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A repost of what I wrote last year:
Monday, March 29, 2010
A few words about Easter, and Baby Bunnies
Disapproved of by Bill at 8:02 AM
48 comments:
- musicman511 said...
i have to say my bun is lucky. I bought him while i was lonely at college from a tractor supply store near easter time. I had NO idea what a bunny needed. but i fell in love! and as frustrating as he can be, i've done my best to find out what he needs and provide it as i would if i had adopted a child. That being said, i will never "buy" a bun again after realizing what happens when a bun such as mine is bought by the wrong people. He now has an adopted companion! and they're BOTH trouble! ^_^
- Fleetie said...
Quite right, too.
As for this row of disapproving baby bunnies, well, it looks as though they are just starting to realise that they're going to have to put up with stoopid hoomins for the first time! And they don't look very impressed!
Hmm, I'm reminded of the phrase "Hot Cross Buns". I don't know whether they're hot, but they sure look cross! - 8:32 AM
- Tilia said...
Yes, thank you for reminding people pets are a responsibility. You don't buy them on a whim, you buy them because you are willing to give them a good life in your home.
I actually have bought one bunny on a whim, but as I had another bunny already, I knew what it's meant when I made the decision 'on a whim'. So luckily I haven't regretted it and I'll never will because she enriches my life and I'm able to give her a good life with everything she needs. But that's one thing I would never recommend to people, buying pets on a whim. It usually leads to pets living in unsuitable conditions, without the attention they need (after the novelty of them is over) and disappointment because they grew up and aren't as cute anymore.
Another thing I don't agree with is people buying a pet for their children and expecting their children to be responsible for them. Sometimes that works out if you have a very mature kid, but usually it's the pet that suffers for it. If you buy a pet for your child, that's perfectly fine, but you have the final responsibility for it, not your kid. You have to be willing to clean the cage, to pet them, to let them run free in the house, to give them food, to take them to the vet,... Your kid is merely a helper.
Thanks again for this post, I hope it makes some people reconsider buying bunnies (or chicks). - 8:32 AM
- Margaret said...
I absolutely agree. I am the person my shelter calls when they have a bun. They screen bunny applicants, and absolutely will not give a bun (or any animal) to someone who is unsuited for it. So sometimes the buns are in the shelter longer than the shelter personnel would like, and that's when they call me. I love all my buns, and they know it (and take advantage at every opportunity)! But I always tell people, even sometimes when they don't ask, that bunnies are special creatures, and you really have to know what you're doing. They are definitely not for small children. And no animal should be given as a spur-of-the-moment gift, or without much thought as to what their needs are.
Word verification is "submin" for me... quite like "submit", I think. Submit to the will of the bunny! - 9:02 AM
- Malia said...
The bun i adopted was an abandoned Easter bun. He is such a little terror! We named him Attila the Bun and he lives up to his name. He is the cutest little thing though. Every Easter, my roommate and i spread the word to "make mine chocolate."
As far as these little buns are concerned, clearly the one on the right is the destroyer of worlds... and raisins. - 9:06 AM
- Jamis said...
I hope one day Make Mine Chocolate can be across the country on tv, and in all newspapers to spread the word!! I got my bun from a woman who breeds bunnies for shows (Yeah..NOW I know better!) But my guy has taught me SO much, and I'm going to adopt a wifebun for him this summer. (Which will most likely be an Easter bun reject because people stink!) But we will be happy to give a bun a happy home...the problem will be just bringing ONE home... :)
- SixBunnies said...
That is some lune up! They all look guilty of taking advantagge of the hoomins by being way too sweet!
Yeah for the Happy Endings! I found one of my little furry hoppers abandoned in a cemetary living in a sewer drain of an old outhouse. I knew she was around because of the rabbit cage I found open under a tree. Went looking and found the most wonderful Japanese Harlequin Lop living next to a bunch of huge snake skins. Saved her just in time! She married to another of my rescues and lives very happily now. Luv the bunz! - 9:20 AM
- SixBunnies said...
Haha! I can't type .. .That is some LINE up!
- Sydney said...
We got rabbits as pets for the kids about 20 years ago. I ended up taking care of them, of course, and I fell in love. I have been a bunny mommy ever since!
- Renee said...
Thanks for posting the reminder. It is so sad that stupid humans do this to animals. Hoping that all the buns get forever homes.
- LindaCTG said...
Thank you so much for writing this & keep up all the good work. You're providing a super valuable service, plus a happy funny way to start a new bunny day.
- mum of critters said...
Thanks for the PSA about bunnies especially: So this Easter, don't suck.
I think that nails it! Rabbits are great pets but if you're gettin' one you're keepin it! ;-)
Happy Easter! - 10:12 AM
- Erica Hanna said...
Thanks for reminding people about the Make Mine Chocolate campaign and the importance of not seeing rabbits as some sort of disposable or novelty gift.
I volunteer for the House Rabbit Society, so I see first-hand how many rabbits need our help.
Regarding the picture, I love them! I am raising a litter that was born into a local shelter, and they are so very very cute. - 10:15 AM
- Busby and Raymond said...
Thanks for this PSA. We hope people will read it and not suck. You may want to remind people that chicks and ducklings are not throw-away pets either. (although this blog is not called disapproving fowl)
- selkie said...
The Commander was an abandoned dwarf bunny, found by neighbours at a very busy intersection in a KFC parking lot (I kid you not). They gave him to us to find a home - that was 8 years ago. Sadly, the Commander crossed the rainbow bridge just 2 weeks ago and we are still in mourning. His piggy friend, Frappy is not the same at all since his best buddy left.
i can't BELIEVE the idiots that throw the bunnys away like refuse, justifying it that the bunny will know how to "live wild". IDIOTS. - 10:19 AM
- Boopalina luv said...
Here In NY they do run posts in the newspapers about buying bunnies for easter. They advise you to research first b/c it is a long term pet.
- Andrea said...
Thank you so much for posting this. I'm going to post it everywhere I can.
I do have a happy story though. My baby girl Lucia, (spotted white dwarf mix) who I adopted from Save a Bunny in Mill Valley, was a "leftover" Easter Bun. When I adopted her she was timid, shy and skittish of all hoomins. I can't blame her! But 2 1/2 years later, she is curious, full of life, very particular about everything like the princess she is, not at all timid...into everything. She even begs for treats! And of course dispproves whenever I try to groom her. After I groom her she sits in front of me making an elaborate show of "re-grooming" herself to show me I have no idea what I'm doing. ;)
I'll send pix of her and her Hus Bun Luke, my other adopted bun. He's a WHOLE POST unto himself. ;) - 10:59 AM
- tamara said...
Hooray! Another person named Tamara who rescues buns!
Tamara in San Diego, I'm Tamara in Seattle, and I help with Rabbithaven.org. We should start some kind of very exclusive society.
Go Tamaras! Go bunnies!
Tamara-in-seattle - 11:06 AM
- KPP said...
Last year, there seemed to be a strange coincidence in the arrival of bunny "starter kits" around Easter time piled up in main aisle at Petsmart. You know, those cages that are barely big enough for a baby bunny. The only useful thing they contain are the water bottle and an actual toy (give it props for having a toy). Petsmart doesn't sell rabbits (I don't think--neither does our local Petcos anymore)...but still the piles of cages. I realize the petstore's job is to make money and all. I just don't think if someone is already looking for a bunny cage, they're going to have a hard time finding it in the regular spot.
I did not write a letter or talk to someone at the time. I do rather regret it. I don't often shop at the big box pet stores anymore. - 11:40 AM
- Kaethe said...
Thanks for posting this. It's an important message for people considering any sorts of animals
- Jan said...
You do so much to help our wonderful bunnies. I will tell you a happy tale: I got my Benjamin from B.U.N.S. (Bunnies Urgently Needing Shelter) in Santa Barbara 5 years ago (or rather my son did). It has been a love story ever since. I don't even consider cleaning his litter pan a chore - it is a labor of love!
- Chris W. said...
How about happy comments about photogenic buns who have found forever homes after being spotted at a shelter? Both my Kiwi and Lily, who you've so kindly featured on DR were Humane Society bunnehs, and are lavished with attention, hay, greens, and periodically fruit.
Some stupid hooman's loss is my gain, as I've gotten two wonderful companions out of the deal. I win, the bunnies win, everyone wins. - 12:20 PM
- The Bunns said...
Thanks! Many of us were "that sort". Hooray for BL for taking us in.
- janet2buns said...
HRH Queen Phoebe and Prince Consort Drizzle disapprove in the strongest possible terms of hoomins who dump bunnies, either at Easter or at any other time. Queen Phoebe blows a Royal Raspberry at the STOOPID HOOMIN who abandoned her: "PPPPTHpbbbbph !!!"
And may I again direct DR readers to www.studiolapin.com. Many bunnies on that site were throwaway rabbits who are now living the good life. Their gorgeousity is STUNNING! - 1:25 PM
- thesea said...
WORD about abandoning bunnies. When I was growing up, every year--as early as May or June, my sister and I would find a beautiful white abandoned rabbit in the neighborhood that we would take in and try to find its owners. It was sad, leaving a little bun out like that is not okay!
I have an adopted rabbit now who is the sweetest, best, thing in my life! I'm so happy I could take her in. I hope other people will consider adoption! - 1:25 PM
- Fleetie said...
Janet : I would love to see Queen Phoebe blowing that raspberry! What a hilarious image!
But she and Prince Consort Drizzle are right: People who do that to bunnies frankly don't deserve to breathe. - 1:31 PM
- Molly Elizabeth said...
I'm glad people know how bad it is to do that. Once a whim at 16 years old I mentioned that I really wanted a rabbit. My friend brought me the cutest little bunny ever. I had no clue what to do with her, and for a long while I couldn't even let her run around my room because I didn't know how to train her. There was so much reading to do for her, and I'm so glad I did it. We grew together every day. She's now allowed to roam my room freely since she's so well behaved. I am still shocked I was able to take care of her by myself at 16 though. She and I have been working together to make a good home for her since the beginning. It's so amazing having a happy rabbit and I'll never be without one again. And I will definitely adopt a sheltered one too. She is the little love of my life!
- Molly Elizabeth said...
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- wendy z said...
My little princess-bun was a dumped easter bun, and now she is the undisputed queen of my home. She sleeps under my bed (after hopping up for a good pettin before we both go to sleep)
- Boopalina luv said...
They ran an article in the sunday paper one day that rabbits are becoming the third most wanted pet after dog and cat, and it went on to say that a lot more people are becoming aware that rabbits are not for children and are not throw aways. I was quite happy that they are being reconized as a PET. I hope to find the article maybe DR will post it if i can. I never understand why people are so dumb and decide to let them loose, how about letting your child loose in the woods think it will survive? Ok if not your child then how about you beloved fido? domestic is domestic!
- Claire said...
Love today's photo. I've been following your site for a week or two and just wanted to say that I really enjoy it.
- Purpleprot said...
There are no words to describe people who treat rabbits (or any other animals) as disposable. I think they should be dipped in dried cranberries and fed to the bunnies. And so does Ruby, Supreme Bun Lord of the Household.
- Boopalina luv said...
Go newsday!!Easter is coming and visions of Easter bunnies, chicks and ducks grace advertisements and other media.
Many people still want to give their children baby ducks and chicks as Easter gifts to be used for a couple of days like trinkets and then discarded. Laws were passed that made it illegal to sell these birds in any lots less than six to try to prevent this activity, but people will buy six anyway, give away a few to their neighbors and friends and keep one or two to amuse their own children.
Chickens and ducks make nice pets, but do not buy any chicks or ducks unless you want to keep them as pets for their entire lives. There is no mythical farm that you can bring them to when you tire of them where they can enjoy a long and happy life.
The same rule applies to bunnies. They are cute when small but grow up into rabbits that do make wonderful pets but require a great deal of care. And they can live for 10 years, well beyond the time the child you got the bunny for has moved out of the house. Pets are family, and if you have no intention of treating a pet as family for its entire life, then you have no business acquiring it in the first place - 4:46 PM
- Boopalina luv said...
i should mention this article above was published in our paper! yay bunny awareness
- Heart of a Cowgirl said...
Thank you for posting about this! I also did a post last "Bunny Sunday" about this very issue. These special little creatures deserve so much more than to be an impulse buy at Easter.
DR makes me smile every day...LOVE IT! - 5:21 PM
- Nancy said...
It's a shame that people aren't required to take some sort of basic test before they're allowed to buy an animal. I think that many of them, if they had the faintest idea how much responsibility goes into taking care of an animal, would walk away.
- Spook said...
Such tiny perfect disapproving faces!
Thanks for the bun buying reminder! This is the perfect time of year to spread the word!
Idea: Why not have kids donate time to help bun shelters to celebrate? Bun love *cough* disapproval for all! ;) - 6:26 PM
- Bunnie Momma said...
I have had house bunnies for over 20 years now....20 years mind you BUT every single time I bring a new bunny home I consider it a great responsibility. So much so that my husband laughs and remarks..."honey, what's another bunny? Geeshe Why are you acting so nervous??"
What!? It's a 10, maybe 15 year commitment is what it is! It's late night feedings and potty training...well, maybe not late night feedings...but you certainly have some "training" to do and momma must keep a watchful eye to insure the new edition does not have some naughty habits, we won't go into bonding sessions.
So I just wanted to say that even for me, a seasoned ole goat who's made bunnies a permanent part of her life...each new family member is a big decision and a serious commitment where I intend on caring for him/her for the rest of their life.
My bunnies make my life better!
Bunnie Momma - 6:57 PM
- StephanieU74 said...
well said, Birdchick. As a bunny rescuer, I can't share this message enough - year round!
- Crafty Green Poet said...
Our last bunny came from a shelter and our next one will too. Our local City Farm has rabbits one of which was found on a beach but who is now totally integrated with the others and a very lovely rabbit to be around
- Plan B Rabbits said...
Rabbits are just inately smart -- to figure out at such an early age that some hoomins just deserve disdain. See? They have on their "disdain" faces already.
- sandy outworldarts spartasoap said...
I just want to thank you for posting this each year.
Sandy - 1:03 PM
- Dawn said...
Some of us even take to our soapboxes and preach it wide and far.
My fave thing in that piece that I got to write? My vet saying "There is a special place in hell for assholes like that" ...in regards to the people who abandoned our Jackson ( the big grey one in the picture) - 6:39 PM
- Zanthess said...
Pixel has a new friend from an unplanned bunny pregnancy.
After I got the rabbit, I told my friend where to get her bunny spayed and how she can get shelters to help her with it.
Male is neutered now, and we have a bunny named 'Nilla Bean :D - 11:37 PM
- Katie said...
yes I've been preparing to get another bunny. I've had several in my life. Being Easter I know there are so many cute lil bundles of cuteness in petstores but I have to remind myself pet stores are evil and I can adopt in a month or two when people give theirs up.
- bee said...
I have some success stories to share, as both my bunnies were rescues of various kinds. The first was Inle, and I rescued her through the bunny bunch out here in cali. She needed a lot of psychological rehab, and I worked really hard to help her feel safe and loved again. She was a great little doe and I am glad I could give her happiness for the last part of her life.
My second bunny was a direct rescue, his name is Colin, and I actually couldn't keep him for more than a little while. However he was a spritely little dude and we did find a very appreciative home for him. He now lives with some friends in New York, and seems to be doing really fabulously.
I'm so glad you mentioned the easter bunny problem on this blog, and I'm even more heartened by your linking to Make Mine Chocolate. I want to extend my intense thanks for spreading awareness. - 3:53 PM
- Gary said...
Our little Buddha -- Dwarf Rabbit, about 5 years old -- was an abandoned bunny who was rescued by a kind person, who did the right thing when he had to leave town to find work; he got him to the wonderful folks at The Rabbit Haven, in Santa Cruz, CA. We saw him and fell in love with him at one of their bunny adoption fairs, along with our younger, full-size rabbit, Lily. They are inseparable best bunny-buddies, and nothing bad will ever happen to them as long as we have anything to say about it!
- Lilly said...
The kids wanted to get Grandma a real bunny for Easter - I think because we told them they couldn't get one!
Anyway, I saw that Steuben is offering a deal on their rabbit redux piece. It is a tad pricey - but it is a really special piece of art that she will love - and there is no cage to clean or vet bills to go along with it!
Wouldn't it be nice to see people giving gifts like this, instead of live bunnies & chicks, every time Easter comes around? LD
http://bit.ly/rabbitredux - 2:47 PM


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"It was the most terrifying thing I've ever done to this day. Because I knew it would just be me on stage for five minutes, and they were very clear that you had five minutes. And I bought I stopwatch when I got to New York so I could time my audition. Because I was afraid that a big curtain was going to fall down or something in five minutes."
On the story behind Target Lady
"She was something that I had done at the Groundlings. I liked how happy she was about pretty much everything. I was actually in a Target — I forget, somewhere in the Valley — and the woman who was at the register, she just said something in a voice that struck me. She didn't do the things that the Target Lady does. ... I kind of embellished a lot."
On her plans for the future
"I hope to direct. The last handful of things I've done have been pretty dramatic, which has been really fun for me. It's really fulfilling to me in a way I never expected — I think it's because I came into acting through comedy.
"[Takes a pause] I really want to, you know ... [puts on a goofy tone] spread my wings. ... I can't believe I just said that."
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Audie Cornish.
And I'm Melissa Block. For seven seasons on "Saturday Night Live," actress Kristen Wiig made us laugh hard with her off-the-wall, over-the-top characters.
KRISTEN WIIG: (As Sue) Oh, my God!
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As character) She's going to be so surprised.
WIIG: (As Sue) Oh, my God!
BLOCK: From Sue, the woman who loved surprises a little too much...
WIIG: (As Sue) I really love surprise parties. I'm so freaking excited!
BLOCK: ...to the Target Lady, the overexuberant cashier.
WIIG: (As Target Lady) You know what fertilizer is, right?
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #2: (As character) Excuse me?
WIIG: (As Target Lady) It's part dirt and part feces. It's my job to let you know what you're buying. I just thought you should know, you're buying a big bag of feces.
BLOCK: In 2011, Wiig had her breakout starring role on film with the bawdy, hit comedy "Bridesmaids," which she co-wrote. And now, she's back on the big screen in a new comedy, titled "Girl Most Likely." Wiig's character, Imogene, is a failed playwright who loses her job, her boyfriend and her apartment. She's forced to move back in with her free-spirited mother, played by Annette Bening.
WIIG: (As Imogene) Were you getting spanked last night?
ANNETTE BENING: (As Zelda) Why would you think that?
WIIG: (As Imogene) Because that's what it sounded like. Am I right?
BENING: (As Zelda) (Laughing) Oh, my God.
WIIG: (As Imogene) I'm right, aren't I?
BLOCK: And Kristen Wiig joins me now to talk about the movie and her career. Kristen, welcome to the program.
WIIG: Hi. Thank you so much. I'm glad to be here.
BLOCK: What was it that appealed to you about this character, Imogene - because she has fallen about as far as she can go.
WIIG: Yeah, yeah. I always like stories like that, where it starts off where this person, you know, seemingly has nothing, loses everything; and throughout the course of the movie, in getting her life back, finds something that she didn't really know about herself. I don't know. I always gravitate towards things that have very specific, sometimes weird characters. (Laughing) And this movie definitely have that.
BLOCK: Can we talk about Imogene's wardrobe here because - I mean, the premise is, since you've been thrown out of your apartment, you don't have your clothes. And you go back home to your childhood home, and you rummage around in the basement - right? - and find clothes from, I don't know, what? - the late '80s maybe?
WIIG: Yeah. I think early '90s.
BLOCK: Really, really bad fashion.
WIIG: Really bad. A lot of floral denim miniskirts and...
BLOCK: Yeah, yeah.
BLOCK: And there's a moment when Imogene goes out on the town; and one of the young people whom she meets says something like, my mom had that vest.
WIIG: Yeah, the denim vest...
BLOCK: Yeah, the denim vest.
WIIG: ...the short, cropped denim vest, which I'm determined to bring back.
BLOCK: You rocked the denim vest.
WIIG: Thanks.
WIIG: If that's all you took away from the movie, then I am happy.
BLOCK: Then that's good enough? Let's go back to when you got your acting start; with the improv group The Groundlings, in LA. Talk about that time, and what you learned there. It was such a fertile ground for so many actors and comedians who came out of there.
WIIG: Yeah. I had no acting experience, really, at all. And a friend of mine told me to go see The Groundlings. And I saw an improv show and - I don't know, something - I mean, I always wanted to perform. And, I guess, reading a script in front of people and acting something out was always very intimidating to me because I felt like there was a right and wrong way to do it. And with improv, it really is your personality. You make all the decisions. And so in some ways, you can't really do it wrong. (Laughing) It was a lot that I learned.
BLOCK: It's just an interesting idea, though, that you would come - really, with no great background in acting - right? - really, no background at all; and have the gumption to say, you know what? I'm going to try this. I see this up there, and it's something that I really love. And why not? I'm going to give it a shot.
WIIG: Yeah. And for me, I am actually not very good at public speaking and talking in a big group, even socially, as myself. Playing a character is much safer for me. So getting up and someone telling me to do a monologue as a character, I could, you know, talk for 10 minutes. But if someone told me to just get up and be myself and talk, I would have a much harder time with that.
BLOCK: I'm talking with the actress and comedian Kristen Wiig. When you got called in to audition for "Saturday Night Live," it was 2005. What was that like? What was the experience?
WIIG: It was the most terrifying thing, I think, that I've ever done - to this day. Because I - it's - I knew it was going to be just me on stage for five minutes, and they were very clear that you had five minutes. And I bought a stopwatch when I got to New York, so I could time my audition because I was afraid like, a big curtain was going to fall down, or something, after five minutes.
BLOCK: And what did you do?
WIIG: I did the Target Lady. Aunt Linda was a character that I did on Update, that reviewed movies. I did her and...
BLOCK: So Target Lady was there from the start? You had her from then.
WIIG: Yeah. She was something that I had done at The Groundlings.
BLOCK: And where did she come from - because she's got this - at least on "Saturday Night Live," she has this bowl haircut, and that voice.
WIIG: (As Target Lady) Is this for your pasty skin?
UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: (As character) No, I just want to look good for a wedding I'm going to.
WIIG: (As Target Lady) I love weddings. I get to sit at circle tables and listen to the hits of today, like "Single Lady."
UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: (As character) That's great. Listen, I'm kind of...
WIIG: (As Target Lady) (Humming "Single Lady")
WIIG: I liked how happy she was about pretty much everything. I was actually in a Target and - I forget, somewhere in the Valley - and the woman who was at the register, she just said something in a voice that struck me. She didn't, you know, do the things that the Target Lady does - this woman - but I kind of embellished a lot.
BLOCK: You know, do you ever just sort of hear her voice in your head now, still? Is she still kind of lurking back there?
WIIG: Gosh. Without sounding crazy, I guess they all sort of...
BLOCK: Yeah?
WIIG: ...lurk around back there a little bit. And I think I still have a little voice in my head, or a muscle, that wants to find characters still.
BLOCK: It must be a noisy place back there...
BLOCK: ...with all those voices.
WIIG: It can be. I try not to spend a lot of time alone.
BLOCK: So that they don't drown you out?
WIIG: Yes.
BLOCK: You know, I keep thinking about what you said earlier about being such a shy person. And I think people hearing that will say, you know, Kristen Wiig throws herself into these characters; puts herself out there, makes herself look really unattractiv. How could she be this quiet, retiring person that she's talking about and do this really over-the-top stuff? I mean, does it feel like a contradiction to you at all?
WIIG: Not to me. I think a lot of people assume that you are what you do. And that happens to me all the time, when I do interviews or even when I just like, go to a dinner. I think people think I'm going to...
WIIG: ...I don't know, throw on a wig and start tap dancing on the table.
BLOCK: Well, when you think forward about what you want to do now, are there other kinds of roles, other ways you want to stretch yourself, that you're looking forward to?
WIIG: Yes. I hope to direct. And the last handful of things I've done have been pretty dramatic, which has been really fun for me. I hope I have the opportunity to do both - and to do all. And I've enjoyed doing voice-over. And I really want to, you know, spread my wings.
WIIG: I can't believe I just said that.
BLOCK: That's actress Kristen Wiig. Her new film is "Girl Most Likely." Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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The Passionate, Turbulent Life Of James Brown
Originally published on Sun April 1, 2012 5:48 pm
James Brown used to tell people that even being stillborn as a child couldn't stop him. He rose to the highest heights in the music industry and stayed there longer than most. But in the end he succumbed to atrocious financial planning, a drug habit and a violent temper.
RJ Smith, author of the new biography The One: The Life and Music of James Brown, tells NPR's Guy Raz that Brown believed he was indestructible.
Smith says, "Having been through as much in his life as he went through — criminal experiences, been up and down with the music industry, made millions, lost millions — I think on some level he felt whatever happened happened, and he couldn't die."
Raised by a violent father, Brown's upbringing in Augusta, Georgia was turbulent. His mother left, his aunt was a prostitute and Brown was constantly in trouble for stealing or fighting.
During an early stint in prison, Brown listened to a lot of music. "I think he heard a lot of gospel," says Smith, "that he was listening to before, but never so much as when he was in prison with a radio stuck to his head. They called him Music Box in prison as a teenager. And he was in a gospel group when he was in prison. He started to understand, singing gospel, what power he had over an audience."
Brown began his career in the segregated South of the 1950s. During those early years, he pounded what's known as the Chitlin' circuit, a series of ramshackle venues that hosted black performers scattered throughout the U.S.
"Those were audiences that were desperate to be entertained," says Smith. "They spent their hard-earned dollar, and if you didn't entertain them, they would let you know fast."
Brown closely studied those audiences' reactions. "He knew when an audience was turning away from a song before they did," says Smith. "He would cut it off in the middle of a tune, and go to the next one."
His first big hit was "Please, Please, Please," a song he closed his sets with for years. And from the very beginning, Brown separated himself from other R&B singers with this song.
"There's something misleadingly familiar and almost generic about it," says Smith about the doo-wop harmony track. "But the way that he sings it, over-the-top with emotion, he was losing something important to him as he sang it. And you can feel it."
The title of Smith's biography refers to the specific beat — the one — that gives funk its distinctive character.
"The one, in a way, is the essence of James Brown," says Smith. "It's about that first beat of the measure that Brown wanted emphasized at all times ... A lot of pop music was emphasizing the two and the four. He came in hard from the beginning. He wanted to get your attention right away."
But the one was also a philosophy for Brown. "He would talk about living in the one, and feeling the one, being in the one," says Smith. "It has to do with living in the moment and inhabiting the space around you. That's all you've got, is this moment. Who knows what will happen later? You've got to be with the one."
As Brown became increasingly famous, his political consciousness deepened. He eventually got involved with the Black Power movement.
"He wanted to change things," says Smith. "He felt an intense feeling of responsibility to his audience to African Americans everywhere. He respected Dr. King, but he didn't come from the same place Dr. King did. He came at it his own way."
Smith admits that Brown's politics were often messy and difficult to understand. Brown wrote the lyrics "Say it loud / I'm black and I'm proud," but he was critical of the Black Panther Party as often as he aligned himself with them.
Smith says, "Here was somebody who endorsed Hubert Humphrey when he was running against Richard Nixon. And then when Nixon got the nomination and the victory, he quickly endorsed Richard Nixon."
Smith interviewed over 100 people who knew Brown while researching this biography. He says he got a different perspective on the artist from every source.
"James Brown was a complicated, dangerous individual to be around," says Smith. "He frightened people. People saw things and heard things they wished they hadn't."
A boxer as a teenager, Brown knew how to use his fists. "He's using his fists to get what he wants from the musicians in his band," says Smith. "He used his fists many times against women in his life."
Domestic violence was a constant backdrop in Brown's life. His financial affairs were always troubled, and he fathered many children that he had no intention of raising. At one point, he became addicted to PCP.
Smith fears that late in Brown's life — especially when he went back to prison — the singer may have become a joke to some people. "That's horrible," says the author. "The things that he did in his life, clearly, he was not proud of. And they were wrong. And he often paid a price for them. But they come in the context of a life someone who grew up incredibly abused."
Despite the more seamier episodes in Brown's life, Smith argues that the soul godfather has never been topped as a performer. "Every decade he lived in, he changed the sounds around him," says Smith. "Nobody since him has approached him on the level of ability to control an audience, to shape their feelings, to bring every aspect of performing together for hours at a time."
And if you're just joining us, this is WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Guy Raz. And it's time now for music.
JAMES BROWN: (Singing) Whoa, I feel good.
RAZ: James Brown.
BROWN: (Singing) I knew that I would now.
RAZ: Enough said.
BROWN: (Singing) I feel good. I knew that I would now.
RAZ: James Brown's music is known around the world, his story less so. Biographer RJ Smith has just released an eye-opening account of Brown's rise and eventual downfall in the book "The One: The Life and Music of James Brown." As Smith writes, James Brown's worldview was shaped by a story he'd been told as a child, that he'd been born dead and miraculously brought back to life.
RJ SMITH: He was somebody who should not have been alive. He was born under a bad sign, as the blues men say. And he had that vibe with him, I think.
RAZ: He believed he was indestructible, in a way.
SMITH: He - having been born dead, having been through as much in his life as he went through, criminal experiences, then up and down with the music industry, made millions, lost millions, I think on some level he felt whatever happened, happened and he couldn't die. He was indestructible.
RAZ: His life story, as it becomes very clear early in your book, is made for a film. His incredibly difficult upbringing in Augusta, Georgia, his father was unbelievably violent. His mother left. James Brown ended up in trouble all the time for stealing or fighting. He spends time in prison.
SMITH: Yes.
RAZ: In fact, in prison, he becomes the guy that he eventually would be.
SMITH: Absolutely. I think he heard a lot of music in prison. I think he heard a lot of gospel. And he was in a gospel group when he was in prison, and he started to understand singing gospel, what power he had over an audience.
BROWN: (Singing) Help me. Help me. I'm so weak. Gee whiz, I love you. I'm so weak. I'll love you tomorrow. I, I lost someone.
RAZ: Tell me about the early days of his career, the 1950s we're talking about. He's in the South, the segregated South. Who's going to see his shows? How is he getting attention?
SMITH: Yeah. Any way he can, he's getting attention. It would be people who work hard for a living, African-Americans, almost exclusively for sure, on what sometimes gets called the Chitlin Circuit - barns and huts and shacks and, you know, trashed out spaces that got cleaned out fast - and they put up a little stage, and they had a show that night. And those are audiences that were desperate to be entertained. They spent their hard-earned dollar. And if you didn't entertain them, they would let you know fast.
RAZ: His first big hit was a song called...
BROWN: (Singing) Please, please, please, please.
RAZ: You write that this is really where James Brown separates himself from the other R&B singers at the time.
SMITH: Yeah. You know, there's something misleadingly familiar and almost generic about it. It's a doo-wop vocal harmony song. But the way that he sings it, over the top with emotion, he was losing something important to him, and you could feel it. All he can do is repeat that word over and over, like 26 times, I think. He took it over the top.
SMITH: (Singing) Now you're gone. Please, please, please, please, please.
RAZ: I'm speaking with RJ Smith. He's written a new biography of James Brown, and it's called "The One." RJ, the title of your book refers to the beat that gives funk its character. Describe what the one is.
BROWN: (Singing) Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SMITH: You know, the one, in a way, is the essence of James Brown. It's a musical term on one level. It's about that first beat of the measure that Brown wanted emphasized at all times. And he just - I think it had to do with wanting to come in strong and fast in a song. I think a lot of pop music was emphasizing the two, the four. He came in hard from the beginning. He wanted to get your attention right away.
RAZ: You call the song "Mother Popcorn" the sound of the one.
SMITH: Mm. You can feel the weight of the first beat in that measure. It's like a wrecking ball hitting on that one.
BROWN: (Singing) See. You got to have a mother for me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, popcorn.
SMITH: But beyond that, I think the one was a philosophical thing to him. He would talk about living in the one and feeling the one, being in the one, and it has to do with living in the moment, inhabiting the space around you. It's all you've got is this moment. Who knows what will happen later? You've got to be with the one.
RAZ: As James Brown became more and more famous, his political consciousness develops more deeply. Eventually, he gets involved in the Black Power movement.
BROWN: (Singing) Say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud.
RAZ: Tell me about his political activity.
SMITH: His politics were a mess. Here was somebody who endorsed Hubert Humphrey when he was running against Richard Nixon, and then when Nixon got the nomination and the victory, he quickly endorsed Richard Nixon, supported him.
He was somebody who was all over the map. He wanted to change things. He felt an intense feeling of responsibility to his audience, to African-Americans everywhere, and here's somebody who said: Say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. At the same time, he was both aligned with Black Panthers and Black Power ideas and very critical of them. He came at it his own way.
BROWN: (Singing) I worked on jobs with my feet and my hand. But all the work I did was for the other man. And now we demand the chance to do things for ourselves. We're tired of beating our head against the wall and working for someone else. Say it loud.
UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: I'm black and proud.
RAZ: You interviewed more than 100 people who knew James Brown and who were in his orbit. What kind of person was he? I mean, how did people describe him on a personal level?
SMITH: You know, what was interesting to me was whoever I talked to - whether they really wanted to talk or didn't - didn't tell me everything they knew, because James Brown was a complicated, a dangerous individual to be around. He frightened people. And people saw things and heard things they wish they hadn't.
RAZ: When you say dangerous and he frightened people, how so?
SMITH: Well, he was somebody who knew how to use his fists. As a teenager, he was a boxer. He thought about pursuing that. When he becomes a musician and is on that course in his life, he's still using his fists. He's using his fists to get what he wants from the musicians in his band. He's using his fists to become the leader of the band. That wasn't given at the beginning. He used his fists many times against the women in his life.
RAZ: Of course. And domestic violence was always in the backdrop...
SMITH: Yeah.
RAZ: ...in his life. His financial affairs were a mess. He fathered lots of children he had no intention of raising. I mean, this is - as you say, this is a complicated person. He was at one point hooked on PCP.
SMITH: Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, one thing that I hope I have done in the book is that I think late in his life, when a lot of this stuff was coming out, when he went back to prison, I think he became, to some people, a joke and as someone they could mock freely. And that's horrible. Things that he did in his life, clearly, he was not proud of, and they were wrong. And he often paid a price for them. But they come into context of a life of someone who grew up incredibly abused himself, violence done to him. He was a human being who had experiences that made him the person he grew up to be.
RAZ: What is his legacy?
SMITH: His legacy is, as a performer, he's never been topped. Every decade he lived in, he changed the sounds around him. Nobody since him has approached him on the level of ability to control an audience, to shape their feelings, to bring every aspect of performing together for hours at a time.
BROWN: (Singing) One, two, three, four. Get up. Get on up.
RAZ: RJ Smith is the author of the book "The One: The Life and Music of James Brown." You can read an excerpt at our website, npr.org. RJ Smith, thank you so much.
SMITH: Thank you, Guy.
BROWN: (Singing) Get on up. Stay on the scene. Get on up. Like a sex machine. Get on up. Get up. Get on up. Stay on the scene. Get on up. Like a sex machine. Get on up. Wait a minute. Shake your arms.
RAZ: And for Sunday that's WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Guy Raz. Special thanks today to actors Brianna Lux, Mike Thibodeaux and Kay Marvin from the DC Improv for their help with our April Fools' story on the DNA preschool. Check out our weekly podcast. It's called WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. You can find it at iTunes or npr.org/weekendatc. We're back on the radio next weekend. Until then, thanks for listening and have a great week. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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- Smoking history
- Exposure to environmental and occupational substances
- Family history of cancer
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Tests may include:
- Chest x-ray —an x-ray to check for abnormal areas on the lungs.
- CT scan —a series of x-rays put together by a computer to create images of the lung. A special spiral or helical CT scan may identify smaller tumors than a regular x-ray.
- Sputum cytology—examination of a sample of mucus from the lungs.
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- Bronchoscopy —a visual examination of the lungs and air passages with a bronchoscope, an instrument with a lighted tip. The doctor can remove tissue samples or wash the tissues with saline (a procedure called lavage) to obtain cells to check for cancer.
- Needle aspiration —a needle is inserted through the chest to remove a sample of tissue from the tumor. This tissue is checked for cancer cells.
- Thoracentesis —a needle is inserted through the chest to remove a sample of the fluid from around the lungs to check for cancer cells.
- Pulmonary function tests —This series of tests is done to see how well your lungs work. This test is very important and provides your doctor with information about what kind of treatments may be appropriate for you.
Staging Tests
If cancer is found, treatment will depend on the stage of your cancer. The doctor will order additional tests to determine the stage of the cancer. Staging is a careful attempt to determine whether the cancer has spread and, if it has, what body parts are affected. Additional tests to determine staging may include:
- CT scan
- MRI scan —a test that uses magnetic waves to create detailed pictures of areas inside the body.
- Bone or liver scans—tests that look for evidence of tumors. A radioactive substance is injected into the bloodstream and tracked by a scanning machine. Cancerous areas absorb more of the radioactive substance than normal tissue and show up as "hot spots."
- Mediastinoscopy—a test to check lymph nodes in the chest for cancer cells. The doctor will insert a scope into the chest to remove lymph node tissue.
Stages of Lung Cancer
Lung cancer staging considers three categories: tumor, lymph nodes, and metastases.
- Stage Tis (in situ)—The tumor is found in the sputum, but cannot be seen in the airways or the lung.
- Stage T1—The tumor is 3 cm (centimeter) or smaller, has not spread to the skin or pleura that surround the lungs, and is not affecting the main branches of the airways (bronchi).
Stage T2—The cancer has one or more of the following characteristics:
- It is larger than 3 cm.
- It involves the main bronchus, but is not closer than 2 cm to where the windpipe branches left and right.
- It has spread to the pleura that surround the lungs.
- It may block part of the airway and can cause some collapse of the lung, but has not caused the entire lung to collapse.
Stage T3—The cancer has one or more of the following characteristics:
- It has spread to the chest wall, diaphragm, or pleura surrounding the space between the lungs or the membranes surrounding the heart.
- It involves a main bronchus and is closer than 2 cm to where the windpipe branches left and right.
- It has grown into the airways and caused a lung to collapse or pneumonia in the entire lung.
Stage T4—The cancer has one or more of the following characteristics:
- It has spread to structures inside the chest other than the lung (spinal bones, heart, esophagus, large blood vessels).
- Two or more separate tumors in the same lobe.
- Cancer cells in the space surrounding the lungs.
- Stage NO—The cancer has not spread to the lymph nodes.
- Stage N1—The cancer has spread to lymph nodes in the lung or the area where the bronchus meets the lung and affected the lymph nodes on the same side of the body as the cancer.
- Stage N2—The cancer has spread to the lymph nodes where the windpipe branches left and right, or to lymph nodes in the space between the chest bone and heart. The affected lymph nodes are on the same side of the body as the cancer.
- Stage N3—The cancer has spread to lymph nodes near the collarbone on either side or to the opposite side of the lung from where the lung cancer is located.
- Stage MO—The cancer has not spread.
- Stage M1—The cancer has spread to other parts of the body beyond the chest, other lobes of the lung, or lymph nodes beyond those considered in the N stages.
The overall cancer stage is based on the above rankings.