Posts tagged ‘dogs’

October 31, 2011

Meat Man

Once upon a time, there was a man made all out of meat. He had a sausage patty for a head, sausage links for arms, bacon strips for legs, chicken livers for feet, and a meatloaf for a trunk. He never went outside or did anything, because he was made of meat, and he figured he’d be immediately eaten by dogs.

He said this to his friends all the time, and they got sick of it.

He’d be like, “Oh, gee, guys I wish I could go to that party, but maybe some dogs will come.” Or, “Shoot, guys, I wish I could go to the movie with you. But. I just worry about dogs.”

Finally, his friends told him, “Hey, listen, meat man – we’re all made out of meat! Look around. All of us. Meat. That’s what people are. You know what else is made out of meat? Dogs. You think they sit around worrying that you’re going to eat them? No!”

The meat man had never really thought about that, but he supposed his friends were right! Everyone was a meat man.

The meat man put on a coat and stepped out into the yard for the first time in ever. He tipped his sausage patty up to the sun and inhaled the fresh air deeply. He smiled.

Then, the dogs descended. They came from miles around, and it was brutal and fast. His friends watched from the house – it was all over before they could even think to intervene.

“Shit,” said one. “I guess he was right about himself.”

“We shouldn’t feel guilty,” said another. “Right? I mean, it wasn’t like it was much of a life for him to be living.”

December 16, 2009

MS 12/15/09: The Dog Must Go

You know what I think a million dollar idea would be?  If you were to invent some sort of thing you could feed to, say, a dog somewhere, that would make the dog entirely loose its voice forever, but otherwise wouldn’t harm the dog.  Every dog in New York would be given this treat eventually, including the one next door to me now, at my new apartment – the big black one with the white muzzle, who barks every morning from 7:00-8:00am in such a way as to completely penetrate even the most shoved-in of earplugs.

Since nothing like that exists, though, I will probably have to feed this dog poison at some point.  Or, someone – not me – will, I mean.

December 13, 2007

Log Lines for Possible Made-For-TV Christmas Movies

A woman finds that she has turned into a Christmas ornament on a tree. Finds love with an adjacent ornament.

A woman finds that she has fallen in love with a Christmas ornament. Christmas ornament becomes real man.

A family man finds that he has fallen in love with a real woman, who has become a Christmas ornament, who has fallen in love with family man, who owns Christmas tree. Man divorces wife and marries Christmas ornament. Christmas ornament turns back into real-life woman.

Dog eats Christmas ornament. Christmas ornament lives in dog’s stomach, converses with other small, anthropomorphic, holiday-themed items dog has eaten.

Dogs, cats, and other anthropomorphic animals reenact the nativity.

A woman, watching an animal reenactment of the nativity, falls in love with the male director of the nativity. The animals all talk, and plot ways to set the man up with this woman.

A woman and man are estranged, and an anthropomorphic dog who loves Christmas brings them back together.

An anthropomorphic dog hates Christmas, but is taught to love it again by a talking baby.

A talking baby wants its lonely mother to meet a man for Christmas. Talking baby makes this happen, with the help of an anthropomorphic hamster.

A talking baby consumes an anthropomorphic hamster over Christmas, and is brought to the hospital by its lonely mother on Christmas, and its mother falls in love with the lonely, grouchy, career-obsessed E.R. doctor.

A teenager, who has to miss Christmas to go to the hospital when her infant sister consumes an anthropomorphic hamster, finds love with a boy from the wrong side of the tracks, who is spending Christmas in the E.R. because it is a warm place to sleep.

A boy from the wrong side of the tracks learns the true spirit of Christmas when, going to the E.R. for a warm place to sleep, he is forced to pitch in with several touching emergency cases.

A boy from the wrong side of the tracks spends Christmas in an abandoned subway tunnel with a mangy, anthropomorphic dog. Boy and dog discover the joys of Christmas, and fall in love with a reformed prostitute and anthropomorphic female dog respectively.

A Grinchlike madam and her employees learn the true meaning of Christmas when one of the women gives birth to a talking baby. Is the baby in fact Jesus? The whorehouse becomes a convent, and there is a musical number.

A talking baby plays Jesus in a nativity scene. (Also, the baby can and does talk to hamsters.) One year, the baby becomes too old to play Jesus. The baby (now a toddler) prepares to throw himself off the Brooklyn bridge. An angel comes and tells the baby that he (the baby) really has been Jesus the whole time. It wasn’t acting at all!

An angel is lonely. Talking birds help the angel meet a lonely woman for Christmas.

An orphan child accidentally shoots an angel, then shoots self in remorse. The dead orphan child becomes an angel, and helps all orphans enjoy Christmas.

A widower is lost late at night; hits an angel with his car. The man brings the maimed angel home for Christmas. The man’s talking baby helps the angel and the man fall in love, and all three ascend into heaven.

A talking baby is distressed about poverty in Africa. With the help of many anthropomorphic animals, the talking baby convinces America’s financial upper class that he (the baby) is in fact Jesus, and that a massive redistribution of wealth is required for Christmas, or all will go to hell. World peace and happiness ensue, until God smites the baby for blasphemy. Angels forcibly reinstate the status quo.

November 26, 2007

My Profile: A Data-Entry Clerk’s Foray Into Web-Based Social-Networking

I am a data-entry clerk by day. By night, I watch a lot of television, and sometimes I go over to my friend Brian’s house and watch television there. I do not play sports, nor do I enjoy things. I have a college degree in history, but now I enter the circulation numbers of various newspapers in spreadsheet format. Like, how many copies of a paper were dropped off at each location, and how many were picked back up at the end of the…never mind, I don’t care about it, and I’m sure it is not interesting to you, either, unless you are stupid. I am single, but I don’t date, because there are no available women at the place where I work. I hope that an available woman might look at this page, and email me. Brian said that that might happen.

I have never traveled, and I don’t often eat out at restaurants. Sometimes I do. Sometimes I eat at Peter’s, which is an Italian place that also serves gyros. I like gyros. Sort of. I mean, I’m not wild about them. Once Brian was emailed by a woman in his area who wanted to go to a movie with him. He made a date with her, but she did not show up. But maybe she did show up, and he just didn’t recognize her. Sometimes people look different from their pictures. My picture is of me in college. I look the same now, except I have lost a little weight. Most people gain weight as they get older, but I have lost it. I think it is because I used to go out drinking a lot in college, but now I do not do that, because Brian doesn’t drink.

There is one nice thing about my job, and that is that we have free coffee, and there are flavored coffees. I don’t like the flavored coffees, but it is nice to have the option. I don’t like too many options, though, because sometimes you can be paralyzed by choice. Something similar happened to me after college. When I graduated, I wasn’t sure which way to go, and that was an upsetting realization. I enjoy simplicity, to a reasonable degree. I have only three colors in my wardrobe, which seems to me to be a perfect choice. It would be dull and a bit insane to have only black clothing (though I have considered it), but I have found that the more colors introduced, the earlier I have to get up to pick. Currently, I have black pants, and jeans, and green and blue tops. That is what I consider a reasonable wardrobe.

I enjoy sleeping very much. It is healthy, satisfying, free of charge, and can be enjoyed by everyone. If I could, I would probably sleep all the time. I would say sleeping is my favorite thing to do. I have sometimes thought that a dog would be nice to have. But I worry about dogs. Even just thinking about sleeping makes me happy. Sometimes about three in the afternoon, I think about how I will sleep later, and I feel good from my head to my toes. If I were going to travel (and I don’t think I will), one place I might like to go is Prague. Brian has been to France, Spain and the U.K.

The thing about dogs is, they are kind of like slaves. I worry that a dog might be deeply unhappy with his overall life, but so simply pleased by whatever food or affection is coming his way currently that he can forget about it for the time being. But if that is the case, that dog would be better off dead. Brian has a cat, and the cat seems reasonably happy to me, and also not like a slave, because I’m pretty sure that cat could get away from Brian if she took a notion. I do not like cats, however; they remind me of a series of nightmares I had as a boy.

One movie I love is Dog Day Afternoon. ATTICA!!!

I do not much follow the news, but Brian was once on the news because he got into an accident. He was driving a car, but was very drunk, and he ran into the side of a school bus. It was 8:30 a.m. No children were hurt, but Brian got into a lot of trouble anyway. And I think that was right. That was two years ago, and Brian stopped drinking right after, and so I stopped drinking, too, because he was my drinking buddy. I don’t think there’s too much harm in drinking if you can leave off when it’s time, which I can, but Brian is an alcoholic.

I didn’t much care for school myself, but I didn’t hate it, either. The nice thing about school was lunch. And routine. I drive a Buick Sentry, a red one. It’s alright; I don’t much care about cars. And I have only been on a plane a couple of times. If a woman reads this and would be interested in going to Peter’s with me, I will be there at 8:00 p.m. this coming Friday. I will be wearing a blue top and black pants, and I look just like the photo above, except I am a little thinner.

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