I turned my wall calendar to May this morning, and lo & behold (!!), tomorrow is circled and it says I’m going to see Nick Cave!!

(See every single post for the last month if you don’t know what I’m talking about.)

Anyway!!

Yes!

It’s officially May!! Yay!!

Here’s a photo of my cutie from a few minutes ago. This is the kitten whose 2 back legs didn’t develop, they are just stumps, but what a cutie! He is smaller than his litter mates, but he can still get around just fine. I’m keeping him and have decided to call him Wee Bonny Billy (or Wee Bonny Billie, if it’s a girl). (I feel certain it will notice how it’s name is spelled.)

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Okay, gang!!! We’re on a roll, regarding feedback for our pilot script!

Another European production company “loved it” and said it was “so much fun”!!!

Peitor and I still have a lot of work to do on the overall promo package. Plus, we’re gearing up to write episode 2.

And I just got assigned another new client yesterday — such a sweet man. He’s already in a facility, but it’s a facility that I really like. The staff there are really, really nice.

Here’s something interesting — when I got to his room yesterday afternoon and met him for the first time, I immediately felt like I recognized him. That I knew him, but I can’t imagine from where and his name is unfamiliar to me.

But when his wife introduced me to him, he looked at me really intensely and said, “I know you, don’t I? I recognize you.”

Since he is cognitively impaired, I didn’t want to confuse him, so I didn’t say what I was also thinking. But, interesting, right?

Anyway, I digress!

I was basically saying that I got really, really busy again.

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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds played Milwaukee last night and honestly, gang, from some of the videos, it looked like Nick was having a really great time.

From last night:

I’m not sure where they’re playing tomorrow night — I think Columbus, Ohio — but I’m pretty sure tickets are still available!! Buy them here.

And here’s this, just because I love this song and every time I see the word “Milwaukee” I start singing it!!! So now you can, too!! (I love Rod Stewart’s version.)

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Okay, what else is May First celebrated for??

Yes, this:

And about 30 years later — this! Me and Wayne:

This morning, I texted him this! (1 minute):

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And 50 years ago today!! From Ronnie Wood’s new eNewsletter:

I remember this day so well, gang!!!! I was 14 years old, and I was babysitting in the afternoon and reading a TIME magazine that had some of these very photos in it!! I absolutely loved Ronnie Wood and was so thrilled that he was joining the Rolling Stones. And I couldn’t wait to see their upcoming concert. I already had tickets to see them in Cleveland.

And just FYI, after I already had the tickets…

MY MOTHER: “You’re not going all the way to Cleveland to see the Rolling Stones!”

ME: “Yes, I am.”

Guess who won?

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And I’m thinking that’s it for today because I gotta scoot!!

Enjoy your Thursday, wherever you are in the world.

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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I still love this song! Wayne & I walked back up the aisle to this song, after being declared “husband and wife”.

Enjoy, gang!

What a beautiful morning today! (And, no, I’m not going to say: why can’t this be Friday?? But, you know — why can’t this be Friday??)

Anyway. Enough complaining about Friday’s upcoming weather…

Today is lovely. And I’m working with 2 clients today, so it will at least be a nice day for driving around.

And assuming that my favorite 94-year-old Japanese client has his dentures again (!!), we will be having sashimi once more, at:

He’s going to be very excited. All last week, he would ask:

HE: “When are we going back for sashimi?”

ME: “As soon as you have teeth.”

So, here’s hoping all went well at the dentist yesterday.

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Well, last night, was interesting!

It was after 8pm, I was already in bed, lights out, watching a movie, when I got a text from the guy down the road who takes care of my cats when I’m away.

TEXT: I’ll be there in a few minutes!

ME (to myself): Oh shit!

MY TEXT: Please forgive my appearance!

I had been expecting him to come over around 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon, so I had long since given up on him. But I need to show him the setup with the kittens and introduce him to Little Blackie before Friday.

So out of bed I got. Over my summer nightgown, I put on my worn out but beloved flannel robe (it belonged to a man I loved who died so I refuse to part with it) and my well-worn Isotoner slippers. Then KonTiki and I stood out on my kitchen porch and waited for him.

Here’s hoping I looked really alluring in the street lights because quite a few cars and pickup trucks drove by, which is really unusual for my little village.

Anyway. He gets along great with all the cats, but, wow, did he love those kittens!

They were out of their little playpen and toddling around. Little Blackie hid under the bed, but the kittens really responded well to him. So that’s good.

Okay, I digress.

The “interesting” part was that it’s been a while since I’d even had a conversation (in person) with someone who isn’t really old and cognitively impaired in some way — least of all, in my bedroom. And who actually knows me as something besides a caregiver. (He’s known me now for about 3 years.)

He’s about 35 years old, married, with a young son who has severe autism. He’s really nice and really reliable with my cats. And he just lives right down the road.

But we were in my room — it was his first time in there. And at one point, his focus wandered from the kittens and he turned around and saw my desk — more specifically, he saw all the PHOTOS I have stuck on the wall all around my desk. And he was completely awestruck.

He said, “Whoa! This is sick!!” [If you’re as ancient as I am, that translates to: “Wow, this is so cool!”]

He looked at every single photo, and really was just kind of swept away by all of it. He just loved it and it really sort of surprised me.

A view of my desk, circa November 2024:

After he left, it struck me that it has been a really long time since anyone at all has been in my room — besides my birth mom. And that kind of made me sad. It used to be that everyone was in my room, in various cities, because it’s always been my office, as well. Colleagues, freinds, relatives, lovers — everyone was always in my room.

But it’s part of not only aging, but living in the middle of nowhere when everyone I know, who is still alive, lives someplace else.

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Okay!

Here’s this. I don’t know from which concert:

And, as always, you can buy tickets here for the upcoming shows — including Columbus!!

And now I gotta scoot because I am officially running late!!

Enjoy your Wednesday, wherever you are in the world!

Thanks for visiting!

I love you guys. See ya!

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Willie Nelson’s new CD arrived yesterday, and it’s really beautiful. All the songs are written by Rodney Crowell. Here’s another one of them. Enjoy.

Yes, assuming nothing horrifyingly unexpected happens in the next couple of hours, I’m planning to go back to the shooting range today.

However–

I’ve decided to drop back to a 22mm today. Last time I was there with the 9mm, my arms and neck and shoulders were sore for 3 days.

Since I’m not planning to join the military or go hunting or kill anybody, I’m going to slow down and see if that helps my nearly-65-year-old body handle the impact of shooting 50 bullets. We shall see!

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Okay, *creepy alert* !

I found this while changing out the training pad in the kittens’ playpen yesterday!

Yes, it’s the tiny, shriveled, dead back paw that finally fell off of the little grey kitten a couple days ago!

I actually have a little blue porcelain box wherein I keep tiny body-part things that have fallen off of my kittens or cats in the past.

I know it’s creepy, but for some reason, I can’t part with them. I can’t simply just “throw them in the trash”.

I imagine that one day, after I’m dead and someone is going through all my things, they will look into the little blue porcelain box and say: “What the fuck are these??!!” And then they will perhaps be reluctant to go through anything else.

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On a fristrating note (often spelled “frustrating” but I don’t see any reason to constantly conform; life’s hard enough) — the weather for Columbus on Friday has turned bad again!!

RAIN!! Although, with milder temperatures than were initially predicted. But still it’s that rain thing that I’m so fed up with!

(See yesterday’s post if you have no clue what I’m talking about.)

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All right!!

I want to thank whoever’s buying the eBook edition of After Hours: The Best of Marilyn Jaye Lewis, published back in 2012. (It was first published by Robinson UK, but is now owned by Hachette UK.)

It is suddenly charting again in the sales ranking so I thank whoever’s buying it! (If you haven’t read it yet and would like to, here’s the Kindle edition. It is not in print.)

And, NO, that is not my tummy. My tummy has never, ever, ever looked like that.

It is really interesting though how, over the decades, people just assumed that I posed for my own book covers. Which sort of just shocked me.

That is not to say that there aren’t some random Polaroids floating around out there from my wild & bonny 30s that aren’t kind of spectacular though…

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Okey-doke!!

Another one from the Philly show!

Tonight’s show is in Chicago and it is sold out. But so far, tomorrow’s show still has some seats available. Buy tickets here!

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And here’s this–

A sort of random quote from Keith Richards’ autobiography, Life, that I found on Instagram last night. (If you have not read Life from 2011 — wow, what a great book. A mere 576 pages, and I did not want it to ever end and I could not put it down!)

This is from right after he finally got off heroin for good and was gearing up for the Stones’ 1978 tour:

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And I believe that’s it for now!

I will pop back in with an update on my bullseyes later!

Meanwhile, have a great Monday, wherever you are in the world!!

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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I leave you with this!

For some (nice) reason, there’s been a sudden uptick in people listening to this song on my YouTube music channel! Thank you very much!

This is a song from 1994, and it was included on a promotional CD I did for Joe Queenan’s comedy/murder mystery movie for cable TV, 12 Steps to Death. (I wrote the closing song for the movie — “One Step Closer”.)

Anyway. Here is “Something Like the Railroad”, from 1994. There is a one-minute guitar thingie before the song actually starts. Thank you and enjoy, gang!

If you celebrate it, I hope you’re having a happy Easter, wherever you are in the world!

It’s a lovely day here today and all I have to do today is sit in front of my laptop for unending HOURS and make the final revisions to the TV pilot script!!

Oh, and do laundry, and take care of 2-week-old semi-disabled kittens, and stare into space and wonder how this became my life...

OOPS! Not sure how that got in there…

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Okay!

Last night, I finished watching “Days” by Tsai Ming-liang (2020).

The film is 2 hrs 7 mins and has no dialogue at all. And the genre (the genre of all of his films) is slow cinema. Meaning, minimalist with very long takes. (HUGE emphasis on “very long”.)

I’m not sure why I love his films so much, but I find them mesmerizing. And I love that the “plots” are entirely unpredictable.

Metrograph currently has one more film by Tsai Ming-liang, “Stray Dogs,” (2013) on their site. I’m planning to watch that one tonight. It sounds like it is going to be depressing, though, so I’m not sure how that’s going to go but we’ll see. His filmmaking style is so mesmerizing, that it will likely win out over the depressing plot.

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I just want to mention one thing more about my favorite 94-year-old Japanese client — when I was with him yesterday, he remembered EVERYTHING from our trip to have lunch in the restaurant at the golf course on Good Friday!!

This is astounding, gang, since he has very little short-term memory left. Just incredible. He remembered it all. If you’re a long-time reader of this lofty blog, you’ll recall that I’ve been planning this trip for months now — I was just waiting for the perfect weather and for everything to turn green. I knew he would enjoy it, but I was not prepared for just how much it would affect him. (And, subsequently, how that affected me.)

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Okay. I only have one photo from Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ show in Detroit last night. Not because there weren’t a ton of great photos and videos to choose from, but because I love how his hair looks here!!!!!

They will be in Washington DC on Monday. You can buy tickets here.

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All right. Well. I have a ton of work to get to on the script, so I’m gonna go downstairs and check on the progress with the laundry, then get started.

Enjoy your Easter, if you celebrate it, otherwise, just have a great Sunday, gang.

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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I leave you with this!

Originally from 1967, a short film made by Peter Whitehead for the Rolling Stones’ song, “We Love You,” centered around the infamous drug bust at Keith’s home, Redlands, and then Brian’s bust later that year. (remastered in 2021). Enjoy, gang.