Louis Wain, the Godfather of Cat Memes: Part ...

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This week, we're sharing an episode of another WBUR podcast, Endless Thread.The show is in the middle of a series all about internet memes, and they recently featured the woman at the center of the popular "Woman Yelling at a Cat" meme, Taylor Armstrong from the original cast ...

Louis Wain’s cat-centric art was extremely popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and some of his later work became an inspiration for the psychedelic movement of the 1960s.

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Recently, Louis C.K. made a surprise appearance at the Comedy Cellar. A & B revisit his predatory behavior. 

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