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Some folks have picked up new hobbies, some have grappled with their new work-from-home lifestyles, and others have thrown themselves into advocacy work.
That advocacy work has taken on various forms, including but not limited to: petitioning for Universal Pictures to release the butthole cut of Cats.
Yet the baffling CGI musical has developed a passionate cult following and stoked intense curiosity among nearly everybody who has seen it.
Among those viewers is writer/producer/director Ben Mekler, who on Tuesday night tweeted, “I desperately need a tell-all book about the making of CATS.
Which means that, somewhere out there, there exists a butthole cut of Cats.”
As humanity teeters on the brink of collapse, releasing the butthole cut of Cats could be the balm we so desperately seek. »