As Corny As Kansas In August

Here I was on Baltimore Avenue near my place, and I stopped to see what was up with the cat. It's a personable adult male who was abandoned on the Calvary Church steps last night. In good health, no ear mites. This man Jurij (like Yuri) lives across the street. I don't know him but he's been around a good while. He can't adopt another cat any more than I can (like me he has three). All I could do was post the cat's picture on facebook and take his phone number.

Also today, a friend of mine was sworn in as a US citizen. I was very disappointed when he told me, because I wished I had attended the ceremony. But then again, I would have been at a loss for which scene to blip.

Which is cornier, an orphan cat left on the steps of a church, then befriended by an old man who's missing a leg, or an anarchist swearing allegiance to the US flag?

The church scene reminds me of Le Reve by Emile Zola. The novel begins and ends on church steps, but he wrote it as an answer to his critics who said he was dogmaticly atheistic and wouldn't know matters of faith from his ass. The book turned out so corny that the same critics said it would make a 9-year old acolyte cringe. It's so corny, in fact, and so bad, that it hasn't been translated into English for about a hundred years! Now that's bad!

Here's a song about feeling corny!

I'm as corny as Kansas in August,
High as a flag on the Fourth of July!
If you'll excuse an expression I use,
I'm in love, I'm in love,
I'm in love, I'm in love,
I'm in love with a wonderful guy!