Oh, I Think So

So what do you like? you might ask me.  Like if you were roaming around You Tube, looking at stuff, what would you look at? you might ask me.  Since you've asked so nicely, I will share. You Tube has cats.  Lots and lots cats.  I like to look at some cats but not too many cats.  Maru is a Japanese cat who lives in or near Tokyo.  He loves boxes, his owners love him, they love putting his antics on You Tube, people love cats on You Tube, a star is born.  I used to subscribe to Maru's You Tube channel but it's someone else's cat and he is like cartoon-cat pretty but I will never be able to give him a sweet kitty hug.  There seem to be limitless boxes in Japan; still Maru is just a cute cat who does cute cat things.  I unsubscribed. You Tube has Jenna Marbles.  Jenna Marbles is a cute, well educated young woman who has managed to make a career out of her You Tube videos about her life and her imperfections and her two sweet little dogs....

I was going through the photos on my computer, trying to find a photo I'd scanned to use as wallpaper.  I found a lot of photos of myself.  Over a period of two years, I took a picture of myself every day.  For the first year, I used my first digital camera -- an Olympus that was a mighty workhorse for years, never gave me a problem, and let me pass it along to someone to use.  For the second year, I used the Photo Booth feature on my computer.  I eventually just stopping the daily photos but it makes me think of my friend who passed away in 1988 from AIDS. Eddis was a handsome man, tall and slender with medium brown hair, from Grand Rapids, Michigan, a first-generation American born of Latvian parents.  We met in college doing theatre.  It was a production of some Winnie-the-Pooh play or other.  I got to wear a great costume and be over the top.  I also became friends with Eddis, who played the narrator and was handsome offstage for the wh...

I've been wracking my brain trying to come up with something and today, I got nothing. Therefore, I will be lazy.  I will vacuum my brain and perhaps an idea will be there in the dust and mini-debris chunks.  I have a week to examine the findings. There will be an offering next week.

And so fall arrives.  We've enjoyed some great very warm weather interspersed with the storms one gets with warm weather and I have enjoyed it.  High humidity?  Great!  I love it because it makes my hair all large.  No jackets, cute little shoes, windows open at night -- all the lovely benefit of a surprising longer summer. Then summer admits it's stayed too long, tooooo long, waaaaaay too long and bye.  Summer flees without a goodbye and we get the glorious cooler weather of autumn.  Fall in the midwest with the painted trees and the dazzling puffy clouds that make their way to somewhere that's not here, a cumulus nimbus march of the seasons. Winter hovers, friends, with its need for a warm coat, a hat, gloves/mittens, a scarf, thick socks, boots with a lot of tread, long-sleeved garments, thicker-weight pants, and, for the truly frozen among us, long underwear.  Crack out the walking sticks if you have 'em!  (Yes, I have 'em and I use '...

The Bears are playing the Lions at Ford Field.  As a native Detroiter, once might think I have sentimental allegiance to the Lions.  Not just no, but hell no.  Go, Bears! Last week we talked about being a new friend.  Today I want to tip my hat to a co-worker who is a also friend and the kind, generous, wonderful thing he did for me. My younger niece came to visit a few months back and brought along her boyfriend.  He described going into a bar to meet someone and suddenly all the lights went low, the crowd got quiet, and all the TVs were turned to AMC.  It was "Walking Dead" night at the bar and from how his description, it was a good time. I don't watch that particular zombie apocalypse offering but I do have a cable show I like.  I don't subscribe to cable.  I am strictly a network-TV person and would never be able to afford the amount of money premium cable demands.  (I have friends who are "Game of Thrones" fans and my eyes about ...

Before I go on, let me say, "Believe in Monsters."  Go Bears! I had a friend whom we will call William and he was one of those people whose looks were so unusual and intriguing that he was catapulted into the category of handsome.  He was naturally thin and had white hair which he made whiter by using a shampoo with a bleaching agent.  He started going white when he was just 16 and decided not to fight it.  It was what added him to the handsome category. He had a very strong personality.  All his friends had strong personalities, including me.  The personalities were all different which made for rollicking discussions, laughs, and performances, since most of us were in theater at the time.  His personality and his looks attracted a lot of people. This is not about any of those friends.  This is about a new friend who came on the scene and decided she was the head friend and her friends were, therefore, his friends, and the rest of us were ju...

Thin, lanky, looks-like-he-does-yoga, ex-CFL coach and now NFL Bears coach Marc Trestman started off the season with a win at Soldier Field.  The Bears are at home again this week against the Minnesota Vikings.  It's raining today.  It will be raining at kickoff, half time, and when people leave the stadium to go home.  Fingers crossed for another win. Meanwhile, I am feeling super bla today.  So let's look at this funky picture I took last weekend at a baby shower. The happy parents-to-be were given a tiki-themed party on the rooftop of a condo building on the Near South side.  The views were tremendous.  Soldier Field, the lake, downtown, even the western skies and some seriously wonderful clouds -- all were in view and this was just the 5th floor.  There weren't a lot of high rises too terribly nearby which made for the great view.  The tiki-themed food was tasty but most amazing was the entire roasted pig.  This had to be 50 poun...