This just in. a cat has taken over my blog.I am not kittening….The first guest blog was composed by a cat..Not just any cat, the ultimate YouTube cat! Read on……

Hello.

My name is “nOm”. I am a cat. I am also a YouTube addict.

My YouTube channel is https://www.youtube.com/user/nameofthepen.  My featured video below:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTLsAnxUwzQ

Thomas has astonished and honored me with an invitation to do a guest posting.

I “met” Thomas over on YouTube. I guess he was intrigued by an internet-addicted feline, while I was absolutely enchanted by his world-class music videos.

I told him, “I don’t know what to write”, and he said (more or less), “You can blog about being a cat on YouTube, and some of the characters you meet there.”

He even offered tuna.

So I thought, “What does it matter if I go down in flames? I’ll still have a couple of lives left. And, besides, if he wants to trade tuna for tripe, I’ll take it!”

So, here goes…

I am thrilled to have had the fortune to be alive when the internet arrived.

And, with it, YouTube.

With YouTube, I can see videos made by people from all over the world. I can see their homes. I can see their children. I can see their clothes. I can see their food. I can see their towns and countries and monuments and historical sites. I can hear their music.

Most thrilling of all, I can see their cats!

A virtual magic cat carpet, taking me anywhere in the world at the mere gesture of a mouse! No, not that kind of mouse, silly!

And, with the comment sections on the videos, and the help of the Google translator, I can, to a fair extent, understand what most people are saying, no matter the language used.

I can even speak back to the people!

It’s magic, I tell ya! Witchcraft. What we cats were born for!

I even consider it a partial reprieve from the “curse of the Tower of Babel”. (Yes, sadly, it affected our species too.)

Each day it amazes and enchants me anew.

I have met many, many, MANY people.

Most are warm, honest and decent.

A few are exquisite.

And a handful have been pretty darn mangy.

I have explored countless rabbit holes in the vast kingdom of YouTube.

And I’ve gotten pretty thoroughly lost for a while in a few of them.

But, I have learned more than I ever would have thought could fit into a cat-sized cranium.

And the more I learned, the more I knew I didn’t know.

Then, I finally realized that opinions, like fur, should be regularly shed and replaced.

A very famous cat summed it up nicely when he wrote:

“I am the wisest cat alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.” ~ PlatoPuss

Well, that’s about it. I’m overdue for my cat nap.

Thanks for reading.

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nOm, the interwebs kitteh