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• Walks with the dogs

  A Tree Grows in Montavilla

  09.10.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Yeseterday was very warm, as if making up for the impression that we had an attenuated summer this year.  Previously I had discovered, growing right next to the trunk of the dogwood in our back yard, a maple sapling.  With the welcome assistance of our plant expert neighbor, we transplanted said sapling to the parking […]

• Walks with the dogs

  Happy Labor Day

  09.03.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  This evening I took the vicious beasts out for a stroll.  While walking behind McDonald’s a Chrysler 300 pulled up into the parking lot, stopped, and disgorged a prostitute.  The driver then backed out of the lot, almost hitting the woman as he turned onto the street.  Then he drove to the end of the […]

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  Things Fall Apart

  08.14.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  My headphones, Koss PortaPros, seem to be about to fail.  Recently they have been yielding more distortion than music, leaving me with the feeling that I will hear the beep of Sputnik at any moment.  Luckily I have spare headphones, and more luckily Koss will repair for free (with a small s/h charge) the product […]

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  Drama

  05.22.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Scene: Young woman slouching against car, her midriff pillowing above the cut of her low-cut pants.  Strapping young police officer standing in front of her, pencil to notebook. Officer [automaton]: Tell me again why you threw your glass of water on your boyfriend? Woman [sullen]: He told me to git off his porch. As we pass I […]

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  Junkyard Dogs

  04.18.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  There is a scrap metal buyer who has opened up shop recently about a ten minute walk from our house.  When I take the dogs past it the parking lot is usually full of crappy old cars overloaded with ancient appliances and tangles of scrap and wire.  The prospective sellers tend to overflow onto the […]

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  Bad Parents

  04.15.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  We come across this obscure store on our walks sometimes: What the fuck, parents?  Who names their son “Adolf”? Apparently this Adolf is not bothered by his parents’ choice.  He may even have embraced it; the “Adolf’s Office” is somehow endearing, if also creepy.

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  Property

  02.04.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Yesterday the dogs and I walked past a dilapidated house.  What made this one interesting was the equally dilapidated doghouse in the corner of the front yard, like a statement on the whole: The house looked uninhabited, so I could hope that no dog had to endure living out in that yard. Today we came across a house in […]

• Walks with the dogs

  Dahlias

  09.19.06 | Permalink | Comment?

   Dahlias as purchased on a walk with the dogs yesterday: We saw them passing by a house with a large sign in its garden, “Hothouse Dahlias”, and a couple of buckets of cut flowers on the fence, payment by the honor system. So, a present for the Mrs. Coincidentally the movie The Black Dahlia is […]

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