Wednesday, May 6, 2009 River News-Herald & Isleton Journal Page A7 HEEL ‘N’ PAWS BY JODY G Together Through Life: Play the Accordion while the Cities Burn When is National Pet Week? By Jesse Lanum This week, May 3rd LANDING ON THEIR live out their natural life having through 9th. PAWS their basic survival needs met. cold blooded killer “Dreams never did work complemented by some Why try to help street cats? Love is a bonus. Again, how stalking the town/Cop for me anyway even when they excellent mandolin playing. ur Humane Society, can we help manage our cars blinkin’, something did come true.” Imagine Charles Aznavour at shelters and animal The words ringing in my abandoned (sometimes Abad going down “I Feel a Change Comin’ the end of his life crooning support groups are ears are “cats are survivors.” persecuted) homeless cats? Buildings are crumbling in On” is the real masterpiece of bitter sweetly to the barflies in Oasking us to check in with them Yes, cats are great in helping to We can speak UP for our the neighborhood/But there’s the album, though “This Dream “The Iceman Cometh.” It’s a on volunteer opportunities. keep our city’s rodent animal friends. We can sign a nothing to worry about, ‘cause of You” comes in a close sad tune. “I passed the old Volunteers are sorely needed at population down. They can petition to support our nation’s it’s all good second. David Hidalgo of Los schoolyard/Admitting life is local shelters, and helping all hunt for food and seek out Humane Society TNR (trap, It’s all good, I say it’s all Lobos lends his accordion to hard/Without you near me.” It groups with community water and shelter. Yet, not all neuter, return) programs for good. Whoo! the songs. He gives the whole also brings to mind Yeats’s outreach for our nation’s cats cats and kittens are survivors. homeless cats. I’ll have So rings the penultimate album a dusty, boarder town “Among School Children,” and dogs. There are many Why not? petitions available at key stanza of Bob Dylan’s new feel. Many of the songs would with the exception that this choices of hands on services Cats can find it very locations and will let you know album “Together Through be at home in a Sam Peckinpah weary traveler knows exactly we can provide besides walking difficult to try and mix with a when and where the first week Life.” The apocalypse is in score. Maybe Dylan is hoping what it all meant. the dogs and socializing with colony of feral cats. Try to of June. sight, and he’s made peace with for a Pat Garret and Billy the “Forgetful Heart” is the cats. keep in mind that cats you can We can attend a city hall it. Whatever happens is part of Kid remake. another gem on the album, Foster and/or permanents pet were probably living in a meeting on TNR and a plan that ultimately ends well, The 67-year-old pays which sounds similar to “Ain’t homes continue to be very home with daily food and brainstorm on how to help city as in the Book of Revelation, homage to the greats on this Talkin’” from the Modern much needed and greatly water. Generally, dominant residents and our city’s where God sets up His album as he has been doing for Times album. Some are saying appreciated. males and aggressive females homeless cat population. Kingdom on earth after chaos a while now. The song “My that “Forgetful Heart” comes Did I hear someone say, I chase off domestic cats and The USA Humane Society and mayhem, after the beast, Wife’s Home Town” uses the from The Works of John have allergies? If you want to kittens. Un-neutered cats that is actively pushing for all after sickness and women music from Willie Dixon’s “I Bunyan Volume I: “Wouldest provide a home to a dog, you haven’t been fixed may be communities, veterinarians and running for the hills. They all Just Want to Make Love to thou grow in the grace of fear? may want to consider a poodle broken in spirit and angry. A City officials to take action and get their place in the new You.” On “I Feel a Change then take heed of a thought to be hypoallergenic. rude reminder- nature is often support efforts made to provide album. Dylan has been Comin’ On,” Dylan’s voice FORGETFUL HEART.” The The Obama family’s dog, the cruel within our animal rescue and outreach to “lookin’ the world over/looking brightens as he sails on top of connection here is a little Portuguese Water Dog, also kingdom. abandoned, at times abused, far off into the east,” and he the accordion, “I’m listening to vague, but Dylan often borrows won’t add to your sneezing and Sometimes there isn’t any and unwanted feline sees his baby coming with the Billy Joe Shaver and I’m from antique poetry. Some of running nose. tolerance for new young blood population. village beast. reading James Joyce/Some Modern Times was taken from You really like cats but or adult guests in a colony. Thank you for your help! Women often stand as people tell me I’ve got the an obscure Civil War poet. can’t take a chance on the fur Look at us. We’re also fighting Until the first week of June, surrogate for Jesus or Satan in blood of the land in my voice.” There’s a lot of Texas in balls? I suggest you select a over personal space and feeling happy trails. Happy Mother’s Dylan’s songs, well, at least For whatever reason, the best the new album. It plays out in cat with sleek and very short overcrowded in our now less Day! since his late seventies phrase on the album. It’s a a last chance saloon fur. And, using an inexpensive than golden state of California. (Many dogs and cats are conversion to Christianity perfect juxtaposition. Shaver somewhere. Outside the bar flea comb, it only takes a Sadly, too many unwanted waiting for a new mom. Don’t (think of the recent Modern is known to be the least are post apocalyptic couple of minutes to run the cats and kittens never get a forget- the gifts are many with Times song “Someday Baby”). pretentious writer while Joyce “boulevards of broken cars,” comb gently thru the cat or chance to land on their feet! pet ownership, including non In the late seventies, his lyrics may be the most- two giants on which would not be unusual in kitten’s fur to release loose fur, Like us human critters, cats conditional love.) were transparent. Since the opposite ends of the spectrum. pre apocalyptic small town dander and remove flea eggs. want to be given a chance to eighties, they have become Yet, both embody their endemic Texas. According to the more veiled. He doesn’t regions better than their Douglas Brinkley interview, profess/confess his faith as counterparts. Joyce wanted Dylan told French Pres. often or as unequivocally. As readers to be able to piece Sarkozy, “I’m from the Lone A Common Sense Approach to he sang on the Love and Theft Dublin together solely from his Star state.” He later gave him album, “Already confessed no writings, if they ever had to, an antique Texas belt buckle. need to confess again.” and few question Shaver as the The anthem of the album Don’t look for Dylan American South incarnate. is the pre-released “Beyond Avoid Illness playing characters in these Some folks say Dylan has the Here Lies Nothing,” which By: M. Etchieson Rio Vista Fire Department songs. According to Bob in his blood of the land in his voice. plays unlike anything else recent interview with Bill In his autobiography, Dylan that’s been recorded in the past Flanagan, “Wait a minute, Bill. tells us that he learned what he thirty or forty years. Jack n recent weeks a new virus you cough or sneeze have any severe symptoms I’m not a playwright. The needed to know about writing Kerouac said that the only time similar to influenza has • Cover your cough such as trouble breathing. If people in my songs are all me.” reading newspaper clippings he’d heard music played loud been detected in countries • Do not re-use tissues; you would like further Keep this in mind as you’re from Civil War Era America. enough was in Mexico. You Iaround the world. This new throw used tissues away information on this virus please listening to the sometimes In “Life is Hard,” the may want to head down there virus, H1N1, otherwise known immediately contact The Rio Vista Fire woeful revelations that will second song on the album, to plug it in. as “swine flu” has shown signs • Avoid touching your eyes, Department at 374-2233 or surely burn the ears of aspiring Dylan strains his voice to of spreading through large nose or mouth. Germs spread visit www.cdc.gov/swineflu young Dylanites, like the one in closely follow the guitar geographic regions. As of May this way www.cdph.ca.gov “I Feel a Change Comin’ On.” melody, which is 4, there has only been one • Avoid close contact with fatality linked to this virus and sick people it was a 22month old in Texas. • If you get sick stay home The vast amount of media from work or school and limit coverage of this virus has contact with others caused many people in our Some of the signs and symptoms community a great deal of of H1N1 concern.