erockappel:

A couple weeks ago, my wife and I were walking our two dogs about a half a mile away from our house in Atwater Village (Los Angeles) when I spotted something small moving around in the bushes across the street.

Upon further investigation, we discovered that it was a small orphaned, black and white kitten (probably around three or four months old).  I took hold of both dogs (and I also had our six week old daughter on my chest in a baby bjorn) while my wife spent a good 15 minutes trying to capture the cat.  She eventually got it and we asked a few neighbors if they knew where it came from.  They didn’t.  So, we took it back to our place and decided to try and find it a home.

As my wife was walking up the driveway, the frightened kitten managed to squeeze out of her arms and run under my car.  I spent a half an hour trying to re-catch it, but it eventually disappeared.

The next afternoon, my wife noticed the cat sitting in a small flowerpot behind our house.  I tried to catch it again, but it took off over the neighbor’s fence.

The next day while I was at work my wife texted me “look who’s living under our house” along with a picture of the kitten poking its head out from a small hole near where our garden hose connects to the water pipes.

On my way home, I bought a couple cans of cat food and set them out for the kitten, along with a bowl of water.  Since it decided to make our backyard its home, I may as well do my part and try to keep it fed.

Every time I tried to get near the kitten, however, it hissed and scurried away.  I don’t know if it was born in the wild, or if it escaped, but it definitely saw me as a predator.

So every day I fed the kitten, and was hoping to take her to the Atwater Village cat rescue when they were open on the weekend.  After a week of putting out food twice a day, I managed to trap her in a box and I took her to the cat rescue where I  was told they were at kitten capacity.  They gave me a list of shelters to call, and they were all either at capacity as well, or they told me that the kitten would be put down immediately because its so young.

Today, the kitten finally lowered its guard and let me get close enough to pet her.  She’s a little dirty, but as soon as I started petting her, she purred like crazy.  Now every time I go outside she runs up to me and wants to be pet and play.  It’s heartbreaking.

I wish I could take this kitten in myself.  However, my wife and I are dealing with being new parents right now, and we also own two dogs (that aren’t so fond of cats) and we are also moving to the valley in two weeks, so taking on a new pet is out of the question for us.

Since the kitten is letting me touch it now (and has become surprisingly playful all of the sudden) I’m going to try to take her to a vet this week, to have her checked out and make sure she’s doing okay, and to see if she’s even old enough to get fixed yet.

But if this kitten stays living outside, I’m not sure she will survive.

She needs a home.

If you want this adorable kitten as a pet, or if you know someone who might, please email me at erockappel@gmail.com.

And please pass this message along.  Help find this kitten a home!

get tissues ready and watch this. seriously. then share it.

csingel:

erockappel:

steveagee:

steveagee:

please watch this and don’t click “like”, click “reblog”. 

I’m excited that this video has been reblogged over 2,000 times, and I’m really bummed that only 3 of my actual friends have reblogged it. Maybe it’s because I posted it late last night, so I’m putting it out there again. 

I’m talking specifically to my friends and the people who follow me that haven’t reblogged this.  Please watch.  It’s important.  Don’t just hit “like”.  Pass it on.  I’ll get back to posting my usual stupid, goofy pics and videos later, but for now, this is more important.

and for those of you who have watched and passed it on, thank you!

Please watch and share this.

This is something I could get so far behind I would be coming out the front again. The store is down though, so I guess it’s getting popular? I do find the narrator kind of a douche, but amazing cause.

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This is the most beautiful thing. Can we send her flowers?

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erockappel:

I directed this week’s episode of “The Office!”

We shot it way back in November, but it’s finally airing this Thursday night.  If you’ve never heard of the show, The Office is an American comedy television series broadcast by NBC. It is an adaptation of the previous BBC series of the same name.

This was my first major network directing gig, so I’m pretty damn excited.  Set those DVRs!

Yay! So excited for this!

erockappel:

kelsyabbott:

Well, this made me cry.

darcibastiaan:

My name is Patrick Meighan, and I’m a husband, a father, a writer on the Fox animated sitcom “Family Guy”, and a member of the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica.

I was arrested at about 1 a.m. Wednesday morning with 291…

This makes me angry.

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well this just made me cry….and also made me super excited to be a mom!

katespencer:

Being a parent is hard. It is a million times harder than the hardest thing you’ve ever done. You will doubt every decision, every choice, every opinion. You will live in fear you’re screwing up your kid with every move you make. You will not be perfect. You will fail. You will fight with your partner and snap at them. You will get angry over stupid things, like always having to pick up cereal and bananas off the floor. You will cry in the bathroom for hours at a time, for reasons that remain foggy. You will never sleep, even when you’re sleeping.

Being a parent is amazing. You will learn to use parts of your brain and guts and soul that never had to work before. You will love harder than ever before. You will learn to trust your instincts and choices and settle into yourself. You will make peace with not being perfect. You will respect and admire your partner in new ways. You will eat cereal and bananas off the floor. You will cry in public when you talk about your child, or while watching them do something as simple as clap their hands. You will never sleep, because being with your kid brings you so much joy you wish you could be awake for every second of their life.

I love Eleanor fiercely. I think she is a genius, a bright light, a perfect creature whose flaws I look forward to learning and loving. I could gush for paragraphs about how wonderful life is with her in it. But really it’s pretty simple: she kicks ass and there isn’t a day that goes by where I don’t feel thankful for her.

Happy first birthday, Pip.

Not that many of you are pregnant actresses, but I am so glad I stumbled upon this article today. After hearing from my reps that I wasn’t being seen because I was actually pregnant (even for pregnant roles) this made me feel a little more in control of my life and what being pregnant in this business means.

sirmitchell:

Really clever tumblr! I applaud you guys!

Make sure you take two minutes out of your day to send an e-mail to your representatives, this is quite important. http://americancensorship.org/

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Have you seen this Herman cain video yet? Singing “Imagine there’s no pizza…”. Wow. 

i love this.

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