All things of creation are children of the father and brothers of man. .. God wants to help animals, if they need help. Every creature in disgrace has the same right to be protected.
St. Francis of Assisi
Today should have been Shelby's eighth birthday. She's still gone. I still miss her and grieve for her everyday....
<__trans phrase="Tags For This Post">:All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream
Edgar Allan Poe
Patti Page-(How Much Is That) Doggy In The Window Cat Stevens-I Love My Dog Lolas-Plenty Of Dogs Tampa Red-Let Me Play With Your Poodle Ronnie Self-Ain't I'm A Dog Nina Simone-Mr Bojangles Candy Butchers-Call Off The Dogs Don Woody-Bird...
<__trans phrase="Tags For This Post">:It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane
Philip K. Dick
We took a long trip this weekend. A trip we could not begin to afford. It was to look at dogs. We went to the Aftershock Kennels. After a long tedious drive we arrived to doggie insanity. There were...
<__trans phrase="Tags For This Post">:God must have needed him a good dog
Steve McQueen "Soldier In The Rain"
Shelby, my puppy, passed away today at 12:02 PM. It was surprising only because she had been showing so much improvement. After enduring 2 units of blood in a transfusion all her vital signs showed marked improvement. There were...
<__trans phrase="Tags For This Post">:Even a man who is pure of heart and says his prayers each night
Clifford Siodamak - "The Wolfman"
Click images for desktop size: "Creepy 1966" by Frank Frazetta My puppy has a heart murmur and she has anemia. It's bad. What makes it somehow worse is that it comes from a disease called Ehrlichia. Ehrlichia canid infection in...
<__trans phrase="Tags For This Post">:Just because the biggest fool in the world says the sun will rise tomorrow don't expect the sun to malinger to spite the fool
Click images for desktop size: "The Blue Beetle" by Unknown Before I was a teen I wrote an article about The Flash for a fanzine called Rocket Blast Comic Collector. At 11 I didn't see much difference between fanzines and...
<__trans phrase="Tags For This Post">:She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal
Simone de Beauvoir
Click images for desktop size: "Admiral Skull" by Frank HamiltonI'm going to have to remove all the mp3's from the site. I've spent a lot of energy in not monetizing this site. And I get approached a lot. I...
<__trans phrase="Tags For This Post">:There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance
Socrates
Click images for desktop size: "Nude" by Harvey Dunn My wife is back. The only remotely sad thing about that she stayed so busy these last 6 weeks that she gave her self no time to mourn the passing of...
<__trans phrase="Tags For This Post">:Mark Kelly - Husband of Gabby Giffords
Click images for desktop size: "Dark Days" by Benny Mark Kelly is the husband of Gabby Giffords. Giffords was one of the victims of the Tuscon Arizonia shooting many believe was inspired by the hate speech of Sarah Palin....
<__trans phrase="Tags For This Post">:A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.
China Miéville
USC 14 Stanford 21
Click images for desktop size: "1950" by Chiriaka I've been thinking about odd old times. Breakfasts, meeting people, great and not so great people; old housemates and just stuff. I think it's just my brain trying to convince me of...
<__trans phrase="Tags For This Post">:Only the educated are free
Eleanor Roosevelt
Click images for desktop size: "The Collousus Of New York" I was in the hospital for 3 days. I didn't like it. I went to the hospital because my feet were so swollen and I was having this freaky chest...
<__trans phrase="Tags For This Post">:Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.
John Madden
Click images for desktop size: "Chrysalis" by JW McGinnis My days are spent dealing with under educated products of the Bush era "No child left behind" junta. Coffee skinned young men who's main experience in life comes from TV. Like...
<__trans phrase="Tags For This Post">:Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life
Terry Pratchett
Click images for desktop size: "Elephant" by Unknown I like movies from the early sixties. They were momentous movies and big stories that were only about people. It was the bigness of ourselves that gave the stories their weight, the...
<__trans phrase="Tags For This Post">:Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will
Nelson Mandela
Click images for desktop size: "La" by Boris Vallejo I think Obama has let us all down. There's no change and no hope. Somehow he turned into a Republican. There's no defense for his retracting the EPA rule that would...
<__trans phrase="Tags For This Post">:The Best Laid Plans
Click images for desktop size: "Woman Wailing For Her Demon Lover" by Hannes BokSo, I've been manager for two weeks and it sucks . . . What makes it worse is that the customers like me so business is up...
<__trans phrase="Tags For This Post">:You must die! I alone am best!
Yor Chun "Wutan Swordsman"
Click images for desktop size: "Minnesota Canning Company" by Andrew Wyeth Life has been a chore lately. Debilitating heat and sweat mixed with hopeless rage and mercurial hopes. Its like not much to walk 6 miles in a day but,...
<__trans phrase="Tags For This Post">:For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I", and cuts you off forever from the "we"
John Steinbeck
Click images for desktop size: "Untitled" by Marta Dahlig I did my blood work on Friday. They take too much blood. That night the fasting and the blood loss made me wake up with the shakes and the night sweats....
<__trans phrase="Tags For This Post">:Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it
Lou Holtz
Click images for desktop size: "Design 1" by Media Milan Been thinking a lot about form and content. Even had a conversation with my wife yesterday about the decline of the Technicolor monopoly and how this impacted indy filmmaking while...
<__trans phrase="Tags For This Post">:If men were angels, no government would be necessary
James Madison
Click images for desktop size: "Shaggy Door Knob" by S4W I had a vivid dream Friday night. I was moving into a new home, just my puppy and I. We were invited to a wedding. I decided to go since...
<__trans phrase="Tags For This Post">:People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love
Daniel J. Boorstin
Click images for desktop size: "Untitled" by William Wagner Yesterday my puppy and I went to get her picture taken with Santa Claus. We both had an uproarious time. Dozens of dogs and dozens of free cookies! It was the...
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