Plush Life

RIP beloved Zoey

2011-10-03T14:30:00.000-05:00

Barry in Alaska writes today to say that his beloved pirate kitteh Zoey reached the end of her life today. She suffered a small stroke and has gone to the rainbow bridge. But never fear, Lion Kitteh Maxx has been summoned and will be along shortly to take Zoey on a journey to the stars on Comet Maxx.

RIP dear girl. May the afterlife be filled with snoozy blankies, alien carrots, delicious treats and long, lazy naps. You will be missed. I am certain that every day with you was a gift.

SPACE!! bitches!!

2011-08-03T17:45:00.003-05:00

Via Bad Astronomy Blog, an incredible photo of galaxy NG 634 photographed by Hubble. It's 120,000 light years across and 220,000 light years away from us.

Making it an excellent candidate for a destination for my fiendish teabagger relocation project.

Kittehs GALORE!!!

2011-07-11T17:31:00.001-05:00

Yeah, okay, they're iPhone photos, but they're STILL PLUSHY!!! u noes that they are.

Saturn!!

2011-07-11T12:59:00.002-05:00

Yeah, I know I haven't been around much - apologies!! take this incredible photo of the storm on Saturn that started last year, photographed by the Cassini spacecraft, as a peace offering.

For those of you wondering about the plushy girls, why yes, they are just fine. Unfortunately my apartment is fairly shady and I've had problems shooting them without a flash. Not to mention lack of time to do so.

They shall return in all their fluffy glory shortly.

Friday Kittehs return!

2011-03-18T12:30:00.001-05:00

Yes, the plushy gurlz are still plushy!

Kittehs lurve teh Super Bowl too...

2011-02-21T01:49:00.001-06:00

...or at least the half-time show of the Puppy Bowl.

Noms pleez!

2010-11-19T01:42:00.000-06:00

UR friday kittehs, now with noms.

We lieks 2 play!!

2010-11-16T23:48:00.002-06:00

While the previous post was pretty and all.... it was lacking in PLUSH!! So, after many years of threatening, here are some actual videos of Maddie and Ripley.

Ripley, for some strange reason, prefers the stick end of the feather. Hard to believe this beautiful, plush girl with the luxuriant coat was once a bedraggled, abandoned kitteh, eh?

Maddie, sadly, is unable to sit still for very long. She does still lurve her feather on a stick!! thank you Kid Ranger. She plays with them each and every day.

Glorious

2010-11-04T11:28:00.001-05:00

TimeScapes: Rapture from Tom Lowe @ Timescapes on Vimeo.

Something to take your mind off the sucky state of America. via BadAstronomyBlog

Ripley returns!!

2010-09-24T17:06:00.002-05:00

... and just as cute and plushy as ever. I have a new iPhone - I'll attempt to get some video of the gurlz in action this weekend. Sorry for the long absence. Work has been interfering with my plushyblogging related program activities.

Lion Kitteh Alex!!

2010-09-10T18:49:00.002-05:00

This is Alex, the latest addition to the household that owns long time reader Sarah H. He apparently found a nice dirt pile to roll in and ended up in the bath. I'd say conditions now are cloudy with a chance of pink skin peeking through.

Alex was so matted that he ended up (just like lion kitteh Maxx) with a lion cut. ADORBS!!!

Cloudy and a chance of plushiness

2010-05-12T23:43:00.004-05:00

My new camera shoots video. Unfortunately, I have been too busy to learn how to do that. Soon though! Live action plushy- something to look forward to.

kittehs at last

2010-05-11T01:47:00.003-05:00

"We're all fine here... situation normal... ummm, LUKE!!! we gotz company!!!"

Seriously, just work getting in the way of posting. So everybody simmer down nao!! And yes, pics are high resolution.

patience

2010-04-09T00:59:00.001-05:00

So sorry, I'm traveling - but I'll try to post some kitty pictures tomorrow. When I'm a little more sober.

kaithxbai

PS. look in the archives, lots of plushy pics there

that Ripley

2010-04-03T03:14:00.001-05:00

I keep finding more funny baby pictures.

Time for planting

2010-04-02T23:40:00.002-05:00

When U getz rid of dese sticks?? we can't hide from birdies behind dese stickz U noes. kaitthxbai.

some baby Ripley

2010-03-30T04:39:00.002-05:00

While we're being all nostalgic.... Ripley was quite a little fluff ball herself. She looks quite funny without her supernatural ruff.

more archival baby plush

2010-03-30T02:01:00.005-05:00

Found this funny pic of Maddie as a baby. She's about 14 weeks old here. Such a silly kitten.

And another!

and.... EEEEEEP!! What's funny is they do the same poses as adults as they did as babies.

more baby plushy

2010-03-28T15:59:00.001-05:00

They don't sleep together like this much anymore. So sweet.

baby plushies

2010-03-28T15:38:00.002-05:00

I was looking through my archives and I ran across this set - look how little Ripley is!! EEEEEEEP!!! They were funny kittens.

And the plushy gurlz

2010-03-28T15:09:00.003-05:00

...who have been enjoying the fine spring weather here.

Ah, and a note for you frequent visitors - remember Elsie, the little stray cow-kitty? apparently she is not a stray after all. She has a home, though they do let her roam about at all hours of the day and night.

our resident cardinal

2010-03-28T15:07:00.002-05:00

I've been trying to grab a pic of this guy forever. A crappy picture, but at least he's in the picture.

Guest Kitteh!!!!

2010-03-24T17:52:00.003-05:00

JDW's kitteh Champ, taking a nice sun bath!!

The girls will be back shortly, I am snowed under with work again.

Friday plushiness

2010-03-19T02:12:00.001-05:00

oh, hai. We're in UR internets, stealing UR heartz.

UR Daily Plush

2010-03-16T10:37:00.000-05:00

I think a comment on would be superfluous on this set of photos. Eeeeep!!

Oh my! 7 species in One Forest

2010-03-16T08:31:00.001-05:00

This is rather amazing:

Caught by a camera trap, a leopard prowls under the dense canopy of the Jeypore-Dehing lowland rain forest in the northeast Indian state of Assam (map).

Released in February, the picture was taken during a two-year survey supported by the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund, the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, the Rufford Small Grants Foundation, and the Wildlife Conservation Society.

The research found seven cat species in a 354-square-mile (570-square-kilometer) range—the highest diversity of cat species yet photographed in a single area.

Wildlife biologist Kashmira Kakati had been studying the gibbons of Jeypore-Dehing and became curious about the predator tracks she kept finding on the ground.

"I said, I need to find out what's there," Kakati told National Geographic News. "Nobody had any clue. People who had been in the forest 30 years didn't know."

Via National Geographic News: 7 Cat Species Found in One Forest

Sneaky kittehs! no one even knew they were there.

Not plushy but cool anyway

2010-03-15T16:03:00.003-05:00

Obama doesn't have enough hair to be plushy (though some days I wish he'd grow an afro just to irritate the right wing) but we like him anyway. Good friend JDW waited in line 2 hours on Sunday to get tickets, and then braved the cold and rain today to attend Obama's health care rally in Ohio.

As you can see, he got pretty close to the president. This photo was shot just before he shook the president's hand - said handshake has now doomed JDW to "dirty fucking hippy" status for all eternity.

JDW describes the tone in the hall as "resolute." Good.

We thank him for enduring the cold, rain, crowds and security nonsense and turning out to support reform in person.

I must confess to be disappointed that he didn't come back with a frame of Obama putting his shoe up Kucinich's ass.

extra Maddie

2010-03-15T09:27:00.000-05:00

She's always looking for something to pounce on.

week end kittehs

2010-03-14T22:06:00.002-05:00

I love her funny face.

"dis mousie haz feathers - iz all wrong. I plukz dem.

Never a dull moment.

Bad Ripley!!

2010-03-12T00:36:00.002-06:00

Ripley's new trick is to run out the front door when I get home at night - she knows I can't chase her (bum ankle) - so she goes bounding off and then ignores my calls for her to come back. Until she's good and ready.

Alas, tonight she ran out and then about 30 seconds later came tearing back in - with a cocker spaniel in hot pursuit. Hopefully that will teach her that the front door is verboten!! (but look at that face, somehow I doubt it)

Action Maddie!!

2010-03-11T12:17:00.002-06:00

...leaping in 5...4...3...2....

AIIIEEEEE!! Maddie is scari when she attacks.

Scari? me? U must be mistaken. kaithxbai.

More Ripley

2010-03-10T10:31:00.001-06:00

Some Maddie later.

An Important Announcement

2010-03-09T23:19:00.001-06:00

Until further notice, all photographs will be high resolution. Please click on each photo for maximum eeepy enjoyment related activities.

This haz been a public service announcement.

kaithxbai.

EEEEEEEEEPPP!!!!

2010-03-09T22:22:00.002-06:00

Oh, hai. I helps U maekka da bed, kai?

I luvs U.

Awwwww.

Tuesday is a good day 4 kittehs

2010-03-09T09:42:00.000-06:00

like every other day

Happy Monday

2010-03-08T10:02:00.001-06:00

Some days I'm just amazed at how beautiful they are.

they're ready 4 their close up

2010-03-07T22:11:00.003-06:00

maor peectchurs?

Dis is my good side

Time 4 plushies

2010-03-05T10:13:00.001-06:00

I haz a carrot.

Ripley does her best "Jaws" imitation.

I haz a carrot too!! I kilt it.

WHISKERS!!!

Life at Chez Plushy

2010-03-04T18:09:00.003-06:00

You can't see it, but Ripley is purring up a storm here. She lurves her half-pipe.

And Maddie is just being Maddie.

This one is a little blurry, but so funny I had to post it anyway. All pics are high resolution. Enjoy!

Kind of awesome

2010-03-03T14:03:00.001-06:00

Hat tip, Ezra Klein.

iPhone rescue

2010-03-02T22:09:00.002-06:00

Sorry, a little under the weather - but the iPhone camera comes to the rescue!!

The kittehs don't care, they just want breakfast.

Never mind all that

2010-02-26T10:00:00.000-06:00

Bow to my cutitude, MORTAL!!

No, Mr. Raccoon...

2010-02-26T09:15:00.000-06:00

I am not...

...missing something. U don't live here. kaithxbai.

UR not going to let him come be snuggles wif U R U???

(this raccoon climbs up on the deck every night and has even come inside the house and snacked on the girls noms - bad raccoon!!)

Guest critters

2010-02-26T08:00:00.000-06:00

Ummm, Punky has been hitting the crunchies a little hard.

We're freezing and brainless but we're still smarter than the GOP

Photos courtesy of JDW.

Be vewy quiet....

2010-02-25T10:00:00.001-06:00

Doz birdies will nevah see us under dis fern!

MOM!! you gave us away!!

Rats!! U always do dat.

Why, Mom, WHY???

Meet Elsie

2010-02-24T09:15:00.001-06:00

Oh hai! I'm on UR window sill, eating some noms.

I can haz noms pleaze?

Elsie is a friendly little stray kitteh who visits my deck - I feed her, but the plushy girls aren't very friendly - I don't think they want her to live here.

Daily plush

2010-02-24T09:00:00.000-06:00

Did U see dat triple axel? WAIT? where did da skating goes? STOOPID NBC!!!!

Oh hai! I warms up da sheets 4 U.

I lurves me some fresh clean sheetsies.

Ripley, Bring me ICE!!

2010-02-24T01:53:00.002-06:00

"Quoi??"

I had an accident on Sunday evening - I'm now on crutches with a severe sprain. Never fear!! the plushy girls have been taking care of me.

Though I will say they are rather useless when it comes to fetching ice, soda or beer.

Bonus Friday kittehs

2010-02-19T13:09:00.002-06:00

You maek da bed? I helps U!

FEATHER!!! WANT!!!!

Some better pictures - still getting the hang of the new camera. (pics are high res)

Some friday kittehs

2010-02-19T10:30:00.001-06:00

All high resolution - click and enjoy!

Guest kittehs - kitteh porn edition

2010-02-18T10:42:00.001-06:00

Champ and Peepee, two of JDW's little monsters, caught in the act!!

GIVE US CHICKEN PLEAZE!! kaithxbai

2010-02-18T10:15:00.001-06:00

Wait... U giving dat Riplee sum chicken?

"I wuz here first!!"

I can't go in the kitchen without Ripley begging piteously for a snax.

Happy Thursday! 3 days in a row, don't U feel spoiled??

Space - WISE!!

2010-02-17T17:42:00.003-06:00

From the new WISE (the new Wide-field Infared Survey Explorer) on Hubble. First Spectacular Views of the Sky from WISE

We also had POTUS and various schoolkids talking live to the astronauts on the International Space Station (streamed live on the WH website) - a very good day for science!!

Yer Thursday kittehs

2010-02-17T10:10:00.000-06:00

We have a new camera in the plushy household - still getting the hang of all the bells and whistles. Maddie and Ripley like that I can photograph them without the flashy-thing.

yeah yeah yeah, I know

2010-02-16T23:15:00.003-06:00

But hey, they're back!!! and as cute as ever.

Sorry, your favorite centaur has been double-plus swamped recently. Again.

(photos are high resolution - have fun!)

Ginger 1998-2010 RIP

2010-01-22T17:26:00.003-06:00

Sweet Ginger, good friend Sally H's beloved Rhodesian Ridgeback, passed away this week, surrounded and loved by her family. She was almost 12 years old.

Maxx has been busy this week, but he always did love him some goggies. I sent him to fetch her along with our Beckham. Party to the stars on Comet Maxx!

Ride on sweet Ginger, Beckham and Maxx.

RIP Sweet Beckham

2010-01-22T11:13:00.004-06:00

You may have heard that sweet Beckham, Tbogg's wonderful basset hound passed away suddenly this week. Our sweet Maxx was dispatched last night to take him off to tour the galaxy on his comet.

If you have a moment, stop by Tbogg's blogg and offer your condolences.

And Maddieeeeeeee!!!

2010-01-13T16:43:00.001-06:00

"Yeah, I gotz da plushee tummee working... and U noes U wants 2 scritch mah tummee"

Ripleeeeeeeeeee!!! returns

2010-01-13T12:31:00.002-06:00

Sorry for the long break. Here is UR kitteh fix.

dis chair iz gud 4 napping

No, I not wantz mah closeup

Maddie, be kwiet!!

back 2 being adorable

iz not easy being adorable.

Visiting kittehs

2009-12-03T18:36:00.003-06:00

Pirate Kitteh Zoey! caught napping without her eyepatch.

Magoo!

And Hidey, thankfully still with us, and still the most beautiful black and white kitteh EVAH!!

Pics courtesy of Barry in Alaska, who is owned by the preceding plushies.

Memorial Maxx Blogging

2009-11-20T17:43:00.003-06:00

Yes, I know it's been a while:

He looks like such a boy!! And always so missed. (sorry, you gotta click on the photos - stoopid blogger)

oh dear!!

2009-11-15T01:13:00.000-06:00

doz R some crazy whiskers!!

(h/t to Buckeye) from Cute Overload

OY

2009-11-13T17:28:00.004-06:00

I really HAVEN'T been posting kitteh pics 4 U guys, have I?? BAD FOUR LEGS, BAD!!

okay, so U CAN HAZ A plushypalooza, kai thx hai (pics R high resolution U noes)

Plushy tummeees and stuff

2009-10-29T19:38:00.002-05:00

Good friend JDW sends pics our way - a good thing, busy times here.

Dabbadoo's plushy tummee might just give Maddie a run for her tuna.

and here's Dabbadoo's lunch.

Guest kittehs!

2009-10-10T21:50:00.003-05:00

My niece's kitten Prez.

She's gonna regret the costume some dark night.

Oh, it's friday, isn't it?

2009-10-09T19:50:00.002-05:00

some oldies but goodies

ATTN: these are big pictures and I haz had a bad day so U should NOT be lazy, click on teh photos kaithxbai

Humpty Dumpty Day Plush

2009-10-07T18:29:00.002-05:00

Hmmm, dis alien carrot smells like Ripley slobbers

I tink I keeps over heres

nevermind that, my cute iz incredibuls!!!!!

WHISKERS!! I haz dem

all pics are high res. EEEEP

we be playing

2009-10-06T14:08:00.004-05:00

Why U haf to flashy-thing me?

I pounces on U nao.

I helps U to maek da bed! iz funz!!

well, it IS!!!! U can't tellz me iz not.

silly girls

BTW: pics are high resolution. Enjoy!

UR friday plushy fix

2009-10-02T15:35:00.003-05:00

They're probably glad it's the weekend. "U comes home nao centaur and playz wif us"

I love this guy

2009-10-01T23:31:00.002-05:00

He's concise, he's to the point and he's not backing down. I love seeing guys like this step up to the plate.

Best of all, while everything he's saying infuriates the rightwingers, it has the distinct benefit of being true. Isn't it funny how republicans spend each and everyday demonizing democrats as baby killing, socialist, perverted, sociopathic dead beats, but when someone calls them out, they fall all over themselves crying like little titty babies?

Jeez, go find a pacifier and STFU while the adults get on with the business of governing the country.

Eeeeeeep!!!!!!

2009-10-01T20:05:00.001-05:00

oh doz behbeh white lions!!

hat tip to the girl's favorite auntie, GWPDA.

Thrilling News!!!! A behbeh!!

2009-09-29T22:36:00.003-05:00

Dis little orange fluffball has just adopted my niece. He doesn't have a name yet, but I suggested Hicks.

What's cuter than an orange stripey baby boy kitteh? NOTHING!!!

We LURVES our deck

2009-09-28T17:44:00.002-05:00

I tink dese plants maek mah da green in mah eyes pop, doan U?

Dat squirrel ran away agin and nao he's chattering at me.

Maddie ponders life beyond bars.

Oh monorail squirrel!!

2009-09-28T17:42:00.002-05:00

Doan U noes that there iz kittehs lurking about and U might jes get EATTED????

"I duz nao! kaithxbai!!"

Bonus kitteh.....NICO!!

2009-09-18T21:46:00.001-05:00

Oh Nico, you are so...... ADORABLE!!!!!!!!

Nico lives with Gummo and Mrs. Gummo.

Oh dos plushy gurlz!

2009-09-18T16:51:00.001-05:00

Wut? why U looking at mah tummee?

Quoi?

I haz a mousie.

When U comes home? why U still at werk? U comes home nao. kai thx bai.

Nico U R SOOOO naughty!!

2009-09-13T18:59:00.001-05:00

Nico lives with Gummo and Mrs. Gummo in Brooklyn. Saucy girl!

Can you find the birdie?

2009-09-11T22:58:00.002-05:00

the photo is high resolution. If you click on it and look carefully, there's a hummingbirdie hiding in the foliage

Yeah, okay, I DO feel guilty...

2009-09-11T17:17:00.003-05:00

for depriving U of UR plushy fix for so long. So today, I spoilz U. kaithxbai

MOAR plusheeee

2009-09-11T12:04:00.001-05:00

Culture of Truth thinks Maddee and Ripley are getting plushier. I suspect he might be right.

But U can be the judge. kaithxbai

Friday kittehs

2009-09-11T00:14:00.003-05:00

caturday returns!!

the plushy girls, out enjoying the deck on a rainy afternoon.

Hubble U ROCK

2009-09-09T17:32:00.004-05:00

Honestly, I don't give a fuck what it costs to keep Hubble flying. This afternoon NASA released the first photos from the newly upgraded orbiting observatory with its new, wide-field camera (WFC3). Wow, are the pictures gorgeous!! Added bonus? science that is guaranteed to piss of the young-earthers. A feature! not a bug.
New Hubble Pictures, VIA National Geographic News

Birdies!!

2009-09-09T15:52:00.003-05:00

You know what they say about birdies.... birdies are DELICIOUS!! (oh noes!)

Nuthatch
and another nuthatch - or is it the same one?
the elusive hummingbird shot!

Many thanks to friend JDW for the excellent wildlife photography.

UR kittehs

2009-09-02T17:17:00.002-05:00

I'm pretty sure you've all forgotten what the plushy girls look like - I promise to get back to photographing them often.

Oh DEER!!

2009-09-02T17:15:00.003-05:00

Guest pictures from friend JDW. PP doesn't look too excited about the deer out in the garden. Too big to nom?

RIP Senator Teddy Kennedy

2009-08-26T02:33:00.003-05:00

"the dream never dies..."

You'll be missed.

More guest kitty blogging

2009-08-13T17:34:00.004-05:00

Oh Susannah!'s Harley Furrari.

He has a MOST EXCELLENT TUMMEE!! EEEEEP!!! and pink lips!! EEEEPPPP!!

Okay, okay!!!

2009-08-07T17:28:00.003-05:00

A guest pic of Peepee basking in the sun. (One of friend JDW's menagerie).

Blogging has been nonexistent because the plushygirls and I have moved.Yes, again. Have patience - the girls will be back shortly.

guest photos

2009-07-13T11:01:00.004-05:00

Mr. Whipples!

Chickadee!

Mystery flower... though I suspect this is.... OKRA!!!

Thanks to friend JDW for sending me stuff to post.

Update: JDW confirms that the flower is indeed the DREADED OKRA, the devil's vegetable.

Ooooo! a tastee present!!

2009-07-09T19:51:00.002-05:00

"wut U mean I look delicious??"

Friend JDW sends the plushie gurlz a nice tastee chipmunk through the wormhole.

When Worlds, no GALAXIES collide!!

2009-07-09T15:21:00.003-05:00

Via Discovery News, NASA and the Chandra Space Telescope A Galaxy Collision in Action

KITTEN ALERT!!

2009-07-03T13:41:00.003-05:00

noblejoanie gotz her a new behbeh kitteh who looks suspiciously PLUSH!! Misha is a female SIberian kitten. She looks a lot like Maddie at that age.

Hallooooo!! iz a holiday!!

2009-07-03T10:52:00.002-05:00

Holidaze? okay I playz

oh noes! my curlee wiskers R attacking me!

wut U mean dere B big noisees tomorro??

I not like noisees

I playz till dey start noisees

Iz too hot here....

2009-06-24T22:07:00.004-05:00

who turned on the heater? DOAN WANT!!! kaithxbai

It's FRIDAY! time for kittehs

2009-06-19T22:50:00.003-05:00

My girls... I love them.

It's FRIDAY CAT BLOGGING!! WOO HOO!!

2009-06-12T14:00:00.002-05:00

Okay, so Ripley's not that excited. But I noes U R.

Oh, hai. Is it friday already?

So if it's friday where iz mah centaur? U comes home nao. kaithxbai

Shhhh! I see birdies!

And nao I goes to nom them.

(her ruff is becoming positively supernatural)

guest kitteh blogging

2009-06-11T23:15:00.004-05:00

Oh Spaetzle, you are so handsome!

(yes, another of JDW's menagerie - photo is high res too!)

moar kitteHS!!

2009-06-11T17:52:00.002-05:00

They're like carbon copies these days.

Copy Kats!!

2009-06-10T22:41:00.001-05:00

Putting their best paw forward for Mr. Squirrel.

Squirrels are delicious. Right?

2009-06-09T15:22:00.003-05:00

I wants to nom on you.

I wants to nom you 2.

oh noes, I not cares 2 B nommed on. kaithxbai.

why does squirrel mock me?

birdies and squirrels, so close but so far. on noes!