Accessorizing with cats

Photos of famous people with cats thrown jauntily over their shoulders: It's my new favorite cat meme. Visit Heather Archuletta's Facebook collection for more shots like this. Besides Frank Zappa, she's got David Bowie, Freddy Mercury, and more.

Thanks, Joanne Manaster!

• [cleek]

  no permission.

  • [Heather Archuletta]

    The Kitty album should be public… all one needs is a Facebook account :)

    • [Antinous / Moderator]

      The Kitty album should be completely public… all one needs is a Facebook account :)

      Then it’s not completely public. You can set your Facebook page to be open to people who don’t have accounts. Or as I call them, sane people. Now get off my lawn.

      • [Heather Archuletta]

        Well, LOL, my overall DEFAULT setting is set to “Public”, as are all my albums.  I’ve never locked anything or added custom granularity :)

        • [Antinous / Moderator]

          I have no idea, because I don’t have an FB account.  Celebrities generally have them completely public, since it’s just PR, so there must be a box to check somewhere.

        • [Heather Archuletta]

          Antinous… you are confusing “Fan Pages” with Facebook accounts. Many celebrities have both.  I am not a celebrity, just someone who put together some similar pictures as a joke  in my personal account, and one of the Boing Boing writers chose to blog about it.  So, there isn’t a box to check somewhere. My albums are as open as they can be set … but you need an account to view other people’s accounts.

  • [Sakib Čtvrtek]

    Same here … “This content is currently unavailable”.

• [Timothy Krause]

  I don’t think this man is famous . . . but he needs to be!

  http://www.flickr.com/photos/33498942@N04/5481445532/

• [EH]

  love those disqus crashes

• [Heather Archuletta]

  LOL, thanks for sharing, Joanne & Maggie… you are awesome!!  Talk about a joke that started innocently with one picture, and later snowballed unexpectedly.  I had fun putting this collection together and have a few more to share… :)

• [kestrin]

  the original blog posts about famous people and their cats from 2008 are HERE! tons of photos:
  http://thecatalyst.typepad.com/the_catalyst/2008/10/famous-people-w.html
  http://thecatalyst.typepad.com/the_catalyst/2008/10/famous-people-their-cats-part-2.html

  • [Heather Archuletta]

    Not quite the same pattern, but I found some of the same ones in other spots!  I love the ones here with Steve Martin though, that’s hilarious! :)

• [Suburbancowboy]

  It is missing Morrissey: http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/mozcat2.jpg

• [kestrin]

  there’s another great post from aforementioned blog from vintage LIFE photos: http://thecatalyst.typepad.com/the_catalyst/2009/01/50s-life-magazine-cats.html

• [badc0ffee]

  See also this reddit group:
  http://www.reddit.com/r/historicalcatlovers/

• [Richard Schneider]

  Beg pardon … the cats would have it understood that it is they who are accessorizing.

• [IronEdithKidd]

  Socks!

• [Andrew Pam]

  Could somebody mirror this somewhere those of us without Facebook can see it? Maybe BoingBoing could put things like this on their own site before posting?

• [Snig]

  My late cat used to do this.  He would go somewhere high like a refrigerator or book case, then jump down onto my shoulder.  I got used to it pretty quickly, but it wigged a couple friends out when he’d do it to them.  He only used his claws for purchase when someone shrieked, otherwise he was gentle. 

• [Felton / Moderator]

  Also…

• [Ant]

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