Rosenbush Cafe

Uncle Edwin Rosenbush

Edwin Rosenbush (November 12, 1880 - January 10, 1968) was a visonary. With the purchase of a corner of real estate in the final years of the 18th Century, Edwin’s parents Moses and Caroline Rosenbush provided their son with a main street property that would become Rosenbush Café in the 1920s. Located off U.S. Highway 11 in Livingston, Alabama, the restaurant/gas station would become a well known establishment throughtout the south. It drew travelers from their weary sojourns and truck drivers in need of Ethyl and coffee. The photo was taken by my father, Bernard Rosenbush Jr., who was nephew of Edwin and who worked at Rosenbush Cafe during the summers in the the late 1920s.

Cool Side of the Pillow is a work in progress, a novel, concerning my experiences as caregiver for my mother who suffers with Alzheimer’s disease. I reveal what I have learned about dealing with this dreadful mental disease. I invite readers to share their experiences and together we will examine the medical breakthroughts, the heartbreaks and the inevitability of our own understanding of life and death. Laughing Ricochet allows explorations into the stream of consciousness and surrealism that surrounds us.

Explore the movie experience from myriad perspectives. Take a look at movie going in the 1950s through the 1970s. Reserve your seat now. Admission for Adults 45 cents and Children 25 cents! Don’t you miss the days when $1 bought a ticket, popcorn, a drink and Milk Duds, too.

First up in El Cine a look at the movies and the experiences of seeing them in 1955. Reviews will include my first movie, Around The World in 80 Days, the landmark science fiction film, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Them!, War of the Worlds and The House on Haunted Hill.

A Nine-Foot Robot, mutated ants, destructive aliens and Vincent Price await you in the dark at El Cine Air Conditioning Cool Inside.
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Milo and Calico Ponder Individual Freedom

Milo, seen here with feline-in-law Calico Guggenheim Kittery, of the Maine Kitteries, on a warm June 1, 2004 afternoon at his penultimate home. A sweet and ornery cat throughout his 14 year life, Milo fought vehemently for animal rights, was never afraid of controversy and willing to stand up for repressed felines and protecting their individual freedoms.

El ChupaMilo, as he was often called did have a temper and was the first to admit it. After contracting feline AIDs, Milo continued working until his death in 2006. To honor our brave, fallen friend with a grant from the Tabitha B. Guinness Canine Foundation (1986-2004) we have recently chartered the Milo Institute of Feline Well-Being to continue his fine work with wayward felines, provided tutoring, mentoring, shelter and scholarships for determined animals.

The institute, while populated by cats, recognizes the rights of all animals and subscribes to Henry David Thoreau’s contemplation of the wonders of nature and simple living. Milo was fond of the erotic journals of Anaïs Nin, the Great Dialogues of Plato and the existential and postmodernist writings of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. He also enjoyed Bolivian Cat Nip, Chivas Regal on the rocks and the occassional back massage.

Updated, April 20, 2009

A Way with Cats’ Theories Legitimized

By Henry B. Rosenbush

This column is prepared by our organization of 15 educated felines, each with degrees in specific areas of the Catological disciplines. With myriad degrees in cat psychology, medical and scientific backgrounds, each member is trained in the pedagogical, theoretical, existential and holistic schools of thought. Whereas veterinarian clinics and doctors in that field cover numerous cat illnesses and injuries, our personnel are cats and understand the oft misdiagnosed conditions compounded by the linguistic limitations of cat to doctor communication. Usually they are co-viventes, feline-sapiens with strong verbal links to their human companions.

Milo Institute for Feline Well-Being is named after founder Milo Kundera. Nicknamed El ChupaMilo for his ferocious investigations into cat aggression. Milo, died in August, 2006 of feline AIDs, at age 12. It was Milo who first encouraged Simone to seek holistic methods for facing his oral hygiene problems. Funding of this foundation came from the Estate of the late Tabitha B. Guinness, an 18 year old mixed lab and retriever whose lifelong companion was Simone. He was adored by Milo, Talia, Cous Cous, Calico and Biancho and was their spiritual guide for the last ten years of her life. Tabitha died in 2003 at the Rosenbush Home for Aging.
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