Why is this photo part of the site design?

Before I was a published author, I was Meankitty's Typing Slave. Technically I still am, but now I'm writing as well.

If you don't mind, I'll brag a little.  www.meankitty.com has been on the web since 2000, long before LOLCats and YouTube and all the other entertainment sites that have proliferated on the internet.  It gets thousands of hits a month and sometimes I figure the cat will always be more popular than I am.  But I'm working on it!

I regret to say I do not own this particular piece of African art, but it's the kind of thing I'd buy so it could gather dust on my mantle with all the other awesome gnomes and cats.