Cat Fight - Knocked a Motherfucker Out

Okay, so this spot has history.

A decade ago, M&F's editor-in-chief Greg lived right down the block from this ramshackle shack.  There were dozens of stray cats who lived in and around here, and in her younger years Shasta loved to  chase them.

Well, one day Greg was walking up the block while Shasta got a cat chase.  A Cuban dude who lived the hut started yelling at Greg.  There is all kinds of craziness in Miami and it is usually best to ignore the crazies, so Greg just kept walking up the street, back turned to the dude.  Then, the guy ran up and sucker punched Greg smack on the back of the head.  Greg says things got kind of blurry for a minute, but the next thing he knew, he was standing in the street, fists up, about to square off with this dude.

Standing in the middle of the street on NE 20th, punches started to get thrown.  The dude was 6 inches taller and 70 pounds bigger, but older, and Greg says that the dude's cheeks popped like tomatoes when they got hit by his fists.

After the fight, Greg went home and washed his hands, which were covered in blood.  Even though he got smacked a few times, nothing had broken Greg's skin, knuckles or face.  The blood was all from the dude.

Greg never fought the dude again, but one unfortunate day he did kick a stray cat that was in front of the asshole's building.  It is the only cat Greg has ever kicked, and something he is still ashamed of.  To end the story and try to put a moral on there, Greg kept walking the block, and Shasta kept chasing cats around this same hut.  Its life on the streets, and sometimes you've got to defend your spot.  Even if that way is physically in a way that you didn't plan to.  Just don't kick the cats~

Now, ten years later, the Cuban dude seems to be gone.  But the stray cats are still there.  And the hut has got a fresh new paint job on the wall with, fittingly, two new cats as though its a reminder of what this spot is--cat territory.  Greg just got caught up in a 'cat fight'.  Dig the background of the painting.  Painted by Daniel Brutto(?).  Next to a piece from Olive 47.