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Walks with the dogs

• Walks with the dogs

  Haiku

  10.27.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  “What the fuck’s wrong with people?”
  Drag dogs down sidewalk
  They mourn dropped dirty diaper

• Portland, Walks with the dogs

  The rain in Portland falls mainly on the dogs

  08.20.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I was just in a meeting that began with my observation that the rain outside was falling almost perfectly sideways.  Perhaps that effect was exaggerated by us being on the eleventh floor, but whereas in December horizontal rain is not so welcome and would solicit suicidal groans from my co-workers, after the miserable heat of [...]

• Books, Portland, Walks with the dogs

  Otium sine litteris mors est

  07.27.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Recent books read:
  We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin
  The Warden, by Anthony Trollope
  Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America’s Most Powerful Mafia Empires, by Selwyn Raab
  The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II (Modern Library Edition), by Edward Gibbon
   
  Today is muggy and I am logy but I still took the dogs (both the Resident [...]

• Portland, Walks with the dogs

  Litter

  06.21.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  One of the advantages of walking dogs is the chance to explore the neighborhood.  I’ve probably been on every street in a forty-five minute walk radius of our house.  Still there are a few routes we walk regularly, and even there I am always seeing things I never noticed before.  Yesterday evening I was walking [...]

• Music, Walks with the dogs

  Confounding Expectations

  06.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Tuesday was a chilly day, with the temperature in the forties, and an obligingly cold rain soaked the Resident Dogs on our evening walk.  By the time I took the Short-term Dog for a walk it had stopped raining but it still felt like winter to me.  Yesterday was warmer and dry so I went for [...]

• Walks with the dogs

  Wilful misinterpretation

  05.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  We had Guest Dog staying with us this last weekend.  Guest Dog gets lots of compliments when I take him on walks.  The other evening we passed by a couple of pre-teen girls playing in front of a house. 
  1st Girl: It’s a wolf!  No, a husky!
  2nd Girl: No, it’s a German shepherd!
  1st: Husky!
  2nd: German shepherd.  [...]

• Portland, Walks with the dogs

  Haruspicy

  04.09.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  It’s felt lately as if we’ve been stuck in a late-winter fugue state.  We the people anticipate warmer days, or at least warmer rains, and yet we are chilled and our limbs are weary of cursing the gods.  Perhaps it is the early onset of Daylight Savings Time this year we will blame.  Such falsely [...]

• Walks with the dogs

  Throbbing Orb

  02.21.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Last night while walking northwards with the dogs I noticed scattered folks along the west side of the street, gazing past me.  Then I noticed there was the moon and it looked odd.  I hadn’t brought my glasses with me but I did remember just then of the predicted lunar specatular, so although I didn’t [...]

• Dogs, Walks with the dogs

  Various

  01.24.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I have learned from more than one source that dogs’ paws can smell like Fritos.  I would assess this for myself, but I have more than once seen my dogs step blithely into large and avoidable dog poop piles.
  Yesterday evening we passed the crest of Belmont as it dips over the shoulder of Mt. Tabor, [...]

• Politics, Portland, Walks with the dogs

  Dude

  01.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  If you emerge from the bushes in the landscaping around the Walgreen’s parking lot, and I am walking by with the dogs, and if you’ve just been in those bushes for the purpose of getting high by whatever means, then please don’t try and engage me in incoherent, drug-logic small-talk.  I really don’t care what [...]

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