Spikey Pillow

This American Life is a weekly radio show I started listening to last year when I thought I was going to be living in the US. The show consists of stories about weird or life changing experiences. It can be a bit white, liberal, middle-class at times. But, there are some really memorable shows that I want to share with any poor people reading this. So, when I start talking about the armadillo in the bath, you don't think I'm a psycho.

(You can stream the shows directly from the site or download them using the instructions here.)

307: In the Shadow of the City Act 1
This is about a Polish guy looking for adventure, who ends up shipwrecked on an island in New York harbour. He has to devise all these castaway style tricks to stay alive, all the time the Empire State building is just across the harbour. And there are duck shoes, listen to it for the duck shoes. Also, he thinks that badgers have deep hidden secrets.

154: In Dog We Trust Act 3
This guy lives with his mentally retarded brother and his brother's pet armadillo. Unfortunately, the brother gets mad one day and tries to drown the armadillo. Luckily, those things are amazingly resilient. This story is fiction, and thank god, because the ending is really fucked up.

268: My Experimental Phase Prologue
Nancy Updike convinces herself for two years that she is a lesbian. She comes out to all her friends and family, and gets involved in gay rights activism. However, it turns out she just hates men. Un-coming out can be pretty embarrassing.

Following in the footsteps of other cat flinging photographers, there is a set on Flickr devoted entirely to airborne cats. It seems that these cats become airborne voluntarily which is a bonus. Halsman needed three assistants plus his wife to take the first photo. They really can't pay you enough to throw an angry cat across the room into a shower of water.

To continue with the cat trend, if, like me, you enjoying spending hours of your day looking at things cute and fluffy there are plenty of lolcats here: www.icanhascheezburger.com.

Just what was this kitten doing? Suggestions welcome.

Update

Apparently cats sometimes do this if it too hot, like dogs they expel heat through through their pads. So it could be pressing it's feet up against the cold stone.