The weather is just unbelievable here again today!

We actually slept with all the windows open all over the house last night — for the first time since last Fall. We (meaning me and many cats) woke up at 4AM to birds singing like crazy and a light breeze blowing through the house. It feels like Summer is really just around the corner.

And my mood is still just off-the-charts fantastic, gang. And adding to my happy mood —

Last week, I got a catalogue in the mail from a company I’d never heard of before. But I saw a couple of dresses in the catalogue that were really pretty so I looked them up online and they were ON SALE that day, with FREE shipping. So I thought, Why not?

I wanted something pretty to wear while in the rehearsal studio for the play in NYC, but I didn’t want anything too fussy or uncomfortable, etc.

Well, the dresses arrived yesterday and they fit perfectly and they were even prettier than they looked in the catalogue!! So I am super excited about that!! I am just so ready for NYC this summer!

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And on the kitten front!

It does appear that all four kittens are females. Even Wee Bonny Billy. So this morning they all got names!!

It started with Calico — the calico kitten who seems to have gotten over her eye problem, but it’s still not 100%.

But since she’s a calico, the old Tommy James song, “Calico” from 1973, always sings in my head when I’m playing with her. So she has been named Calico pretty much from the start.

I loved this song when it was a hit on the AM Radio! I was in the 7th grade:

And since I kinda wanted to keep Wee Bonny Billy’s name —

I decided to name the other kittens after the girls in the old TV show, “Petticoat Junction”!!

Billie Jo, Bobbie Jo, and Betty Jo! So Wee Bonny Billy is now Billie Jo…

Here’s the great theme song from that TV show!! I watched this show religiously in the 1960s!!

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Yesterday was a lovely day here, too, gang. So I took my favorite 94-year-old Japanese man out for sashimi and sake, and guess what??!!

Both of us got double fortunes in our fortune cookies!!

My 2 are on the top (and I’m eagerly awaiting December now…). My client agreed to read his fortunes and he found the top one particularly amusing, since he will be 95 in about 2 months…

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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds played San Francisco last night!

Only one more show before the tour is over! You can buy tickets here to the festival in Pasadena on Saturday.

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Sandra and I had a great informal chat last evening about the script revisions for “The Guide to Being Fabulous”, and she and I are both really excited about everything, gang. Finally — the play as we’d envisioned it! I will keep you posted with details when it’s okay to do that on the blog.

Meanwhile, Peitor is back in Montreal to do some film scoring work, so that means he’s back in my time zone now. And he has several texts awaiting me on WhatsApp that I need to look at before I scoot outta here!

Enjoy your Thursday, gang, wherever you are in the world!!

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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I leave you with this!!

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ “The Witness Song”! From their WONDERFUL album The Good Son. 1990. Enjoy, gang!!

The Witness Song

Yeah, yeah
Well, well
I took a walk down to the port
Where strangers meet and do consort
All blinkered with desire

And a winter fog moved thickly on
A winter fog moved thickly on
A winter fog moved thickly on

Now, who will be the witness
When the fog’s too think to see

And I saw a friend beside a wall
Her hands were raised in supplication
And her face I could not see at all
And I raised my hands in rage
And brought them down again
And we entered through the eastern door
And I entered through the eastern door
And she entered through the eastern door

Now, who will be the witness
When you’re all to blind to see
O yes, yes, yes

And time gets somewhat muddled here
But no matter, no matter
Here come the events all tumbling down
Now, beyond the wall was a great garden
Into which we passed
Me and my friend
And the place was all overgrown with weeds
And behold from its centre there rose a great fountain
The fountain with the healing waters
Yes, the fountain with the healing waters
And we knelt down by the rim
And I dipped my hand in
And she dipped her hand in too
And I said “Are you healed?’
And she said “Well are you healed?”
And I said “Yes, I’m healed”
And she said “Well, yes I’m healed then too”
And I said “Babe, you are a liar”
“Babe, you are a liar”
“Babe, you are a liar, too”
Now, who will be the witness
When you’re all too healed to see?

And I kissed her once, I kissed her twice
And made my way to leave her
And she raised her hand up to her face
And brought it down again
I said “That gesture, it will haunt me”
“That gesture it will haunt me”
And I left there by the eastern door
She left there by the western door

Now, who will be the witness there
When you’re blind and you can’t see
Who will be the witness there
When you’re all so clean and you cannot see
Who will be the witness there
When your friends are everywhere
Who will be the witness there
And your enemies have ceased to care

1990 - Nick Cave