In April of '08, many of you followed my exploits here as I attempted — without much success for a long time — to trap a pregnant feral cat that I've been feeding in my backyard. The first post on the subject was here and then I kept you and the world updated as I schemed and plotted to catch said pussycat and haul her off to a vet to be unpregnanted...and to make sure she stayed that way. If you read forward for a week or two, you'll see how I finally (finally!) succeeded.
Every now and then, someone writes to ask of Lydia and to see if she still comes 'round every night to be fed here. Yes, she does. The above photo was taken not two hours ago. Lydia is one of four strays (plus occasional guest stars) who dine nightly on my back step and occasionally turn up during the day. She's very nervous...as I guess I'd be if someone had done to me what I did to her. But she seems very happy and if you don't make any sudden moves, quite affectionate.
That's about all I have to report...but since folks ask, I thought I'd report what I had to report.
Here's an old clip of my buddy Ronn Lucas on one of the many Smothers Brothers shows. One night in a restaurant in Laughlin, Nevada, he and I were sitting and talking about his various routines and he started doing this thing he does (you'll see it in the video) where he essentially talks out of sync with himself. It's quite eerie in person and when a busboy came by to refill my water glass and heard it, he missed the glass and poured the water into my lap. I tipped him extra for it.
You're probably wondering what the deal is with this David Letterman scandal. This article seems to have the most complete info on it.
Do we think this will hurt Mr. Letterman's career any? Not one bit. Not unless one of the staff members in question charges non-consensual relations or job-related pressuring or something really, really kinky. What it will do to Dave's personal life is anybody's guess and nobody's business.
Is this kind of thing — the star of a TV show sleeping with members of his staff — unusual? No...though I'm not sure it's any more prevalent than the boss in a non-show-biz operation consorting with underlings. What's unusual is us finding out about it. Usually, such goings-on are pretty well hidden or overlooked when they go on. An actress friend of mine used to claim — and I absolutely believed her — that she once had a string of six consecutive auditions that included six consecutive sexual advances, many involving grabbing, from six very big stars with six very wholesome reputations. She developed a theory that the more a star marketed himself as a faithful husband and family man, the more likely he was to ask her to impersonate Linda Lovelace.
Anyway, as I Twittered, it looks like Dave won't be doing a lot of jokes in the future about congressmen who cheat on their wives. Or presidents who cheat with interns.
October 1, 2009
