THE CHLOE GROUP: ''ADDICTION''

NOT AGAIN!?!?

2007-04-07T19:19:00.000-07:00

THAT CAT GETS TOO HEAVY FOR ME!!

---Hi Neighbor. Guess Who Is Back? For you who have missed our first show, THOUGH, according to My Producers, NOT many did. My name is CHLOE. CHLOE The CAT, actually, but I usually only use CHLOE. The first show went so well, that my producers had the brilliant idea to bring me back. We came up with a concept, so here I am.
---They have asked me to talk about ADDICTION. It is a matter of public record and no secret, that for awhile The Old Chlo-ster was fighting with her addiction to ''Catnip'' I have been off the ''NIP'' for over 7 months. I feel good and my old PURR is ''up-to-snuff.'' I'm so glad that I'm on this side of my addiction. It was NO fun, needing all-the-time.
---To help me tonight, I have a guest panel. They have all done their share of Jonesing in-the-day. This subject may get a little ''brisk'' for the kittens, and the like, but it may scare-them-straight. You just don't know. It is a live show, so, if you hear some words that belong in the litter-box, don't say you weren't warned. Some of my guests have real potty mouths, when they get going.
---Enough of the disclaimer and ON WITH THE SHOW.

CHLOES ''GUEST'' PANEL

2007-04-07T16:24:00.000-07:00

---''You may remember some of my guests, from the first show. If not,-''Don't worry about it.'' [Very Soprano-like]'' CHLOE

--''From the first blog, you may remember Ricky The Squirrel, Bert, and You-Know-Who. My two new guests are Eugene, The Dental-Dog and Wally, The Zebra-like-Kangaroo-With-Horns Thing. I really don't know what he is, BUT, he's here.''

--''Anyway, let's hear it for my guests''. CHLOE

''ADDICTION'' -- What Is It?

2007-04-07T15:40:00.000-07:00

CHLOE and RICKY.

---''I first met Ricky, in a tree, at The Bette Ford clinic. We had both, tried and NOT made it, a number of times. Ricky said something on CHLOES BLOG, that the Producers thought was very significant. If you would repeat it, Ricky.''

---''No Problem, Chloe. What I said was - the reason ANYONE takes ANYTHING, is because, they feel so empty inside. They are trying to fill that emptiness with SOMETHING, with ANYTHING. Whatever they do, may seem like it's working at first, BUT then they end-up being ADDICTED to the TOOL they are using.. They get ''Caught'' and are ADDICTED.''

---''The emptiness then gets bigger, and it takes more of the TOOL, to feel there is ANYTHING going on at all.'' It is a lot like you and the ''Catnip,'' Chloe''

---Those were bad times, AS YOU KNOW, Ricky. Let me bring some of the other panel guests,, into it.''

WHY DOESN'T EVERYONE JUST STAY EMPTY?

2007-04-07T14:39:00.000-07:00

Chloe and Eugene

---''I have to say something before we begin, Chloe. You did not treat dogs very well in CHLOES BLOG, you know. You seemed to try to make fools out of us. We have ''feelings,'' too, you know, Chloe? As far as I'm concerned, you were A BAD KITTY. A BAD, BAD KITTY. ROWF, ROWF.''

---''I'm sorry you feel that way, Eugene. I was only joking. I am aware that there is some kind of UNCOMFORTABLENESS I have with dogs. It comes from instinct or something. I do admit to a sarcastic feeling to dogs in general, but now I'm digressing...and we all know that's, '''you-know-whose,'' job.''

---''We have known each other for years, so I accept your apology. But, remember, DOGS ARE PEOPLE, TOO.''

--''I'll try to remember...whatever it is that you said, Gene. Please, continue.''

---''So, why don't we stay empty, or at least why don't we want to? I'll tell you....it is NO fun to be empty. To feel that there is NOTHING inside. You feel HOLLOW. There is nothing going on in your life. You feel like [bleep.]. You feel [bleeping bleepy.]''

---''My producers now tell me that we have gone to an 8 second delay, in anticipation of your well-known potty mouth, Eugene.''

---''I'm SORRY, Chloe, but that feeling is so bad. It will eat your insides, if you let it. [bleep.]''

---''Let me see if I understand you, correctly. You eat with that mouth? You are saying that the feeling is so bad, that anything to replace it, is tempting?''

---''Anything is better, than feeling like [bleep.] A bone, doggy-treats, CATS...er, did I say Cats, out loud?''

---''Yes, you did and I am outta here! This segment is over! Let's go to a commercial break.'SOMEBODY, CUE THE GORILLAS.'' CHLOE

AN EDITORIAL''PAWS'' - Old Time Radio

2007-04-07T13:48:00.000-07:00

---Could They Be Listening To - Old Time Radio? The ''Jack Benny Show?'' ''Our Miss Brooks?'' ''Abbot and Costello?''

---The Computer Is Able To Play - ''Escape.''

''Suspense.'' ''The Lone Ranger.'' ''The Shadow.'' ''The Whistler.'' and many, many more.

CHECK-OUT The ''Stuff I've Enjoyed,'' Website and Scroll

CHACK-OUT The ''Stuff I've Enjoyed,'' Website and Scroll

An OFFICIAL COMMERCIAL BREAK

HUMAN BREAK - COME BACK, THOUGH!!

2007-04-07T13:40:00.000-07:00

A Short Music Break -(less than a minute-and-a-half, on the Richter scale)

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He's a friend of, ''you-know-who.''(The jury is still out on ''you-know-whose,'' humanity.'') Russ, wants the old ''Chlo-ster,'' to help his ''show-biz,'' career I heard his songs and he's not half bad, after a tin-of-tuna. I decided to give him a shot. If you can't help the little people, once you've made it, who can you help? It's his big break, and he's probably a bit nervous.I remember MY first time on stage. Without further adieu...Russ Berman.
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http://www.russberman.com/secondary/music/drown.mp3

WHY ARE YOU TEMPTED BY THE ''FEEL GOOD'' THINGS?

2007-04-07T13:38:00.000-07:00

---''You're up, Wally.''
---''I like the ''feel good'' stuff for one and only one reason - it makes me feel good. You might as well feel good. I feel [bleepy] most of the time. There is only one and one problem. It doesn't last. It ALWAYS wears off.''
---''What made you use the stuff in the first place?''

---''I was always a little different. I NEVER looked like the rest of the herd. Most are of one and only one color, basically. You may have noticed, Miss CAT, that I am two-toned. I am black-and-white, like a Zebra. What's that about, anyway? My father was a Zebra, with ''many'' horns, if you catch my meaning.''
---''I think we all feel we are different from our peers. I don't think that that is a new feeling. By the way, you can call me Chloe.We have come a long way from the 'Elephant-man' mind-set. It seems it would be good to be a little different.''

---''A little different, maybe, but look at me. I didn't fit-in with the others. I stood out. At school, work or the gym, it didn't matter. There was NO way to hide the way I look. All the rest made fun of me. they were merciless. I started to take whatever was available. I would NUMB myself, so I wouldn't hear them laugh.''
---''We are going to let Wally finish his remarkable, recovery story, later on. We will tell you this. He DID overcome his feelings of being different. We are just going to build the suspense a bit more.''CHLOE.

BERT: TO SEE OR NOT TO SEE...

2007-04-06T20:12:00.000-07:00

---''Well, I finally can see, again. It was a tough call. I did NOT know whether to go with my devastatingly good looks and not see, or forget it, and see. It was a tough call, but I finally gave in and chose the glasses. I may not look as good, but MY VISION IS 20/20.''

---''I know there are some books you have been wanting to read. Now, you can. Whal's the trouble, Bert?''

---''The trouble is my relationship with Kittens. The trouble? I don't have a relationship with Kittens. I don't have a relationship with a Kitten. To be honest, I barely know any Kittens.''

---''You know me, Bert. In fact we dated, Remember?''

---''I don't want a Kitten like you, Chloe. Some Cats don't have trouble with this type of thing. But, I do. I am looking for someone better. I want someone ALL the Tom's want. To make them jealous.''

---''You got your nerve, Mr.Bert. I dated you because I felt sorry for you. Now, you are telling me I'm not good enough. I met your mother and everything..''

---''I seem to know what every kitten wants, but when push comes to shove, I want more.''

---''Maybe it's all that pushing and shoving. We had a LOUSY time on our date. Who wants to be taken to the Town Dump? A Kitten wants to be wined and dined, NOT fight with rats, ON THE FIRST DATE. You NEVER asked ME, WHAT I WANT.. I think YOU know what YOU want. You think that's what Kittens want.''

---''Maybe, if I take my glasses off, YOU will look better.''

---''Don't do me any favors, YOU IDIOT,''

''Chloe, CALM DOWN!! This is your Producer, talking. We are going to go to a station break.''

To THOSE ADDICTED To NOT BEING THEMSELVES!

2007-04-06T16:41:00.000-07:00

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---It is MUCH better to be yourself. Accept yourself and you will know. (Wally, the kangaroo-zebra-thing, is in the video)

An EDITORIAL ''PAWS'' - Chloe Does IT...

2007-04-05T21:11:00.000-07:00

''Video On Your Blog?'' ''vIDEO oN yOUR bLOG?''

''You CAN have video on your blogs, now. Click-on LAYOUT, on your DASHBOARD. You then get a screen that has the choice to - ADD AN ELEMENT. Click there. ADD VIDEO - Click there.

FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS

An OFFICIAL COMMERCIAL BREAK

WHO HASN'T DONE STUPID THINGS?

2007-04-05T10:26:00.000-07:00

''To Me It Was - ''CATNIP'' COURAGE''

''YOU KNOW WHOSE,'' TURN

2007-04-04T15:37:00.000-07:00

---''Speaking of stupid things...''
---''Why do you continue to use this picture, CHLOE? I don't think you have any respect for me, at all. The Man has his head up his butt. Is that what you really think of me? I have my head up my butt?''
---''Only when you talk.''
---''I've been working on ''ADDICTION,'' for a longtime, now. I see it this way. You think that there is something wrong with you. You don't feel so good. You take something to make you feel better. You end-up getting dependent on the thing you were using to feel better.''
---[CHLOE, clears her throat.]
---''Most places seem to deal with the substance you are ADDICTED to, BUT - To feel better, you have to deal with the fact that you didn't feel good, to start with. To me, THAT IS THE FAR BIGGER PROBLEM. That is NOT to say the substance isn't a problem, but you will just go from addiction to addiction, until the root cause is weeded out.''
---''This isn't the program about WEED.''
---'You can't stand anyone else being right, can you, Chloe? It was that way when we use to live together. I don't ever think I got the last word.''
---''No, I think it is YOU, I can't stand. Is that YOUR final word?''
---'You are exaspirating!''
---''No, I'm CHLOE.''
---'See what I mean.''

WALLY'S RECOVERY

2007-04-04T14:21:00.000-07:00

---''As I was saying, I started using because everyone was laughing at me. I felt really low and NOT very good about who I was. I hit ROCK BOTTOM. I only had up to go. I had to choose, and I needed lots of help. I HAD TO STOP. It was either that, or continue suffering.''
---''I know what you mean about the suffering. You're darned if you do and darned if you don't..''
---''I would SUFFER each day, until I got what I needed. I had to take a lot of what I needed, to even make a ''dent'' in the wanting. I was HOOKED, Hook, Line and Sinker. I didn't know which way was up, anymore.''

---'You didn't know what you were doing?
---''NOT, REALLY. The ADDICTION doesn't care if you are Green, Red or Have black-and-white stripes. It will get you, if you let it. It will get you if you are using and NOT facing-up, to things. You are an accident, waiting to happen. And, it HAPPENS.''

---''The accident happens. You were lucky to survive it.
---''I'm glad I learned it is OKAY, To Be Me. It is alright to be Wally, NO matter - what I am. It is more important to be - Who I Am, than to Hide''

---''Now, you sound like, ''You-Know-Who.''
---'' His GOOD STUFF, made sense to me.''

CHLOE DRINKS WATER, WHILE SUMMING UP...

2007-04-03T19:15:00.000-07:00

---''I hope we ALL learned something valuable, today. This is the kind of testimony, that helped me through my own dealings with ADDICTION. If I can be serious for a moment. After a show like tonight, the ''old'' Chloe, would go home and settle down with a pint-or-so of CATNIP. That is where the NEED began. My Producers said it was a GOOD SHOW. Despite a couple rough spots, they want me back. They say I make for good-blogging. I guess it can be summed-up by this quote that I will read.:

''Mistakes, we ALL make them. We compound the mistake, by NOT learning from it.''[CHLOE The CAT.]

TAKE IT HOME, RUSS...

2007-04-03T15:48:00.000-07:00

Russ has a song that he thinks will help Wally and tie up the show for us. It is a bit unusual but, if he is half as tenacious as ''you-know-who,'' we better let him do his song before he starts crying or something. Again, for the last time...Russ Berman.

http://www.russberman.com/secondary/music/exposed.mp3

A Photo From The ''DATE''

2006-04-06T17:53:00.000-07:00

---Chloe And Bert Go To Dinner.