Baklava

Scientific comparison chart

2009-12-18T05:19:00.000-08:00

Exhibit A:
baklava color stripes

Exhibit B:
calico undone

Obvious thread-level correlations.

A Winter's Tail

2009-12-16T06:27:00.000-08:00

BK, as you may have noticed, is one for puns. Also for peanut butter, but let's not get into sticky molars.

Let's instead talk about small miracles, like (unavoidably) the way nuts can be ground to a spreadable substance,
or (indeed) the productive effects of a whiff of rubber cement,

or (and especially, 1):
maps and our ability/inclination to see our world in two dimensions.

(especially, 2): 8-legged creatures that hold an endless spool of silk in their bellies.

Now, on winter:

BK, as a youth, often confused icicles with what you see here. It did not matter to BK that only one kind melted.

Meta-Kat and Calico Cowboys

2009-10-11T19:03:00.000-07:00

2 cats or Kat + shadow?

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Much like the recent NASA projectile that tested the moon for water, BK arrived upriver in an old French jam jar -- only this time, the splash was visible.

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Meta-Kat: Here's one pun that has nothing to do with healthcare.

Baklava Kat has encountered authentic felines... or, rather, other felines have found, groomed, and observed with great curiosity, our friend BK.

Baklava Kat Dines on Umlauts

2009-09-03T19:04:00.000-07:00

It wasn't yet höst when BK pawed around the globe (Öst and nord) for a brief research period in Sverige (that's Sweden to you non-Nordic felines!). As part of a study in i-mutation and the relationship between vocalics and the contents listed on nutritional information grids, BK experienced, from måndag to söndag, various delectabilities, often involving choklad or waffeln.

Figure 1:

BK's research assistant, when not automatically cleaning apartment floors, proved a sturdy resting spot for the jet-lagged tail.

Figure 2:

Of course, a Kat has always a melting heart at the sight of mjölk, especially when served in triangular pyramids (see above).

Re: Comment requesting thoughts on Soviet Space Program

2009-08-06T17:55:00.000-07:00

A brief response.

Paw Prints for Posterity

2009-07-31T19:11:00.000-07:00

BK recently celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the Moon Landing (on an apparently hazy moon day).

Spooning

2009-07-31T19:07:00.000-07:00

Dog sitting for the weekend, B.K. considers proportions

2009-07-11T19:40:00.000-07:00

Vacation Meditation

2009-07-11T19:25:00.000-07:00

Hiatus: a missing part; see Vienna

2009-07-11T19:17:00.000-07:00

Could it be significant that initial attempts to post the most recent B.K. self-portrait produced this instead:

N tusl-o m Trst
fuapw,
\-
F

which somehow translates to long-distance Kat talk.

Missing also, a question mark. But how to punctuate properly? Cats have only so many digits per paw. B.K. is no exception, already with a name full of periods.

Further attempts will be made to post the afore-mentioned image in its less letter-heavy form.

Baklava Kat asks about enjambment

2009-07-07T19:49:00.000-07:00

and gets an odd response:

Dear B.K.,
Has nothing to do with marmelade.
Might not taste good on a butter croissant.
Can make but does not always hold meaning.
Breaks easily
and always
though not always easily.
Calls for breath, so then does perhaps make the heart
race? Entendre and enjambment
both come from the French,
the official language of a country
famous for its pastries. Yet here
we are discussing not filo dough
but doubles. Full of them
we are. Especially
at enjambment.
The double created
by the emptiness of a line
split sudden.

B.K. now wonders what to do with the knife held so delicately by the paw that anticipated steam rising from moon pockets to meet a sweet jam. B.K. does not always know what to do
with surprise.

Fritz Lang is a friend of mine

2009-07-05T19:39:00.000-07:00

B.K. is away for the week, teaching (and indulging in graham crackers).
In the mean time, B.K. recommends the film Metropolis (see http://mchawk.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/metropolis.jpg for a glimpse).

Calico vacation

2009-07-03T18:59:00.000-07:00

B.K. will visit the Eternal City this August.

Theme song

2009-07-03T18:52:00.000-07:00

An earlier incarnation

2009-07-03T18:46:00.001-07:00

From early on, sketches made in situ.
This sketch definitely preceded the first real encounter.

Vertical lines are neither abstract nor incidental.

Rorschach is not a dessert

2009-07-03T18:06:00.000-07:00

A fight breaks out in the kitchen

2009-07-03T16:48:00.000-07:00

Note:
Not all posts will feature Baklava.