Yeah. I still admire him for bringing poverty to the forefront and all that, too.

Hey JZ & Hec - do you know about this? (Yeah, it's about cats, but still....)

The catwalk really was a catwalk Thursday. Show cats dressed in everything from an Elvis costume to a sequined satin dress strutted their stuff at New York's Algonquin Hotel.

The feline fashion show unfolded in the dining room where Dorothy Parker presided over famously catty Round Table literary luncheons in the 1920s.

Thursday's show benefited an animal welfare group and honored Matilda, the Algonquin's resident cat, who just turned 13.

She is the hotel's ninth cat since the tradition started in the '30s, when actor John Barrymore dubbed a bedraggled stray Hamlet.

Earlier in the day, Matilda, a pedigreed ragdoll breed with long, silky, cream-colored hair, held court on a chaise longue by the entrance.

In her honor, cocktails with names like Purr-tini and Pink Pussycat were being served at $20 apiece to guests including representatives of the nonprofit North Shore Animal League in Port Washington, on Long Island. The adoption shelter, which was to receive the proceeds of the benefit, offered more than a dozen homeless cats for adoption.

The Westchester Feline Club supplied the show-quality cats, with fashions created by New Jersey pet fashion company Meow Wear.

Matilda has become an Algonquin celebrity, with her birthday celebrated every year. She also receives about 30 e-mails a month, which are answered by longtime Algonquin employee Alice De Almeida.

Article has a link to two pictures of Matilda, as well as a hairless cat in a fetching green dress....

Thursday's show benefited an animal welfare group and honored Matilda, the Algonquin's resident cat, who just turned 13.

"You named him her after the dog cat?!"

the real focus should be Elizabeth, who is by all accounts both fabulous and wronged.

Yes.

wrod. LOVE her. And, hell, I still like Bill Clinton too.(Not so much the finger-wagging)

I roll my eyes that the Baby Daddy is a staffer.

Really?

I mean, I suppose its possible that she dated the way through the campaign -- but it just makes me think "Pay off!"

YAY shrift! If it is google, you will probably be right in my neck of the woods when you come out to CA.

I still like Edwards (and Clinton). I have no need for political leaders to live up to some unattainable level of morality defined by people who are not me. In other words, I don't care at all who they screw. None of my business or anyone elses.

ETA: Congrats, Shrift!

"You named him her after the dog cat?!"

Er, well, I did have that cat named Matilda right before I married you. Though actually both cat and daughter are named after Roald Dahl's Matilda -- I just gave the name to the cat because at the time I got her my chances of having a human child seemed very slight.

What she said. Better a woman than the nation. (although I am disappointed, but he's not my husband.) Go, shrift.