A dead-end destination for most men makes its rodeo into a Louisiana lure Oct 26, 2008
A professional rodeo company provides most of the acts, which include a crowd favorite, a performance by Whiplash, a capuchin monkey who rides around on the back of a border collie while wearing full cowboy regalia. The inmates get their moment in the spotlight with the chance to play a hair-raising game of Convict Poker (whoever is still sitting at the card table when the bull is released wins) and Bust Out All, with six chutes releasing six angry bulls at once, ridden, briefly, by prisoners. (Boston Globe)
Bikers with hearts of gold bring toys to San Quentin inmates' kids Dec 4, 2007
"That's mine!" said a girl, pointing to stuffed monkey. Tom Schultz, a truck driver from Novato who, of course, brought a toy truck, watched the bikers huffing and puffing up the stairs and then surveyed the growing mountain of gifts. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Time to pick up the dead fish Aug 28, 2007
Nothing is forever wrote on Aug 28, 2007 6:08 AM:" Not even the treasures, the heirlooms, the antiques or the keepsakes last forever. Our efforts to keep hold of the past only prevent us from properly living in the present and seeing the future. I used to be nostalgic, and was ridiculed for it or corrected by many people. I no longer care about "stuff" on any level, and now I am free of the monkey on my back. I am not controlled by "stuff", or by the emotions attached to objects I once desired.... (Winona Daily News, MN)
Annual club tour opens gardeners' sanctuaries Jul 27, 2007
A moose with sunglasses, an old yellow parking meter, a stuffed monkey swaying from a tree, giant ladybugs and grasshoppers and stuffed people with flower-potted heads. Lots of hanging flowers spilling and creeping around everything. (Anchorage Daily News)
From monkey heads to rats on a stick Feb 25, 2007
Sunday Gazette-Mail - News. Sunday, February 25, 2007, 3:35am EST. (Charleston Gazette, WV -- News)
