We received an e-mail today saying that Pinky has been named the ‘2007 Cat of the Year’ by the Western Association of Deserts. I have no idea what kind of organization this is. I Googled it but found nothing. But anyway, congratulations to Pinky - I’m guessing there are lots of cats in deserts so it’s probably pretty hard to win something like this.

~ Bunny

Great news! We have a new blurb available for your viewing pleasure. Actually, there’s two, since I forgot to announce the previous one. The first is called From Swords into Plowshares, and today’s is called Kicking the Apartheid Habit. You can find both in our episodes archive.

Happy holidays!
Bunny

The cross-stitch Pinky I made last year is now featured on our homepage. I also made it into a t-shirt design. Not that anybody is going to want it - everybody loves TV and nobody cares about cross-stitching - but that’s okay.

Over the past few weeks Pinky and I have been spending most of our time doing research for our next series of episodes. It’s about settler colonialism. Pinky’s been studying this stuff for a few years but it’s different when you have to get everything together for an episode (or episodes). It’s going to be really hard to explain this stuff. Actually the problem isn’t so much that the material is too complicated; I think it’ll be hard to explain this stuff to people because it’s the kind of ideas that nobody wants to understand.

Bunny

Announcement 1: Pinky and I are just about ready to jump into ‘writing phase’ for our next few episodes, plus the new year is right around the corner. So we thought it’d be nice to start the new year by going for a walk. Just for a few days. Walking is good, it’ll give us a chance to organize our thoughts. We’re not bringing any books, just a notepad and a pen. And food and water.

We’ll start walking on Dec 31 (new year’s eve morning) and walk around here in the desert until maybe Jan 5th or so. It’s not so hot right now (about 50°F during the day, 35-ish° F at night) so it should be nice. “Mini-vacation.”

We won’t be doing any e-mail during this time.

Announcement 2: On January 5th one of our episodes (Thomas Edison Hates Cats) is going to be screened at the Project Twenty1 film festival in Philadelphia. Our very first film festival! We really wanted to attend but it’s way too far to walk and we couldn’t afford the air fare and stuff. But we were very flattered to be invited and even more surprised when our video was actually selected. This is a ‘new’ film festival but I think it will be successful because the organizers have lots of energy and are very nice people. But yeah, that’s another reason why we’re going for a walk. It’d be depressing to be just sitting here at home while our video is being screened at a film festival and we’re missing all the parties and stuff.

Okay, see you in about a week.

Bunny

Hi everybody. This will be my last post for the year 2007. Starting tomorrow morning Bunny and I will be taking a walk. We’ll walk and talk for a few days and hopefully we’ll come up with some ideas for how to solve some of the problems facing our project. All signs point to 2008 not being a very quiet or peaceful year, but we’re going to try our best to at least have it start it out that way.

The four of us - Kim, Mimi, Bunny, and myself - we’d like to wish all of you, our dear animal friends, much peace and beauty for this coming year. I love you.

~ pinky