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Walks with the dogs

• Walks with the dogs

  Where would Jesus park?

  02.22.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  I wouldn’t walk past this parking lot except when I take the dogs for a walk in this particular area, hence the category.  I don’t think they peed on this while I took the picture:

• Walks with the dogs

  What Up Gangsta

  12.13.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Dog crap and dead leaves bear one important similarity: their color.  From which follows: legal jeopardy.  To whit: when my dog craps in the piles of leaves you leave on the sidewalk, it makes it difficult to fulfil my obligation to society.  Also: it is dark early these days and my cell phone doesn’t help [...]

• Walks with the dogs, Work

  New distraction

  12.01.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Back from Sacto and back to work. Should be getting stuck in to that but cannot be arsed. Could be because I am itching to check Facebook, to which I was introduced by my dear wife during our vacation last week. I’m going to assume it’s blocked from work and not even [...]

• 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 | 2 Comments

  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 [...]

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