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Python Thursdays: Confuse-A-Cat
The first time I saw Monty Python’s Flying Circus, I was 12 years old. From the introductory, “It’s…” to the ending credits playing John Philip Sousa’s Liberty Bell, I was a changed young man. My sense of humor was permanently skewed as I started quietly reciting whole sketches in the middle of class and trying to draw some of Terry Gilliam’s bawdy images. Since those salad days of youth, not much as really changed in my adoration of all things Python. Well, that’s not entirely true…as I’ve matured, I’ve realized that Monty Python offers some very pointed lessons for how to navigate work life.
It is with great excitement and zany, madcap glee that I offer what will be a biweekly series called Python Thursdays. For the inaugural Python Thursday, I’m choosing the Confuse-A-Cat sketch. This was from that very first episode I saw of MPFC. The learning is after video…and now for something completely different:
Oh how many times have I found myself suffering from the old stockbrokers syndrome? Balls of string and juicy mice just didn’t perk me up the way they used to. Being in a rut sucks. And you know it’s bad when it can affect even poor domestic kitties. But there are a couple of things you can do when you wake up and realize that you’re stuck in a rut.
Keep your social ties strong. Imagine poor kitty if he didn’t have such wonderful owners bringing him food and milk, calling in a very competent vet, and ordering the services of Confuse-A-Cat Limited.
Confuse yourself. Take a different route to work or the grocery store. Start putting your keys somewhere different. Start with small things. You don’t exactly need a penguin on a pogo-stick chasing a guy in a towel - but it wouldn’t hurt.
And don’t wait until it’s too late. If only more people would call in the nick of time.
Any other learnings we can draw from our newly confused kitty?
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An unexpected post, but certainly welcome and appreciated! I experienced Monty Python at a young age: some of my earliest, most vivid memories are of my father playing their records throughout my childhood. It’s timeless humour that’ll exist as a cultural legacy far into the future - propagated by the likes of you and I!
I think that experimenting with and finding creative outlets is one of the most important rut-protective measures to take. This advice mightn’t hold a lot of weight as I’m still a wide-eyed youth, but I intend for the creative actions that I’m taking now to serve as a foundation to continue throughout my life.
Thanks for this post, Chris.
I came across Monty Python my freshman year in collage. What a treat it was! It’s so random and creative that it makes me laugh every time, no matter what mood I’m in.
We do need to confuse ourselves or in my case understand that it’s ok to feel confused.
Hiya Andrew, don’t discount your experience based on your age. I think you’re dead on with the importance of finding creative outlets. It’s in the creative process that we usually find things that surprise us, inspire us, and confuse us. It shocks us out of our complacency and keeps us on our toes. Thanks for coming along and come on back in two weeks when we do it again!
Hiya Karl, could you imagine coming into work one day thinking that it’s going to be a normal, everyday sort of day only to discover a guy dressed as Napoleon sitting in your seat? Then getting chased away by a penguin on a pogo stick? And another guy running through the corridors dressed only in a towel? That’s how I imagine our kitty here must have felt…no wonder he was ready to head inside!