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Dogblog

THIS SPACE FOR RENT

I think it's about time I had some guest submissions. I keep getting emails from people saying "Hey, I saw the greatest dog the other day in my city!" and "You should've been here, there was a dog right outside the coffeeshop I was at!" and so forth (fortunately, I'm not getting any creepy stalker email; thank you, internet men and women, for not being creepy stalker people).

So I think I'm going to open up a guest page, right here in fact. This is the place where dog pictures that get sent to me will go.

I guess there should be rules. Or at least guidelines.

Probably not all of the dog pictures I get sent will go up.
My criteria are totally arbitrary. I like good dog pictures.
Really the only rule is that the dog has to be tied to something outside. Or in a car; I've taken some car pictures, haven't I? Or inside a business, I guess. Look, just don't send me a picture of your dog on your living room couch. Not gonna cut it.
I basically have no idea what sort of volume I'm going to be getting i/t/o submissions. If I get a lot, I'm going to have to limit this to only friends of mine. But who knows? Maybe I won't get any.
It would help if your picture was already 400px across.
I'd like the filesize on the picture at or below 50K. JPEGs are probably best. No bitmaps.
Include your own comments if you'd like. I reserve the right to edit them, but I promise I won't make you look stupid. Also, I'll likely be adding my own in my own "handwriting".
Tell me what you want your name to show up as. Otherwise I'm going to make something up, and you don't want that.

I guess that's about it! Go ahead and send your own dog pictures in to the0nlyg00dguy(snabel)gmail.com. That's the0nlyg00dguy(sobatchka)gmail.com. Can't make it any clearer than that. Don't want to make it a link. Spambots. Spambots.

Thanks for reading, people!

AND NOW ON WITH THE SHOW

(Note: My comments are in red)

		Dave sent in this picture of the family dog, Ollie, at one of them "protest rallies" I keep hearing about. I would simply like to note that Afghans have weird tails. Also, by being the one to place that sign upon the dog and then take its picture, doesn't the photographer then take part in the very social transaction the dog's proclamation seeks to avoid? IT IS CONUNDRUM TYME

		Doug T updates us on the status of furry black-Lab-lookin' dogs with bushy tails. Status: Waitin'. Just waitin'.

		Check this guy hanging out in what was clearly the most abandoned, pine-needle-strewn corner of San Francisco. What's funny about this is that even though it was taken in my town, Doug T isn't even from America!

		(Molly took this in Japan) This dog had the shortest legs I have ever seen. He kept trying to jump up on that bench but couldn't make it (the bench was less than knee height). Instead, he occupied himself with slamming into the walls until his owner came back to feed him ice cream. This was the most hyperactive dog I have ever seen in my life, and I was left wondering if the owner had covered her entire apartment in padding from knee height down to save this dog from suiciding inadvertently by throwing himself into a wall at full speed, as he surely does about every five seconds. He may be a total spazz, but you've got to respect the fur. Respect the fur! Also, the totally vacant look on his face. That's fantastic.

		(Gabe took this on Fountain Day 2004 at SUNY Albany, in southern New York State) This poor little guy was hanging out under a bench on Fountain Day 2k4 at Suny Albany. All he wanted to do was take a nap but how the hell can you do that with thousands of drunk, screaming college kids in the background? It's in the eyes. "I'd get up from under this bench and tear all your throats out, but it's pretty comfortable down here and I'm not really feelin' it anyway. "Seriously, though, shut up."

		(est took this in what he thinks might've been Easthampton, MA) This dog was tied up to a pole next to a tree (quite thoughtful!) just outside a tattoo place where a bunch of bikers were hangin' out. He kept looking over at them a lot, so I like to think that one of the bikers owned him, and bought that cute little heart dogtag for it. "What was that noise? Which one of you said that?"