This Week in Cats: January 15, 2017

I’m hijacking this week’s Cat feature to spotlight a few exciting developments in TVLand. Click for lots of trailers, a few new premiere dates, and the Honest Trailer for The Princess Bride!

This Week in Cats: January 8, 2017

To discern oneself in a work of art is a both a pleasure and a curse. A pleasure, indeed, for the act of self-discernment is also the quality of realizing, however briefly, that one is not alone.

This Week in Bears: January 1, 2017

Do you ever question the nature of your reality? Do you ever question the nature of other people’s realities? Did you previously live in a reality in which this feature was called “The Week in Cats”? What do you think of your new, ursine world?

This Week in Cats: December 25, 2016

My late cat Missy, impersonating a Christmas present.

With the benevolence of the glorious and eternal Sam T. Cat, I have taken on this week's This Week in Cats, which I was sorely tempted to call This Christmas in Cats because - guess what - it’s Christmas!! Merry Christmas! And Happy Hanukkah! Happy Holidays! Season’s Greetings! I really love this time of year. There are so many happy things you can say to strangers. Sorry, my inner dog person is coming out, hold on. Okay. Back to cats.

This Week in Cats: December 18, 2016

I've made no secret of my affection for both The Usual Suspects and cats. So imagine my delighted surprise to discover that Key and Peele, the comedy duo behind the film Keanu, have created a cat-centric riff on the iconic interrogation scene from The Usual Suspects.

This Week in Cats: December 11, 2016

Did you know there's a website called Cats on Film?

This Week in Cats: December 4, 2016

Check out that little cat. He doesn't need a sword!

The Doux Reviews virtual writers room is a hoppin' place. We make schedules, figure out who is willing to tackle Game of Thrones, and talk about cats. So it is no surprise that a few of us watched the documentary The Lion in Your Living Room, a Canadian documentary about cats that is now streaming on Netflix. And it's even less of a surprise that all three of us who are willing to cop to watching it--me, Heather, and Billie--absolutely loved it.

This Week in Cats: November 27, 2016

"I and Pangur Ban my cat,
Tis a like task we are at:
Hunting mice is his delight,
Hunting words I sit all night."

This Week in Cats: November 20, 2016

Unlikely Animal Friends is the most unchallenging and most adorable thing I’ve ever watched. It’s a National Geographic Channel documentary about—you guessed it—animals who make friends with other, unlikely animals. Like a puppy and a cheetah. Or a cat who goes rock climbing with his human. Or a bird and a cat.

This Week in Cats: November 13, 2016

Sebastian, an orange housecat, understands his life. He enjoys his patch of sunlight. He protects his humans and their children. And he loves Sheeba, the beautiful dog who lives next door. So when a super-intelligent Queen Ant gives all animals sentience (and fingers), igniting a vicious war between the species, Sebastian—who has renamed himself Mort(e)—wants nothing more than to find his friend. No matter how many people he has to kill to do it.

This Week in Cats: November 6, 2016

Awarding-winning author and co-founder of io9.com, Charlie Jane Anders is one of those writers whose work I read the second I see it: online, on a shelf, anywhere--my world stops for a few minutes or a few hours. Her latest novel All the Birds in the Sky was lovely, and her novelette “Six Months, Three Days” is a beautiful portrayal of a relationship complicated by precognition.

This Week in Cats: October 30, 2016

Does your cat scratch the sofa? Eat food from your bowl? Play a complicated game of “let’s leap over the human while she’s typing on her laptop and land on her arm, which is covered in painful cat scratches”?

This Week in Cats: October 16, 2016

Socks Clinton

Hillary Clinton: “We have a job to do. It'll be good for people and for cats.”

At a campaign rally in San Francisco this week, Hillary Clinton described what many of us are surely feeling about the current political situation in the US: “It makes you want to turn off the news. It makes you want to unplug the Internet or just look at cat GIFs. Believe me, I get it. In the last few weeks I've watched a lot of cats do a lot of weird and interesting things.”

This Week in Cats: October 9, 2016

Welcome to a new feature here at Doux Reviews: a weekly (more or less) post about all things cat-related. The nature of what “related” means in this context will be determined by Sam T. Cat and his plucky sidekick, Josie Kafka. The nature of what “cat” means is unknowable to human brains; all we can do is read, hope for enlightenment, and provide more boxes for them to play with.

This Week in Cats: October 2, 2016

Welcome to a new feature here at Doux Reviews: a weekly (more or less) post about all things cat-related. The nature of what “related” means in this context will be determined by Sam T. Cat and his plucky sidekick, Josie Kafka. The nature of what “cat” means is unknowable to human brains; all we can do is read, hope for enlightenment, and provide more boxes for them to play with.

This Week in Cats

In 2016 and 2017, Josie Kafka wrote several delightful weekly articles featuring cat news. As she described it, "This Week in Cats is a weekly (more or less) post about all things cat-related. The nature of what 'related' means in this context will be determined by Sam T. Cat and his plucky sidekick, Josie Kafka. The nature of what 'cat' means is unknowable to human brains; all we can do is read, hope for enlightenment, and provide more boxes for them to play with."

Here they are, latest first.

January 15, 2017: This week's This Week in Cats covers some of the top TV news from this week.

January 8, 2017: Sam T. Cat discusses the ontological despair of the YouTube video 'Kittens, Inspired by Kittens.'

January 1, 2017, this week entitled This Week in Bears: Josie Kafka and Sam T. Bear discuss the ontological ramifications of the Mandela Effect, which may or many not exist in this reality.

December 25, 2016: Sunbunny suggests visiting a site called Cat Suggest and shares pictures of her cat.

December 18, 2016: Sam T. Cat and his human sidekick Josie Kafka bring you the gift of a cat-themed parody of The Usual Suspects from Key and Peele.

December 11, 2016: Sam T. Cat and Josie Kafka discuss the website Cats on Film, which talks about cats who are in movies.

December 4, 2016: Sam T. Cat and Josie Kafka discuss "The Lion in Your Living Room," a documentary on Netflix about cats.

November 27, 2016: This Week in Cats goes medieval.

November 20, 2016: Sam T. Cat and Josie Kafka bring you the best of cats (and other animals) on a semi-weekly basis.

November 13, 2016: Josie Kafka and Sam T. Cat consider the cat apocalypse of Robert Repino's books Mort(e) and Culdesac.

November 6, 2016: Josie Kafka and Sam T. Cat discuss the works of Charlie Jane Anders, including her new short story 'Clover' from Tor.com.

October 30, 2016: Josie Kafka and Sam T. Cat consider the new book 'The Trainable Cat.'

October 16, 2016: Josie Kafka and Sam T. Cat bring you the best news in cats, this week with a focus on gifs.

October 9, 2016: Josie Kafka and Sam T. Cat recommend the movie Keanu, about humans who do their duty towards a kitten.

October 2, 2016: This Week’s Recommendation: Naomi Kritzer’s short story “Cat Pictures Please,” which won Best Short Story for the 2016 Locus Awards and 2016 Hugo Awards.