Metal Cats

by Alexandra Crockett
Metal Cats
Author: Alexandra Crockett
Publisher: powerHouse Books
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2014-05-13
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1576877299
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Skulls and Siamese. Corpse paint and Persians. Baphomet, pentagrams, blood, and tabbies! Metal Cats combines two amazing subjects: the extreme personalities of the hardcore metal music scene and their adorable kitties. These incredibly cute and fluffy felines have been photographed with their loving owners in and around the dark abodes of musicians, fans, and promoters of metal including members of the bands Black Goat, Thrones, Isis, Lightning Swords of Death, Book of Black Earth, Skarp, Harassor, Akimbo, Aldebaran, Atriarch, Oak, Ghoul, Ludicra, Holy Grail, Xasthur, Cattle Decapitation, Murder Construct, Exhumed, Morbid Angel, Municipal Waste, Skeletonwitch, Gypsyhawk, Nausea, Phobia, and Napalm Death. Metal isn't all dark and disturbing, violent and misanthropic. Metal Cats is proof that while the music may be brutal, the people in the scene are softies for their pets just like you and me... A portion of the proceeds from this book and a series of benefit shows held along the West Coast will go towards one no-kill shelter in each of the four main cities visited.

The New Chinese Astrology

by Suzanne White
The New Chinese Astrology
Author: Suzanne White
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 596
Release: 1996-12-15
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780312151799
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The definitive encyclopedia on Chinese astrology, this easy-to-read reference guide describes each animal sign's individual characteristics, special capabilities, particular health problems, and explains how the five Chinese elements--wood, fire, metal, earth, and water--affect it. Best of all, The New Chinese Astrology predicts what the next 12 years bode for readers, their friends, and even their enemies!

Exploding Kittens: A Field Guide to Unusual Cats

by Exploding Kittens LLC
Exploding Kittens: A Field Guide to Unusual Cats
Author: Exploding Kittens LLC
Publisher: Running Press Adult
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2020-06-23
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0762497459
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With inspiration from the #1 bestselling card game, this hilarious one-of-a-kind field guide features forty of the most frequently encountered cats from the Exploding Kittens universe -- including dozens of brand-new breeds. The entries in this comprehensive spotter's guide for cat lovers identify the feline's origin, appearance, eating and mating rituals, natural habitat, and habits and behavior, as well as where to look for them in the wild. Profiles are brought to life with vivid art illustrated by The Oatmeal in this perfectly portable guide, an essential companion for any cat watcher's collection.

A Unified Theory of Cats on the Internet

by E.J. White
A Unified Theory of Cats on the Internet
Author: E.J. White
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2020-07-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1503614034
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This cultural history reveals how cats became the undisputed mascot of the internet—“an essential look at life online” (Ryan Milner, author of The World Made Meme). Journalists and their readers seem to need no explanation for the line, “The internet is made of cats.” Everyone understands the joke, but few know how it started. A Unified Theory of Cats on the Internet is the first book to explore the history of how the cat became the internet’s best friend. Internet cats can differ in dramatic ways, from the goth cats of Twitter to the glamourpusses of Instagram to the giddy, nonsensical silliness of Nyan Cat. But they all share common traits and values. Bringing together fun anecdotes, thoughtful analyses, and hidden histories of the communities that built the internet, Elyse White shows how japonisme, punk culture, cute culture, and the battle among different communities for the soul of the internet informed the sensibility of online felines. Internet cats offer a playful and useful way to understand how culture shapes—and is shaped by—technology. Western culture has used cats for centuries as symbols of darkness, pathos, and alienation. The communities that helped build the internet represented themselves as outsiders, with snark and alienation at the core of their identity. Thus cats became the sine qua non of cultural literacy for the Extremely Online, as well as an everyday medium of expression for the rest of us. Whatever direction the internet takes next, the “series of tubes” is likely to remain cat-shaped.

Metal Angels - The Facility Files - Complete Collection

by D K Girl
Metal Angels - The Facility Files - Complete Collection
Author: D K Girl
Publisher: Lucas Publishing
Total Pages: 764
Release: 2022-07-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:
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The entire METAL ANGELS adventure in one COMPLETE box-set! (Parts 1-4) What are they really hiding at the Facility? And is it worth dying for? The Facility is a high-security compound in the middle of b*tt-f*ck nowhere. It's filled to the brim with dangerous secrets. And it's the place sisters Kira and Blake Beckworth call home. But one phone call is about to change their lives forever. When Kira is duped into baby-sitting one of the volatile, ultra-classified projects the Facility is infamous for, it sets off a chain of events that will threaten far more than Friday night plans. The project has the face of an angel. His name is Azrael. But what is he exactly? Human? Android? Or something else entirely? And what the hell is Kira supposed to do with him? She knows her way around a vodka bottle, really well....but a mute, vacant-eyed, albeit sublimely beautiful maybe-man? No clue. A pity Kira's never been good at saying no to her sister. Blake is Azrael's creator, and one of the few human genuises at the Facility. But it won't be long before Kira wishes she'd never taken that call. Never stepped foot in the deepest levels of the Facility. Because the truth of who Azrael is...and what it means to keep him safe...could destroy not only Kira's life, but life itself. Metal Angels (The Facility Files) is fast-paced science fantasy with lots of sex, swearing and violence. Buckle Up. **Language Warning** - if you don't like copious amounts of swearing, then perhaps this one isn't for you. Kira knows all the words and likes to use them. She enjoys it almost as much as sex. So be warned, sexual content contained in this book! (Not graphic or erotica) Keywords: science fantasy, alien contact, first contact, scifi adventure, kickass heroine, box set, boxset, scifi alien, scifi set on Earth, mythology, sumerian mythology, gods and aliens, womens adventure

Black Metal Rainbows

by Daniel Lukes
Black Metal Rainbows
Author: Daniel Lukes
Publisher: PM Press
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2022-10-25
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1629639230
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Black metal is a paradox. A noisy underground metal genre brimming with violence and virulence, it has captured the world’s imagination for its harsh yet flamboyant style and infamous history involving arson, blasphemy, and murder. Today black metal is nothing less than a cultural battleground between those who claim it for nationalist and racist ends, and those who say: Nazi black metal fvck off! Black Metal Rainbows is a radical collection of writers, artists, activists, and visionaries, including Drew Daniel, Kim Kelly, Laina Dawes, Espi Kvlt, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, Svein Egil Hatlevik, Eugene S. Robinson, Margaret Killjoy, and many more. Across essays and theory-fictions, artworks and comics, we say out loud: Long live black metal’s trve rainbow! This unique volume envisions black metal as always already open, inclusive, and unlimited: a musical genre whose vital spirit of total antagonism rebels against the forces of political conservatism. Beyond its clichés of grimness, nihilism, reaction, and signature black/white corpse-paint sneer, black metal today is a vibrant and revolutionary paradigm. This book reveals its ludic, carnival worlds animated by spirits of joy and celebration, community and care, queerness and camp, LGBTQI+ identities and antifascist, antiracist, and left-wing politics, not to mention endless aesthetic experimentation and fabulousness. From the crypt to the cloud, Black Metal Rainbows unearths black metal’s sparkling core and illuminates its prismatic spectrum: deep within the black, far beyond grimness, and over a darkly glittering rainbow!