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For Dog Blog Friday: Here's as indignant as a greyhound can look, as Nigel stares Mookie down for stealing his stick.Labels: greyhounds
posted by George at 9:09 AM
George markets only for the forces of good for a living. He has a paid hobby that involves eating, drinking, and writing, things he’d do for free, which is almost what he’s doing it for. In a previous life he taught mostly illiterate and generally ungrateful college students how to write. He has been a body guard for Jodie Foster, a walk-on dancer with French avant garde troupe Maguy Marin, a film programmer, a judge at an Iron Chef style competition, a political activist, a textbook author, a bassist in a band, a two-time league winning fantasy baseball manager, a union local president, a pr flack helping run a red carpet at an Angelina Jolie event, a janitor, a chauffeur to folks from TC Boyle to Andrei Codrescu, a delivery man to Plato's Retreat, a reluctant writer of a non-snarky intro for Colin Powell, a radio DJ, a corn detassler, an escort van driver, a rock journalist, a lab assistant for a company that made everything from mouthwash to super skin lubricant, and even, once, a poet. His biggest brush with fame was when Julie Christie fondled his tie, a tie George Lopez belittled to 1000 people minutes later. The best thing about him is his wife. His dogs aren't bad, either.
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The Pooh Sticks, Love and Mercy?
Cannonball Adderley
I have no idea. All I know is, I've always wanted a Triva Prize.
That's an Italian racecar, right?
Here is the link
http://play.rhapsody.com/cannonballadderley/mercymercymercy/sticks?didAutoplayBounce=true
Sorry but I was out of town this weekend and not paying enough attention. Indeed, Jazzy got it right, as one of the great lively jazz cuts of all time, "The Sticks" is on the Cannonball Adderley album Mercy! Mercy! Mercy!
So what is my trivia prize?
jazzy: My suspicion is that vast trivia knowledge -- like virtue -- is its own reward.
But maybe you can get George to get you a gift certificate for a Greyhound at the Hungry Cat.
Kusala either knows the world, or this blog, too well.
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