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Cat Cafe, Seoul, South Korea

January 6, 2013 By Professor Arielle Saiber

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“Long hours at the office, tiny apartments and high stress levels are so characteristic of life in Seoul that the city’s motto might as well be ‘Abandon sleep, all ye who enter here.’ So it’s not surprising that Seoul residents keep thousands of coffee shops in business. The cafes allow tired masses to meet in a space that’s neither home nor work, taking time out from busy schedules to see friends and relax. While faceless chains are plentiful, a number of quirky theme cafes have sprung up, satisfying both the need for caffeine and the Korean passion for anything trendy, cute or both. Charming, whimsical and sometimes downright bizarre, these places embody a peculiarly Korean sensibility.” [. . .]

“About 20 cats of various breeds live in this scrupulously clean cafe. Cat lovers whose homes are too small to house a pet can spend time playing with and photographing the residents while enjoying their coffee.” [. . .]    –Nell McShane Wulfhart, The New York Times, January 5, 2012

Categories: Dining & Leisure
Tagged with: 2012, Abandon All Hope, Animals, Cafes, Seoul, South Korea

Paolo and Francesca Bears

August 3, 2012 By Professor Arielle Saiber

paolo-and-francesca-bears“Paolo looks handsome and energetic in a green knitted jumper, with his named embroidered across the front. Francesca looks ‘bella’ in her red knitted jumper, and is delighted that her name is clearly embroidered on the front. Both bears are a wonderful support in the classroom. They bring a real Italian flavour and excitement into school and really adore being with the children.”    —Golden Daffodils

Categories: Consumer Goods
Tagged with: 2012, Animals, Bears, Children, Paolo and Francesca, Toys

Lyn White

July 7, 2011 By Professor Arielle Saiber

lyn-white“Lyn White is the slender, blonde, former South Australian police senior constable who, armed with a hand-held video camera, descended into the depravity of Indonesia’s most hellish abattoirs. Her footage invoking all the blood, wailing, and terror of Dante’s Inferno as Australian cattle were tortured and brutalised before slaughter was broadcast on Four Corners last month and has caused a backlash against Australia’s live export trade so quick and so vehement that the Government has suspended the trade to Indonesia.” [. . .]    –Emma Macdonald, The Canberra Times, July 2, 2010 (retrieved on July 7, 2011)

Categories: Odds & Ends
Tagged with: 2010, Animals, Australia, Indonesia

Fur-Berus

April 12, 2011 By Professor Arielle Saiber

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Contributed by Victoria Rea-Wilson (Bowdoin, ’14)

Categories: Odds & Ends
Tagged with: 2011, Animals, Cats, Humor

Mark E. Rogers, “Samurai Cat Goes to Hell” (1998)

July 7, 2009 By

mark-e-rogers-samurai-cat-goes-to-hell-1998In the last of the Samurai Cat series, Rogers uses Dante’s scheme of hell to frame the action.

“This comedic Inferno includes Nazi tyrannosaurs in dinosaur-sized tanks, characters resembling figures from the Oz books, Virtuous Pagans galore and Satan, who, though trapped in ice at the bottom of hell, wears pink panties and can send out projections in the shape of bad actors. The heroes are aided by felines from the other Samurai Cat books, a guardian angel named Henry and a mysterious ‘itinerant preacher’ who looks like Clint Eastwood.”    –Publishers Weekly, Amazon

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 1998, Animals, Fiction, Hell, Humor, Inferno, Journalism, Novels, Reviews

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