Bacon Cat 20 Year Anniversary + 28 Years of Whatever

Time is a fickle beast. One day you’re light-heartedly taping bacon to your cat as a way to procrastinate from writing a novel, causing a viral sensation that briefly makes your site one of the most popular destinations on the entire Internet, and the next it’s twenty years later and that moment is nothing more than deep lore from an earlier age of the online world, as far away from you now as Falco’s “Rock Me Amadeus” was from the day you adhered a pork product to a domestic animal. What a wild, strange turn of events that all happened to be. It couldn’t be predicted. That’s what made it fun. Twenty years on it really is difficult to explain to anyone who was not there for the moment how silly and popular “Bacon Cat” has, and how, literally for years, when anything bacon-related happened on the Internet, I would get a flood of emails sent to me, most of them beginning “I know this has probably been sent to you a million times, BUT…” It’s no joke that for a while there I was better…