Mayor Betsy Hodges, who previously gained Internet notoriety for live-tweeting a viewing of Die Hard, is touting another moment of online stardom -- and noting that clicking through online cat pictures has helped her get through "tense" council hearings.
Friday, the mayor posted a tweet to the website "Cute Overload," thanking the site for posting a picture she'd submitted of her cat, Argyle, watching Aretha Franklin perform on the Late Show with David Letterman.
Hodges said she's a longtime fan of the website, which posts photos and videos of animals (other recent updates include a slow-motion video of a chihuaua popping bubbles and a series of photos of kittens photoshopped to resemble sloths.)
And, the mayor said, she turned to Cute Overload to help her get through stressful meetings while she was serving on the Minneapolis City Council.
"When I was on the City Council," she wrote, "I would bring up your website on my screen during tense debates just to have a little balance of my attention. So thank you for being awesome!"
