The Mackerel Wrapper

A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield.

Friday, August 07, 2009

Kenyan birth certificate for Oley the Cat ...

Ah, the wonders of modern technology. Link here for a picture of my cat Oley. A few mouseclicks (if you'll excuse the expression in this context), and I got him a birth certificate as genuine as the "Kenyan birth certificate" the tinfoil hat folks have supplied for President Obama. Here it is ...



Do you want a Kenyan birth certificate all for your very own? Click here for the Kenyan Birth Certificate Generator.

But you'll have to get your own cat.

In Springfield I recommend the Waggin' Tails shelter north of the Illinois State Fairgrounds.
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Springfield (Ill.), United States
I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.