Dr. Sour Puss

How on Earth did I miss this? 1972 recording by Italian pop star Adriano Celentano with the unwieldy title Prisencolinensinainciusol .

7/2/03-11/30/09 Shireesha and I both commented that we'd never lost anyone as close to us as her. Leela Lou. Little Lou. The littlest little. Little Scoop. Leela-pants. Little Fluff. She played the foil to Kali's straight man. She was the playful one, carrying her favorite ribbons up and down the stairs all day long. No twist tie or string was safe with her around, and no empty box left unsat in. Little tufts of fur could be found all over our house, left over from some sudden pounce on something, often on her sister Kali. There was just no end to the fur. I'd said before that you could construct a new Leela from what we would vacuum up on a weekly basis. Sometimes we'd catch her munching on giant ball of it after cleaning herself. I could be traveling in some far off place and pull out a sweatshirt and find it covered in traces of her hair. Now there are bits of her everywhere in places like India. She was the most interactive, personality-filled, friendliest little ki