brooklyn hasty sketches
Monday, July 30th, 2007hold onto yer panties, bitches, I’m gonna start uploading my arrival to Brooklyn comics soon, mostly done in scratchy stick figures like this. In the meantime, I’m posting photos of my adventures on flickr, see them here
Many thanks to Sarah and Jamil who are letting me stay on their couch and follow them around Brooklyn.
also, my mom’s husband Kevin writes for the Napa Register and his column this week was about dogs who sometimes come onto our property in Napa and terrorize my cats (they’ve killed two of them & I caught them in the yard a few weeks ago) it’s a good read for anyone who owns cats or dogs, you can read it here
July 30th, 2007 at 10:24 am
I like dogs as well as the next guy, but some dogs need a shotgun load full of rock salt in the ass sometimes.
July 30th, 2007 at 11:31 am
I love the word balloon with the asterisk in it. It added a little touch of Zen to my lunch.
July 30th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
It’s not the dogs who need to be hurt, Matthew, it’s the dumb fuck of an owner.
My very well behaved angel of a dog has VERY SELDOMLY gotten away from me and chased cats. If anyone shot him with anything, I’d gut them like a pig and let Freddy feast on their innerds.
July 30th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Chasing cats and mauling them to death are two very different things. While I agree it’s the owner’s fault, a dog that’s been allowed to become that violent is a threat to everyone and everything around it. Dogs like that might well get ahold of a baby in a backyard and tear it apart. I was being facetious about the rock salt- in actual fact, those dogs need to be put down, and the owner prosecuted for animal cruelty.
And if I had a big nasty dog and it was eating one of your dogs, you wouldn’t feel too nice towards it. (let alone me.)
July 30th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
I agree with Joelle… shoot the owner i the ass with rock salt. ANYWAY… Julia… I’m sorry I stayed inside in the rain. Let’s hang out soon. I want to see those fly bags.
July 30th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Well, you and I disagree. Dogs have a prey drive, it is a natural part of every carnivorous animal. A dog cannot be blamed for following its natural instinct to hunt and chase small fast moving animals. A dog cannot differentiate between “pet” and “prey.” It is our job as pet owners, those of who are, to be responsible enough to prevent this from happening.
A baby in a yard should not be seen as prey by a domestic dog, and a dog who kills a baby should be euthanized. But to say the same about a dog who kills a cat is a fantastic leap into absurdity.
As for your last sentiment, I have seen horrible fights occur between my dog and other bigger more powerful dogs in which my dog was definitely not the victor. I would never blame the other dog. And if the owner acts quickly to help break it up and apologizes, I don’t blame them either. There is a certain amount of inherent risk in dog ownership, especially if you allow your dog off leash play time with other dogs. And every owner should. Dogs are dogs, animals are animals, and no one’s pet can be under perfect contol all the time.
And there is also the arguement of keeping your cats indoors where they are safe…
July 30th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
… why do the bags of water keep flies away?
July 31st, 2007 at 1:49 am
in hawai’i it’s common to put large glass jars of water in your front yard to keep dogs from crapping on it. the science behind this has never been explained, but i would consider doing it myself out of sheer nostalgia.
July 31st, 2007 at 10:33 am
So where in Brooklyn do you live now?
July 31st, 2007 at 11:07 am
oh sarah’s couch. i wont have an apartment until september when my roommate comes from california.
July 31st, 2007 at 11:25 am
Sweet.* I lived on a couch for, like, six months. It was pretty awesome.* Now I have an apartment in Park Slope, but I might be going the couch route again soon. I can’t wait.*
*(this is all sarcasm)
July 31st, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Gabby I suspect that the water keeps the dogs from crapping because they instinctively won’t crap where they drink? Just guessing.
However standing water is a breeding ground for mosquitoes so I would assume one would have to dump the jars/bags every couple days or so?
It looks like Jason is talking about a butthole BTW.
July 31st, 2007 at 3:24 pm
Waterbags answered:
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mwaterbags.html