diaries of a cat named virtute
philosophical meowderings about life and community
Gumption and I have been following the Jays for the whole season, but recently Virtute's decided to start watching too. Since the Blue Jays are on a 9 game winning streak and are starting to look like the World Series contenders they were supposed to be last year naturally I asked him if he… Continue reading Episode Fifteen: Virtute Explains the Etymology of Bandwagons
I've been thinking a lot about the origins of baseball lately and about how the stories we tell about its so-called begginings are so bound up in the settler colonial myth. So I asked Virtute what he thought. He peered down from his cat condo and sighed, "like any game, baseball is rooted in a… Continue reading Episode Seven: the Origin of Things
Today, Virtute continues to insist that I stop transcribing these interviews for my Ph.D. and start thinking about the fact that it's only 58 days until pitchers and catchers report for spring training. He's apparently planning on being the starting shortstop this year, and his regimen of chasing grounders, jumping up in the air unexpectedly,… Continue reading Episode Four: Virtute talks priorities
diaries of a cat named virtute 