diabeetus, so little time.

  • Amsterdaam

    Hello, I’m Wilfred Brimley.
    Hello, I’m Wilfred Brimley
    Hello, I’m Wilfred Brimley.

  • Joe Idar

    aaaaaaaaaaachoooo. Be right back my cat dander allergies kicked in just watching this video 

  • ab167

    I watched this on the treadmill, and my BPM dropped about twenty points. THANKS FOR RUINING MY CARDIO.

  • David Carroll

    To be clear Xeni, I am not accusing anyone of anything: (cough2:50cough):

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCSA7kKNu2Y

    And yes, I get the irony of this post. ;)

  • http://twitter.com/MegMegMegMeg Megan Lasswell Cohen

    Brimley cat, Brimley cat,
    Knows just where the oatmeal’s at.
    Can he smell? Listen, bud —
    He’s sniffing around with that squished-in mug.
    Look out! There sits a Brimley cat.

  • phiis161803

    Cataanaisqatsi:  Cat in balance

  • http://www.facebook.com/scaredsacred Kevin Ɍ. Smith

    Feline and Fancy-Free.

  • emschelle

    Can someone explain Lord Buckley’s ears to me? Is cat ear cropping a thing?

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=620379597 Lauryl Berg

      Those ears belong to a lovely and good-natured breed of cat known as the Scottish Fold — the eyes are indicative of the British Shorthair which figures in to the Scottish Fold breeding pool…

      • emschelle

        Thanks muchly; I didn’t realize folds came in such fluffy varieties=)

        • erkskindl

          Lord Buckley is beyond the fluff.  He is Lord.

    • erkskindl

      He’s a Scottish Fold.  They are actually born like that.  Not always though.  Sometimes they are a born with straight ears.  But Lord Buckley is a genuine Scottish Fold.

  • http://twitter.com/Kra1d Alex

    Look at that big ball of fluff.

  • http://www.facebook.com/hardcoded Jim Harris

    It’s like Jabba The Hut and an owl mated but the foetus didn’t develop properly in the womb and then when it came out it landed in a pile of fluff. It’s back end is like just the merest suggestion of a cat. A wisp of cotton candy. Can I have 5:46 of my life back please?

    • KBert

      Yes, there’s definitely an owl in there!

  • http://www.ferdinandcc.org/ Lester Nelson

    Looks like it was shot using the same equipment Stanley Kubrick used to shoot Barry Lyndon.

    • erkskindl

      That’s good. 

  • social_maladroit

    There once was a cat so well-bred
    That his onlookers’ faces turned red.
    His incorporation
    Caused great consternation –
    “Oh my God! A fluff-ball with a head!”

  • http://www.adavies.org ADavies

    “What’re you doing?”  “Oh, you know, just, watchin’ stuff.”

  • FutureNerd

    He is sitting in “playin’ the cello” position for five minutes being distracted from his bath! & the fluff in the foreground is his tail.  My back hurts.

  • erkskindl

    Check out Lord Buckley’s #9 Dream!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jennifer-Blackswan/556937272 Jennifer Blackswan

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvOL63riDsk&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jennifer-Blackswan/556937272 Jennifer Blackswan

    a little zen with my morning cup o’ joe

  • KatoKitty

    Aw man, that was so calming. I like watching my cats when they’re looking around like that. You can see them engaging their senses; their ears twitch and swivel, their nostrils dilate as they take in odours. Cats are fascinating.

  • http://twitter.com/cicadamania Cicada Mania

    Truly scrumptious!

  • MDwebguy

    I watched the video unfold, wondering and waiting for the cat to do something.
    Somewhere around the 4:00 mark I gently reminded myself, “Dude, it’s a cat.”

  • charmingquark

    Scottish folds are known for making a habit of sitting in that “Buddha kitteh” pose.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nancy-Edwards/1114510235 Nancy Edwards

    kitteh,
    so ephemeral and lovely! I want to be a kitteh, too…