February 16: adventures in charcoal

Happy President's Day - to celebrate,  I thought I'd bust out the charcoal and try my hand at some pug art

February 9: ya filthy animals!

Look at these wild and crazy dogs!  They are so *cute* playing with their bones :)

Jan 4, 2015

A dog park adventure with my 2 favorite 4 legged buddies

Thanksgiving Weekend

Doing some doggy sitting the entire week to make some extra Black Friday spending money

Nov 20: Doug

Doug at large

Nov 16: welcome home, pups!

November 5: Count Basie

House sitting for a cutie named Basie aka snuggle bug

The Amazing Merengue Dancing Dog

I think I may have overlooked an exciting career opportunity:

 

This amazing merengue dancing dog is pretty damn impressive and adorable.  I know this is an old video, but the best time wasting website Buzzfeed.com just reminded me of it in this random post, one of many random Buzzfeed posts that are extremely enjoyable.  Tonight, I also read about Bostonians being hardcore Bostonians (the first picture shows a road condition advisory board that reads "Wicked High Tides" and later on, a taxi advertisement for a car wash that reads "Like a Spa For Your Cah"  Phenomenal.)  After that, I looked at the top 20 dog Halloween costumes, followed by the top 20 coolest pug Halloween costumes.  Then I found "34 Times John Krasinski was the Most Perfect Man Alive."  Nailed it.  If you've never buzzfeeded (or is it BuzzFed?) get on there asap.  Get comfortable, though because you'll be cruising it for hours.  I literally started writing this post an hour and a half ago, but have been "getting links" to connect their site to this post and keep getting distracted by even more entertaining lists.  Like right now, I'm watching "Yiddish Words You Should be Using Right Now"  FAKAKTA! 

The End of Newspapers?

Are newspapers even going to exist in 20 years?  I sure hope so.  Having just watched "Page One: Inside the New York Times,"  I am on a particular rant about the benefits of having an actual, printed-on-paper-that-will-make-your-fingers-dirty newspaper.  There are people who claim that the internet and tablets will obliterate print media, but I believe Americans will hang on to the nostalgia of cracking open a fresh paper that woke you up with a thunk at 5:30 A.M. in its arrival while having their coffee. 

There is an infographic on http://www.takepart.com/pageone/ that puts a little perspective on the state of print media in the past few years without having to watch the documentary, although I highly recommend it.  It says that 99% of stories linked to in blogs come from newspapers and broadcast networks.  On the documentary it goes into a little more detail- if the online writers/bloggers aren't directly taking their info and broadcasting their live reports, they are basing discussions on that info, like I am doing right now.  And it all starts with the news.  But that doesn't really tell us whether or not paper-copies have any effect on anyone.

I don't really know how to conclude this newspaper business, so I just threw in that silly New Yorker cartoon, because for all you guys really know, I could be a dog.  I kind of wish I were, but as my good friend Alison says, you just get to lay around all day, but you don't have any control over the TV or the ability to read, so maybe it wouldn't be so good.  I'd take it.

Longest side note of my life. (Although probably not, I've probably written longer things in parentheses before... I like parentheses! Go go grammar!)

This post makes me feel a lot better about the state of America- there are more libraries and museums in the U.S. than there are Starbucks and McDonalds.  Here's a map: http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2013/06/every-library-and-museum-america-mapped/5826/

Check it out (haha like a book from a library, get it?)  I'm so funny! 

I guess the next step for the U.S. is getting the kids and 20 somethings who are, lets face it, a bunch of assholes (yeah, I'm in that group. I know what I'm part of.  I'm writing about myself thinking that a whole bunch of people on the internet will be super fascinated and amused by my anecdotes.  Tell me thats not something a 20 something asshole American would do.  And then tell me that children aren't douchebags when they aren't looking cute all asleep or laughing when the dog sneezes or holding hands with their grandpa.  They can be real assholes sometimes.  Scientific fact: that is why God made humans think the weird, lets be honest- misshapen, baby's face is so cute- so we would feel genetically compelled to take care of the obnoxious things.  I'm not joking, that is a fact I learned on a documentary once.  Dogs have evolved to have similar characteristics to a baby so that humans would feel compelled to take care of them.  And look how well they are doing.  Jerry Seinfeld once told a joke about how if an alien spaceship landed, aliens would assume that dogs were running the show because humans were walking around picking up dog's poop.  I gotta say, he's not wrong there.  Wow that was a long side note- I bet you even forgot that this was all in parentheses didn't you?)

Anyway, look at the map of libraries and museums, then take your kids there by bribing them with the promise of a Happy Meal later if they are quiet.  Which they probably won't be.  And you'll probably still buy them a Happy Meal after. 

"Oh, hello. My name is Doug. I'm quite precocious. I kind of look like I should be wearing a monocle right now."