Toot: Blog

Pippi Longstocking's single day at school

Wed, 14 May 2008 00:16:36 GMT

Had Pippi Longstocking lived today she probably would have been given Ritalin.

Papers Cannot Wrap Up Embers

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:27:25 GMT

Some of the despaired prostitutes speaking in this movie could have made their living from writing poetry if such a thing had been possible.

What do you want to stare at when you grow up

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:39:40 GMT

There's something a bit disturbing about the feeling that I can spend my entire life watching my cats playing.

2forcats

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:17:41 GMT

A place next door made my day: http://www.2forcats.com/. Really charming attitude of the owners!

Another thing about chocolate

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:43:13 GMT

Chocolate, for me, has the same strange symmetry water does. Water expands both when it's freezing and it's boiling. Chocolate is what I consume both when I'm too sad and too jolly.

Fluffiness

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:25:57 GMT

To what degree do fluffy ones enjoy their own flufiness? Are they fluffy also on the other side of the skin?

Uninvited Pitstul making himself at home in Mao's white-blue caravan

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:07:09 GMT

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:01:49 GMT

Save it for a rainy day.

Mao playing a supporting role as a neutered cat in my classmate's film

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:49:02 GMT

Respectively: Mao playing dead, Mao misusing the stationary bike, Mao forgetting his manners

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:57:05 GMT

Mao's approach

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:59:31 GMT

Mao's approach to food tasting is first eat than ask what it was.

Autograding

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:05:58 GMT

In my role as a lector for the Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival I reached a conclusion that when I give a film a grade of 5 from a scale of 1 to 5 I'm also giving myself a grade of 5, meaning, I trust myself to have a better discretion than those who would have given it only 1, 2, 3 or 4.

Pitstul meets the Broccoli

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:25:00 GMT

It was a bit pretentious of Pitstul to assume he'd love Broccoli when not even all people do.

CATOPIA

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:22:14 GMT

I do believe that a part of makes keeping a pet so good for the human soul is the impression it gives that life can indeed be carefree for some and in that sense living up to childhood's expectations.

Mao's treasure

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:09:18 GMT

Mao is my cat. And Louis is Mao's cat. You can very well see it in the picture.

Wanted: a kittengarten

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:05:59 GMT

A recipe for happiness is to always have a kitten by you. In that sense, as all kittens do end up growing up, it's a great shame there's no such profession as a Kittengartener.

More cats for dummies

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:33:47 GMT

Unlike humans, cats can grow a mustache as early as the age of really really small and cute.

Portrait of the artist as still one

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:39:42 GMT

One night of proliferation and you're set.

Cats for dummies

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:02:47 GMT

When your cat sounds like an old fridge it means it's happy.

White Jerusalem

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:33:51 GMT

One could see snow falling on Jerusalem here, on a live webcam from the Kotel - http://www.thekotel.org/cameras.asp - tonight.

A short documentary about life in the flat

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:09:09 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsqlMcl7oT8&feature=user

Kes

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:25:06 GMT

Plainly marvelous.

Hello, could I please talk to Mao

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:05:33 GMT

I wanted to call Mao tonight to say hi what's up and I love you. The thing is that Mao doesn't know about the phone. So first thing when I get home I should teach him how to use it.

Mao has a visitor

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:23:28 GMT

Mao had a visitor today: Itai, Mao's "biological father", who told me one of Mao's bravery stories. When the two of them first met, Mao clung to Itai's car engine from underneath, and Itai tried to scare him away with water and sorts, and eventually had to put on gloves, open the engine's cover and pull Mao all the way through.

Sir Edmund Hillary, Everest Pioneer

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:29:02 GMT

"I can't give you any fresh answers to why a man climbs mountains. The majority still go just to climb them."

Louis's affair with the fridge

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:51:11 GMT

We were pretty sure Louis was a ghost when we got up again this morning to find him nowhere in the house. Then we found Louis underneath the FRIDGE, which scared the hell out of us. We thought, Louis needs a hiding place, but maybe there's elcetrical wires there, so maybe we should unplug the fridge, buy a second one and hide it somewhere?

Maoward bound

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:41:39 GMT

Mao, I miss you! Did you know that? Did you really, authentically, Miaolly, Grrlly, Prrlly, bouncilly, cuddlly, being-funny-lly know that? (24 hours in another city).

A tale of two tails

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 22:05:34 GMT

Louis, the cat we took today...

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 23:53:22 GMT

The flat has infinitely more cats x 2, now that we took Louis, a brother and pal to be for little Mao. In the meanwhile Louis's hiding, Mao's courting and w'ere hoping.

Back to Mao

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 23:15:54 GMT

Some Erhu music

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:32:13 GMT

http://youtube.com/watch?v=iEqRnQobYzc

Can you feel the Mao tonight

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:11:20 GMT

Cookies & Milk

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:00:52 GMT

What a jolly evening it is! It turns out that we have in the house all the ingredients necessary for the preparation of cookies & milk. Ingredients: 1 cookies, 1 milk.

Happy New 2008!

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:10:55 GMT

Toot, Mao, Mao, Too

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:38:15 GMT

Toot, meet Mao. You're a dog, he's a cat. It's two different things. I still love you tremendously.

The Young Mao and my roomie

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:22:56 GMT

The young Mao

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:57:17 GMT

Nevermind the Atlantic

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:49:57 GMT

Being a native Israeli residing in Israel hasn't halted Geva Alon from developing mastery in American folk music writing (http://youtube.com/watch?v=vb_k1CVLMDA).

Terrorized by a small Hamsa

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:53:15 GMT

I'm being terrorized by a small and cheap Hamsa I have at home. I have no idea how it got there. I don't have much against it, but it's not at all beautiful or unique in any sort of way. I would have just put it in the trash can if I weren't afraid that all the evil eyes in the world would come get me.

Some more

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:47:24 GMT

Newly non purchased

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:43:50 GMT

Pupils

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:53:05 GMT

You know, there was this word. Pupils. We learned it on 4th grade. We were pupils. Pupils were us. We said it a lot. We thought the world was all puplis, chairs and windows. I don't recall using it ever since. I've used students. I've used windows. I've used chairs. I'm not trying to say the teacher pulled a trick on us. I'm just saying I haven't pulled this word out of my table's - sorry, desk's drawer, in the last 19 years or so.

Gullibles

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:42:05 GMT

I was talking with Erez about what connects us to the animal. How we see thrillers and action movies and even the third time our brain releases chemicals of tension and anxiousness. Like a dog not realizing "this tail must be mine".

I'm sorry

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:36:47 GMT

Mao has discovered the main door. It was heart rending. As if he suddenly realized what he's been seeing through the many windows of the flat actually exists in three dimensions. I'm waiting for his human to come back, to ask him whether we can keep Mao and let him out.

(-:

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:14:20 GMT

Daphna and Hanin are decorating their Christmas tree today. I'm so pleased with this diversity in my family.

Mao's food

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:56:12 GMT

Imagine yourself eating your morning cereal every day. Imagine yourself eating it all day long. Now, imagine yourself eating it every single day, all day long, and without milk.

Mao. Little Mao

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:38:59 GMT

Erez and I were thinking to celebrate Christmas for Mao, the cat we're hosting. Mao, we love you. Do you want a Christmas tree, and socks hanging by the fireplace? That will give us a chance to celebrate it too.

Super mega triple wow

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:33:16 GMT

Right before grandma died father had bought her a 34'' TV. Last week it arrived at my humble little haven. I used to think it was uncivilised to keep such a huge TV in your living room. Now I worship it. You can't have too much of an awesomeness.

A graceful coincidence

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:20:41 GMT

I came across the fact that Bergman and Antonioni had died on the very same day. "What are you doing here, Bergman?" - "Well I'll be damned, Antonioni! Seems we were both on time for his long, long, long train".

The power

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:13:12 GMT

On this week's Wikipedia readings I encountered a similarity: Scorsese on "Raging Bull", Bergman on "Persona", both have testified that the making of their movies had virtually saved their lives. And both films are as vigorous as a conscious jump into a raging fire.