Earlier today I was reflecting upon my favorite cartoon from my childhood years, She-Ra, and trying to draw parallels between myself and the eponymous heroine of the show. I got nothing. She's a super-strength, enchanted princess of power (whose alter-ego is also an enchanted princess of power. Lucky bitch) and I'm a... housewife. With oxyclean power. Oh yeah - I got the grape juice stain out of the couch. For the Honor!
So I settled for a more apropos cartoon title: Mom-Ra and the Masters of the Universal Remote. This fits. I can't seem to escape being a mother no matter how hard I try, and my kids (the masters) are obsessed with controlling the remote. It's self-explanatory, really. But I decided that if I get to have a super hero name I deserve a super hero steed. But all I've got are cats. Hence I thought of the talking, flying, Unikitten. Again, self-explanatory.
I'm shocked by how few returns I got in my google images search for this. The Unikitten is seriously underrepresented on the internet. I expected it to be a meme. Instead it's a minor thing. A few photoshopped images, a few crochet patterns, a whole bunch of annoyed cats... but no centralized realization of the Unikitten. This is sad, people. Normally, we do not shy away from excuses to put ridiculous crap on our cats' heads for photo ops. We need to step up our game! I, for one, will be rolling construction paper horns all weekend. And I will put those horns on the head of my cat. And for the short but glorious moment in which I am standing next to my trusty Unikitten, I will forget all about the dishes and the whining and the jeans that don't fit. And then my cat will bite me and it will all come rushing back. But hey, moments are what we live for.
So I settled for a more apropos cartoon title: Mom-Ra and the Masters of the Universal Remote. This fits. I can't seem to escape being a mother no matter how hard I try, and my kids (the masters) are obsessed with controlling the remote. It's self-explanatory, really. But I decided that if I get to have a super hero name I deserve a super hero steed. But all I've got are cats. Hence I thought of the talking, flying, Unikitten. Again, self-explanatory.
I'm shocked by how few returns I got in my google images search for this. The Unikitten is seriously underrepresented on the internet. I expected it to be a meme. Instead it's a minor thing. A few photoshopped images, a few crochet patterns, a whole bunch of annoyed cats... but no centralized realization of the Unikitten. This is sad, people. Normally, we do not shy away from excuses to put ridiculous crap on our cats' heads for photo ops. We need to step up our game! I, for one, will be rolling construction paper horns all weekend. And I will put those horns on the head of my cat. And for the short but glorious moment in which I am standing next to my trusty Unikitten, I will forget all about the dishes and the whining and the jeans that don't fit. And then my cat will bite me and it will all come rushing back. But hey, moments are what we live for.
