[Living room rug, Kitty is wearing an off-the-shoulder pink sweatshirt. Irene Cara's voice fills the room]
First when there’s nothing…[covers face with paw]
but a slow glowing dreeeam
That your fear seems to hide [look out from under paw]
deep inside…your mind [look at audience meaningfully]
All alone I have cried [trot to edge of rug like gymastics floor exercise]
silent tears full of pride [waves paws over head to 'heavens']
In a world made of steel, made of stone [pushes right paw out in a 'stop right there! move]
[skips to center of rug with one flip] Well I hear the music,
close my eyes, feel the rhythm [cabbage patching]
Wrap around, take a hold of my heart
[Unbelievable fervor of Roger Rabbitting]
What a feline, seein’s believin’
I can have it all, now I’m dancin’ for my life
Take your passion, and make it happen
Pictures come alive, you can dance right through your life!!!
Kitty, that was an amazing ROUTINE!!! You’re in the Conservatory!!! [Red roses everywhere]
Nice submishe (and special outfit, MariNaomi!)
// UPDATE: had to edit the chorus lyrics, because Lauowolf‘s touch-up was just too good. – Theo //
Kewt!!
Wow, kitteh is workin it 80′s style. My kits are jealous, because I just make them wear the cut-off sleeves of human sweatshirts.
…I think the more important question here is, how exactly did this happen?
lol.
cute!
…but can you be a welder by day without opposable thumbs?
Oh my friggin’ God! I can’t stand it!
And nooooow I’m going to have that song stuck in my head all day. What a feelin!
Tiny Dancer.
Peg,
Am now imagining feline welders at work, and I tell you it isn’t pretty.
(Especially since they’re in their sloppy warm-ups and warbling away)
Thank all, another morning with only an asploded brain to work with.
(Luckily I don’t really need it today anyway.)
Dancing Queen
Meg — you’ve outdone yourself. Awesome. But now I’m very curious…
MariNaomi — what’s this one-limbed kitty sweater about? Background please?
Oh what a feline..
Seein’s believin
She can have it all
She’s dancin through her life..
Lauo!
[hands over a Gold Star For Editorial Proofreading]
…though I reserve the right to depart just a bit from verbatim.
LOVE IT!
And didn’t even work up a sweat!
Man, is it just me or have the submishes the past few days been extremely excellent mucho sweet??
I need an insulin transfusion over heah!!
I hope Flashdance Kitteh isn’t drinking too much Tab. And also that her pet pitbull is kind.
Dat is a veddy, veddy schweet little black kitty. Patient, too, to put up with her little 80s outfit. LOL!
Stop it! Just stop! You’re killing me.
And I didn’t even remark on the perfect, beautiful flashdancer kitty.
(Covet, covet, covet)
And now I have to go off to the video store to get Flashdance for my dancer daughter who totally does *not* believe my plot summary….
“She’s a kitty-cat, kitty-cat on the floor
And she’s dancing like a lion bound to roar
She’s a kitty-cat, kitty-cat on the floor
And she’s dancing like she’s never danced before”
The 80′s are back people! And better looking this time I might add.
Love it! Oh, Flashdance your heart out wittle kitta!
Darn, Aubrey beat me to the “Maniac” parody!
Gorgeous black kitty!
She’s pretty in pink!
Pshaw! I’ve known plenty of welders without opposable thumbs…oh, wait, it’s that I’ve known plenty of welders who were indistinguishable from trained monkeys. Not quite the same.
Awwww!!!!
cat should be renamed alex
Oh my! My beautiful all-black kitty is named Alexandra (although I call her allie not alex). I must make her a little one-armed sweatshirt immediately! She’s such a laid-back kitty she might wear it too…
Suggestion?
I just wanted to suggest adding window clings to the store. I really want some cuteness on my car, but I have never been able to bring myself to deface my vehicle with stickers.
Peg of Tiling well AmericanWeldingSsociety admits cats apparently
http://www.twolumps.net/d/20061115.html
Vigilant20
Been recomended but CafePress doesn’t make them! (Why Cafe Press?) I’m holding out for the badges or even tee shirts, I’d have a CO tee shirt despite hating printed tees
OH lovin’ the 80′s song lyrics here! Any more ideas out there???
CUUUUTE KITTY!!!
Did anyone else ever hear “take your passion” as “take your pants off” (hey, I was 12 when that song came out)? Looks like the kitty did.
LOL Christine!! *Definitely* better that way.
I have a kitty that could fit that. his name is flipper, and as you can guess… he has a deformed FLIPPER!!! its sorta bent at an almost right angle, so he uses it for props when walking. but man can he fly!! and he’s evil. almost as evil as my extra thumbed kitty.
This song’s from the wrong era (but I’m 50, so whaddya expect?)… This is what I’ve been singing…
Iiiiii, I’m hooked on a feline…
[HOOKAH CHAKA]
[HOOKAH]
[HOOKAH]
He who lives by the earworm…
This made me LGS !! That’s what you do at the office when you’re sneaking a stress break on CO – LAUGH and GRIN SILENTLY!!
Wait, I love the window cling idea! Yooohoooooo Meg, are you listening? Or are you too busy flashdancing?
teughcats: haha! allie cat!! haha!
Love the window cling idea too – DH would divorce me if I actually adhered a bumper sticker, no matter how cute, to the paint!
Anne & SarahR (and Vigilant20) (and Dewi) — we’ll do up some T-shirts & windowy clings and all sorts & manner of wonderful things… it just takes a bit of that fleeting commodity: Time.
Meg, this cinches it. You are absolutely, certifiably nuts. And I LOVES it!!! *seein’ the whole routine in my head and laughing hysterically*
It was all part of a terrible welding accident! But if you ask, Kitty will say it was all for fashion’s sake.
Kitty will now bask happily in her fifteen minutes of fame…prrrrr!
OH lovin’ the 80′s song lyrics here! Any more ideas out there???
Here you go, Janners
straight from the 80′s …
tada – Footloose
Foot loose,
Kick off your Sunday blues …
Please, Ki-tty,
Pull me offa my knees
Cat, get back
C’mon before we crack
Lose your blues
Everykitty cut footloose
Cat footloose
Cat, footloose, whoa!
First, we’ve got to turn you around
Then put your paws on the ground
Now take a hold of your soul
Now take a hold of your soul
Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!
Ah – ah – ah – ah
Everykitty cut everykitty cut
Everykitty cut everykitty cut
Meee-ow
Everykitty
Prrrrrrrrr
Everykitty
All
Everykitty
Everykitty cut footloose!!!
I needs to know – was this pic taken before or after the bra-removal scene?
I heard “I Will Survive” in my head as soon as I saw this… and then I heard “ZOMG, that’s my couch!!1″
Because it is.
I love that couch.
“He who lives by the earworm…”
Thank you T., thank you so bloody much.
NOT MY FAULT! (this time.)
I wanna see kitty voluntarily dump a bucket of water over herself.
yeah! but kitty can swim:)
like we saw in previous post….mumble….mumble…
NOBODY puts kitty in a corner.
Every once in a while this song comes over the corporate stereo at work, and oh yeah, I bust a move to it. Rock on kitteh no-pants! ROCK OOOOON!!
[Nuff voice]
How can you people think that’s cute? Look at that poor cat, inappropriately dressed up in clothing that impedes her movement and probably makes her overheated! Cruelty isn’t cute! (blah blah blah)
[/Nuff voice]
Seriously, folks… when I saw “torn sweatshirt”, I thought of “pin the ripped part together with a big safety pin for an early-punk look”
Lam-paw-da: The Forbidden Dance
“She would Mew-ran-gue, and do the Chow-Chow…”
do the mew-nuet, go to the Summer Catillion…
And the scandalous Viennese Mrawltz….
…okay, so that one was a bit of a stretch.
She’s a cat-lypso dancer!
Bwa ha ha ha ha!
Where is my cat? I must try this.
(If I never comment again you know what happened)
She’s very good at The Cat-inental.
And she does the Two-Step twice as well as any human!
Suda, a person hasn’t lived until he’s seen her do the kitter-bug.
Okay, the outfit was originally very utilitarian, created from an old (clean) sock to make Kitty stop licking at an itchy spot on her leg…and she absolutely hated it…but it worked and she healed up nicely, and got to look very punk rock in the meantime!
I remember The Dead Milkmen:
“On Monday morning I went on Cute Overload
I saw a kitteh and my heart was boxed and sold
Punk rock cat
Please look at me
Punk rock cat
With eyes that yeem
Let’s travel round the world
Just you and me punk rock cat
I saw one covered shoulder
On the other I saw fur
She looked at me and smiled
Then she continued with her purr
Punk rock cat
Give me a chance
Punk rock cat
But no Flash Dance
We’ll dress like maniacs
Just you and me punk rock cat
We went to the Petco Headquarters
And ordered Fancy Feast
The waitress said well no, we just have Pedigree
So we jumped up on the table and shouted anarchy
And someone came in to work on their computer
And they turned on Cute Overload
And so our minds were blown
On such a winter’s day
She took me to her parents for the Sunday fowl
Her father took one look at me and he began to yeowl
Punk rock cat
It makes no sense
Punk rock cat
We need cats for president
I love how your whiskers curl
Yeah you’re for me punk rock cat
We went to a shopping mall
And laughed at all the shoppers
And security dogs trailed us to a record shop
We asked for The Puppy Bowl
They said it’s not sold here
We said if you don’t got The Puppy Bowl
Then your store could use some more soul
We got back on the street ran away on our paw pads
How fast can you run on these
They’re beginning to hurt bad
Punk rock cat
You look so sleek
Punk rock cat
Let’s both be freaks
We’re always chasing rats
Just you and me
We’ll always be attacked
Just you and me
We’ll travel round the world
Just you and me
Punk rock cat”
Aubrey—— I think you and Punk Cat will go far. Take a bow!
…and another YAY for Aubrey!
This one goes to 11.
http://www.squidgrid.com/images/misc/yay_pic.jpg
Wooooah, miss a day miss a lot.
Shahisszzle – Aubrey. The last comment I saw of your’n was that you were goin’ out to get drunk. I guess you stayed in!
(Doin’ a fe-line dance.)
“Swing yer purrdner!”
jump back to the 80′s …
dancing kitteh’s just finished his version titled “Countin’ My Lives”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQifYc62LSM
oops … the vid was meant to be this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of_3VmFFDb4
HRH — oddly, I quite enjoyed that.
(er… both versions)
this cat either:
lives in brooklyn
or
is a model for the cat version of project runway
*holds her closer* (tiny dancer kitty)
she’s had a busy day today.
Doh. Delayed reaction.
I looked up and realized I have an Otagiri music box with a dancing black & white kitty and you will never guess what tune it plays. “Flash Dance.” (!)
Heh. How ’bout that.
I know. You are so impressed.
And here’s a too small image I found of it on Google images:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Otagiri+cat+dancing+music+box&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2