Camestros Felapton

Two Time Hugo Award Finalist

Category: Beware the cat

  • Missing Moments in Comic Book Art: Bob Kane’s Discarded Early Concept

    Reputedly, Bill Finger asked repeatedly why a giant purple cat was flying through the window until Kane agreed that a bat made more sense. Only after a further series of attempts with first a baseball bat, then a cricket bat, that a compromise was reached with a flying mammal bat, which had already been drawn…

  • CATS! An audio-free podcast review!

    [Camestros Felapton] Welcome everybody to another edition of our very occasional audio-free podcast. Felapton Towers, pioneers of podcasts that skip the whole audio phase entirely and jumps straight to transcript!Tonight we are going to do a deep, deep dive into the 2019 movie version of long-running stage musical extravaganza CATS! Now, musical theatre really isn’t…

  • File Experiment

    I’m seeing what e-book formats I can make and host somewhere. Unfortunately WordPress will only allow PDF. However, my Neocities site (aka the Attic Workshop) will allow epub* (but not mobi). They don’t like hotlinking so here is a publisher page where you can get the epub version (possibly mangled) version of Beware the Annotated…

  • Demons and witches and the left

    A follow up from the earlier post on John C Wright’s belief that the left (in general) is essentially a religion of witchcraft. I failed to include a link so here http://www.scifiwright.com/2017/03/the-last-crusade-in-the-kingdom-of-witches/ And again, recently, many throngs of lunatics in a ghastly display of vulgarity, completely with nudity, swearing, and other degradations, wearing images of…

  • BtC 22/22. Message Fiction, Religion and Beware the Cat

    If you’ve read the previous posts then you should now have a good sense of what Beware the Cat is like. However, if you are like me, you are probably still trying to make sense of it. https://camestrosfelapton.wordpress.com/category/beware-the-cat/ The English Reformation was social, political and theological. It happened in the wake of an information technology…

  • BtC 21/22. The End of the Book

    Previously on Beware the Cat: Mr Streamer has entertained his friends with a story about he gained superhuman hearing, discovered an assembly of cats and listened to a series of stories from Mouseslayer the cat. https://camestrosfelapton.wordpress.com/category/beware-the-cat/ Layer 1: framing narrative spoken by Baldwin We finish with a moral. Baldwin has apparently forgotten about the original…

  • BtC 20/22. Back to Mr Streamer and Human Society

    Previously on Beware the Cat: Mr Streamer has gained superhuman hearing. He found a place where he can spy on the cats that meet on the roof of Aldersgate and listened to a series of stories from Mouseslayer the cat. https://camestrosfelapton.wordpress.com/category/beware-the-cat/ Layer 1: framing narrative spoken by Baldwin Layer 2: main narrative spoken by Streamer…

  • BtC 19/22. Two More Tales from Mouseslayer

    Previously on Beware the Cat: Mouseslayer is recounting her life story to an assembly of cats. She has also defended herself against claims by the obnoxious Catchrat. https://camestrosfelapton.wordpress.com/category/beware-the-cat/ Layer 1: framing narrative spoken by Baldwin Layer 2: main narrative spoken by Streamer Layer 3: The council of cats Layer 4: Mouseslayer’s stories The last two…

  • BtC 17/22. The Women in a Cat’s Life

    Previously on Beware the Cat: Mouseslayer is recounting her life story to an assembly of cats. https://camestrosfelapton.wordpress.com/category/beware-the-cat/ Layer 1: framing narrative spoken by Baldwin Layer 2: main narrative spoken by Streamer Layer 3: The council of cats Layer 4: Mouseslayer’s stories For those who look out for this kind of thing, there is a triple-goddess…

  • BtC 16/22. Talking Cats and Transubstantiation

    Previously on Beware the Cat: Mouseslayer the Cat has been called before the Great Grey Cat and is telling the assembled cats her lifestory. https://camestrosfelapton.wordpress.com/category/beware-the-cat/ Layer 1: framing narrative spoken by Baldwin Layer 2: main narrative spoken by Streamer Layer 3: The council of cats Layer 4: Mouseslayer’s stories The split of Protestantism from Catholicism…

Blog at WordPress.com.