Guy's blog about life with pets in northern mich.

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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Far too much TV!

It must be clear to anyone who knows me, that I spend WAY too much time in front of the “Square-eyed-Cyclops”, idol. With that as a given, has everyone else seen the commercial where a riiiiiich (! ), gullible couple say that they were quoted $62,000.00(!) to replace all the cabinets in their house! They were amazed to have bought different, replacement cabinets, directly from the manufacturer, for $38,000.00(!) I can do the math, but when I heard, “$62,000, $38,000 for CABINETS!”………… my eyes... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, March 26, 2007

Elvis vs. The Beatles

Yesterday I heard a brief clip of Elvis’ “Less talk, a lot more action”, a very forgettable rejected song, released long after his death. No wonder it was rejected, it’s awful! There are likely hundreds of similarly bad songs of his, someone intends to release someday, hoping to make a fortune. If that was the best of them, they should forget about it. Compare the Beatles’ “Free as a bird” released after half of them died. I can’t hear it often enough, it’s brilliant. Never before or again will... Sign in to see full entry.

Is this all worth my effort?

Being new at this whole “Blog” thing I’m trying to figure out all its intricacies. After something like five days, I’ve had three people interested enough or bored enough to read what I write. Maybe it was one person who clicked on my site three times, who knows? This is an experiment that may not turn out to have been what I hoped it would be. Is this the cyber equivalent of what is known as a Vanity Press (print term), where untalented aspiring writers submit manuscripts to presumed experts in... Sign in to see full entry.

They aren't really our babies.

There has been many times that my animal companions’ expressions are so compelling and urgent and enigmatic that I foolishly wish they could talk. What a mistake having that wish come true would be! Patience, sharing, altruism, generosity, empathy, sympathy, foresight, planning, justice, conceptualization, on and on, are all foreign and useless concepts to cats and dogs. As tempting as it is to anthropomorphize them, they are not our children, and it is well that they are not. Their I.Q.(or,... Sign in to see full entry.

Bonkers actually........IS!

I’ve been losing sleep, worrying about my ancient cat, and wondering if she’s just given up, or going “Marion” on me. I haven’t told you about “The great rodent/turkey shoot,” that trapped a whole mouse-Al Whachacallit Terrorist cell, out of our house. It made for a couple batches of excellent soup, but the risk of disease, CIA two-way radio equipped mouse infiltrators, NSA, two-way radio equipped mouse infiltrators, Secret Service two-way radio equipped mouse infiltrators, Foreign Intelligence... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, March 25, 2007

Just some things I think about commercials, and the creative people that put them before our eyes. I suspect that whoever writes the diet food ads with a hippo impersonating Kirsty Alley, is an idiot or thinks that everyone else is. In a different ad a single digit dress size woman says, “If you can eat, you can lose weight!” I’d be willing to bet the whole farm that if you cannot eat, you have stumbled onto the ultimate “ crash weight loss diet.” And we’re not talking six weeks either, to see a... Sign in to see full entry.

Guy's cat "Bonkers" & what she thinks about

I see my ancient cat named Bonkers watching deer out my rear window and am sure that I can tell what she is thinking. She flattens down, motionless but for the end of her tail which switches and twitches behind her. She can tell that deer are a prey species instinctively and by the way they vigilantly watch all around them and sniff each errant breeze for danger. She is suddenly and completely the wild predator she was born to be. Small involuntary sounds eminate from her mouth and her stomach... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Guy's strange dog, from another planet

Yesterday, I was driving to town, doing some adult beverage shopping for me, accompanied by my faithful canine companion Tarbaby. He was given this name because he looks like a dwarf black sheep, a tangled, shaggy-haired ball of fuzz that brings a lot of the outdoors indoors with him. When asked what breed he is, I reply "Half dog, half devil!" Anyway, he assumes that our trips to town are for his pleasure and no other reason. He loves to ride on my arm with his head out the window, with his... Sign in to see full entry.

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