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2016 RESOLUTIONS 

The year of Scout! Train puppy to be a good home dog and road dog. 
Coordinate distribution of Jazz Noir to radio and reviewers. 
Prepare fresh DMG sets. Focus touring mostly in the northwest region. 
Fewer gigs, higher fees, larger audiences. 
Get back to playing long tones every day. Make it a habit. 
Continue to eat right, exercise, lose weight and build muscle. 
Take good care of Sassy, Scout, Ninji, Boo and the Fortress of Sassitude.  
Plant a vegetable garden and a Japanese Maple. 
Don’t be afraid. Play your way. Find your voice. 
Get out from under the master’s shadow. It’s time.

PARTY GAMES 



When desert temperatures climb well into the triple digits, Dr. D recommends staying indoors, cranking up the air conditioner, and inventing your own party games for both people and pets.

Following are the names of some of the summertime activities we enjoy here at the Maricopa Cabana:

Boo Ball
Feline Conga Line
Chandler's Got Talent
Scooby Snack Stash House (aka Omar's Coming)
Controlled Demolition
Gilbert Girls Gone Wild
Sparkle Motion
Somnial Pursuit (aka Sassy Tag)
Bobbing for Validation
Carpe DM
False Flag Football
What-What?
Manifest Destiny's Child
Kitty Cat Casting Couch
Rock' Em Sock 'Em Lolcats
Fox in the Hen House
Absinthe Pong
Hide & Critique
Circus Cats
Tent City Tryouts
Mister Plow
Twenty Accusations
Rationalization Roulette
Shadow Assimilation Showdown
Cyberotica Charades
Scrabulous Glossolalia
Sad Libs
Six Degrees of Kenny Dorham
Bi-Polar Express (aka Charlie Sheen Trampoline)
Big Game Hunter
Sagebrush Rebellion (aka Razing Arizona)
Bebop Mall Cops (aka Jazz Judge & Jury)
Redneck Rehab (aka Hillbilly Homeschool)
Selective Abstraction
Confirmation Bias Bingo
Antisocial Media Mogul
Medicine Cabinet Scavenger Hunt
Pin the Blame on the Wealthy

CAT FANCY 



I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
~Edgar Allan Poe

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
~Friedrich Nietzsche

A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.
~William S. Burroughs

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
~Mark Twain

If you really want to learn about life, get a cat. Because the world is his.
~James Cromwell

Everything comes to those who wait... except a cat.
~Mario Andretti

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
~Jules Verne

You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'
~Lewis Grizzard

BLACK CAT by Rainer Maria Rilke 



A ghost, though invisible, still is like a place
your sight can knock on, echoing; but here
within this thick black pelt, your strongest gaze
will be absorbed and utterly disappear:

just as a raving madman, when nothing else
can ease him, charges into his dark night
howling, pounds on the padded wall, and feels
the rage being taken in and pacified.

She seems to hide all looks that have ever fallen
into her, so that, like an audience,
she can look them over, menacing and sullen,
and curl to sleep with them. But all at once

as if awakened, she turns her face to yours;
and with a shock, you see yourself, tiny,
inside the golden amber of her eyeballs
suspended, like a prehistoric fly.