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Ooh, You Make Me Live Now Honey

by John Cole|  April 24, 201511:18 pm| 44 Comments

This post is in: Dog Blogging, Pet Rescue

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There’s always room on the bed for your buddy.

bestbuds

I guess the whole Koda/Lovey thing is working out ok.

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  1. 1.

    Mobile Grumpy Code Monkey

    April 24, 2015 at 11:24 pm

    It’s called “puppy license”. It’s good for about six to eight months, after which Koda’s less likely to tolerate such things. Or Lovey has taken over. One of the two.

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    peej

    April 24, 2015 at 11:26 pm

    @Mobile Grumpy Code Monkey: My bet’s on Lovey.

  3. 3.

    Emma

    April 24, 2015 at 11:29 pm

    That’s a lovely mage of an invasion and takeover.

  4. 4.

    rikyrah

    April 24, 2015 at 11:36 pm

    they look so cute together. I love the difference in their sizes…..but, they’re becoming buddies

  5. 5.

    Little Boots

    April 24, 2015 at 11:46 pm

    john, as long as you love dogs, you are okay.

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    Wag

    April 24, 2015 at 11:55 pm

    A friend on FB has been post its lot about nuclear weapons recently and the terrible toll on life etc. when this song came up on shuffle I thought of him and also the paranoia about nuclear holocost that we all lived through in the days of Ronnie Raygun. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d5XJ2GiR6Bo

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    Little Boots

    April 24, 2015 at 11:55 pm

    no omnes?

  8. 8.

    Wag

    April 24, 2015 at 11:58 pm

    And this one too

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0k4TNtUZnM4

  9. 9.

    Betty Cracker

    April 25, 2015 at 12:00 am

    Awww!

  10. 10.

    Little Boots

    April 25, 2015 at 12:11 am

    no steeplejack?

    oh this place sometimes.

  11. 11.

    Mary G

    April 25, 2015 at 12:11 am

    She’s growing so fast. Thanks for sharing with us, geg6. Ginger’s genes weren’t too strong, I guess.

  12. 12.

    Little Boots

    April 25, 2015 at 12:25 am

    getting quiet up in here. night people?

  13. 13.

    srv

    April 25, 2015 at 12:32 am

    @Wag: We were a lot more orchestrally enlightened in the home of the brave.

  14. 14.

    Violet

    April 25, 2015 at 12:43 am

    Aww…that’s adorable. Look how little Lovey is compared to Koda! So cute.

  15. 15.

    NotMax

    April 25, 2015 at 12:56 am

    Let sleeping dogs lie.

  16. 16.

    ms_canadada

    April 25, 2015 at 12:57 am

    A (Dog) Love Supreme.

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    Major Major Major Major

    April 25, 2015 at 1:07 am

    I gotta get some new pictures of my cat for y’all now that he’s all grown up, but now that other Mr. Major^4 has chicken pox, I’m a little busy watching Netflix with him and going to Walgreens. Poor guy. Apparently he missed the vaccine due to a doctor’s mix-up :(

    Shameless plug: The Fish, part 4 is up, if you’d like to read more about the world where all the fish vanish.

  18. 18.

    Major Major Major Major

    April 25, 2015 at 1:07 am

    Moderation? The heck?

    ETA: Ugh, I used the word for the place where you go to pick up Rx’s. That’s it, isn’t it.

  19. 19.

    Suzanne

    April 25, 2015 at 1:12 am

    Dawwwww. Those dawgs are adorable. Lovey looks like she is getting so big!

  20. 20.

    Aleta

    April 25, 2015 at 1:14 am

    She’s got one ear touching K. Have they curled up together yet ? Shared body heat ?

  21. 21.

    Little Boots

    April 25, 2015 at 1:14 am

    @Suzanne:

    ain’t we all.

  22. 22.

    Jebediah, RBG

    April 25, 2015 at 1:17 am

    goddamn that is cute and sweet!

  23. 23.

    Violet

    April 25, 2015 at 1:24 am

    @Major Major Major Major: You mean a farmacy?

  24. 24.

    Little Boots

    April 25, 2015 at 1:29 am

    still needs more omnes.

  25. 25.

    Baud

    April 25, 2015 at 1:37 am

    Sweet.

  26. 26.

    Little Boots

    April 25, 2015 at 1:38 am

    oy, yes, very sweet all of it.

    john is insidious. yes.

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    Yatsuno

    April 25, 2015 at 2:55 am

    @Wag: I’m a traditionalist and I can’t find the original video anywhere.

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    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    April 25, 2015 at 3:35 am

    @Major Major Major Major: If you’re still around, I have a couple of questions. Foremost, I’m curious about what you’re goal is in writing “The Fish.” I know you said at one point that the motivation is at least partially therapeutic, but do you have any plans beyond that? That could range anywhere from trying to sell it somewhere to looking for wider distribution channels without necessarily trying to sell it, to just having friends and acquaintances read it on your blog. I just think it’s interesting finding out about WHY people write fiction.

    The other question is what you are envisioning as its structure. So far it’s just disconnected vignettes of people’s immediate reaction to the disappearance of the fish. Do they connect to each other eventually, or are you just going for snapshots?

  29. 29.

    Amir Khalid

    April 25, 2015 at 5:07 am

    @Yatsuno:
    Wirklich? Man kann das Original-video leicht auf YouTube finden.

  30. 30.

    Major Major Major Major

    April 25, 2015 at 5:12 am

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym: I know I missed you, but…

    My goal is to write something people I care about would enjoy reading. IIRC Borges once said something like, “people started paying attention as soon as I started writing the kinds of stories I thought my friends would like.” So I’m trying to write those. Same with A Day Late…

    Structure is definitely Pratchett-facing, as far as this sort of stuff goes. Characters will meet up eventually, solve some problem, won’t be the main problem, etc.

  31. 31.

    Major Major Major Major

    April 25, 2015 at 5:13 am

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Also you meant “your” not “you’re” :P

  32. 32.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    April 25, 2015 at 5:25 am

    @Major Major Major Major: Didn’t miss me. My shift lasts another 1 1/2 hours.

  33. 33.

    Major Major Major Major

    April 25, 2015 at 5:29 am

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym: I want friends to read The Fish. The other one is a halfway-written novel that I’m using the periodic format to kick my butt into finishing.

    I’ve got a plot outline for The Fish, but really I just think it’ll make a fun yarn. Of course, lots of good stuff starts as a great yarn.

    ETA: Anyway, the big-boy plot starts in a couple posts, I think.

  34. 34.

    Major Major Major Major

    April 25, 2015 at 5:41 am

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Hey, thanks for reading, by the way. I really appreciate the commentary.

  35. 35.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    April 25, 2015 at 5:42 am

    Pratchett is one of those authors who I read and it’s clear that he’s a good writer but it just doesn’t click. Charlie Stross is another one. In both cases, a part of it is that they write in a very casual tone of voice that I find off-putting. In this way, I see a resemblance with your writing. As I said last night, that makes me really reluctant to offer criticism, because on a fundamental level I don’t get it and trying to make the changes I’d suggest would be horribly counterproductive.

    All of this is opposed to someone like Neal Stephenson, who’s just a bad writer that has somehow duped a lot of people into thinking that he’s good.

  36. 36.

    Major Major Major Major

    April 25, 2015 at 5:51 am

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym: You know, I adore Stephenson, but not because he’s a good writer. His novels are structurally terrible. He can’t even end a short story to save his life.

    But he’s decent at explaining stuff like crypto to my mom, so he can’t be that bad. And he’s got a handle on phraseology, though possibly to his detriment.

    I like Pratchett, but he’s not really somebody you can offer authorial criticisms towards since he’s super self-taught and never even went to college. Like, his books are a clusterfuck. And that’s as a final draft. I’m just putting up a first draft. And that’s not to be elitist or anything, and it’s really cool that he went from getting kicked out of (I think) Secondary to becoming a Knight. He’s very playful, he’s just not very structured.

    Stross might be a better match for me: some CS dork, though in my case I do have a minor in creative writing taught mostly by Wolff.
    I’m just not using it that much.

    It could also be–I have no idea how old you are–generational, in case you’re of the age that didn’t grow up with casual online bullshittery being the predominant form of social discourse. Just spitballing.

  37. 37.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    April 25, 2015 at 5:58 am

    I turn 47 in a couple of months and I’m pretty much self-taught as a creative writer, too. My bachelor’s degree in is statistics and I have a master’s of accountancy.

    My take on Stephenson comes from reading Cryptonomicon and hating it, plus a lot of conversations with a friend who had the same reaction to Snow Crash. My criticisms were legion, including the fact that the World War II portion of the plot made absolutely no sense, either historically or logically. And I found the modern portion to be a load of Libertarian White Guy bullshit that also didn’t make any sense if you looked at it.

    Me, I’m very, very fond of Guy Gavriel Kay, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Iain Banks, and Alistair Reynolds.

  38. 38.

    Major Major Major Major

    April 25, 2015 at 6:01 am

    Oh, I love Banks.

    Sorry if I sounded like a dick in my earlier post, the five-minute edit window is murder.

    Didn’t mean the age thing as a diss or whatever.

    You’ll find an overriding plot in two or three more posts, I think. Don’t give up yet. But it might be very Douglas Adams-y.

  39. 39.

    debbie

    April 25, 2015 at 8:32 am

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1n9QTkrkP0

  40. 40.

    kc

    April 25, 2015 at 9:08 am

    They’re adorable!

  41. 41.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    April 25, 2015 at 10:16 am

    Adorable dog photo – thanks!

  42. 42.

    WaterGirl

    April 25, 2015 at 10:30 am

    Cole and geg6, thanks so much for the update!

  43. 43.

    shell

    April 25, 2015 at 11:06 am

    Looks like Koda’s doing some serious chewing. Busy Bone?

  44. 44.

    WereBear

    April 25, 2015 at 11:55 am

    Lovey’s gotten so big!

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