SF Signal: Help Put Ripley on a Calendar

Help Put Ripley on a Calendar

Borderlands Bookstore wants you to suggest stuff to put on their mascot, Ripley the hairless cat. From this month's newsletter:

Help us put stuff on Ripley! Thanks to Susan Tunis for telling us about this contest. Chronicle Books is sponsoring a "Stuff on My Bookstore Cat" contest, as a tie-in to the release of the book Stuff on My Cat. Please email office AT borderlands-books DOT com with your suggestions for stuff we might put on Ripley! And, yeah, we already thought of a toupee, you wisecrackers.

When we interviewed Alan Beatts, proprietor of Borderlands Books, he gave us Ripley's back story. I would think Ripley deserves something more spectacular than, say, John Scalzi's bacon-laden cat.

See you had to go and shoot down the whole bacon on a cat idea. I thought that the whole internet taking it upon themselves to put bacon on a cat was extremely entertaining. Furthermore, what cat would not want bacon???

Posted by Tim on Saturday November 11, 2006 at 3:42 PM

Yeah, but Scalzi's cat's condition was only temprary. Ripley has looked like my grandfather her whole life. I'm just saying...

Posted by John on Saturday November 11, 2006 at 10:39 PM

It is ugly, kill it, use its skin to bind a book...

Of course that is more in line of putting the cat on something rather then something on the cat.

Posted by joshua corning on Tuesday November 14, 2006 at 1:52 AM

You know I have sat in a room petting Ripley for about half an hour and it was time better spent than reading these last three posts.

Posted by Roshambo on Monday January 21, 2008 at 12:01 AM