Greatest Hits: And the seventh thing I hate the most about you - you make me love you.

Wait Kate, that's not you!  True, but this picture of D and JG
is the 12th hit when you google "puss n boots aggro crag."
Who says this blog isn't doing anything?

So, you may remember (and if you know me you definitely do remember, because I force you to constantly) that Danielle and I won an award.  It was an exciting day.  Nearly as exciting for me as the day Eminem won his Oscar.  In order to accept our award, given by the incomparable Bre of BreBeauty, Danielle and I had to share seven random facts about ourselves.  The resulting string of posts revealed some funny, interesting and really weird tidbits about our lives as wildcats.  This was an especially fun series of posts for me because I learned things about Ms. Festino that I haven't learned over the course of our friendship.  I guess we just don't talk about Puss N Boots very often.  For good reason, apparently.

Enjoy this, somewhat disturbing, look into our lives again here.

xo kate

I believe I can soar. I see me running through that open door.

This is one of those times when I have no words...


I Believe I can Fly ( flight of the frenchies). Trailer from sebastien montaz-rosset on Vimeo.

Kate: The Crag

I need to own a piece of the Aggro Crag.  Not a want, but a need.

That's right, the Aggro Crag.  As in the "Aggro meaning AGGRESSIVE and crag meaning ROCK" Aggro Crag.  Also known as the Mega Crag or, in some circles, the Super Crag.

The Crag.

For those of you who didn't grow up in the early nineties, or who lived in a hole, the Aggro Crag is the final competitive event on Nickelodeon's sports-theme kids game show, GUTS, hosted by Mike O'Malley, now of Glee fame and Moira "Mo" Quirk, now a head referee in the WNBA. (Okay, I made that up. I don't think Mo did anything after GUTS.)  The three contestants race up the mountain, battling blinding glitter blizzards, avalanches of foam rocks and something called nuclear flying crystals.  The thing was also in a constant cloud of dry ice and seemingly only lit by strobe lights.  Basically it was like a Seaside Heights nightclub.  The Aggro Crag climb was the fifth and final event and worth the most points in the GUTS, serving as the crown jewel in the competition.  As such, the GUTS winner (allegedly) got a glowing trophy designed to look like a piece of the mountain.

Where's this girl now and why isn't
she selling me her piece of the Crag?

Since college, I have been scouring the internet searching for a piece of the Crag.  I'd like it mostly as a conversation piece, you know, something for the coffee table.  I'm not going to lie to you, though, I think it would help with getting dates as well.  Who wouldn't go out with someone who actually owned a piece of the Crag?  Who wouldn't go home with them to see it?  Is this just me?

At any rate, I've spent more hours than I care to admit on eBay searching for someone selling a genuine Crag trophy.  I figured that since GUTS was on for a long time there would be lots of 20-somethings looking to unload their piece of the GUTS empire for some quick cash.  No such luck.  I once saw someone claiming to be selling theirs for $35,000, but that seemed like it must be some sort of trick. (Also, I'm pretty desperate to use genuine Crag-related pick-up lines, but not $35,000 desperate.) Another time I stumble upon (read: search aggressively for) a blog that claimed the contestants on the show did not actually get to keep their piece of the Crag, it was just the same trophy with a different kid holding it every week.  This was a huge disappointment, but I'm not entirely willing to believe it's true.  If anyone has a primary source who has been on GUTS and knows for sure, please, please please tell me.  Until then, I will still search, perhaps in vain, but I will search.

xo kate