http://www.lizaconstable.com/2008/05/12/spring-is-late/ mostly music, art, with an eye out for Sat, 19 Jun 2010 03:29:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.lizaconstable.com/2008/05/12/spring-is-late/comment-page-1/#comment-144 lizaconstable Fri, 23 May 2008 02:48:33 +0000 http://www.lizaconstable.com/2008/05/12/spring-is-late/#comment-144 "Why, you take your cat and go and get in the graveyard 'long about midnight when somebody that was wicked has been buried; and when it's midnight a devil will come, or maybe two or three, but you can't see'em, you can only hear something like the wind, or maybe hear'em talk; and when they're taking that feller away, you heave your cat after'em and say, Devil follow corpse, cat follow devil, warts follow cat, I'm done with ye!" “Why, you take your cat and go and get in the graveyard ‘long about midnight when somebody that was wicked has been buried; and when it’s midnight a devil will come, or maybe two or three, but you can’t see’em, you can only hear something like the wind, or maybe hear’em talk; and when they’re taking that feller away, you heave your cat after’em and say, Devil follow corpse, cat follow devil, warts follow cat, I’m done with ye!”

]]> http://www.lizaconstable.com/2008/05/12/spring-is-late/comment-page-1/#comment-143 lizaconstable Fri, 23 May 2008 02:03:21 +0000 http://www.lizaconstable.com/2008/05/12/spring-is-late/#comment-143 The name came from an old saying "not enough room to swing a cat", which I heard from the movie "Down by Law" (starring Tom Waits and others), but it's a well known saying to the generation of the 40s. WW2 folks. My parents. It could be from the old adage that swinging a cat could cure warts. (wasn't it Huck Finn who did that with a dead cat in the cemetary?) Or it could be from the swinging of the cat o'nine tails. That's the popular belief. but that wasn't what you asked: No we don't have a logo yet. We are working on it. Send me your ideas. and Glen, I'll keep that gig idea in mind. PETA. Is that the "people eating tasty animals" group, or the "people for the ethical treatment of animals" group? Being a vegan, I can't see working for the tasty animal eaters. Would you? The name came from an old saying “not enough room to swing a cat”, which I heard from the movie “Down by Law” (starring Tom Waits and others), but it’s a well known saying to the generation of the 40s. WW2 folks. My parents.
It could be from the old adage that swinging a cat could cure warts. (wasn’t it Huck Finn who did that with a dead cat in the cemetary?) Or it could be from the swinging of the cat o’nine tails. That’s the popular belief.
but that wasn’t what you asked:
No we don’t have a logo yet. We are working on it. Send me your ideas.
and Glen, I’ll keep that gig idea in mind. PETA. Is that the “people eating tasty animals” group, or the “people for the ethical treatment of animals” group? Being a vegan, I can’t see working for the tasty animal eaters. Would you?

]]> http://www.lizaconstable.com/2008/05/12/spring-is-late/comment-page-1/#comment-141 glen Tue, 20 May 2008 14:25:45 +0000 http://www.lizaconstable.com/2008/05/12/spring-is-late/#comment-141 Swing a Cat...Interesting. You should get some gigs for PETA. Do you have a band logo and t-shirts yet? Swing a Cat…Interesting. You should get some gigs for PETA. Do you have a band logo and t-shirts yet?

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