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...current laureate, Charles Simic, says he was often too busy to talk to his cat. He kept expecting the rush to die down, but it never did. "It's endless interviews," he says. "The position is so well known that sooner or later every newspaper and magazine in the country gets in touch with...
...rainbow spectrum of agencies occupied Kurtz's home for several days, blocking off his street and setting up a biohazard shower to hose down investigators leaving the residence. (click here for a video about the raid created by Kurtz's art ensemble.) Agents would not let Kurtz retrieve his cat, Bean. Having lost his wife, his home and his pet in the span of 48 hours, Kurtz decided to get a lawyer. He told a friend at one point, "I just need to pretend Hope is alive so that I can get through this...
...garbage bags outside of Kurtz's house. And during the search, all food was consumed outside of the house. "We had to order food," she says. "When you have a federal search warrant, you can't just take a lunch hour. The judges wouldn't appreciate it." And the cat? "We gave the cat food and water the whole time we were there...
...Bean the cat was recovered - and has since moved away. "We took him to Canada, where he'd be safe," says Kurtz, smiling. The exhibit will probably move to Berlin and New York City next. And it may grow. Kurtz and his attorneys are still fighting to get back the three computers, 25 books and assorted lab equipment the government seized four years ago. The FBI says those items will be returned after the normal paperwork process is complete...
...Like a lot of unsanitary places, 4chan is gloriously fertile. What grows there is memes-ideas and jokes and fads that spread across the Net. Here's an example: there used to be a tradition on 4chan that every Saturday people would post pictures of cats. It was called Caturday. People added captions representing what the cat would say if cats could talk. One day somebody posted a shot of a fat gray cat looking at the camera and saying, "I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER...