Yet another reason Rabat rules: folks got together at Cafe Renaissance again for another Shitty Kitty Meet Up WITHOUT US. Sooooooooo wonderfully shitty. And just in time to remind people State-side that there is a Meet Up tomorrow (Thursday the 18th, 6pm) at Shotwell’s Bar out here in San Francisco. We’ll be toasting a round or three to our shitty pals out in Rabat furrrr surrre.

Welcome back to SF Shitty Kitty!
(This cartoon was made at 30,000 ft.)

Fatima pours more detergent in the bucket. The powder collects on the sheets like drifts of snow on mountain peaks and in valleys. Some of it slowly disappears in the water or the parts of the bedding that are already wet. From snow to curdled milk and then it’s gone, leaving only a thin film. She watches it happen so slowly, she doesn’t move. She can’t see, feel, or hear anything but the soap that will clean these sheets. Her heartbeat moves her body, a back bent over like an archway after all these years. Of course she looks old than she is. Pain will ravage the body like that.
“Fatima!” she hears and is startled in a way that feels like waking up from a nightmare. “Fatima!” the little boys yells again. She looks up. Youssef is barreling towards her. “Wash this too,” he says and throws a red football jersey into the bucket, covering the snow and curdled milk. When she looks up again he is gone. Through the cloudy din of cotton and wool through which she listens, she hears him fighting with his older brother Driss. Or maybe he’s laughing now. Or crying. It’s hard to tell. He makes noise constantly. Fatima considers her near deafness a blessing in a house like this.
She takes the jersey off the top off the bucket and sets it on the tiles next to her stool. She’s washing sheets right now. Not clothes. She will get to that later.

Come get your Shitty Kitty on in MOROCCO!

As always, we’ll bring the supplies to draw and caption Shitty Kitty comics– you bring yourself and your friends.

Check out other Shitty Kitty comics/videos and pics from previous Meet Ups here:

http://telephoneandsoup.com/shitty-kitty

And not sure where the cafe is? Here is a map!

View Rabat Shitty Kitty @ Cafe Renaissance in a larger map

We’ve been busy working on our many projects like To Timbuktu and Al Beb, but we’ve also been traveling (down to Marrakech and up to Madrid) and eating a lot of couscous at our neighbors’. We just added more of those pictures to our Google map. Check it out!

So usually we put these up every Thursday but this past week we were in Marrakech shopping in the souqs and avoiding the snake charmers.

(“Don’t mess with me.”)