And by star, I’m not talking about one of those silly human people who are always jumping about, making fools of themselves, releasing sex tapes and splitting up their probably fake marriages for a piece of the limelight and much needed publicity when they are launching their next film/album/show/whatever.
I’m talking the REAL star of the Golden Globe winning film The Artist: Uggie the Dog!
Yes, the adorable and shining light that is Uggie graced our TV screens last week, and here’s his performance on Ellen.
To call it cute is an understatement. The awws will rise from your throat magically and everything will suddenly seem better for a little while after watching the clip. Uggie is adorable, smart and talented.
Oh, and Uggie, about your snub by the lack of Oscar nomination for your performance: you were robbed!
Yes, yes, I know this is a kid’s song (note: I refuse to spell it ‘kidz’, I mean, please, help them learn to spell correctly, it’s important!), but it’s cute, fun and makes you feel happy.
Also, sometimes I think we need a bit of innocence of childhood and our animals to permeate our world, no matter whether we’re at work or feeling rather cynical and burned out. Things like this help. Just like the weird Kona Cat thing helps us all just cackle hysterically (fact: this is how my roommate actually described me last night as I made him watch the Kona Cat video) at the weirdness of it all.
It’s about to be Wednesday, go visit your inner child and be one with the brilliance, purity and innocence of your sweet furbaby best friend forever.
Now, apparently this is episode 8 of season 2 of this singing/talking cat internet show. So, no, I have absolutely no idea what’s going on. No idea at all. Except that it might make you want to hug your pet close and whisper soothing words into his/her ear, or maybe make you drink huge quantities of booze, or maybe rejoice at the bizarreness of it all.
I have no idea. I’m bamboozled.
I don’t know why a Siamese cat is zooming about in his rather cheap (but magic and flying! yes, flying!!) blue litter box, or why Transformer dogs are chasing him in their cushy beds, or why we get to spell out S-I-A-M-E-S-E K-O-N-A C-A-T.
Basically, it’s Sesame Street on crack. I think it’s crack. No, actually, I’m betting it’s Sesame Street on Catnip.
That explains everything.
Oh, and please, will some brave soul go and watch all the episodes and report back? Thank you.
Yes, I know this isn’t really about our pets, but it’s so happy, so adorable, so loving it just makes you want to, well, get up and jive. Which is where it’s from – The Jive Aces.
So celebrate happiness tonight (it is Saturday, after all) and stay warm. And remember all that brings you sunshine, in whatever guise.
Oh, and hope my annoying DJ wannabe neighbour’s turn down their ridiculously loud music, because it aint this and I can hear evey guitar thrum.
Before we go any further, I just have this to say: this video is really worth it for the first few seconds where you see her get bit (or kissed as the old guy in the safari park gift shop told her), well, okay, you can go a bit further, I suppose, and get your giggles with watching it all slowed down. Personally, I only made it a few seconds into the slowed down replay on the clip – I have no idea what else may lay beyond those moments. You have been warned.
Yes, the latest thing to go viral is footage of a silly girl who got bit on the shoulder by a zebra in a safari park when she sat in the car, holding food in her hand instead of giving food to said zebra.
The zebra reminds me of the time when I was a kid and my parents drove us up to Parkes in Australia, to visit the radio telescope there (you could listen to the stars, which was awesome – but not the celebrity kind, the ones you see in the sky kind), and we stopped to picnic in a park. There were signs saying ‘Don’t Feed The Emus’. Well, I don’t think the emus read, because they just basically ran about the place snatching food from tables, plates, even barbeques.
Actually, the zebras reaction also reminds me of my cat, when he doesn’t get what he wants. He’ll just bite me and then saunter (or is that stalk, I think that was a stalk the zebra did…maybe it was a stalk-saunter, as in, ‘yeah, you better not mess with me, girl!’) off as if his job was done. Like the zebra, my cat doesn’t do this to hurt, maim or draw blood (note from Marvin: That’s what claws are for).
Anyway, this whole video resulted in the girl, Meagan Sweatman, being flown to wherever it is that Today is filmed (this is indeed hard hitting journalism) and then interviewed over it! Yes, I know.
I say point to zebra. What say you?
don’t tease a zebra, or any animal for that matter. These critters are wild, that’s why you’re in a safari park, not a petting zoo, or Zebras R Us. Serious.
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