WFMU: Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from March 28, 2023

Listener comments!
	👻 7:08pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:00pm HyperDose: Pre-clicky staring for obvious reasons. I mean it's cats!
	👻 8:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ HyperDose @8:00 That's a good way to get started!
	8:59pm Krys O.: Hey! I'm happy to be under the spell of my kitties.
	9:00pm Mr Fab: Hey Austin! One would think that Kitten Sparkles would be here.
	9:00pm Kat in Chicago: One would think that I would be here too. So I am.
	9:01pm postconsumer: I personally have too many cats... I love them all, to varying degrees. :)
	9:01pm Mr Fab: ↳ Kat in Chicago @9:00 right on cue!
	9:03pm postconsumer: two is a good number. four is ...twice that number
	9:03pm Charles: Cats are minor demons.
	9:03pm postconsumer: 😂
	9:03pm Kat in Chicago: I usually do have a ball of yarn nearby.
	9:04pm postconsumer: one of ours is really terrible at night. I've started sleeping with earplugs, just since she joined the family.
	9:04pm Aitch: ↳ postconsumer @9:03 2 squared
	9:04pm postconsumer: I do love cats though
	9:04pm Krys O.: ↳ Charles @9:03 But these fuzzy demons are on our side as long as we feed them and offer warmth.
	9:04pm postconsumer: and 2 many. my wife keeps bringing them home.
	9:05pm postconsumer: ↳ Krys O. @9:04 ❤️
	👻 9:05pm Heather Z: Meow meow, y'all! Tuna-ed in for kitty cat content! Nigel is close to the sound bar picking up the vibrations with his whiskers!
	9:06pm Krys O.: My pair o' kitties are my alarm clock on the weekend when they feign eating my head.
	9:06pm Charles: I miss my big cat, Elvis. His trademark move was to sit near people, fart and the run away as fast as possible.
	9:07pm Krys O.: ↳ Song: "T.S. Eliot: Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats: ... Love! Love! Love!
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:06 Cats do sort of specialize in that move, don't they?
	9:08pm Aitch: My 2 bengals seem like there are more, and they're really loud...
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:07 I am a sucker for these Caedmon records. They are all really excellent.
	9:08pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Meow
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:08 Hooray! Imaginos is here!
	9:09pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @9:08 Every word of the Naming of Cats is true.
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:09 It's so perfect. I wish I had read that book as a kid, because I think I would have gone nuts for it.
	9:10pm postconsumer: Our most recent has no name as of yet. She loves water so we're leaning toward Lilly (short for water lily), but I want to call her "kitten."
	9:10pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: My kitty is beside me
	9:10pm Mr Fab: ↳ postconsumer @9:10 I thought cats hate water?!
	9:11pm Krys O.: My brother and I took care of alley cats as kids in the 70s. They really weren't feral, rather rovers. We named them Felix, Zygmund, and Brownie and more.
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: I almost let the boys in here for this show, but... they are still prone to jumping on gear and batting at things, and that's not great for radio.
	9:11pm postconsumer: ↳ Mr Fab @9:10 She is always at my elbow as I wash the dishes, batting at the various splashes.
	9:12pm postconsumer: She's a bit odd. loves the shower, too.
	👻 9:12pm ramencity: Titles for cats: * Meowser-Powser * Sir Meowsabit * Lord Meowington of the Hills (and Dales) * ...
	9:13pm Krys O.: ↳ Mr Fab @9:10 Many of the cats I've had love sitting in the tub after a shower or bath. They sit under a dripping faucet to let the water hit the head. I had one that sat on the edge of a clawfoot tub when I took a bath. Almost all of them loved to splash water from their drinking bowls.
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:12 Yay! ramencitykid is here. He and I once had the most amazing cat.
	9:14pm Mr. X: Meow.
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:13 Cats are so weird. One of our boys will sit in the tub and pee very slightly in there, as a protest, if I've let the box go too long. And he makes a show of it.
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:14 Yay! Mr. X is here, too!
	9:15pm postconsumer: ↳ Charles @9:06 😆
	9:15pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Mr. X @9:14 Mew meow purr
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "T.S. Eliot: Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats: ... There is a complex Poop Joke in this poem, and it's great.
	9:15pm Krys O.: My father didn't let the strays stay indoors at night because he was convinced they would try to suffocate us in our sleep. Dad was from rural Poland. It took years, but we convinced him it was okay. They let their cat Tiger stay inside. My parents loved that cat.
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:15 I heard adults say this when I was a kid, too. Is it a Polish folk tale, or something?
	9:16pm Krys O.: ↳ Song: "T.S. Eliot: Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats: ... Harvey says this is quite true.
	9:16pm postconsumer: ↳ Krys O. @9:15 I wonder where he got that idea? I've never heard of that.
	9:19pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: My favourite nursery rhyme was The Two Cats of Kilkenny, though it ended rather sadly
	9:19pm Krys O.: I am guessing that cats were seen cuddling babies in cradles and superstitious people feared the worst. Cats are generally gentle with babies and toddlers.
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: Doesn't Stephen King do something with the Cats stealing breath gimmick? It's ringing a faint bell...
	9:20pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:20 Sleepwalkers
	9:21pm Krys O.: ↳ postconsumer @9:16 My brother and I were flabbergasted at the time. We couldn't believe he thought that way. Dad also believed in dream symbolism and he had an aunt who had a book of spells.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:21 A lot of people of that generation had some weird ideas.
	9:23pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:16 I believe it was a medieval superstition having to do with cats being witches' familiars.
	9:24pm postconsumer: I've never heard this ken Nordine. I'm only familiar with the older stuff.
	9:24pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Mr. X @9:23 They burned cats in France which was directly responsible for the Plague.
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:23 Of course! I had forgotten about the familiar connection. I wish all those years of D&D would pay off, but so far... not a sausage.
	9:24pm Krys O.: ↳ Mr. X @9:23 The dangers of cats around babies was even mentioned in a pediatric journal in the early 20th century. Fake news! www.newscentermaine.com...
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @9:24 He made a lot of strange albums and recordings, all the way to the end. His collaboration with Tom Waits is pretty great.
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:24 Ha! Fake News is really such an old idea... sigh.
	9:25pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @9:22 My father was born in 1922.
	9:25pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @9:24 What's the album called?
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @9:25 A Transparent Mask.
	9:26pm Krys O.: Dad did appreciate the usefulness of cats on farms. He did respect them.
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:26 He would love today! "Respect Your Cat Day!"
	9:27pm Krys O.: I highly recommend this book by Kevin Pyle: www.goodreads.com...
	9:27pm postconsumer: ↳ Krys O. @9:26 My mother in law has a lot of cats on her back property, which used to be a farm. They live in the old barn.
	9:28pm Mr. X: I had a cat named Ysbadadden. One time he swam across a creek to get to me.
	9:28pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: There's a book on writing called Save The Cat.
	9:28pm postconsumer: ↳ Mr. X @9:28 😮
	9:29pm postconsumer: I've never seen a cat swim, in person
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:28 I'm not sure what part of that story is more strange to me.
	9:29pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Mr. X @9:28 What a loyal kitty
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:28 True! It's a screenwriting term, as I learned it.
	9:30pm Mr. X: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:29 He totally was. He used to go on hikes with me for miles through the woods.
	9:30pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:29 Destroy everyone else, just save the cat
	9:33pm HyperDose: ↳ Krys O. @9:24 Total fake news! Kitties were my protectors when I was a baby/toddler. My mom's favorite Sam was head of my security detail and would follow me everywhere. He'd even sleep on my head.
	9:35pm Krys O.: It's I-rene-ee. I've always heard her referred to as.
	9:35pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I 💖 😺
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Keith The Cat Cow" by "Die Quaint" Everyone knows a Cat Cow, right?
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ HyperDose @9:33 That sounds more like the cats I know.
	9:40pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @9:37 google says its a yoga pose?
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Three Cool Cats" by "The Coasters" The older I get, the more I realize how excellent The Coasters were. Like, they were always amazing.
	9:40pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Remember Zoom back in the 70s always playing The Cat Came Back?
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @9:40 Oh! Maybe. We always said that those overweight, huge cats were "Cat Cows."
	9:41pm Mr. X: Anyone been to Ernest Hemingway's home on Key West? The descendants of his cats still live there to this day. You can tell them because they are polydactyl.
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:40 That's right! I should have done that. That would have been a good joke.
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:41 Very cool! I didn't know that.
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: "He's Broken Every Human Law." That doesn't sound good. We might need to put that cat down, if he's breaking EVERY human law.
	9:43pm postconsumer: 😆
	9:45pm Krys O.: Edward Gorey was an ailurophile.
	9:46pm Krys O.: I loved seeing cats that had Edward Gorey noses.
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:45 I could see that. I recently had Mike Dringenberg in my bookstore, and I was showing him around the collection, and one of the things he wanted IMMEDIATELY was and Edward Gorey book, that I almost bought myself.
	9:47pm postconsumer: gotta go make some supper. I'll miss talking about and hearing about cats. have fun!
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @9:47 We will! Thanks postconsumer!
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: "The Gay Stage."
	9:49pm Krys O.: Must off to bed. The kitties thank you for this wonderful show, Austin. I do too.
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:49 Thanks Krys O! Sleep well! Make sure those cats are indoors! It only makes sense.
	👻 9:49pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:48 The best kind of stage!
	9:50pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Mr. X @9:41 Been working on music
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:49 I was gonna make a comment: You mean, the stage? (As far as I remember the other actors when I was doing plays.)
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:50 That is always a good thing!
	👻 9:51pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:50 Very true!
	9:51pm Mr. X: I was always a big fan of B. Kliban's cat cartoons.
	9:51pm Krys O.: Two more things: Gorey did illustrate an edition of Elliot's book: encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com...
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:51 Underrated! I almost did a Kilban cut-up for the art on this one, but I found the painting above, and went with that.
	9:52pm Krys O.: And I never saw Webber's Cats and I really don't think I missed anything. I'd rather read the book or hear this album as Elliot intended.
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:51 Oh crap! I might need to ask my boss if they can find that. VERY COOL!
	👻 9:53pm Heather Z: ↳ Mr. X @9:51 Heck yes! I had holiday cards with a Kiliban cat ice skating that said Merry Christmas Freestyle on them when I was a little kid. I sure liked those! I was a cat girl who grew into a proper Cat Lady.
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: I married a cat lady, and everything worked out great.
	👻 9:54pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:53 Cat ladies got it going on! And you married one of the best ones!
	👻 9:55pm ramencity: The origin of the Postcard Records drumming-kitten logo: soundofyoungscotland.blogspot.com...
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:55 Woah! Nice pull. How cool is that?
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: "He resents familiarity."
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: Onions are not good for cats. Onion sauce is probably not good, either.
	9:59pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: My cat follows me at night
	👻 10:01pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:58 One of the best things Nigel does is he manages to convey to almost all guests that he's flipping them a double middle finger somehow! He's a sweet guy, really, but yes. Resents familiarity!
	10:03pm coelacanth∅: Greetings Rich and beautiful mutants
	👻 10:03pm ramencity: coela-cats!
	👻 10:03pm Heather Z: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:03 Meow meow Coel!!
	10:03pm Kat in Chicago: oh yes, Chicken Man!
	10:04pm coelacanth∅: ↳ ramencity @10:03 meOW
	10:04pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Heather Z @10:03 purrrrr
	10:05pm Kat in Chicago: I've heard someone play Chicken Man on Sheena's... Don-O? Spacebrother?
	10:05pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: To me Chicken Man is an anime character in Robot Carnival
	👻 10:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:03 Yay! It's coelacanthø!
	👻 10:05pm Heather Z: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:04 😸
	👻 10:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Kat in Chicago @10:05 Not on Sheena's, but I did an hour of Chickenman / chicken songs and other related stuff many years ago. I do love Chickenman. So surreal and odd.
	10:06pm Kat in Chicago: Wow, never heard the Story Lady though!
	👻 10:06pm ramencity: ↳ Song: "How To Remember Your Dreams" by "King Missile" This is the best song that is not about stealing cheesecakes
	👻 10:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "How To Remember Your Dreams" by "King Missile" I think about this album probably once a month.
	👻 10:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Kat in Chicago @10:06 They're all about that long, and with those kinds of jokes. There's like 50 of them or something? I found them all on a website many years ago.
	10:07pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:06 John S. Hall = brilliant
	👻 10:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:06 Cheesecake truck made an appearance recently, too, so... this had to, as well.
	👻 10:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:07 We traded some FB messages. He posts daily poetry on social media, and he's very approachable.
	👻 10:08pm Heather Z: You mentioned it might get scary, Austin, and I think I can handle it these days but, when i was in 3rd or 4th grade, a big scary man who taught 6th grade read us all The Black Cat at Halloween. He read it very well! And I was traumatized for YEARS!! Can't believe I can't remember his name these days! Mr Something.
	👻 10:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:08 I'm guessing that this was a version of the Edgar Allen Poe story?
	👻 10:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Hard To Believe: Carrot With A Cat's Face" by "Bo... I probably don't need to apologize to Sheena's listeners, but I'm a huge sucker for Bob & Ray.
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: "Don't put the carrot back in your pocket."
	10:10pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Month old carrot?
	👻 10:10pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:09 Yes, just straight from the book. As much as I'm obligated to like Poe because Goth, I always skip that one. I just can't!
	10:11pm coelacanth∅: that story's hard to believe
	👻 10:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:10 I let Diamanda Galas read that one to me around Halloween every year, and I don't mind when she scares me.
	👻 10:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Tough Top Cat" by "Marvin Rainwater" This is a parody of the song, "Big Bad John," by Jimmy Dean.
	10:12pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: My favorite Alice Cooper song is Gutter Cat vs the Jets
	👻 10:13pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:11 I can see that being amazing!
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:12 Dammit! I knew there was one that I was forgetting.
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:13 She's great, and she reads it on some album I have. I ALMOST played it tonight, but didn't.
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Cats & Candy by Mark Twain" by "Read by John Gree... I'm not sure who John Greenman is, but his Twain impression is pretty good.
	👻 10:14pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:13 Phew. I'm truly not sure if I'm ready. Maybe in another 40 years?
	10:14pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:12 Too funny!
	10:14pm coelacanth∅: one of my favorite cartoons when i was little was "top cat". seeing it a few years later i realized there wasn't much to it, just some smartass alley cats. my mother didn't like that i liked it.
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:14 It really cracked me up, but you gotta know Jimmy Dean.
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:14 I loved Top Cat! I almost played the theme song on this show.
	👻 10:15pm ramencity: Speaking of were-cats... ailuranthropy? I just watched that Grace Jones documentary, and she says all Jamaican women are lionesses...
	10:15pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Austin Rich @10:13 Rich did you check out the pussification comp?
	10:16pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:14 Top Cat was fun
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:15 Oh yeah; I'm on it!
	10:18pm coelacanth∅: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:16 yeah my mother also didn't approve of the banana splits, which i also liked but admit there wasn't much goin' on there... just some party animals being party animals
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: Parents get worried for the weirdest reasons. My parents didn't want us listening to hip-hop. DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince was even forbidden.
	10:19pm coelacanth∅: (i don't think this is Memphis Minnie's dirtiest song about cats either)
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:19 Yep! Could have gone dirtier for sure...
	10:21pm Mr. X: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:18 The Banana Splits were lots of fun. There used to be a rumor that they were really The Monkees in disguise. but I couldn't see how The Monkees could fit into such small costumes.
	👻 10:21pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:19 Mine too! No hip hop. Bowie was...... dangerous but undeniably talented so couldn't be forbidden. TV rules were wild, too. Love Boat? Fine. Three's Company? No way !
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: I don't play video games. But there's a cyberpunk game where you play a stray cat, and i'm really tempted to get a video game system so I can play a cat and wonder around a cyberpunk futurescape.
	👻 10:22pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:21 I've seen screen caps from friends who've played that one. It's worth it, I hear!
	👻 10:22pm ramencity: My mom had amazing withering mom put-downs about music... She saw a Smiths poster in my hi-school bedroom and said, "Huh! I thought their hair would be weirder..."
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:21 It's funny the things that are banned by parents. I guess they don't realize the power of a 15 year old person to find contraband, whatever form it might take.
	10:23pm Mr. X: ↳ ramencity @10:22 Withering put downs is murder.
	👻 10:24pm Heather Z: ↳ ramencity @10:22 My mom willfully confuses The Smiths with The Violent Femmes. Whaaaa??
	10:24pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Banned= drawn attention to.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:22 Moms can be more withering than almost anyone else. It is their secret strength.
	10:25pm coelacanth∅: Mr. X i've heard that rumour but also heard it debunked... in any case i think the monkees had their hands full with their own silliness!
	👻 10:25pm Heather Z: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:24 I swear I never sneak watched Three's Company! 😂
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:25 You had a crush on John Ritter. I can tell.
	👻 10:28pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:28 Ugh. Yeah. I did. You got me.
	10:30pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:25 Remember when they went to the vampire castle? "I want to suck your blood" "that's not nice" "I want to drink your blood" "that's much better*
	👻 10:30pm Heather Z: Serves em right, if you ask me. I'm on the cats' side here.
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "You Are Not A Cat" by "Dry Cleaners" And now, a true story of what it was like to hang out in Eugene in the 90's.
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:30 I agree. The cats are excellent. The people are dumb.
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "You Are Not A Cat" by "Dry Cleaners" "30 Helens Agree."
	👻 10:32pm ramencity: ↳ Austin Rich @10:31 "Twenty nine Helens agree.... promptness is important!"
	👻 10:32pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:31 For any dog people in the chat, I'm also on the dogs' side, cat lady, though I am!
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "You Are Not A Cat" by "Dry Cleaners" I think about this song about once a week.
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: I do love Dogs too. I love cats. I think animals are excellent.
	10:33pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Just sent my most recent song
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:33 Is that what that ding was? I'll have to check that out...
	10:38pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I remember Rikki Tikki Tavi
	10:39pm coelacanth∅: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:30 haha i can't believe you remember that! i vaguely remember it only now that you mentioned it
	👻 10:39pm Heather Z: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:38 We saw the movie every year in school when I was a kid!
	10:40pm Kat in Chicago: VERY curious about this, I've never heard this story.
	10:40pm Mr. X: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:38 And Donovan did that song about Rikki Tikki Tavi.
	10:40pm coelacanth∅: i'm a dog person. - but i like cats too.
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: "Oh my best beloved." Many years ago, when I was dating a girl, I used to read "Just So Stories" to her. I don't remember this story from those days, but I found this version delightful.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:40 That's right! I forgot about that.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Kat in Chicago @10:40 It's delightful!
	👻 10:42pm ramencity: Hm, both TS Eliot and Rudyard Kipling have cats sadly eating tough old mutton...
	10:42pm Kat in Chicago: I've only seen the title as "The Cat That Walked By Himself".
	10:43pm Kat in Chicago: I might be stealing the album cover image for a future chatboard avatar.
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Kat in Chicago @10:42 Yeah, I think we know what happened there...
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:42 One must have read the other.
	👻 10:43pm Heather Z: ↳ ramencity @10:42 In these old stories, they sure made mutton sound delicious. I'm even sold now and yet, I know better!
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Kat in Chicago @10:43 It is certainly a new goal to find a copy of this album.
	10:44pm Mr Fab: ↳ Kat in Chicago @10:43 it is a beauty. one to put up on the wall.
	10:46pm brad253: Sorry to tune in late, did i miss 'Cat Scratch Fever"?
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ brad253 @10:46 I'm coming! Just tune the dial to any classic rock station you can find and listen for about 35 minutes. You'll hear it!
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: It's coming... Whoops!
	10:48pm brad253: I should have thought of that! :)
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ brad253 @10:48 They have that playlist down to a pretty reliable set. You can set your watch to it.
	10:49pm Mr Fab: I have a slew of, er, pussycat songs. But that's a whole other show.
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:49 I thought I might have to reach for a few pussycat songs, but I found enough other stuff that I didn't need to.
	👻 10:51pm Heather Z: He's fond of.... things that suck his breath out while sleeping?????
	10:59pm HyperDose: Thanks Austin. The kitty and I loved it!
	10:59pm Kat in Chicago: Austin, thank you so much for playing that!
	10:59pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: That was a fun show
	11:01pm Kat in Chicago: I resemble that title 🐈
	👻 11:01pm Heather Z: Thanks for a fun show, Austin, and a fun chat all! Good night and meoooow!!
	11:02pm Mr. X: Purrfect show! Thanks, Austin!
	👻 11:03pm ramencity: ↳ Mr. X @11:02 Fur real!
	11:03pm coelacanth∅: meow Meow! meow meow meow mew mew. Meow meow.
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: I had a lot of fun trying to not do anything obvious. And I really enjoyed the results. Thanks everyone for sharing their cat stories!
	11:04pm Kat in Chicago: I was in fact thinking that you'd done a rather good job of avoiding the obvious choices, Austin.
	👻 11:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Kat in Chicago @11:04 There were some... places I could have gone that were... not as great as this. But maybe next time? Who can say... cheese has it's place.
	11:05pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Purr murr rurr.
	11:06pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @11:04 I'm just glad you didn't play the Meowy Christmas Cats.
	👻 11:07pm Austin Rich: Thanks everyone! Talk to you next time.

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from March 28, 2023

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A combination of collage, new experimental records and other bits and bobs, Mid-Valley Mutations is a tour through the mind of Austin Rich, who has been broadcasting in some form since 1998. Heavily influenced by Dr Demento, Don Joyce and old fashioned College Radio, Austin creates Audio Essays on a variety of subjects, and even just plays records, from time to time. Sometimes Live music and Interviews will grace the program, helping create a situation where you don't really know what you're going to hear, when you tune in. What you need to know is when you enter the Mid-Valley region, be prepared for the Musical Mutations... in whatever form they take.

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March 28, 2023: One For The Cats

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats Part 1
The Story Lady	The Ambitious Pussy Cat	The Story Lady	Mel Blanc Productions	1970s
Music behind DJ: Edison Concert Band	Mr. Thomas Cat	Edison Concert Band	Edison Records	1902
Sir John Gielgud And Irene Worth	T.S. Eliot: Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats: The Naming of Cats	T.S. Eliot: Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats	Caedmon Records	1983	0:06:34 (Pop-up)
Kinks	Phenomenal Cat "Phenomenal Cat" by "Kinks"	the Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society	Pye Records	1968	0:08:02 (Pop-up)
Sir John Gielgud And Irene Worth	T.S. Eliot: Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats: The Old Gumby Cat	T.S. Eliot: Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats	Caedmon Records	1983	0:10:16 (Pop-up)
Roy Hall	Three Alley Cats "Three Alley Cats" by "Roy Hall"	"Three Alley Cats" b/w "Diggin' The Boogie"	Decca Records	1956	0:12:38 (Pop-up)
Sir John Gielgud And Irene Worth	T.S. Eliot: Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats: The Rum Tum Tugger	T.S. Eliot: Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats	Caedmon Records	1983	0:15:00 (Pop-up)
The Miller Sisters	Ten Cats Down "Ten Cats Down" by "The Miller Sisters"	Got You On My Mind - The Sun Recordings 1954-57	Charly Records	2010	0:16:54 (Pop-up)
Sir John Gielgud And Irene Worth	T.S. Eliot: Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats: The Song of The Gelicals	T.S. Eliot: Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats	Caedmon Records	1983	0:19:04 (Pop-up)
Ken Nordine	Cat & Bird Blues "Cat & Bird Blues" by "Ken Nordine"	A Transparent Mask	Asphodel Records	2001	0:20:33 (Pop-up)
Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps	Cat Man	Gene Vincent and The Blue Caps	Capitol Records	1957	0:26:19 (Pop-up)
Sir John Gielgud And Irene Worth	T.S. Eliot: Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats: Old Deuteronomy	T.S. Eliot: Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats	Caedmon Records	1983	0:28:35 (Pop-up)
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats Part 1
Music behind DJ: Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang	Wild Cat "Wild Cat" by "Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang"	"Wild Cat" b/w "Sunshine"	OKeh	1927	0:31:12 (Pop-up)
Die Quaint	Keith The Cat Cow "Keith The Cat Cow" by "Die Quaint"	Thinking About Revenge	Self-Released	2021	0:36:59 (Pop-up)
Sir John Gielgud And Irene Worth	T.S. Eliot: Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats: Mr. Mestopheles	T.S. Eliot: Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats	Caedmon Records	1983	0:37:40 (Pop-up)
The Coasters	Three Cool Cats "Three Cool Cats" by "The Coasters"	"Charlie Brown" b/w "Three Cool Cats"	ATCO Records	1958	0:39:52 (Pop-up)
Sir John Gielgud And Irene Worth	T.S. Eliot: Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats: McCavity, The Mystery Cat	T.S. Eliot: Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats	Caedmon Records	1983	0:42:05 (Pop-up)
Larry Terry	Hep Cat "Hep Cat" by "Larry Terry"	"Why Did She Go?" b/w "Hep Cat"	Testa Records	1961	0:45:19 (Pop-up)
Sir John Gielgud And Irene Worth	T.S. Eliot: Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats: Bustifer Jones	T.S. Eliot: Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats	Caedmon Records	1983	0:47:30 (Pop-up)
Sailboats	Fraidy Cat "Fraidy Cat" by "Sailboats"	Bend Sinister	Self-Released	2013	0:49:44 (Pop-up)
Sir John Gielgud And Irene Worth	T.S. Eliot: Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats: Skimbleshanks, The Railway Cat	T.S. Eliot: Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats	Caedmon Records	1983	0:52:09 (Pop-up)
Joey Micheals	Sixteen Cats "Sixteen Cats" by "Joey Micheals"	The Return of Rockaphilly!	Rollercoaster Records	1980	0:55:05 (Pop-up)
Sir John Gielgud And Irene Worth	T.S. Eliot: Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats: The Addressing of Cats	T.S. Eliot: Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats	Caedmon Records	1983	0:56:54 (Pop-up)
"A Good Ready" ""A Good Ready""
Music behind DJ: Asa Martin	Wild Cat Rag "Wild Cat Rag" by "Asa Martin"	The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of	Yazoo Records	2001	0:59:47 (Pop-up)
The Story Lady	Putting The Bell On The Cat	The Story Lady	Mel Blanc Productions	1970s	1:04:49 (Pop-up)
King Missile	How To Remember Your Dreams	Mystical Shit	Shimmy Disc	1990	1:05:54 (Pop-up)
Bob & Ray	Hard To Believe: Carrot With A Cat's Face	The Lost Episodes Vol. 3	RadioArt	2001	1:08:50 (Pop-up)
Marvin Rainwater	Tough Top Cat "Tough Top Cat" by "Marvin Rainwater"	"Tough Top Cat" b/w "(There's A) Honky Tonk In Your Heart"	Warwick Records	1962	1:11:13 (Pop-up)
Read by John Greenman	Cats & Candy by Mark Twain	Cats & Candy by Mark Twain	YouTube	2018	1:14:04 (Pop-up)
Memphis Minnie	Black Cat Blues "Black Cat Blues" by "Memphis Minnie"	Hoodoo Lady (1933-1937)	Columbia	1991	1:17:20 (Pop-up)
Read by G.M. Danielson	The Cats of Ulthar by H.P. Lovecraft	The Cats of Ulthar by H.P. Lovecraft	YouTube	2019	1:20:16 (Pop-up)
Dry Cleaners	You Are Not A Cat "You Are Not A Cat" by "Dry Cleaners"	30 Helens	Self-Released	2013	1:30:47 (Pop-up)
"Oh, My Best Beloved..." ""Oh, My Best Beloved...""
Music behind DJ: Jack Constanzo	Catwalk "Catwalk" by "Jack Constanzo"	Lux and Ivy's Favorites Volume Eight	https://blog.wfmu.org/	2007	1:34:50 (Pop-up)
Read by Boris Karloff	The Cat That Walked By Herself by Rudyard Kipling	The Cat That Walked By Herself	Caedmon Records	1962	1:39:47 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: John Coltrane	Cat Walk "Cat Walk" by "John Coltrane"	Dakar	Prestige	1963	1:59:19 (Pop-up)
Squeeze	Cool For Cats "Cool For Cats" by "Squeeze"	Cool For Cats	A&M Records	1979	2:02:35 (Pop-up)
Rice	Rice's Meow "Rice's Meow" by "Rice"	Fuck You, This Is Rice	Lookout! Records	1994	2:05:32 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 7:08pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:00pm HyperDose: Pre-clicky staring for obvious reasons. I mean it's cats!
	👻 8:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ HyperDose @8:00 That's a good way to get started!
	8:59pm Krys O.: Hey! I'm happy to be under the spell of my kitties.
	9:00pm Mr Fab: Hey Austin! One would think that Kitten Sparkles would be here.
	9:00pm Kat in Chicago: One would think that I would be here too. So I am.
	9:01pm postconsumer: I personally have too many cats... I love them all, to varying degrees. :)
	9:01pm Mr Fab: ↳ Kat in Chicago @9:00 right on cue!
	9:03pm postconsumer: two is a good number. four is ...twice that number
	9:03pm Charles: Cats are minor demons.
	9:03pm postconsumer: 😂
	9:03pm Kat in Chicago: I usually do have a ball of yarn nearby.
	9:04pm postconsumer: one of ours is really terrible at night. I've started sleeping with earplugs, just since she joined the family.
	9:04pm Aitch: ↳ postconsumer @9:03 2 squared
	9:04pm postconsumer: I do love cats though
	9:04pm Krys O.: ↳ Charles @9:03 But these fuzzy demons are on our side as long as we feed them and offer warmth.
	9:04pm postconsumer: and 2 many. my wife keeps bringing them home.
	9:05pm postconsumer: ↳ Krys O. @9:04 ❤️
	👻 9:05pm Heather Z: Meow meow, y'all! Tuna-ed in for kitty cat content! Nigel is close to the sound bar picking up the vibrations with his whiskers!
	9:06pm Krys O.: My pair o' kitties are my alarm clock on the weekend when they feign eating my head.
	9:06pm Charles: I miss my big cat, Elvis. His trademark move was to sit near people, fart and the run away as fast as possible.
	9:07pm Krys O.: ↳ Song: "T.S. Eliot: Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats: ... Love! Love! Love!
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:06 Cats do sort of specialize in that move, don't they?
	9:08pm Aitch: My 2 bengals seem like there are more, and they're really loud...
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:07 I am a sucker for these Caedmon records. They are all really excellent.
	9:08pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Meow
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:08 Hooray! Imaginos is here!
	9:09pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @9:08 Every word of the Naming of Cats is true.
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:09 It's so perfect. I wish I had read that book as a kid, because I think I would have gone nuts for it.
	9:10pm postconsumer: Our most recent has no name as of yet. She loves water so we're leaning toward Lilly (short for water lily), but I want to call her "kitten."
	9:10pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: My kitty is beside me
	9:10pm Mr Fab: ↳ postconsumer @9:10 I thought cats hate water?!
	9:11pm Krys O.: My brother and I took care of alley cats as kids in the 70s. They really weren't feral, rather rovers. We named them Felix, Zygmund, and Brownie and more.
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: I almost let the boys in here for this show, but... they are still prone to jumping on gear and batting at things, and that's not great for radio.
	9:11pm postconsumer: ↳ Mr Fab @9:10 She is always at my elbow as I wash the dishes, batting at the various splashes.
	9:12pm postconsumer: She's a bit odd. loves the shower, too.
	👻 9:12pm ramencity: Titles for cats: * Meowser-Powser * Sir Meowsabit * Lord Meowington of the Hills (and Dales) * ...
	9:13pm Krys O.: ↳ Mr Fab @9:10 Many of the cats I've had love sitting in the tub after a shower or bath. They sit under a dripping faucet to let the water hit the head. I had one that sat on the edge of a clawfoot tub when I took a bath. Almost all of them loved to splash water from their drinking bowls.
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:12 Yay! ramencitykid is here. He and I once had the most amazing cat.
	9:14pm Mr. X: Meow.
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:13 Cats are so weird. One of our boys will sit in the tub and pee very slightly in there, as a protest, if I've let the box go too long. And he makes a show of it.
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:14 Yay! Mr. X is here, too!
	9:15pm postconsumer: ↳ Charles @9:06 😆
	9:15pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Mr. X @9:14 Mew meow purr
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "T.S. Eliot: Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats: ... There is a complex Poop Joke in this poem, and it's great.
	9:15pm Krys O.: My father didn't let the strays stay indoors at night because he was convinced they would try to suffocate us in our sleep. Dad was from rural Poland. It took years, but we convinced him it was okay. They let their cat Tiger stay inside. My parents loved that cat.
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:15 I heard adults say this when I was a kid, too. Is it a Polish folk tale, or something?
	9:16pm Krys O.: ↳ Song: "T.S. Eliot: Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats: ... Harvey says this is quite true.
	9:16pm postconsumer: ↳ Krys O. @9:15 I wonder where he got that idea? I've never heard of that.
	9:19pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: My favourite nursery rhyme was The Two Cats of Kilkenny, though it ended rather sadly
	9:19pm Krys O.: I am guessing that cats were seen cuddling babies in cradles and superstitious people feared the worst. Cats are generally gentle with babies and toddlers.
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: Doesn't Stephen King do something with the Cats stealing breath gimmick? It's ringing a faint bell...
	9:20pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:20 Sleepwalkers
	9:21pm Krys O.: ↳ postconsumer @9:16 My brother and I were flabbergasted at the time. We couldn't believe he thought that way. Dad also believed in dream symbolism and he had an aunt who had a book of spells.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:21 A lot of people of that generation had some weird ideas.
	9:23pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:16 I believe it was a medieval superstition having to do with cats being witches' familiars.
	9:24pm postconsumer: I've never heard this ken Nordine. I'm only familiar with the older stuff.
	9:24pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Mr. X @9:23 They burned cats in France which was directly responsible for the Plague.
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:23 Of course! I had forgotten about the familiar connection. I wish all those years of D&D would pay off, but so far... not a sausage.
	9:24pm Krys O.: ↳ Mr. X @9:23 The dangers of cats around babies was even mentioned in a pediatric journal in the early 20th century. Fake news! www.newscentermaine.com...
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @9:24 He made a lot of strange albums and recordings, all the way to the end. His collaboration with Tom Waits is pretty great.
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:24 Ha! Fake News is really such an old idea... sigh.
	9:25pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @9:22 My father was born in 1922.
	9:25pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @9:24 What's the album called?
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @9:25 A Transparent Mask.
	9:26pm Krys O.: Dad did appreciate the usefulness of cats on farms. He did respect them.
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:26 He would love today! "Respect Your Cat Day!"
	9:27pm Krys O.: I highly recommend this book by Kevin Pyle: www.goodreads.com...
	9:27pm postconsumer: ↳ Krys O. @9:26 My mother in law has a lot of cats on her back property, which used to be a farm. They live in the old barn.
	9:28pm Mr. X: I had a cat named Ysbadadden. One time he swam across a creek to get to me.
	9:28pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: There's a book on writing called Save The Cat.
	9:28pm postconsumer: ↳ Mr. X @9:28 😮
	9:29pm postconsumer: I've never seen a cat swim, in person
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:28 I'm not sure what part of that story is more strange to me.
	9:29pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Mr. X @9:28 What a loyal kitty
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:28 True! It's a screenwriting term, as I learned it.
	9:30pm Mr. X: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:29 He totally was. He used to go on hikes with me for miles through the woods.
	9:30pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:29 Destroy everyone else, just save the cat
	9:33pm HyperDose: ↳ Krys O. @9:24 Total fake news! Kitties were my protectors when I was a baby/toddler. My mom's favorite Sam was head of my security detail and would follow me everywhere. He'd even sleep on my head.
	9:35pm Krys O.: It's I-rene-ee. I've always heard her referred to as.
	9:35pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I 💖 😺
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Keith The Cat Cow" by "Die Quaint" Everyone knows a Cat Cow, right?
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ HyperDose @9:33 That sounds more like the cats I know.
	9:40pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @9:37 google says its a yoga pose?
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Three Cool Cats" by "The Coasters" The older I get, the more I realize how excellent The Coasters were. Like, they were always amazing.
	9:40pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Remember Zoom back in the 70s always playing The Cat Came Back?
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @9:40 Oh! Maybe. We always said that those overweight, huge cats were "Cat Cows."
	9:41pm Mr. X: Anyone been to Ernest Hemingway's home on Key West? The descendants of his cats still live there to this day. You can tell them because they are polydactyl.
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:40 That's right! I should have done that. That would have been a good joke.
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:41 Very cool! I didn't know that.
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: "He's Broken Every Human Law." That doesn't sound good. We might need to put that cat down, if he's breaking EVERY human law.
	9:43pm postconsumer: 😆
	9:45pm Krys O.: Edward Gorey was an ailurophile.
	9:46pm Krys O.: I loved seeing cats that had Edward Gorey noses.
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:45 I could see that. I recently had Mike Dringenberg in my bookstore, and I was showing him around the collection, and one of the things he wanted IMMEDIATELY was and Edward Gorey book, that I almost bought myself.
	9:47pm postconsumer: gotta go make some supper. I'll miss talking about and hearing about cats. have fun!
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @9:47 We will! Thanks postconsumer!
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: "The Gay Stage."
	9:49pm Krys O.: Must off to bed. The kitties thank you for this wonderful show, Austin. I do too.
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:49 Thanks Krys O! Sleep well! Make sure those cats are indoors! It only makes sense.
	👻 9:49pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:48 The best kind of stage!
	9:50pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Mr. X @9:41 Been working on music
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:49 I was gonna make a comment: You mean, the stage? (As far as I remember the other actors when I was doing plays.)
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:50 That is always a good thing!
	👻 9:51pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:50 Very true!
	9:51pm Mr. X: I was always a big fan of B. Kliban's cat cartoons.
	9:51pm Krys O.: Two more things: Gorey did illustrate an edition of Elliot's book: encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com...
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:51 Underrated! I almost did a Kilban cut-up for the art on this one, but I found the painting above, and went with that.
	9:52pm Krys O.: And I never saw Webber's Cats and I really don't think I missed anything. I'd rather read the book or hear this album as Elliot intended.
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:51 Oh crap! I might need to ask my boss if they can find that. VERY COOL!
	👻 9:53pm Heather Z: ↳ Mr. X @9:51 Heck yes! I had holiday cards with a Kiliban cat ice skating that said Merry Christmas Freestyle on them when I was a little kid. I sure liked those! I was a cat girl who grew into a proper Cat Lady.
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: I married a cat lady, and everything worked out great.
	👻 9:54pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:53 Cat ladies got it going on! And you married one of the best ones!
	👻 9:55pm ramencity: The origin of the Postcard Records drumming-kitten logo: soundofyoungscotland.blogspot.com...
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:55 Woah! Nice pull. How cool is that?
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: "He resents familiarity."
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: Onions are not good for cats. Onion sauce is probably not good, either.
	9:59pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: My cat follows me at night
	👻 10:01pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:58 One of the best things Nigel does is he manages to convey to almost all guests that he's flipping them a double middle finger somehow! He's a sweet guy, really, but yes. Resents familiarity!
	10:03pm coelacanth∅: Greetings Rich and beautiful mutants
	👻 10:03pm ramencity: coela-cats!
	👻 10:03pm Heather Z: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:03 Meow meow Coel!!
	10:03pm Kat in Chicago: oh yes, Chicken Man!
	10:04pm coelacanth∅: ↳ ramencity @10:03 meOW
	10:04pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Heather Z @10:03 purrrrr
	10:05pm Kat in Chicago: I've heard someone play Chicken Man on Sheena's... Don-O? Spacebrother?
	10:05pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: To me Chicken Man is an anime character in Robot Carnival
	👻 10:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:03 Yay! It's coelacanthø!
	👻 10:05pm Heather Z: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:04 😸
	👻 10:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Kat in Chicago @10:05 Not on Sheena's, but I did an hour of Chickenman / chicken songs and other related stuff many years ago. I do love Chickenman. So surreal and odd.
	10:06pm Kat in Chicago: Wow, never heard the Story Lady though!
	👻 10:06pm ramencity: ↳ Song: "How To Remember Your Dreams" by "King Missile" This is the best song that is not about stealing cheesecakes
	👻 10:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "How To Remember Your Dreams" by "King Missile" I think about this album probably once a month.
	👻 10:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Kat in Chicago @10:06 They're all about that long, and with those kinds of jokes. There's like 50 of them or something? I found them all on a website many years ago.
	10:07pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:06 John S. Hall = brilliant
	👻 10:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:06 Cheesecake truck made an appearance recently, too, so... this had to, as well.
	👻 10:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:07 We traded some FB messages. He posts daily poetry on social media, and he's very approachable.
	👻 10:08pm Heather Z: You mentioned it might get scary, Austin, and I think I can handle it these days but, when i was in 3rd or 4th grade, a big scary man who taught 6th grade read us all The Black Cat at Halloween. He read it very well! And I was traumatized for YEARS!! Can't believe I can't remember his name these days! Mr Something.
	👻 10:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:08 I'm guessing that this was a version of the Edgar Allen Poe story?
	👻 10:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Hard To Believe: Carrot With A Cat's Face" by "Bo... I probably don't need to apologize to Sheena's listeners, but I'm a huge sucker for Bob & Ray.
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: "Don't put the carrot back in your pocket."
	10:10pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Month old carrot?
	👻 10:10pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:09 Yes, just straight from the book. As much as I'm obligated to like Poe because Goth, I always skip that one. I just can't!
	10:11pm coelacanth∅: that story's hard to believe
	👻 10:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:10 I let Diamanda Galas read that one to me around Halloween every year, and I don't mind when she scares me.
	👻 10:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Tough Top Cat" by "Marvin Rainwater" This is a parody of the song, "Big Bad John," by Jimmy Dean.
	10:12pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: My favorite Alice Cooper song is Gutter Cat vs the Jets
	👻 10:13pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:11 I can see that being amazing!
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:12 Dammit! I knew there was one that I was forgetting.
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:13 She's great, and she reads it on some album I have. I ALMOST played it tonight, but didn't.
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Cats & Candy by Mark Twain" by "Read by John Gree... I'm not sure who John Greenman is, but his Twain impression is pretty good.
	👻 10:14pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:13 Phew. I'm truly not sure if I'm ready. Maybe in another 40 years?
	10:14pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:12 Too funny!
	10:14pm coelacanth∅: one of my favorite cartoons when i was little was "top cat". seeing it a few years later i realized there wasn't much to it, just some smartass alley cats. my mother didn't like that i liked it.
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:14 It really cracked me up, but you gotta know Jimmy Dean.
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:14 I loved Top Cat! I almost played the theme song on this show.
	👻 10:15pm ramencity: Speaking of were-cats... ailuranthropy? I just watched that Grace Jones documentary, and she says all Jamaican women are lionesses...
	10:15pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Austin Rich @10:13 Rich did you check out the pussification comp?
	10:16pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:14 Top Cat was fun
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:15 Oh yeah; I'm on it!
	10:18pm coelacanth∅: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:16 yeah my mother also didn't approve of the banana splits, which i also liked but admit there wasn't much goin' on there... just some party animals being party animals
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: Parents get worried for the weirdest reasons. My parents didn't want us listening to hip-hop. DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince was even forbidden.
	10:19pm coelacanth∅: (i don't think this is Memphis Minnie's dirtiest song about cats either)
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:19 Yep! Could have gone dirtier for sure...
	10:21pm Mr. X: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:18 The Banana Splits were lots of fun. There used to be a rumor that they were really The Monkees in disguise. but I couldn't see how The Monkees could fit into such small costumes.
	👻 10:21pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:19 Mine too! No hip hop. Bowie was...... dangerous but undeniably talented so couldn't be forbidden. TV rules were wild, too. Love Boat? Fine. Three's Company? No way !
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: I don't play video games. But there's a cyberpunk game where you play a stray cat, and i'm really tempted to get a video game system so I can play a cat and wonder around a cyberpunk futurescape.
	👻 10:22pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:21 I've seen screen caps from friends who've played that one. It's worth it, I hear!
	👻 10:22pm ramencity: My mom had amazing withering mom put-downs about music... She saw a Smiths poster in my hi-school bedroom and said, "Huh! I thought their hair would be weirder..."
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:21 It's funny the things that are banned by parents. I guess they don't realize the power of a 15 year old person to find contraband, whatever form it might take.
	10:23pm Mr. X: ↳ ramencity @10:22 Withering put downs is murder.
	👻 10:24pm Heather Z: ↳ ramencity @10:22 My mom willfully confuses The Smiths with The Violent Femmes. Whaaaa??
	10:24pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Banned= drawn attention to.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:22 Moms can be more withering than almost anyone else. It is their secret strength.
	10:25pm coelacanth∅: Mr. X i've heard that rumour but also heard it debunked... in any case i think the monkees had their hands full with their own silliness!
	👻 10:25pm Heather Z: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:24 I swear I never sneak watched Three's Company! 😂
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:25 You had a crush on John Ritter. I can tell.
	👻 10:28pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:28 Ugh. Yeah. I did. You got me.
	10:30pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:25 Remember when they went to the vampire castle? "I want to suck your blood" "that's not nice" "I want to drink your blood" "that's much better*
	👻 10:30pm Heather Z: Serves em right, if you ask me. I'm on the cats' side here.
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "You Are Not A Cat" by "Dry Cleaners" And now, a true story of what it was like to hang out in Eugene in the 90's.
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:30 I agree. The cats are excellent. The people are dumb.
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "You Are Not A Cat" by "Dry Cleaners" "30 Helens Agree."
	👻 10:32pm ramencity: ↳ Austin Rich @10:31 "Twenty nine Helens agree.... promptness is important!"
	👻 10:32pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:31 For any dog people in the chat, I'm also on the dogs' side, cat lady, though I am!
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "You Are Not A Cat" by "Dry Cleaners" I think about this song about once a week.
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: I do love Dogs too. I love cats. I think animals are excellent.
	10:33pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Just sent my most recent song
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:33 Is that what that ding was? I'll have to check that out...
	10:38pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I remember Rikki Tikki Tavi
	10:39pm coelacanth∅: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:30 haha i can't believe you remember that! i vaguely remember it only now that you mentioned it
	👻 10:39pm Heather Z: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:38 We saw the movie every year in school when I was a kid!
	10:40pm Kat in Chicago: VERY curious about this, I've never heard this story.
	10:40pm Mr. X: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:38 And Donovan did that song about Rikki Tikki Tavi.
	10:40pm coelacanth∅: i'm a dog person. - but i like cats too.
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: "Oh my best beloved." Many years ago, when I was dating a girl, I used to read "Just So Stories" to her. I don't remember this story from those days, but I found this version delightful.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:40 That's right! I forgot about that.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Kat in Chicago @10:40 It's delightful!
	👻 10:42pm ramencity: Hm, both TS Eliot and Rudyard Kipling have cats sadly eating tough old mutton...
	10:42pm Kat in Chicago: I've only seen the title as "The Cat That Walked By Himself".
	10:43pm Kat in Chicago: I might be stealing the album cover image for a future chatboard avatar.
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Kat in Chicago @10:42 Yeah, I think we know what happened there...
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:42 One must have read the other.
	👻 10:43pm Heather Z: ↳ ramencity @10:42 In these old stories, they sure made mutton sound delicious. I'm even sold now and yet, I know better!
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Kat in Chicago @10:43 It is certainly a new goal to find a copy of this album.
	10:44pm Mr Fab: ↳ Kat in Chicago @10:43 it is a beauty. one to put up on the wall.
	10:46pm brad253: Sorry to tune in late, did i miss 'Cat Scratch Fever"?
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ brad253 @10:46 I'm coming! Just tune the dial to any classic rock station you can find and listen for about 35 minutes. You'll hear it!
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: It's coming... Whoops!
	10:48pm brad253: I should have thought of that! :)
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ brad253 @10:48 They have that playlist down to a pretty reliable set. You can set your watch to it.
	10:49pm Mr Fab: I have a slew of, er, pussycat songs. But that's a whole other show.
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:49 I thought I might have to reach for a few pussycat songs, but I found enough other stuff that I didn't need to.
	👻 10:51pm Heather Z: He's fond of.... things that suck his breath out while sleeping?????
	10:59pm HyperDose: Thanks Austin. The kitty and I loved it!
	10:59pm Kat in Chicago: Austin, thank you so much for playing that!
	10:59pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: That was a fun show
	11:01pm Kat in Chicago: I resemble that title 🐈
	👻 11:01pm Heather Z: Thanks for a fun show, Austin, and a fun chat all! Good night and meoooow!!
	11:02pm Mr. X: Purrfect show! Thanks, Austin!
	👻 11:03pm ramencity: ↳ Mr. X @11:02 Fur real!
	11:03pm coelacanth∅: meow Meow! meow meow meow mew mew. Meow meow.
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: I had a lot of fun trying to not do anything obvious. And I really enjoyed the results. Thanks everyone for sharing their cat stories!
	11:04pm Kat in Chicago: I was in fact thinking that you'd done a rather good job of avoiding the obvious choices, Austin.
	👻 11:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Kat in Chicago @11:04 There were some... places I could have gone that were... not as great as this. But maybe next time? Who can say... cheese has it's place.
	11:05pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Purr murr rurr.
	11:06pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @11:04 I'm just glad you didn't play the Meowy Christmas Cats.
	👻 11:07pm Austin Rich: Thanks everyone! Talk to you next time.

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from March 28, 2023

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