2 posts tagged “joshua lee”
Back in those heady days of 1994 Zina Brown and I took advantage of our local public access TV. We spent about a half hour planning this surrealist game show a few days before shooting it. It took the better half of a Sunday shuttling all over Northfield,MN doing most of the scenes on the fly. I'll edit this post when more of memory kicks in.
We mourn the passing our dearly departed family cat: Logan. In the
same week Norman Mailer charged into the afterlife no two men could be
so disparate. While Mailer stabbed is fourth wife Logan would
patiently sit on the curb eagerly pining for attractive female
students to sit and have a cuddle. Born the runt of his
litter in June of 1990 Logan and his siblings found themselves ready
for adoption at the Rice County Humane Society. Well regarded in
getting most pets adopted but lacking imagination in names, Logan's
original name was Speedy, the county already had him placed in the
care of Adam Lee. Apartment regulation cut Adam & Logan's time short
and Logan would move into Bette & Franklin's house. It was there he
held on to his kitten tendencies long after his peers took to sitting
around and sleeping. He was still attacking sleeping feet at the
virile age of two & a half, 24 in people years. That chronic
immaturity also translated into a sometimes misguided affection. It
was his love for women that we first discovered he liked to jump into
your arms. A sweet lady discovered the hard way that catching him
was part of the act. He grabbed on anyway but was a real good looking
cat by then and got away with it. As a gawky teenager Logan broke the
ice for me. I learned to catch a cat and we had a good thing going.
He would pine at the curb, get the ladies to sit and pet him, I would
come say hello, pat my chest, jump, awwwww. Pretty girls tilted their
head and they were off. There are some limitations to a handsome cat
as your prop. What made it all convincing was that it wasn't an act.
Logan greeted us at the door when we came home. Followed us around,
settled in our laps and woke up the next morning with him in your
arms. As Norman Mailer put it, "There are two kinds of brave men:
those who are brave by the grace of nature, and those who are brave by
an act of will." Whilst Mailer only embodied half of his own
statement he's lucky to even have that much in common with Logan. We all thank you for your life's contribution to our family. Your race well run, your fight well won, a job well done.
