People, Let Me Tell You 'Bout My Best Friend

My husband and I have recently become obsessed with Dogtown, a new show on National Geographic, or "Nat Geo" as he jokingly calls it. It profiles Best Friends Animal Society, an amazing place that takes in hundreds of abandoned animals of all kinds. The show focuses exclusively on the dogs at Best Friends, most of which were taken from shelters who could not rehabilitate them. They handle the worst cases that are thought to be beyond saving, most notably the fighting dogs taken from Michael Vick. Most of these dogs would be euthanized if not for the saviors at Best Friends. These people dedicate their lives to helping these dogs, and their skills will have you in awe.

Ok, enough gushing about Best Friends, and let's get down to business. If you click here and download this new Neko Case song, Neko herself, and ANTI- will donate $5 to Best Friends.

And seriously, start watching Dogtown! If you are a dog person, it's totally addictive. Almost every episode brings me to tears, and has me ready to hand them my paycheck every week. I also end up begging my husband to let me adopt all of the dogs on the show, to which he always replies "yes" despite the obvious flaws in that plan.

The severe beating of a traffic cone

Oh, the pressure of the first post. Should it be comical, intellectual, political, insightful, meaningful? How about uselessly observational? Out my window, I just saw a giant bulldog take down a traffic cone. He stared at it in a very, "You talkin' to me?" sort of way, then lunged at it and then bit it and thrashed about with it in his teeth for a minute before his owner had to forcibly remove him from the cone and drag him off, as the dog looked back at the cone as if to say, "Yeah, what? You got schooled!" I'm just glad someone finally had the nerve to show those uppity traffic cones who's boss. I wish I had a video camera because it was certainly a YouTube hit in the making, but I'm sure that would be a violation of the dog's rights. Another observation: Someone in my immediate vicinity is cooking some delicious stuffing or something, and it's making me hungry. Anyway, I'm off to a bar to watch football and enjoy this beautiful day. Hopefully these posts will get more interesting, or at least somewhat frequent.