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Can’t say I agreed with the Tomatometer this time. The critics gave Snow White and the Huntsman a pretty low score (46%), but I thought it was great!

Charlize tore it up as the evil queen (was that Benefit she was wearing?). She really gave that character some teeth. Fangs even! And claws.

And Kristen Stewart brooded well…and furrowed her brows, which she tends to do a lot, but I guess that’s what happens when you spend all of your time with vampires, werewolves, witches and trolls.

We just got home a little while ago. I was hoping Tabs would have dinner hot and ready, since he stayed home, but of course he didn’t. He didn’t want to go to the movie because it doesn’t star any cats, and he’d heard ahead of time that the filmmakers were auditioning for a bunch of different animals. Just no cats. So he stayed home in silent protest.

Typical.

I tried to remind him about how popular cats are on YouTube (hello? Maru?), but he just brushed me off and went back to updating his kitty modeling portfolio.

This was good week for Tabs. He had modeling jobs with LUSH, NYX, Bliss, Too Faced and MAC.

Here’s the quick highlight reel… 🙂

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Next time you go to Trader Joe’s and find yourself in the wine aisle, look for a bottle of Saint Tabby de la Loire. Trust me on this. If you like cats and white wine, you’ll love Saint Tabby de la Loire.

In the interest of full disclosure, I have to point out that Tabs owns a controlling stake in the winery, which is in Yountville, in Napa County, California.

If you’re ever out this way, you should totally go!

Let me tell you, the grounds are breathtaking. Tall cedars line the long driveway that leads to a huge Tuscan estate atop a hill that overlooks the vineyard. Row upon row of red and white grape vines, a huge tasting room, and the whole place caters to cats and cat ladies.

Well…cats mostly just like to explore the vineyard, which is stocked with imported mice from France, while cat ladies partake of the wine and play with the kitties.

As for the wine itself, c’est magnifique! Sweet and smooth, like the owner himself.

When he isn’t inspecting the vineyard at Saint Tabby de la Loire, Tabs is busy padding his kitty modeling portfolio and growing his fashion and media empires (Tabs the Cat Industries, LLC.).

Here are the latest pics from his portfolio this week… 🙂

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This sucks! I hardly got to see Tabs at all today, first because I was in the city this morning for the Bay to Breakers, and then second, by the time I got home this afternoon, he was out on the Bay training for the America’s Cup.

Yup, the big sailing race…

I don’t know if you knew this about him, but Tabs is a natural born sailor. His ancestors actually worked as mousers on the first ships that sailed here from England. Oh, yeah. He comes from a long, proud lineage of mousers with natural sea legs, thanks to their low-hanging bellies, which provide a low center of gravity and great shipboard balance.

He was on the water today training with his team. They’ve been using the Team Friskies boat while Tabs saves up for a boat of his own, which I’m supposed to help him research this week.

It just occurred to me… I hope Tabs doesn’t expect me to be part of his crew, because I get seasick very easily.

Knowing Tabs, he probably already has an outfit picked out for me! 🙂

It was no coincidence that Tabs worked on a nautical kitty modeling job this week for MAC’s new Submariner collection. He got the job specifically because they’d heard about his sailing experience and wanted a cat they could “trust on the water.” (The art director’s words.)

Submariner was just one of the gigs Tabs had this week. He also modeled for Essie, Covercat, Sugarpill and TRESemmé, as you can see from these pics of the shoots…

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