I was at a bookstore with my wife last night, when she reminded me that I'd been meaning to pick up a wall calender. The selection was cheap, but not extensive. I have a hard time picking out calenders, as there's not many pictures I actually want to see for a whole month. Although I'm NOT a cat person, I decided to get this wacky calender with pictures of cats painting. That's right, cats smearing paint on walls with their paws.
I opened it up to look at it today, and it's full of all this nonsense about respecting the art of non-primates and encouraging cats to express their vision of the world without letting the art become overly-commercialzed. Each cat artist represented was written up with some folderol about their influences and style and so forth. This being the twenty-first century, I couldn't tell if this was serious or a spoof.
I went to the publisher's website, and saw nothing unusual. It was founded in Berkeley, so I was starting to think this was meant in earnest. Them leftists are nuts, don't ya know. So, I looked up Why Cats Paint on Yahoo, and got the following website. It was only when I noticed the bird art that I began to be very concerned that if this was not a spoof, someone had escaped from the institution and was terribly overdue for electro-shock therapy
http://www.monpa.com/index.htmFinally, I looked it up on Wiki.