It’s the annual Blog Blast for Peace, where bloggers from around the world create “peace globe” images and share them on a single day. You can follow this link to find out how to participate.
Please leave your comments and thoughts whether or not you are participating. And if you have a peace globe of your own, feel free to link below.
It is interesting times for human and feline alike, particularly here in the United States. Our quadrennial civic ritual comes down to its final weekend.
Thanks to Ann from Zoolatry for this graphic. It’s a cat-friendly reminder to humans in the US to VOTE this coming Tuesday (if they have not done so already). Whatever your choices may be, it’s important to participate.
We are also thinking of all our friends – and family, too – that have been affected by Hurricane Sandy. As electricity and communications come back online, I have heard from family and from friends in both the experimental-music and cat-blogging communities, and happy that everyone seems to be OK (albeit still without power in some cases).
You can find a great list of resources for people with pets (courtesy of George the Duck). Now that the immediate emergency is subsiding, the attention shifts to the aftermath. A New Jersey has also set up a hotline for pet rescue. The Humane Society has set up rescue and shelter operations in NY and NJ as have numerous other organizations, both local and national. Our friends at PAWS in Norwalk, CT are also helping out, as they weathered the storm relatively well.
And of course, please support the help for humans and animal companions alike through donations to your favorite groups and local rescue efforts in the region.
This has also given us thought about disaster preparedness here in San Francisco, where we have our own worries. The site 72hours.org has great info specific to the Bay Area, including a section on preparedness for pets. We have been a bit lax about our preparedness kits despite having most of the pieces – it’s something we’re going to do soon!
Weekend Cat Blogging #386 is up at Mind of Mog.
The Carnival of the Cats will be hosted this Sunday by Nikita and Elvira from their new home in Houston, at Meowsings of an Opinionated Pussycat.
And the Friday Ark is at the modulator.
Submitted by ____lo____ via Twitter, originally from this site, an actual DJ cat scratcher.
“Votre chat aime-t-il la musique? Offrez-lui cette platine et il vous fera profiter de longues heures d’ambiance musicale. Elle coûte 30€ et vous la trouverez ici.”
My (undoubtedly incorrect) translation: Does your cat like music? Give him this turntable and you will enjoy many hours of musical ambiance.
Submitted by Mickle Boulevard via our Facebook page.
“Me me meow! Next we check the virus, says mix enginner Mister Boo”
Mickle Boulevard also participated in Weekend Cat Blogging that we just hosted.
We at CatSynth are excited to be hosting Weekend Cat Blogging Halloween Black Cat Edition. It has been a tradition for us since we started this blog back in 2006!
Black cats like Luna are sleekly beautiful and elegant, but still face challenges from old superstitions, especially at this time of year. Black cats often have the most difficulty getting adopted in shelters, and some of the posts from groups like Black Cats in Need of Rescue/Adoption on Facebook can be heartbreaking. Yet because of the superstitions and potential abuse around Halloween time, some shelters suspend black-cat adoption in October.
But this weekend, we want to celebrate black cats, and indeed all cats. So if you would like to participate, please leave a comment below, leave a comment for us on our Facebook page, or tweet us @catsynth.
Our friends in Texas Samantha Black,Clementine and Maverick are doing their best to be “spooky” this weekend as part of their Photo Hunt Challenge.
Over on our Facebook page, fan Hans Blieb contributed a few black cat pictures, including the cute one above. He also reminds us that nothing is spookier than a wet cat.
Also in the scary department, we were offline for several hours yesterday due to problems with our webhosting service. But as you can see, we’re back online now and ready to continue with the round-up. We will be accepting entries through Monday because of the delay.
It wouldn’t be Weekend Cat Blogging without a visit from our friend and black cat extraordinaire Jules. He joins us from Birmingham, Alabama and never misses a weekend that Luna hosts.
Meanwhile Tillie and Julie, our friends from Nova Scotia, remind us that black cats rule! They list many of the wonderful traits possessed by black felines, and encourage everyone to consider giving a black cat a home. We also think both Tillie and Julie look a lot like Luna.
Another from a fan on our Facebook page. Mickle Boulevard submits this cute feline photo with the caption: “What’s a router? If not for sits then why iz it warmz?” That’s indeed a good question.
The Cats at Wildcat Woods have some adventures for Halloween, including a pumpkin carving contest, and this photo of Minnie posing with a pumpkin.
At Animal Shelter Volunteer, Oracle is enjoying a relaxing Sunday and he is ready for adoption! Very cute. The cats and people at Animal Shelter Volunteer are in Connecticut and in the path of the oncoming hurricane. Stay safe, everyone!
And we close our black-cat and orange edition of Weekend Cat Blogging with a nod our own black-and-orange World Champion SF Giants!
Mimi makes a cameo appearance in this video by our friends at polynominal.com!
please visit also my juno60 page!!
http://www.polynominal.com/site/studio/gear/synth/roland-juno60/roland-juno-60.htmlthe 64 mania theme has been done on roland juno 60, abusing on trills and arpeggiators to emulate the typical commodore 64 sid. Hope you like it!
via XBS and matrixsynth.
“This track consists of the Roland TR 909 from here and the Korg from here… Also, the Korg bloops in the breaks are triggering from a master clock. the same clock is driving the TR 909 via R-sync and Simmons SDSV Via 96 Sequencer clock ( With MFB sequencer ) here… it’s awesome when everyone talks synth!” Including cats in freakin’ outer space!
From our friends at polynominal.com, we have another picture of Mimi:
“A cool box from the seventies generating a square waveform sequenced by a simple 8- steps pattern for each note.”
