"Use All The Crayons!" Dogs/cats
New blog post! “AI & newborns: dealing with the inevitability of change”
New podcast! "Frank Burns, Derek Jeter and the blessings of having hoodlums for youthful friends”
New website! "www.ChrisRodell.com." It’s only taken me 30 years, but my website finally looks like it was made by and for an adult. Check it out! Explore! Buy a book! Wonder just what I’m doing with my hands behind the rainbow umbrella …
What’s new with you?
I’ve put some tactical maneuvers on hold while I awaited the completion of the website. It’s held everything up. Fortunately, I had my Parkinson’s book to work on. Missed the first deadline by, oh, 13 months. I picked a fight with the publisher — one I do not regret. What was it over? Poor manners! I felt they were being insufficiently collegial. I require everyone with whom I work to at least pretend to be chummy.
Dogs ’n’ cats
• Tell friends you’ve figured out a surefire way to become famous: teach your dog how to sing/bark “I Want You to Want Me.” Congratulations! You’ve taught an old dog Cheap Trick!
• Tell dog owners impatient for their pets to become true watch dogs: All it takes is time.
• Someone letting the cat out of the bag will become more impactful to me as soon as I start seeing more instances of bagged cats.
• Imagine how much sweeter your dog will look if he had a bald spot like grandpa.
• If we ever get another cat I'm going to encourage the kids to name it Copy. Copycat!
• Name those little yip dogs Peeve so you can say with all honesty, “And this dog is my pet Peeve.”
• Colorful Conversation Starter: Tell people the dog that played Toto in “The Wizard of Oz” was, in fact, named Toto. Ask people if they think it was coincidence or just really expert casting.
• My aim is not to be controversial and please don't read too much into this, but I feel compelled to point out the simple truth: cat naps are for pussies.
• Tell people the only time bitch, bitch, bitch ever turns into something positive is when you’re running a thriving dog grooming business.
Randoms
• Which is older: Earth or Sun? Trick question: Earth is 4.5 bil yrs old. Sun only 1 day old. Sun cannot have another day til it has a night.
• Friend turned 40 fears he's over the hill. Told him to fear not. Going downhill is always the most exhilarating part of the ride.
• If Matthew 6:12 were rewritten to conform to our current tastes, it would read, "... give us this day our daily bacon.”
• Facebook is like a high school yearbook that is updated every 30 seconds, but with food porn and cat videos.
• There are evident flaws in the language when I can enjoy engrossing films, but disdain gross ones.