Friendly reminder, if you'd like to sponsor me for this year's AIDS Walk, please do so 
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Almost to my goal for the year…
Hugs are accepted in lieu of cash donations
I have to buy some fat boy clothes, NONE of my summer clothes fit 
I’m starting to get worried, I think it may be time for Tina to go across the bridge :(
She still is happy and she still likes to play and be held, and she still eats. She will no longer use the litter box nor will she use the pee-pee pads so she heads for the nearest flat floor (tiled or hardwood floor, she avoids rugs and the pee-pads) and just goes on the bare floor. The problem is, that she then falls over into all the urine and it becomes a mess.
I feel so badly for her It feels so wrong to put her to sleep
I don’t know what to do for my sweet little friend. It seems inhumane to put her to sleep because she has accidents. Plus I have nowhere near the $400 I need to put her down
My database at work has slowed to a crawl while I run an Update Query, so I thought I would do an Update here.
My kind landlord drove me over to Lowe's to pick up some plants for the backyard.
I got two kinds of tomatoes, basil, cilantro, a flat of petunia's, catnip (this may be a mistake based on the number of feral cats in my neighborhood), cucumber, two different kinds of hot peppers, watermelon & pumpkin seeds, carrot seeds and some corn seeds. I also have a few different kind of sunflower seeds which I am going to plant all around the yard. I also bought a blueberry bush.
There's really no existing garden in my yard, it's just a mess of weeds and grass, mostly weeds I would love to turn the whole thing into a garden similair to what my next door neighbor has done, but I just don't want to put that kind of effort into a place I don't own.
I'm just digging up a few patches in different locations for the planting, though I have to figure out where I'm going to put the corn. I thought I could do a single row of corn but the seed packet reccomends at least four rows for good cross pollination.
The herbs and catnip will go in some clay pots around my patio. I still need to get some type of water feature (love the sound of running water) but that will have to wait a few paychecks as money is very tight right now.
The real reason for my visit to Ferncliff today.
Actually, several of my favorite singers are buried in the NYC area so I hope to pay a visit to them all in the next few months. Cemeteries are one of my favorite places to visit.
This afternoon I paid a Mother's Day Visit to the most famous Mother of them all
Hey, I may not be the smartest guy but I can take a hint!
And I have.
I got a ticket for Kylie, however I had to go on Monday night October 12th which is the just added.
However, everyone I know who's going is going on Sunday night.
Been crazy lately, if anyone is still out there
A few things to remember.
Finally got to see
April 17th, had dinner at Craft - which is Tom Colicchio's restaurant (he being of Top Chef fame). It was a great dinner. Lots and lots of food had, tasted and shared amongst our group of 6 people.
Saw Next to Normal, it was dreadful despite the presence of Alice Ripley. Went over to the Shubert Stage Door after to see if we Angela Lansbury would make an appearance at the stage door. She did not, but
Saw Film Ist: A Girl & A Gun at the Tribeca Film Festival with
May 1st, I had dinner at The Maze, which is Gordon Ramsey's casual dining restaurant in The London Hotel. The food was pretty good, but desert was amazing. I had carrot cake with walnut ice cream. My friend had mango parfait with douglas fir sorbet, which was delicious. I may have to try making some come Christmas 
Also on the 1st, saw 9 to 5: The Musical. Had a really enjoyable time, in fact I found myself wondering if I had seen the same show the critics pretty much ripped apart. Best Line in the show: Doralee says “I wanted to run for President but then realized there were already bigger boobs in the White House”.
Monday the 4th. I finally moved!
Tonight I passed up the opportunity to see West Side Story, to come home and get settled. I also desperately wanted to check up on my cats who were pretty freaked out by the move. All seems to have calmed down amongst the felines now, but Mimi is still being very clingy.
Thursday April 2nd, I had the chance to see Yoko Ono at the Guggenheim.
The evening began with a short speech by Alexandra Munroe talking about Yoko’s accomplishments. At the end of her speech she said, with any luck hopefully Yoko will be here soon and returned to her seat in the auditorium (it was tiny, smaller than even most high school auditorium).
A few minutes later, Yoko walked onstage and sat down in one of two chairs off to the side of the stage.
Yoko spoke for a few moments and then showed two interesting videos. The first showed footage of her parents and herself as a youngster in Japan, and footage from when they lived in San Francisco. There was a very cute clip of Yoko dancing in Golden Gate Park, and she pointed out in the background that the Golden Gate Bridge was not yet completed.
The second video was about the Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland. It talked about how in the 60s John had asked her to build a lighthouse at his home, Ascot. However, she didn’t know how to do it. She eventually came up with the idea of the tower of light, so it gets lit every year from October 9th until December 8th. October 9th being John’s birthday and December 8th being the day he died.
After the second video, Yoko walked to a chair sitting in the middle of the stage and announced. “This is a chair, but I don’t know it’s a chair.” She spent the next several minutes trying to figure out exactly what it was. She created various shapes with the chair, and set it in different angles to her body. She laid down on the floor and at one point lifted her legs up over her head and touched them onto the floor behind her head. It made her look, well, rather like the chair. When she was done, she said that she and the chair were now friends. It was an interesting thing to watch.
I wish I could have taken a few pictures, but the staff of the Guggenheim were on the lookout for anyone taking any type of pictures.
At this point, Alexandra Munroe returned to the stage for a brief discussion with Yoko. At some point during their disussion, two people in black bags crawled up onto the stage and remained there for the rest of the evening. They were in constant motion, crawling and moving and rolling around the stage. I assume this was a reference to bagism(one of Yoko’s early performance art pieces, and mentioned by John in the song Give Peace A Chance).
At different times Yoko would pick up binoculars or opera glasses to look at them through, and she would turn them onto the audience as well. She also had a few of the ONOCHORD lights, and was flashing I love you to the audience at various times.
They then took questions from the audience. At this point, two men walked up onto the stage with yardsticks and balls of yarn. While the audience member asked a question, the first man would measure out the yarn on the yardstick until the question was complete, at which point he would cut the yarn and place it in a fishbowl. The second man did the same thing with his yarn, only he did it while Yoko was answering the question. At the end they carried the fishbowls off the stage, but I was wondering what they would do with them. Maybe someday I’ll find out
I don’t really remember most of the questions, but one did stick out in my mind. A young man said that he was a visual artist, but it was discouraging to him that he felt everything had been done already. He said when he had an idea for something he would do research on it only to find it had been done by someone else.
Yoko’s answer was she believed that once a piece of art was done, it was over and could be created again. Therefore, nothing really had ever been created. I’m not sure why, I just found that to be something I’ve been thinking about since.
After Yoko took the last question, an easel was carried on the stage and a picture of a large urn placed on it. Two stagehands carried a folded sheet onstage and opened it to reveal pieces of the urn. Yoko said that she had broken the urn, and she wanted us each to take a piece of it home and in ten years we would reunite and put the pieces back together.
As an aside, at some point Alexandra mentioned that she had recently been at Yoko’s apartment and been privileged to hear Yoko’s new album, which is called Lovesong or Lovesongs. She said it would be out in the next few months.
Yoko is always influencing new art and artists and musicians. The Pet Shop Boys’ new album is called “Yes”. It’s an homage to Yoko’s art piece that led to her meeting of John Lennon. The piece was a ladder that you climbed and then picked up a magnifying glass to read a tiny word on the ceiling of the gallery, the word was “Yes”.
My friend Christopher mentioned how influential Yoko’s song “Walking On Thin Ice” was, including the music video which she directed. It was also responsible for my becoming interested in John Lennon. His guitar playing on the song was the final thing he ever recorded, and it’s said when he was shot, he was holding the final mix of it in his hands.
Here’s a link to the video, I couldn’t get the embed from MySpace to work.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=18339410
