Kevin Kelly (4)
Author of Entertaining Your Indoor Cat: 50 Fun and Inventive Amusements for Your Cat
For other authors named Kevin Kelly, see the disambiguation page.
About the Author
Kevin Kelly was born in 1952 in Pennsylvania. He attended the University of Rhode Island but dropped out after one year. He became a freelance photo journalist. His photographs have appeared in several magazines including Life. In 1981, Kelly founded Walking Journal. He is a former editor of Whole show more Earth Review, Signal, and some of the later editions of the Whole Earth Catalog. With Whole Earth's founder, Stewart Brand, Kelly helped found the WELL, a highly regarded online community. He has been a director of the Point Foundation, which sponsored the first Hackers Conference in 1984 (before the word "hacker" had its current common, negative connotation). In 1994, Wired Magazine, for which Kelly was executive director, won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence. Kelly is now editor at large for the magazine. His writing has appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Economist, Time, Harper's Magazine, Science, Veneer Magazine, GQ, and Esquire. He is the author of several books including What Technology Wants, The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future, and Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Entertaining Your Indoor Cat: 50 Fun and Inventive Amusements for Your Cat (2008) 41 copies, 2 reviews
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A cute compendium of easy-to-build toys and easy-to-engage-in activities for exercising and entertaining indoor cats. Other than referring to the Tunnel of Love before it had been described, the content was reasonably well organized. The tone is affectionate. A couple of activities seem destined to suggest to cats that it's okay to kil your house plants, but hey, de gustibus non est disputandum, right? Also, the author appears to live in a neighborhood without free range dogs; I wouldn't show more walk my cats on a lead or stake them out without sitting right there.
I note two important missing activities, and a missing variant on some described in the book. 1, Missing activity 1: For maximum cat activity, buy it a pet cat. Missing activity 2: There are no activities that involve prancing about while wearing the cat on your head, juicing its face in your cupped hand, or stretching it along your arm and pretending it's a semi-automatic (Rambo Among the House Plants). 2. Variant: Many of the activities can be enhanced with the "sniffing your butt" option. Any stuffed mouse, hand puppet, laser beam, etc. can approach the cat from the rear. Paired with your cry of "Oh, no! It's sniffing your butt!" this activity adds hours of fun to any game. Thank you. Mr. Meow and I will be here all week. show less
I note two important missing activities, and a missing variant on some described in the book. 1, Missing activity 1: For maximum cat activity, buy it a pet cat. Missing activity 2: There are no activities that involve prancing about while wearing the cat on your head, juicing its face in your cupped hand, or stretching it along your arm and pretending it's a semi-automatic (Rambo Among the House Plants). 2. Variant: Many of the activities can be enhanced with the "sniffing your butt" option. Any stuffed mouse, hand puppet, laser beam, etc. can approach the cat from the rear. Paired with your cry of "Oh, no! It's sniffing your butt!" this activity adds hours of fun to any game. Thank you. Mr. Meow and I will be here all week. show less
~Meh. Mostly low-hanging fruit. Anyone who has ever been owned by a cat understands the entertainment potential of the dragging string / waving ribbon / empty cardboard box. First-timers might find some new ideas here.
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