“We discovered that it was OK to have a little high-brow as long you have a lot of low-brow. That’s entertainment value. The one thing you want to avoid is the middle brow, because the whole world is frigging middle brow at the moment.” – Jon Langford
For Dog Blog Friday: Last Saturday was Mookie's 10th birthday, so I figured a series capturing him on that day would be fitting. Note Nigel still drives him crazy, even after 6 years. Or else he knows Nigel really slobbers in the water fountain.Labels: greyhounds
posted by George at 10:47 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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Would you mind terribly sharing the location of that drinking fountain so that... uh... I know never to use it? :)
Happy birthday Mook. We'd drink after you!
You're not being ironic, are you?
It's one of the fountains at Elings Park--there actually is a level of it for dogs, but the human-size is much more convenient for a greyhound.
I was trying to be ironic and funny. Apparently, I failed on both counts. I'll rush to Elings Park immediately after work and make amends.
Actually isn't true that a dog's mouth is cleaner than a human's?
I don't know about Mookie and Nigel, but I clean myself with soap and a luffa.
Bryan, I was asking if Ironicus was being ironic. I figured you were being tongue-in-cheek about the dog who's tongue is not in cheek.
And don't you mean soap and a falafel?
And don't you mean soap and a falafel?
You hate me for my freedom.
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