I want to lead your attention to this post on November Hill Press blog, whence my friend Billie will lead it onward to an excellent interview with the writer Jim Harrison. She’ll simply do that leading best.
There, as you sip your tea, as I do now, or your kool-aid, or Thunderbird, or Stolichnaya, maybe you’ll find a clue to why I’ve titled this post as I have. That depends on the quality and quantity of your quaffing, I suppose.
Metaphor 
Thanks to you and Billie for this. Following, reading, grokking, nodding, agreeing, and not. There's a thousand ways to skin a cat yet there remains only the cat.Maybe there's only one way to skin a thousand cats.I'll get back to you on that . . .
There's a cool short interview of Harrison on youtube too: http://bit.ly/98lKim
Hey! I just followed the link and read the whole thing again. That's how much I love this interview!