The Book, Cat, & Cat Book Lovers Almanac

of historical trivia regarding books, cats, and other animals. Actually this blog has evolved so that it is described better as a blog about cats in history and culture. And we take as a theme the advice of Aldous Huxley: If you want to be a writer, get some cats. Don't forget to see the archived articles linked at the bottom of the page.

December 13, 2014

December 13, 1989

Taylor Swift (December 13, 1989) has been called the most popular singer in America. I have no idea if that is accurate. I am still trying to get my mind around the fact there's people allowed to drive cars, who were born in 1989. If the Daily Beast is reliable, Swift is a cat person. In fact on October 28 they wrote "Swift seems intent on staying over interminably [in New York]...complaining about ex-boyfriends, [and] showing us pictures of her cats...

That is not why she is famous though. Another edition reviews her music:

“Blank Space” telegraphs a keen self-awareness of Taylor Swift’s caricature as a man-crazy psycho-bitch. ..
The music video begins with Swift in a Downton Abbey-like mansion, symbolically yolo-ing: she’s lounging in bed in sexy black lingerie, holding her white cat Olivia Benson and flanked on both sides by twin white stallions. Yet Swift is no cat lady. Despite doing nothing to get the man of her dreams, he arrives at her doorstep as if she Ubered the heartthrob.
....“Oh my god, look at that face,” Swift sings. “You look like my next mistake.”


Something tells me tomorrow Cat Lovers Almanac will be back in a previous century.

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