I called the animal shelter to adopt a cat, and the guy hung up on me.

I told him I wanted to hold a combine for the cats to see which one was the most athletic. And asked if I could bring a mouse with me, and whichever one catches it is the one I would adopt.

That's sort of how my parents adopted their first cat back in the day. They went to the shelter, and there was a pile of kittens sleeping together/on top of each other for warmth. One was awake and literally climbing on top of the pile, meowing and wanting to get out; my Dad selected him instantly. He peed on my mother in the car on the way home, and within 6 months (he was ~8 weeks when they got him) he was out on their apartment balcony jumping up in the air and catching birds in between his paws (and then obviously killing/eating them). In retrospect, I'm pretty sure he was at least part, if not full, Bengal.

He was quite comfortably 22+ lbs at his heyday, and survived fights with a raccoon, multiple foxes, and killed more than one pheasant. You could tell spring had sprung when piles of dead baby rabbits started showing up on the deck. He also went on walks with my mother when we were babies and hissed at anyone that came near the stroller. My grandparents (both sets) were leery of coming to visit because he had a taste of their blood. The vet and vet techs wore gloves up to their shoulders to examine him. ACE.

For some reason coming home to that sight is like my worst fear. Would much rather see the mouse completely obliterated in a conventional trap than half alive struggling to free itself from the glue. In general dead rodents and dead birds freak me out.

Uh, they were tape delaying the 2014 olympics in Vancouver. Not surprised at all the summer slappies. I guess because there are less sports on TV, but I got better things to do than watch lol swimming or a watered down soccer competition.

Damn, Panorama Fest in NYC this summer looks amazing:

Friday > Sunday > Saturday imo

Overall great lineup tho

My freshman roommate in college got a mouse from the science lab that was "extra" because it wasn't used in the tests they were doing. It was going to be fed to a snake someone else had, but the snake had eaten that week. It had no cage or enclosure and was just a stray mouse that ran around our dorm room. Just a straight up rodent in a freshman dorm, which was very bad for trying to get some action from the opposite sex.

I killed it and people were upset about it.

No regrets.

If DJ KHALED is probably my 6th or 7th choice to see at a festival day, then that is indeed a good day.

You gotta be kidding me that Schoolboy Q and DJ Khaled don't even get a bigger title when two groups I've never even heard of (Major Lazer and FKA Twigs) get bolded.


I mean, by Twitter followers alone, it's not even ****ing close.

Major Lazer is huge, especially on the festival circuit, but agreed about the others.

Diplo (major lazer) has 1.65M followers. He's also known for putting on shows that are perfect for a festival.

Hmm, well the joint group has only 440k followers.

Sunday looks like the best day. Kinda hate festivals tho, being included in the everything circle of a vehn diagram and all.

Never been to a bad festival

I'm a huge fan of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, too.

never been to a music festival, but i'm pretty sure i would love it

I assume all of my fellow Georgians drank outside on a patio for lunch today, because goddamn it's gorgeous out.

Have only heard of 4 people/groups on that list

no one on Sunday

Major lazer is star power. All those days look dope. Thought lcd retired?

Really? I'm pretty out of touch, and I've at least listened to Run the Jewels and Nathaniel Rateliff. The latter gets quite a bit of radio play for SOB.

And LCD Soundsytem. Hard to imagine not knowing them even if you don't like "young people music"

Saturday is clearly the best day. I don't know who any of those people/bands on Saturday are other Kendrick Lamar and still know its the best day. LOL Arcade Fire. Aren't they some ****ty rock band? No idea what an LCD Soundsystem is, but sounds like it could be a EDM DJ in which case it could be good I guess.

Every time someone says LCD Soundsystem the people at pitchfork have a spontaneous orgasm

Arcade Fire is a great festival band. They went HAM at Jazz Fest a few years back.

Saw Arcade Fire at Lollapalooza in 2010, might still be the best live show I've ever seen. Amazing.