THE ADVENTURES OF CATMAN (And his friends): March 2014

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

SCENES FROM THE CLASSIC CATMAN FILM MALTESE TUNA

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY

A LITTLE "UNDER THE WEATHER" - possibly too much Guinness and Old Bushmills, or maybe it was that extra helping of corned beef and cabbage...swear I'm seeing things this morning!~ Do you see it too? Anyway, HAPPY SAINT PATTY'S DAY from all of us at The Kitty Mafia Art Works - Me, Aoi, Catman, Super Sumie, the Nekojins, and Bin, Bo, and Gami, the poverty spirits brought on by "Abenomics" and the pending rise in the consumption tax in Japan.

CATSABLANCA

Scenes from that classic Catman film, Catsablanca, starring Catman, Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Peter Lorrie, Sidney Greenstreet, and some dame.

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

CATMAN REDUX: FROM 2013, THE YEAR OF THE VIPER

CATMAN REDUX: New Year's Greetings For The Year Of The Snake - 2013

Even though it's now 2014, the Year of the Horse, I thought this cartoon was worth sharing again.

The Tsuchinoko (ツチノコ or 槌の子) literally translating to "hammer's spawn," is a legendary snake-like cryptid from Japan. The name tsuchinoko is prevalent in Western Japan, including Kansai and Shikoku; the creature is known as bachi hebi (バチヘビ) in Northeastern Japan.
Tsuchinoko are described as being between 30 and 80 centimetres in length, similar in appearance to a snake, but with a central girth that is much wider than its head or tail, and as having fangs and venom similar to that of a viper. Some accounts also describe the tsuchinoko as being able to jump up to a meter in distance.
According to legend, some tsuchinoko have the ability to speak and a propensity for lying, and is also said to have a taste for alcohol. Legend records that it will sometimes swallow its own tail so that it can roll like a hoop, similarly to the mythical hoop snake.

CATMAN REDUX - Before There Was A Kitty Mafia Art Worx

Before there ever was a Kitty Mafia Art Worx, there was the Kasahara Kitty Works and their first product - Saito & Sumie's Cat Spit grooming aid, which was never sold in the USA due to some problems with the Food and Drug Administration.

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

A MESSAGE FROM SUPER SUMIE TO THE PEOPLE OF FUKUSHIMA:

A tsunami deprived people of their lives, homes, money, etc. But a tsunami cannot deprive a person of their inborn gifts, knowledge, or the ideas that they hold within their minds. Many people have had to relocate and take shelter in uncomfortable surroundings in the Fukushima region. Some people have been cut off from their subsidies by TEPCO ~ a senior citizen on a pension of only ¥40,000 a month cannot buy much food: not even a simple meal sometimes.

I made a cooking art group about 3 years ago in Japan. Now we have 12 members
Our purposes are:

1. To make something tasty by using chap foodstuffs and at the same time to make our families smile.

2. To have fun making food that is easy to prepare.

This year, I, who iz Super Sumie, made dolls for the Girl’s Festival on March 3 – of all things out of eggplants.
I hope someone who lives in Fukushima will see this note and these photos of my cooking, and that they will make that person smile, even if it is only just for a moment.