REGGIE WANTS OWT!

Cast: Narrator, Reggie, Bill,

N: It’s daybreak & Reggie awakens,
looks down, & sees Bill’s asleep, then
reaches down with his black right paw
& carefully taps Bill’s white-haired head.

B: Reggie? Yes, I’m almost almost-awake;
& I know what you want; you want to go
R: OWT! B: Yes, I know, to go…out. If
only you had opposable thumbs! You’d
be able to open the door by yourself.

R: OWT! B: At least you know the word.
R: OWT! B: In German it’s “Aus” Reggie.
R: OWT! B: But we’re speaking English.
R: OWT! B: Oh, yes, I’ve heard you now.
R: OWT! B: Let me wake-up Reggie, let
me shave & dress & get your harness.

R: OWT? B: We’re still going out, Reggie,
I’m not ready, unlike you, I’m not dressed.
R: OWT? B: Shave…dress…harness.

N: Bill shaves & dresses. Reggie waits while
Bill takes Reggie’s harness off the hook.
B: Come Mr. Reggie, harness. Sit on my lap.
N: Reggie sits on Bill’s lap as Bill harnesses
him around the neck & under the shoulders.
Reggie leaps to the door & stands grasping
the door-knob with both paws, turning it.

R: OWT! B: Yes, you’re almost doing it by
yourself, Reggie. R: Owt? B: Yes, out. Now.
N: Bill opens the door & Reggie leaps out...
B: I guess I’m learning, Reggie. You’re OUT!

(2B cont.)

(21 JUL 10, Santa Clara CA)v2

Talking thru Lunch

Dr. G. & I chat over cheese-drizzled rolls
dripping with avocado. “I didn’t realize
you hadn’t eaten before” at San Jose's
Cypress St. Senior Citizens’ Center. Me:
“No, I hadn’t; I'd assumed it served
bad cafeteria food, but it doesn’t.”

Dr. G.: “It’s a well-balanced meal.” Me:
“Yes, it is; I was wrong. Have I told you
about my 10p tea-times w/Scottish
Schizophrenics in Dundee city-centre?”
Dr. G.: “Yes. Many times. Great stories.”
Me: “I enjoy every schizy one of them.”

[Honoring Glaswegian Dr. Ronnie Laing]

(20 JUN 10, Santa Clara CA)v4

Boehner-Gingrich haiku

Boehner’s a Grinch w/

a ‘boys’ regular’ haircut,

Gingrich, a Ho Tai*

* http://www.esquire.com/print-this/newt-gingrich-0910?page=all

(16 JUL 10, Santa Clara CA)v3

Whispering from

Whispered from
furthest right:

"B living donors 4
VPOTUS CHENEY,
give red hearts 2
propel him fwd 2
rightest victory..."

Who steps fwd 2?
bakers’ dozens of
walking-dead
Wyomen.


(16 JUL 10, Santa Clara CA)v6

SFSO friends' concert

At yest's packed Friends (donors) SFSO concert,
Dr. Ginny (donor) & I (invitee) sat beside an earnest
young mother(?) who read-aloud every word of the
2pg program notes to her son (?), citing the composers'
(Chopin, Mozart, Piazzola, Profofiev) dates while the
pre-teen boy played w/a small box of miniature
dirt-bikes. During intermission, he fled to the lobby
to play w/them alone.When she puzzled aloud over
why the waltz was considered shocking (in the pgm
notes), I explained to her that the waltz allowed the
man to touch & lift the woman by the waist, shocking
in its early Vienna years, but not since. She didn't
re-explain this detail aloud to the dirt-bike-distracted
boy who asked if they could "have some 'family-time'"
after the concert. We left before the last piece (a
Mozart trio) to get on the 50-mi. hiway back down
to Santa Clara as night was falling.

CHENEY's NoFear (tm)

for Peter Bates

CHENEY’s NoFear™ boggles:
“Don’t sweat it” says CHENEY,
“Steele’s in my pocket, Q-balls
safe & sound. Safer & sounder.”
What does CHENEY mean by it?
Can we decode his cryptic mind?
“What I don’t fear, I don’t doubt”
crypticizes big-daddy CHENEY,
“thanx 2 CHENEY NoFear ™
America rules the whole world.”

(06 JUL 10, Santa Clara CA)v6
for Peter Bates B'Day

Hummus War

Lebanese chefs celebrate around the largest plate of hummus after setting a...

Lebanon on Saturday claimed another victory in the continuing battle with Israel over which country can make the largest plate of the chickpea delicacy hummus -- with a 10-tonne broadside. More than 300 chefs set the new record for hummus, which the Lebanese say is their national dish despite Israeli claims, in the presence of a Guinness World Records representative who confirmed its weight at 10,452 kilograms.

HUMMUS WAR

Chick-peas get ground-up

in an alimentary war between

Lebanon & Israel, but just

where does the hummus go?

Which bank gets to bank it?

How long’s its shelf-life?

(05 JUL 10, Santa Clara CA)