From today's Post:


http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/m...YEdf5HITLCeroJ

further proof that the world is going to h*ll in a hand basket!

In 80 years of cats, I don't think anyone has died from having a cat roaming free in the Algonqin's lobby. Yes, jubilada, if we needed further proof the world is going insane, here it is.

The fur continues to fly:


http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion...ibTWk6aiMdS2zH

I am glad to see that Algonquin will undergo a renovation. I stayed there in october of 2011 and it needed a reno then. Algonquin is definitely an iconic institution, but it was showing its age.

You dirty rat! It was a snitch that put the fence around Matilda!

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/20...oser-quarters/

I meant October of 2001, not 2011. I have nothing to do with Matilda. I don't think there was a cat back then, or I didn't notice the cat.

The cat may have been hiding. Matilda has been there for decades.

I read somewhere that this move was to protect poor Matilda from some less than gentle human advances! That's just sad.

Lest anyone think Matilda is decades old, she's actually the latest in a decades-long line of Algonquin house cats. Males are named Hamlet and females, Matilda.

Wait just a minute!



Do you mean that this is not the same Matilda who sat in on the Round Table? I must have had the fur pulled over my eyes!

ek,

Step 1: Remove fur.
Step 2: Look here: http://bit.ly/uoBZwX, an Al Hirschfeld drawing of the Algonquin Round Table.
Step 3: Note presence of Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, Heywood Broun, Marc Connelly, Franklin P. Adams, Edna Ferber, George S. Kaufman, Robert Sherwood. In back, Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt, Frank Crowninshield and Frank Case.
Step 4: Note absence of Matilda. She must have been chasing mice.

Very cute!

But did you ever consider that AH left her out cause he did not want to alert the Board of Health?


I don't even see Nina in the drawing!

Oh, NINA's there all right, right at the front of the tablecloth.

And, re the Board of Health, they might have been scared away by the multisyllabic words being uttered by these literary giants.

Good spotting of the NINA!

Do they make hair nets for cats?