February – 2010 – Got the Jimmy Legs

Monthly Archives: February 2010

Do onto neighbors what you do to yourself

I firmly believe that a leading economic indicator of recovery can be traced directly to the adoption of pets from shelters and foster families. We have just adopted out our third cat in the year 2010, which, I am almost embarrassed to say, is equal to the number of cats we adopted out in the […]

All is lost/It's all right

Motico, my band, has been quietly (yet loudly) been recording and finishing up our album over the past few months. We finally had the recordings mastered last week (in between job interviews and cat-trapping!) The results are, obviously, awesome. This is the first time we recorded in 'real' studios and had things handled by people […]

Get in the van

After a hiatus of cat-fixing of several months, I was finally able to get Jumbee and Carlos done last week, thanks to the help of NYSeiler and Lari from Care for Cats, Inc. My access to the mobile spay vans that had fixed most of our cats was essentially lost, so I'd been scratching my […]

I can see my lifetime piling up

The thing that always bugs me about snow is everybody's reaction to it. When it's imminent, everybody gets excited, running around to the store in anticipation of getting trapped in their homes (hey, some of us face this prospect daily), or the interest in seeing the beauty of snow-covered garbage or something. But the day […]

Now it's all covered with daisies

While some of us (me!) struggle to find work, others in the neighborhood are newly employed. I just found out that a Little Caesar's has opened up the street from me, on Broadway between Jefferson and Cornelia. This is a few blocks off my usual beaten path (it's about halfway between the Halsey and Gates […]