Re: Dulce Mae is my hero
- From: John F. Eldredge <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 19:46:55 -0500
On 31 May 2006 23:48:16 GMT, jXwXeXrXmXoXnXt@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
John F. Eldredge <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Another newsgroup where I regularly hang out is
rec.arts.sf.composition. It is about writing science fiction and
fantasy, and most of the participants are writers. I myself am not a
writer, but like the discussions and getting to know the writers as
individuals. At any rate, an idiom in that group is "cat-vacuuming",
meaning unlikely chores that you do in order to procrastinate doing
something else. "Before I write that next chapter, I have to vacuum
the cat first."
LOL - a friend of mine is on that newsgroup. He told me that you guys
tried to come up with a logo, and that people were creating simple,
symbolic line drawings of a cat being vacuumed. Once one was chosen
from the submissions, it was going to be printed on t-shirts or something.
I remember being asked my opinion, not that it counted for much.
Apparently you really had to be in on it to have any idea what that
image was referring to. Imagine an outsider coming up to a person
wearing the t-shirt and trying to make sense of it. Why is this person
wearing a drawing of someone vacuuming a cat, if that's even what it is?? :)
Joyce - off to dig up the email exchange I had with said friend...
We ended up having small metal pins made, about 1/2 inch across. You
see a cartoon cat with a "not again..." look on its face, a vacuum
cleaner nozzle, and a human hand holding the nozzle.
At one time, the lady coordinating the pin purchase had the image
on-line, but I don't think that it is on her web site any more.
I wear my vacuumed-cat pin as a hat decoration, and get the occasional
comment on it. Mostly, people just notice the cat and don't pay
attention to the vacuum cleaner, although I did have one lady ask me
if I worked as a pet groomer.
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than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria
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