Harvey Has Left The Building

My cat, Harvey “In The House” Mandel was put to sleep today. Harvey was 18 years old and I never took her to a vet. She was healthy as a horse. Not sick once. She also had her claws and never scratched anything. She could have done real damage to my speakers if she wanted to, but she never laid a pawn on them.

Last couple of weeks she hasn’t been eating. Harvey has no teeth but that never stopped her from eating. The one thing she loved to do was eat. All I had to say was “Harvey, do you want to eat” and her ears perked up and she went right to her dish. Lately when she ate, it was like the food was getting stuck in her mouth. She would paw her face like she was trying to get it out. She also just laid around all day. I knew it was the end of the line for her. So the other day I bought a cage for her to go in when we went to the vet. I thought it was going to be hard to get her in the cage, that was no trouble, but she cried all the way to the vet. When the vet looked at her, she said it was cancer. I had a feeling it was something like that cause the right side of her face was all swollen. It felt like a rock. Doctor said two choices, operation and there was no guarantee, or put her to sleep. I knew what had to be done. It was really hard to do, but I look at it like this, she had a 18 year good run.

It’s funny how I got to know Harvey. I live in a co-opt, there used to be a lot of wild cats around. The lady that lived upstairs from me used to feed them. One night I hear a cat outside my door. I looked outside and saw a small cat. It was winter time and the cat was hungry, so I gave her some bologna. The next night she was back, so I kept on feeding her. Next thing you know she’s a indoor-outdoor cat. Then the co-opt didn’t want the cats around so they set up traps for them. Little did I know there was a cat lover in the building that set his own traps. When he caught them he sent them to the animal shelter. They didn’t take Harvey cause she was too old. So he put her picture in the co-opt news letter. I got in contact with him and got Harvey back now as an indoor cat.

It’s funny how the rolls reversed over the years. When Harvey was an outside cat, I would watch her from the inside. Over the years Harvey would wait for me by the window when I came home from work.

Harvey would jump on the bed and sleep on the bed by me. When Harvey wasn’t feeling well I would lay down on the floor by her.

Harvey “In The House” Mandel, RIP

“The Lone Onion Ring (Hi – Ho Silver)”

I went to Burger King the other day. When I got home and poured out my fries, there it was, “the onion ring.” When I was a kid this use to really freak me out. I hate onion rings and it was like this onion ring invaded the holy sanctuary of the French Fries.

I used to wonder how it got in there. The rings had their own home and the fries had theirs. Did one ring, climb out of the pot and sneak it’s way over to the fries? Was the onion ring kidnapped and being held for ransom?

It didn’t even look right. The fries were smooth and the rings were all crisp. There is no way they should ever mingle.

Next Friday

Had a discussion at work Monday night. Somebody said they were doing something
next Friday. So I said, “the Friday coming up you won’t be here.” He said, “It’s
the Friday after that.” I said, “The Friday coming up is next Friday.” So we
kept on going back and forth, then other people chimed in and said I was wrong.
My reasoning is, last week was last Friday, the Friday coming up is the next
Friday.
His reasoning is, the Friday coming up is this Friday, the Friday after that is
next Friday.
To me, if Friday is next in line, it’s next Friday.

Three Jabroni’s and two other guys

The Miami Heat, three super stars and two who cares, lost to a real team. Three guys who can’t figure out how to play together lost to a team that had team work.

No way Miami should have lost. The got the better team. They got the bigger ego’s. They were making fun of a sick guy who burned their ass in game five.

Ever see when they show a team picture of The Heat, they only show three guys. Me and my brother could have been the other two and nobody would have noticed.

I bet they’re laughing in Cleveland. James didn’t want to play with The Cav, they weren’t going to win. I’ll go to Miami and not win there.

I could imagine what went on in the locker room of The Heat after the game. The finger pointing, making excuses and the crying.

There’s that old saying, “There’s no I in team.” Maybe they should have hung that in The Heat locker.

 

The End Of The World Has Come And Gone

Here’s what I don’t understand about all this end of the world stuff. People were giving their money away. I read that some people were even sending Harold Camping money. It’s not the end of the world, but it’s a good life for him.

Lets look at this logically. The end of the world is coming. If you really believe this, why would you give your money away? No matter who you gave it to, they’re not going to be able to spend it cause it’s the end of the world. Wouldn’t it make more sense to keep it in case it don’t come.

Image Is Everything

We started out as a clean cut band and went nowhere.

Aliens From Outer Of Space

They’re here! Just look at them mocking up. You Simple Human. Don’t be fooled. These aren’t your ordinary trash cans. When you not home or asleep, these trash cans start to roam around your house and learn everything thing they can about you. When the time comes, you’ll be helpless.

In a couple of week a plunger will sprout out of one side and a stick from the other. Then they’ll show they’re real form. The Daleks are here!

Giants Lose To The Cowboys

This game proves what I’ve been saying all year. The Cowboys didn’t want to play for Wade Phillips. That game The Cowboys played against The Packers last week was one of the worst efforts I’ve ever seen in all my years of watching football. All The Cowboys did that game was stand around and watch The Packers run all over them.

I wonder what Wade Phillips thought this Sunday when he saw The Cowboys with a second string quarterback  beat The Giants. The Cowboys got a good team.  They should be battling for first place. They must have really hated Phillips to stop playing.

I hate The Cowboys, but even I knew that they weren’t this bad. Jason Garrett is in a tough spot. He wanted to be the head coach there. He’s coming in on a 1 and 7 record and if he don’t show improvement, he might not be back next year. So he’s not starting off with a clean slate.  He’s starting off in a big hole.

Frank Sinatra

I had my friend cracking up at work the other night. I was singing “Fly me to
the moon,” then he started singing it. Then he was singing other Sinatra songs
and laughing the whole time. The following day I went to the dentist. I told the
girl who was cleaning my teeth about work and the Sinatra songs. She wanted to
know what song. I started singing, “Fly me to the moon,” then she joined in.
While she was cleaning my teeth she kept on singing it. Then she said, “thanks a
lot I can’t stop now.”
It just goes to show the enjoyment that music brings to people. Without it it
would be a sad world.

It’s So Hard

First let me say Mike Douglas was a cool kind of guy. He would have all these Rock musicians on his show and treat them with respect. He had Frank Zappa on the show and was asking him stuff like “What type of Classical Music do you listen to.”

I remember Miles Davis on his show.  This was back in the early 1970’s, I come home from High School, turn on the Mike Douglas Show and there’s the strangest music I ever heard play. It was really awful. It was so bad I had to watch the whole thing cause it was fasternating.

Mike Douglas had John and Yoko as Guest Host for a week. One day they had Chuck Berry and John Lennon do a Berry song together. This video is a song off the “Imagine” album. He has the New York band, “Elephants Memory” backing him. Deep down, Lennon was always a Rocker.