So here we are at Friday again. Somehow, through either luck or good management we've found our way here to the shiny-end of the week.
If you want to take a moment to thank whichever deity or iPhone app helped you do that, go right ahead.
For me this week has been a bit of a struggle for a couple of reasons.
First, there's my strong aversion to being cold which sadly has been a bit unavoidable what with the weather being so seasonally appropriate.
Then there's the fact that there's some European sports competition on at the moment that compells the Silver Fox to get up before 4am (as if it's not bad enough that there's local sports I have to avoid, sport on the other side of the planet is asserting itself too! The cheek).
And then there was some broken sleep in the middle of the week from earthquakes in the 2am to 3am area or what I like to think of as the "I'm too old for this crap" witching hour. It holds as true for nightclubs and parties as it does for 4.2 aftershocks. It's your call as to whether you prefer to be shaken awake by the earth or a taxi driver who wants to be paid but let's just accept that it's not fun to do either of those things.
But also, I've been plagued by the face of doom for the last week. Something I saw last week that made me question many things. It's furry and it makes me sad and confused about life. Allow me to introduce you to the source of my existential angst, the dead cat chopper.
For those of you who did not see it and can't, for some unfathomable reason, be bothered clicking on the link I've so handily supplied for you, Dutch artist Bart Jansen didn't bury his cat after it was hit by a car, he stuffed it and by adding propellers to each paw, turned it into a remote control chopper.
And it freaks me out.
Lots of people in the last week have posted it via their Facebook or Twitter accounts and seem to find it funny. They're allowed to. I don't have any issue with that, in fact, I wish it made me laugh. Instead, when faced with the stuffed chopper cat, I can't help looking at it's wee face and thinking it's emitting a silent scream. If this thing were a painting it would be Salvador Dali meets Edvard Munch.
Every time I look at it I think: "Oh God, I'm going to die, aren't I?"
I can't help thinking that chopper cat has something to teach me about the futility and awkward tragi-comedy that is life. Do you laugh at the prospect of your own mortality or become depressed by it? I'm leaning towards the latter, though I'd very much like to be the kind of person who sees chopper cat and says: "Ridiculous! And so is life! I care not!." Maybe that's something for me to work on over the weekend.
Still, at least there is little chance that I will be memorialised in such a way. I cannot imagine that my humble carcass would be flight-worthy as I would certainly have a tendency to tip forward. And that spreadeagled pose is not what one would call elegant or flattering. No, no reinvention as a remote controlled chopper for me, I think.
Perhaps I'm just in a sombre, wintry mood... What is your reaction to chopper cat? Enchanted or angst-ridden? Is it funny-ha-ha or funny-peculiar or a bit of both?
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My reaction mirrored the one on the moggy's face. WTF yet somehow LOL at the same time. The WTF lasted longer than the LOL though.
My reaction when I saw the story went, oh...ok, right...ummm... no that's just not right.
I don't like that chopper cat; it's such a horrible thing. You may argue the cat doesn't care, but that doesn't make it right. It makes me sad.
I am also predicting an unfortunate trend of making dead pets into motorised vehicles. It is only a matter of time until someone sticks a propeller into bear (Is that a bear flying a helicopter? Nope! It's Chuck Testa!*).
There are many animals I dislike (humans being high on the list, but also scorpions, mosquitoes, wasps, and especially Loa loa), but turning them into something worthy of an 1800's circus freak show is something to which I strongly object.
*Who is Chuck Testa? A man with his own meme, thanks to this advert: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJP1DphOWPs
It freaks me out too Moata... weird
If I didn't work, I'd be up at 4am too - I'll be 'joining' SF worshiping the round-ball game tonight/tomorrow - Hooray the weekend!
Chopper cat frankly IS disturbing. I don't blame you in the slightest for having an existential reaction to it.
I was hoping they'd use Chopper Cat to pick the results of the games at Euro 2012.
Best game so far has to be ESP - ITA. My pick after that game was that they would meet in the final. But I'm sure there are a few other nations who will have something to say about that.
Biggest annoyance about the competition so far is the flares. Are you really a football fan if you feel the need to throw some fiery and smoky and distracting onto the field of play in order to show your "support" for your chosen team? Idiots.
I think it's sick!! What the hell was the 'artist' thinking?
I sincerely hope that his has not sparked a trend because I never need to see a dead animal being used for entertainment purposes such as this again.
That looks just like my cat, although mine is still alive, and you'll be relieved to know, has no rotor blades attached to it either.
If it gives me any existential angst, it would be thinking of in the hopefully far distant future when my mortal coil is shed, I may not just be dead & gone & all that, but will also be watched by millions, flapping round, unable to straighten up and fly right.
But by then, maybe the Bad Taste aliens will show up, and we'll just be eaten instead.
I agree Moata! The Chopper cat is totally disturbing and I think it is a gross thing to do to a cat even if it is dead!! I remember my Art teacher at high school had her stuffed moggy on a shelf in the art room, used to freak me out! Up at 4am to watch grown men run around a feild trying to kick a ball into a net just so they can hug and kiss each other is not my idea of fun either.....
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I saw lots of people linking to the remote controlled cat, but wasn't even interested enough to click on the link annd look. And sorry, still haven't looked at the link of it that you put up either Moata! As for the lack of sleep, I am with SF. Up at 4am most mornings, and loving it. I am hoping the Italians win, but am thinking it is more likely to be Germany. Your thoughts?