PUSSY PATROL

Mount and Stuff This...
Hi, it's me again...long time, no read right? My apologies. I'm a firm believer in the idea that if you don't have anything really interesting to say, then you're better off not saying anything.

Not that today's post is going to be riveting necessarily, I just want to vent about what's going on in Wisconsin with the drive to allow hunters to shoot and kill feral housecats. I'm a cat lover (although not a cat freak--I do not believe cats can do no wrong), but that shouldn't matter in the argument I'm going to make here. It seems to me from what I've read that hunters, especially duck hunters, are tired of these wild housecats poaching their prey. So now they want the right to kill the cats to preserve their right to hunt.

OK...

It's okay to kill cats that eat birds so that you can kill the birds yourself. Am I missing something here? This is more ridiculous than the latest Ashton Kutcher movie. Besides, as one of the feline defenders pointed out on a local radio interview today, wild cats helped to save mankind--in Europe, when there was a concentrated effort to eliminate wild cats, rats and mice got out of control and we had a little thing called the Black Plague. And it's hard to believe that there are enough feral housecats running around Wisconsin that this should be that big a problem anyway. To the duck hunters of Wisconsin I say, let the little pussies run free and find something else to shoot. Like maybe your own foot.

100 (or so) Word Album Review: Beck's Guero
***1/2 (out of five stars)
Beck is back with a case of the white boy boogie and that's good for all of his fans who bought the well-crafted, but largely tuneless Sea Change, his depressing 2002 effort. This time around, reunited with the Dust Brothers (who were responsible for producing his ingenious breakthrough LP Odelay), Beck adds the breakbeats, raps and grooves, but the maturity he displayed on Sea Change is still evident, especially on deceptively complex and haunting songs like "Missing", "Earthquake Weather" and "Scarecrow". All in all, I'd say Guero is the best new album I've heard in 2005, but spring/summer releases by Garbage, Coldplay and Radiohead could all give Beck a run for the money.

I'll be back for real a lot more on this site y'all, so see you soon and Peace!