Welcome to the Ceiling Cat edition of the pootie diary, which I am guest hosting today thanks to the generosity of our founding host triciawyse. As you may have noticed, recent events have called unusual attention to the pootie diaries. Indeed, the ferociously eloquent Cookie's recent call for a pootie revolution and declaration of teh Nine Pootie Principles, enshrined in Ekaterin's terrifying call to action Attenshun, Humanz! Pooties Surroundz You!, seems to have followed the shock of realizing (presumably from reading StateofGrace's impassioned Defense of the Pootie Diaries) that pooties might not, in fact, be considered by everyone to be the center of the Daily Kos universe.
Such developments have made my composition of this post-revolutionary pootie diary a particularly delicate task. In light of this, and the possible need for an intervention from Ceiling Cat to prevent Kossaks from the threat of being violently surrounded once again by the pootie hordes, it seems appropriate, or perhaps just wise, to offer the Daily Kos community a brief refresher course--a precautionary primer--on the spiritual universe of Ceiling Cat and Basement Cat and their pootie followers.
Fortunately, a few months ago my thirteen year old son, who is a huge fan of Lolcats and a regular viewer of the Daily Kos pootie diaries and the icanhascheezburger web site, put together a brief visual presentation for his parents that traced the spiritual and religious dimensions of our favorite pooties and woozles. What follows is my son's and my little adventure in collaborative intergenerational authorship. We sincerely hope that no one is offended by the translation of religious themes into Lolspeak, or by the exclusion of other religious traditions. We particularly hope that Cookie and the Kossak pooties who outnumber us are placated, rather than inflamed, by this small spiritual tribute. We direct viewers who seek further instruction in Lolcat Biblical hermeneutics to the Lolcat Bible Translation Project, with many thanks to BFSkinner for first alerting us to this remarkable endeavor.
For the uninitiated, Ceiling Cat and Basement Cat, of course, represent God and Satan in the lolcat universe. Ceiling Cat first appeared in the following lolcat picture:
From this humble beginning an elaborate lolcat narrative emerged, along with the terrifying figure of Basement Cat:
The photographs below offer just one, highly abbreviated, version of their story. I encourage readers in the comments to add chapters of your own, along with photos and anecdotes of the pooties, woozles, and other beautiful animals whose lives we share, but whose complex spiritual universe we can only speculate upon:
But what would the earth be without weather, so...
And what would snow be without someone beautiful to play in it...
And, in order to serve the daily needs of lolcat and succeeding generations of pooties...
That was an unusually exhausting job...
Up in heaven, there were other powerful pooties and...
Yet Basement Cat had questions and doubts...
These doubts led to an epic battle...
Followed by an eternal division...
So Ceiling Cat decided to make teh rules clear...
Eventually...
Who inspired groups of devoted lolcats to spread the word...
But not everyone heard the word...
But eventually they repented...
Though some still wondered if Ceiling Cat heard their prayers...
Today...
Yet there are still those pesky doubters who demand proof, despite clear photographic evidence...
And that is the end of our tail.
Many thanks to ICHC for the majority of our photos.
