Kathryn McCaughey on NOBRO’s full-length debut, taxes and snake blood.
“Mr. Boots often sleeps on our turntable and his legs hang way over the edge. Minnie was found sleeping squished between the shelf and the fishtank…”
“… for man lives in time, in succession, while the magical animal lives in the present, in the eternity of the instant.”
“She kind of just handed him to me, asked for a syringe and headed off in to the night.”
“She showed up one day at the back door of my restaurant where I was working at in Kelowna. We started feeding her smoked salmon, and she stuck around and ended up living in a cat cage under a cooling system. Now she lives with me.”
“She frantically scurries around the house, while throwing up.”
“He looked floppy, weird, and probably stupid. Key criteria in cat decisions for me.”
“I got Benjamin from the SPCA in Edmonton in about 2005 or 2006. He was the friendliest kitty in the room!”
Likes his kibble with a side of mouse brains.
“He was the cutest, and goofiest little cat I had ever met…”
“Nobody wanted her because she was the runt and her tail is kinked in half…”
“For some reason, Jeremy really likes sitting inside Jarrett’s pants when he’s not using them…”
“Tuna creeped us out at first, especially when we would wake up in the middle of the night and find her face right next to ours, staring, unwavering, unblinking…”
