Sweet Tart the Cat Becomes Mayor of Michigan Town, Brings Purrs to Politics - People

Panzer was just settling down for an afternoon nap when clapping and MEowing and purring coming from the Catosphere shook him out of his kitty bed. Hopping into the Panzermobile our sleep-deprived kitty pilot went to the People site. There he saw the most amazing post.

According to the post by Kelli Bender, Sweet Tart, the Tortoiseshell (Tortie for short) cat, has been voted Mayor of Omena, Michigan. The post calls her a calico, but that's wrong. She's a Tortie as shown by her coat coloring in the photo. The voters in the election paid $1 to vote. Although Omena only has a population of 280 persons, 7000 people voted. This is because a voter didn't need to reside in Omena to vote. Online votes were accepted as long as the person paid the voter fee. Before the beginning of the post there are several short videos about animals, although none of the videos is about Sweet Tart or the election.

Now she's something to dream about.

Panzer says, "They actually had to have a vote to know Sweet Tart, the cat, was a better mayor then the runner-up dog?"

Note: This is a medium length post. Bring a cup of tea and a small muffin for today's reading selection.

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The Martian and 6 More Movies That Began as Self-Published Books - People

Self-published to movies. Who knew?

Panzer made a quick trip into the Catosphere today. Our kitty boy was greeted by sounds of cheering and shouting and ahhhs. Following all the noise took him to the People site. There he found a post by Drew Mackie about self-published (indie published) books that have made it big as movies.

According to Mackie there have been seven highly successful self-published books in this category. For example the newest one is The Martian and before that we have Legally Blonde and Still Alice. Mackie includes four more books and all include quotes from the authors about why they went the self-publishing route and/or movie trailers.

Panzer says, "Hmmm ... I have a couple of books that would make good movies."

Note: Bring a cup of tea and a bag of popcorn for the movie trailers.

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