Lou the Cat and the TV

Lou enjoys sitting on the old 60" standard definition tube, but prefers to watch the new HD TV. Here are some pictures of him doing TV related shenanigans.

And now as promised, the art from the collection "Lou the Cat and the TV".

Part I: 

"Lou on TV"

It's like a mood ring only its a big tv. 

That color means he's in the mood to eat too much and throw up on the carpet.

Lion.

 King Lou!

Part II:
"Lou Watching TV"

 Nummers!

 Lou the lion.

 A Lou sized wild cat from the South American jungle. A new pal!

 

Assassin's creed!

 Amur Leopard...

 ...with a little cub!

All these prints are available for sale framed with premium acid free matting.
All proceeds will go the LTCFFCTAOKCRPWOWCPSOFAIT organization.

That is the "Lou The Cat Foundation For Cat Toys And Other Kitty-Cat Related Paraphernalia, With Or Without Catnip; Probably Strings Or Feathers Are Involved Too."


Happy Holidays,
If in doubt buy them bright colored shoes.

-Team Lou

monkeys and great novels

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If an infinite number of monkeys sat for a bit, or one monkey with an infinite amount of time typing at a typowriter, they would eventually churn out the complete works of shakespeare.

The chance of typing it out correctly one letter at a time with out missing is 1 / 10 ^ 7,500,000 which is like winning the jackpot every day for 20,000 years. or flipping a fair coin 25,000,000 times and it coming up heads every time.

For a monkey typing 1 letter per second, most likely the universe will end long before it produces shakespeare. But with an infinite amount of time he will churn out shakespeare an infinite amount of times.

There is a program that simulates monkeys typing at a typowriter and shows the longest string so far that matches shakespeare.

download that shiz here
(it only works on Mac OSX 10.6 or higher i.e. snow leopard or lion)
check out a good monkey website here




Lou the cat is sitting in my lap and says that if he had an infinite amount of time he would do several things.

1) Write infinitely many posts for the dear readers.

2) Dig to China

3) Read Proust's "In search of lost time"

4) Get to the kill screen in Donkey Kong

5) Beat Tony Hawk 2 with every character and get every gap... Infinity times.

6) Barf on the carpet... Infinity times.

7) Sleep on infinity televisions.





The famous Brad Garoon and I, Lou the Person,

have started a new blog called Great Novels. We write excerpts from non existant novels in the style of various authors. I just wrote the first part of an 18th century opera. Lou the person after DaPonte after Beaumarchais. I think it is and should continue to be funny.

check it out, bookmizzle that shizzle.
http://greatnovels.tumblr.com/



Next week I will be doing a presentation of photography entitled "Lou and the TV" here is a sample:

Lou the Cat Blog EP 3

1) 3:04 - "Looking at You" - MC5
2) 3:18 - "Burning Airlines Give You So Much More" - Brian Eno
3) 3:10 - "I Wanna Be Your Dog" - The Stooges
4) 18:46 - "A Rainbow in Curved Air" - Terry Riley

Download
This is a good one "A Rainbow in Curved Air" is a super important electronic composition.


Finally Becky Schiff sent me this link of funny cat pictures. There are lots of funny cat pictures on the interwebs but this one is particularly good.

http://www.damncoolpictures.com/2011/04/best-of-cats-chillin.html


Peace! Armageddon it's been in effect! Go get a late pass! Step!
lou and lou

Halloween, Mathmatical!

First!

Look to the right ->

There should be a facebook thing where you can 'Like' louthecat blog

Do it.

this will be the new way of announcing new blog posts because fb is going to delete the old group because its old. so like us! you know you like us!

Next:

Lou the cat loves math. Sometimes he proves theorems, sometimes he lays down on top of them.

Halloween: Me and Lou just had a blast at Madison's famous Halloween.

A Marceline the Vampire Queen pumpkin

from possibly the best show on television, 

Adventure Time.

 Betsy came all the way from Cornell to rage with us. 

She made this Wolverine costume from scratch. 

That is to say, she sewed together bolts of cloth with thread

to make the best super hero outfit we saw all night. 

 Julian came up from UChicago to party hardy. He is a ventriloquist dummy which is a super scary costume. I had a Goosebumps book about a ventriloquist dummy when I was in third grade and I am still scarred.

 Lou the person walked all the way down the street to party with the champs (without crutches!). 

Matt Schiff got a mail bag that they use on airplanes somehow and so I dressed up as a bag of mail. Everybody knew what I was, but were still confused.

EP 2:

1) 2:47 - "Happiness is a Warm Gun" - The Breeders
2) 2:54 - "Jesus Saves" - Slayer
3) 3:19 - "No Man Can Find the War" - Tim Buckley
4) 5:03 - "Chubb Sub" - Medeski Martin and Wood

download that shiz here.

Just unzip it and drag the whole folder onto iTunes where it says "playlist" on the side panel.





Photoshop Wednesday!

Roxy Music.





Jah bless.

Yo Lou the cat! Bum rush the show!

First!
Dear readers!

Lou and I are starting a new round of albums to download from the site. These are going to be a weekly series of four song EP's, and will feature a variety of musical styles. Just like free samples of food at Costco,

"No! Not free like Costco! Not free like free beer! Free like freedom!" says Lou.

EP 1:

1) 4:50 - "I Know You Got Soul" - Eric B. & Rakim
2) 2:17 - "Mouth Breather" - The Jesus Lizard
3) 6:56 - "Over the Ice" - The Field
4) 4:20 - "Into the Water" - Dethklok

download that shiz here.

Just unzip it and drag the whole folder onto iTunes where it says "playlist" on the side panel.




Next! Photoshop Wednesday!

Leopard.



Next!

We'd like to begin a series on albums that Lou the cat and Lou the person find particularly mind-blowing. These are albums that changed our life and made Lou the cat he is today.

 Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

This album absolutely blew my mind. I looked up "best hip-hop album of all time" on google and It gave me my first introduction to hip hop. Chuck D. is just the sickest mc and Flava Flav is great too. They all collaborated on the production which is famous for having possibly the most samples of any album. It was produced just on the cusp of the age of copyright infringement issues in hip hop.

Lou was producing for Def Jam at the time under the alias of Hank Shocklee and he says it was a very creative atmosphere as they tried to match the music to the intensity of Chuck D's politically and socially charged flow.

In 2006 I was listening to this album non stop. One evening I was smooching with a girl in the back of my minivan while blasting public enemy. She told me that it wasn't very romantic and asked if we could switch, to which I responded: "nope."

Public Enemy - Rebel Without a Pause

Download it as a torrent here.

MC Lou and DJ Voldemort!
We gone! Peace!

Lou the Person: in the movies, broken.

Hey Team!

Me and Lou coming at you like beam, like a blade, like lightning, we're frightening. Coming at you like a mighty bazooka.

(fat)

FIRST!

Thanks to my buddy Joel Dunn, a director in New York City, I have an entry on imdb.com!
 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4526951/

This was the short film that I was credited with a special thanks on (watch it, it's 1 min long):
http://theory-films.com/video/smdes_shrt.php

Everything involved in the film was due to me. Lou was executive producer but he likes to keep a low profile so people don't realize that he controls all media, each and every medium.

"Well, what else has this guy Dunn done?" You may ask.
Check out that website for more stuff that, friend of the blog, Joel Dunn has done.



NEXT!

OK quick WARNING: if you're not into crazy x-rays scroll no further, cause I have a crazy x-ray.








I spent another weekend at Patsy's cabin.

I prompty slipped and broke my tibia on the side of a dock.

 Gnarly as all get out. Now get out.





 Then I got Robocop / 6 Million Dollar Man / Wolverine / Full Metal Alchemist hardware.

So now I'm basically a cyborg. I think I might set off metal detectors and I'm pretty sure I can sense changes in barometric pressure.

"Cyclone's a brewin', my gammy leg is acting up. I reckon she's a big un."
 -Lou the person

So me and Lou have been cold chillin' on the couch for the last part of the summer. I have often been on crazy pain-killers with nothing to do but watch cartoons with Lou. Mostly lame, but kind of awesome too.

From Lou and his,

Best to you and yours.

lou the art

lou and I spent the last 4 days apart.

I was in northern wisconsin at patsy schiff's summer house with
patsy schiff

and the famous annie schiff as well.

annie read 30(!) books in june.







meanwhile lou stayed in madison and was visited daily by the famous dan koenig.

dan koenig is a champion among kings among men. he chilled with lou and he cleaned my apartment as a surprise. big lou the cat blog shout-out and much lou the cat blog love to d k.




*update* annie left the door to my bathroom shut and lou pooped on my pillow out of spite





lou and I study art history. this is because lou is a work of art, as he has both form and intention. here is some art lou has been featured in:

grant wood's American Gothic

henry fuseli's The Nightmare (he's a demon)

lou is the Boy with a Toy Hand Grenade by diane arbus

lou the cat is hugo ball performing the dada sound poem karawane:

meow meow meoh.

Piet Mondrian's neo-plasticist Composition with Yellow, Blue, and Red and Lou

 and finally henri matisse's Woman(Cat) with a Hat

lou's asleep right now but I'm sure he would send his best regards to the dear readers.

i'd like to send my best regards to the dear readers as well.

my sisters, international pizza delliveries, and james noyes' bright pants

    Annie schiff, classical scholar and soon to be yale grad student has three english to ancient greek dictionaries. they are by h. g. liddell and r. scott. there is a baby one, and a slightly abridged one, and a massively comprehensive one. they are

"the little liddell", "the middle liddell", and "the great scott".

there is a limited amount of ancient greek that we have and the great scott has every word in ancient greek and citations to everytime it was ever used.

just as donald is the sock, danny is the shoe, and lou the cat is the boot,

 donald is the little liddell

danny is the middle liddell

 and lou is the great scott

 also there's becky schiff

 becky schiff is a medic in the israeli army. here is a picture of her being overly enthusiastic.

when she's not in the army she lives on a kibbutz in the north of the country called sasa.

the pub on the kibbutz is in their bomb shelter. the pubs motto is "last alcohol until lebanon".





    when the recent protests broke out in madison, wi, lou and i could hear them from our appartment which is only a few blocks away. people from all over the world called in to ian's pizza on state street to have pizza delivered to the protesters at the capitol

    According to this board in the pizza joint, they recieved orders from all fifty states, morocco, france, antarctica, czech republic, south korea, finland, new zealand, denmark, australia, canada, china, germany, england, netherlands, turkey, switzerland, italy, russia, poland, mexico, singapore, coasta rica, croatia, nicoragua, puerto rico, armenia, hong kong, haiti, iceland, israel, egypt, belgium, argentina, brazil, spain, india, qatar, taiwan, afghanistan, slovenia, uganda, and a few more that I can't read. I think one of them is malta.

there was too much for the protesters to eat so they shared with the cops. it was a beautiful thing.

 in this picture lou looks like a volleyball with a head and tail.

    also the famous james noyes visited us. I adopted lou the cat from james' family.

he wore this outfit in public today.

    he is sitting on my 1986 honda spree moped that goes a screaming 32 mph and gets about 90 miles to the gallon.

my helmet has a racing stripe.

his pants were given to him by panama pat noyes after a recent surfing expedition to morocco.






also check this out and let me know what you think. It's a map of where in the world louthecat blog readers are from. I'm not sure if its accurate because somebody might be using a proxy server or something that is showing up as a brazilian or french ip address, but if it is real that that is super duper sweet.

please post a comment if you are a lou the cat fan and you are from another country!

here's the link:
lou the cat fans from around the world!


peace in the middle east.

a race to the finish!

 

this is donald pinkus the cat. he is named after

donald pinkus the person.

    we used to foster kittens when I was in high school. We would get new born kittens and the fat mama-mama cat from the shelter and play with the kittens making them well socialized so that they are more likely to be adopted.

    It was sad to have to give up tons of kitties but we always got more littler kitties so I was stuck in a state of perpetual kitten-having which is pretty cool.

     the kittens in each litter were all given names starting with the same letter as their moms name So theirs was a 'D' litter. we decided to keep donald and daniel and I decided that those were dumb names for a kitten so I said that they were donald pinkus the cat and danny mason the cat, named after two of my buddies.

    danny mason has already been featured in the blog having produced the dan mason the cat mix as dj dan mason the cat (available for download over to the right)

but today is all about donald otherwise known as "the sock".

    basically me and lou went to wilmette to visit patsy and when we were there lou and donald had a confrontation. as often is the case the fight ended with donald challenging us to a race around the world! 

here are some photos from the race

we started in chicago, il.

 

a balloon is a great way to start a race around the world and donald made it all the way to france.

lou and I rode west to california. we stopped in mexico to sell cocaine and stashed the money in our gas tanks.

 

donald rode his bicycle across europe climbing the alps along the way. he made it all the way to japan, prudently skipping over asia because its like really big and annoying.

lou and I got on a freighter and made it all the way from the pacific ocean to the Mediterranean somehow with magic then punted down the canals of venice which was very romantic.

donald surfs one gnarly wave from hawaii down around the horn of south america and then back up to the crystal clear gulf of mexico.

 

lou and I crossed the atlantic in a paddle boat then took off from florida in a one man-one cat go-cart hoping that we would run into donald pinkus the cat along the way so we could chuck a red shell at him.

donald pinkus began speed skating on a revolving treadmill of ice that powered a train (picture not available) that brought him to patsy's just in time to get a belly rub and to take a drink from the faucet before lou and I power-slid down ouilmette ave to the finish.

 donald pinkus won and his prize was a little mouse with catnip inside with which he was thoroughly content.

 lou and I retreated back to madison, wi to write this blog post and to eat popsicles.

we love our readers and we wish them the best.