We Appreciate Those Scurrydogs

January 21 is National Scurrydog Appreciation Day.  You may know it by its more formal title.

Hey, Scurrydog!  That's MY Water Dish!

We felines who hang around Mooresville Public Library (or hang with some of the Library's human staffers) fully appreciate our friendly rodent antagonists.  I've blogged many times about scurrydogs:

• Remember how Baby handled a scurrydog encroachment with our water and food dishes?
• When the entire world froze over, scurrydogs made their brazen moves toward our din-dins.
• Scurrydogs are not the only critters carrying a "Cauli nickname."

Some cats consider scurrydogs to be running dinners, but they're pretty big, kinda tough, and unbelievably fast.  Slobberdogs chase them around, and we felines join in that fun, but nobody wants to get hurt playing predator/prey pursuit.  For us kitties and slobberdogs (and scurrydogs, for that matter) around where I live, it's just an exercise game.

People may show their appreciation for scurrydogs by putting out some n'yum n'yums like sunflower seeds (in the shell is okay with every scurrydog I've met).  It's cold around my Library right now, so scurrydogs could use some extra calories.  Minions, make it so.

Your Roving Reporter On The Go,

Cauli Le Chat

P.S.  It figures that somebody would have a scurrydog tribute video on YouTube.  And why not?  Let's give the little dudes some appreciation!  So says musician Matt Zimmerman in this music video (2011).  Cool tune!

Sure, We Have the Answers

Remember these photos from the first three weeks of our Mooresville History Hunters game?

Week #1

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Week #2

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Week #3

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See how easy it is to find the answers on our "local history" blog?  The game is fun to play when you know where to dig for history.

Your Roving Reporter On The Go,

Cauli Le Chat

P.S.  Our "treasure trove" local history video summarizes the history of Mooresville Sanitarium, which later became Comer Sanitarium/Hospital, then Kendrick Hospital.

The Ls Have It

The Ls have it in this week's episode of Miss Michelle @ MPL: Fun & Learning With Early Literacy.

Miss Michelle @ MPL

(Week of January 13-19, 2013)

My definite article (not a middle name, but it could be) starts with an L.  Fun to say!  Ls just roll off the tongue.

Your Roving Reporter On The Go,

Cauli Le Chat

P.S.  Want to learn how U.S.A. folks say the L sound in American English? There are LLLLoads of YouTube videos to help.  Here's one.

Who Dat? (in Our Local History)

Week #4 of Mooresville History Hunters asks if patrons can identify who is in this photograph, and when it was taken.  (The "where" is furnished:  It was taken in Mooresville, Indiana.)

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Courtesy of Photoshop, we have erased the answer (written in blue ink on the bottom of the picture).

Stop by the Library to fill-out an answer slip identifying the photo.  Correct answers will be included in a drawing to win a free local history book (see book trailer below).  Contest details appear here.

Finding the answers couldn't be easier!  Just visit the Mooresville Local History "Treasure Trove" blog and peruse the handouts and photos linked there.

Deadline for Week #4 answers:  Thursday, January 24, 2013.

Your Roving Reporter On The Go,

Cauli Le Chat

P.S.  The Mooresville High School Class of 2012 wrote and published Imperceptible (2010), a collection of local historical sketches about people and places in and around Mooresville, Indiana.  Our book trailer elaborates.  Copies are available for sale in the Friends of the Library book sale room next to the library front entrance (price:  $7.00).  That's the book price, not the price of the front entrance.  (Perhaps that parenthetical should be relocated closer to the words it modifies.  But then I'd be out one joke.)

That Most Prized Demographic

There is a new genre toward whom publishers may now promote their wares:  the New Adult genre.  That's a most prized demographic--the 18-to-25-year-oldsters--and our MEG-A-RAE gals will tell you all about it.

MEG-A-RAE #21

A Very Special New Adult Episode

New Adult Genre has its own banner!

So what's the big deal?  Well, your 18-to-25-year-olds don't want to be lumped together with the young adult genre (between the ages 12 and 18 years).  Guess it's a matter of status.  Advertisers covet the 18-to-25 demographic because they're technically adults, theoretically have money (or access to money), and are more than willing to spend it.

Savvy and Programma Mama recommend a couple of "new adult genre" books to read.  You might enjoy them if you're a new adult!  Or a young adult, old adult, whatever kind of adult.  The key is being a grown-up human of some sort.

I'm glad that we felines aren't categorized so much.  I couldn't keep track of all the distinctions.  I think a single category sums up us kitties:  Superior genre.  Yep.  Pretty much.

Your Roving Reporter On The Go,

Cauli Le Chat

P.S.  Demographics can be simultaneously fun and odd.  For example, this video blogger (vlogger?) says that Batman fans are 75 percent male, while Christian Bale fans ("Baleheads") are 75 percent female.  How should one market the latest Batman movie, then?  Not like this guy, obviously, but he's still pretty hilarious.

P.P.S.  "Our local picture house was showing a Batman movie . . ."  That's the beginning lyrics to "Rambling On," by Procol Harum, on the LP Shine On Brightly (1968).  This album was a breakthrough in the progressive rock genre, into which other bands, like the Moody Blues, were also blazing trails.  You can easily hear how Shine on Brightly influenced Paul McCartney's compositions on side two of the Beatles Abbey Road (1969).