Archive For The “Wild Dog” Category

Chris Isaak Said It Best (A Short Story)

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Chris Isaak Said It Best (A Short Story)

She had a big dog and a tight pussy and a great smile and some stiff weed. The room’s already paid for. But the bitch would not give me the fuckin’ remote.

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Wild Dog Quarantine Day 209

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Wild Dog Quarantine Day 209

That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere. – Ben Kingsley The Commissioner defeated a conservative Republican, who wasn’t right-wing enough. The defeated candidate remarked, “His name is Champion and he owns a gun store….

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Bringing Ragnar Home

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Bringing Ragnar Home

Puppies are God’s idea of a perfect workout program. – Stephen King My wife’s phone says this is the day, two years ago, I picked up Ragnar Brutha Gonzo at the City Slickers Ranch in Orlando. Don’t think he was eight weeks yet. Seen the puppy a couple weeks earlier – kennel just happened to…

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National Dog Day

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National Dog Day

One day nationally, every day at our house. – Barker Ajax Celebrated annually every August 26th, National Dog Day is a day for people to recognize the importance of dogs and how they impact their lives on a daily basis. It is also a day to recognize how hard service dogs work on our behalf…

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Postlogue

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Postlogue

Isn’t it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle–it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of…

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DBA Barker Ajax (Character Study)

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DBA Barker Ajax (Character Study)

Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go. –  Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down. Barker, in many ways, is an obstinate individualist. Which explains somewhat his alleged profession: Philosopher/Recreationalist. My problem with the nuevo IRON JOHN…

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RBG Turns Two

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RBG Turns Two

If Justice Ginsburg was a dog, she’d be 612 years old. – Barker Ajax Ragnar Brotha Gonzo was born, I’ve been told, on July 27, 2018. My giant Caucasian Ovcharka, Hagrid Hippocrates Little Bear, passed away three weeks later. Hagrid and I had a bet going, to see who would outlive the other. I won….

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The Beginning Of My Farm Cowboy Story

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The Beginning Of My Farm Cowboy Story

Some of us write the novel, some of us live it. – Barker Ajax Chapter 1. THE STRANGER I saw the dust he raised before I saw anything else. We lived at the end of a long dirt road and we didn’t get much traffic up our way except during elk season, which wouldn’t start…

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Become Your Own Hero

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Become Your Own Hero

At no time in history have there been so many restless, questioning men. The traditional notions of manhood are under attack and men are being called upon to defend themselves, to change, to become something other than what they have been. – Sam Keen Character Notes “Choosing heroes is like making the collage of the…

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Canine Think Piece

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Canine Think Piece

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell. – Emily Dickinson Are Dogs More Moral Than Us? by Jon Katz for Bedlam Farm Journal. June 29, 2020. According to dog author and psychologist Stanley Coren, paleontologists believe that 14,000 years ago, a Stone Age man sat next to a fire staring…

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