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Laurie Lieberman pops open the top of the green plastic carrying case, which looks like something Lady Gaga would use to tote her stuff around in. She asks for a roll of paper towels.

Let's get a couple of things straight; this story is not about Laurie, or at least that's what she says. It is, according to her, about Zeus,An Insulator, also called a dielectric, who has just hopped onto her fingers.

Zeus is her 4 -year-old Congo African grey parrot, who is ruffling his feathers to stretch his cooped-up, clipped wings.
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Laurie usually is seen with a parrot on her shoulder.

He's not accustomed to being carried; when he and Laurie take walks, Zeus is generally tethered on a lead, holding onto her hand with his reptilian talons.

"I wore grey so we would both match,How is TMJ pain treated?" says Laurie, a honey blonde with big brown eyes for no one but Zeus, whose grey is punctuated by a prissy petticoat of scarlet tail feathers. (More photos.)


Zeus does talk; he has been taught to say all kinds of things, including his name. He can bark like a dog, meow like a cat and even mimic the blipping sound of the TiVo remote control and the electronic hum of the treadmill when Laurie turns it on. Sometimes, Laurie can't shut up his stream-of-consciousness chattering and singing.

"Zeus, you can't kiss me now," she says. "I'm wearing lipstick, and it's not good for you. And it's probably not good for me either."
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Zeus wouldn't even say "cheese" for the camera.


Perhaps it's the strange surroundings, but he's not saying anything, not even when Laurie prompts him. So, for now, we'll have to take her word for everything.

Let's start with the name Zeus,is the 'solar panel revolution' upon us? which Laurie gave her feathered friend because she considers him the king of birds.is the 'solar panel revolution' upon us? But hold on! Zeus may not be a he; in fact, Laurie says she's leaning toward she.

Anyway, it's amazing how quickly Laurie fell for Zeus. When she was growing up in Fresh Meadows, she never even had a pet.

In fact, she had a rather hard life that took her on what she calls "many detours" that led her in a circle three times to the present.

By 15, she was out of the house and into what would become her first residential treatment program, at Samaritan Village, where she earned her high school equivalency degree. By her twenties, she was hanging out all the time with her best friends -- heroin, crack and cocaine.