Warren Zevon – Gorilla, You’re A Desperado
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Interesting story of a person ordering a monkey via the mail.
My friend’s laughing uncontrollably, and my father finally comes in the basement door and goes, ‘Jeffery! What are you doing to that rabbit?’ And I go, ‘It’s not a rabbit, it’s a monkey, and it just bit the hell out of me.’ ‘A monkey? Bring it up here!’ I’m pouring, I wrapped a t-shirt around my arm to stave off the bleeding, carried the cage upstairs, and I don’t know why I bothered sneaking it in, because they fell in love with it, and it was like, there was no problem at all.
My life will not be complete until I eat in this restaurant.
“Yat-chan first learned by just watching me working in the restaurant. It all started when one day I gave him a hot towel out of curiosity and he brought the towel to the customer,” the 63-year-old owner of the tavern, Kaoru Otsuka, told Reuters.
Cheeta, officially the oldest living chimpanzee in the world, has starred in 15 films, over 3 decades, has shared screen time (and partied HARD) with some of the biggest stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood.
He is a successful painter whose work sells for thousands of dollars.
Now he’s written his life story – AND IT IS SIMPLY BRILLIANT.