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September 15, 2004
I love Cats
For those of you who enjoyed my Infinite Cat post back in August, here is another piece of surreal correspondence:
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From: steve davies [mailto:sahelsteve[at]hotmail.com]
Sent: 01 September 2004 10:46
To: Lisa Allmendinger
Subject: the Infinite Cat project
Lisa, I read a short piece about your 'I love Cats' magazine in Writers' News recently, and have a proposal for a feature story.
Have you come across the website http://www.infinitecat.com ? If not, take a quick look at it. It is the home of Mike Stanfill's 'Infinite Cat Project' - pictures of cats watching cats watching cats watching cats.
I think your readers will love the idea of Infinite Cat, so I would like to write a fun article about it - a light-hearted review of the site including the personal angle of how I did the photo-shoot for my cat Sophie (she is cat number 243, if you care to take a look! http://www.infinitecat.com/infinite/cat-html/243.html)
I have written features for the Guardian Weekly, Africa Geographic, the Methodist Recorder, Nth Position and the Sunday Times. Here are links to some of these:
http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,10325-1038932,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianweekly/letterfrom/story/0,12807,950936,00.html
http://www.nthposition.com/author.php?authid=240
I have a great photo of Sophie posing for Infinite Cat, which would illustrate this article perfectly.
Could you get back to me as soon as possible to let me know if you are interested? Thanks for your consideration.
Best wishes,
Stephen Davies
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Hi Steve:
I did take a moment to go to this Web site and I'm sorry but with political stuff on it would not be well received by my readers. I really try to keep politics and religion out of the pages of I Love Cats. It's a very cute idea for a Web site, but I have to be very careful about recommending a site that contains information of a potentially controversial nature that has nothing to do with cats.
Thank you so much for thinking of I Love Cats, though.
Sincerely,
Lisa M. Allmendinger
Editor
I Love Cats
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Interesting - I had not noticed anything on the site of a potentially controversial political nature. I went back to Infinite Cat, and found it - a Kitties for Kerry bumper sticker!
May I recommend the Kitties for Kerry bumper sticker as an excellent bargain, available for only $2.99 at the Infinite Cat Boutique.
Posted by sahelsteve at September 15, 2004 10:19 AM