“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: It was ten years ago this coming Thursday (yes, we adopted him on Valentine's Day) that Mookie became part of the family. Here he is with his sister Julia that very night. And yes, we almost wound up with two greyhounds right from the very start.Labels: greyhounds
posted by George at 9:35 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.
4 Comments:
Look at just how little they are! Crazy!
That's great!
Where is Julia these days?
Of course she wasn't Julia yet, but she got adopted by a family up in Santa Maria about an hour or so north of Santa Barbara. We haven't seen her in years but did run into her at dog shows a couple of times.
Happy adoption day! Mookie is a lucky pup.
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