Category: Dog Bob

Best in show …

Post author By Bob Benz
Post date February 18, 2007

A Portland art gallery celebrated the Westminster Dog Show with its own take on canines, asking artists to do their interpretations of various breeds in what it is calling the Wurstminster Dog Show.

I liked Driscoll Reid’s Newfoundland so much that I purchased it. And I almost bought a really, really strange take on the Maltese by Jason Vivona. When I e-mailed the link to Lara, she responded with a terse: “I don’t want that.” Hmm. Maybe I need to reconsider. It certainly captures the psychedelic nature of Mully the Maltese …

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Frosty sunrise

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Originally uploaded by Suffering the Benz.

The dogs and I got to witness an amazing sunrise at Melton Hill Lake this morning. Xena had ice clinging to her from her frosty dip in the lake and Gilligan and Ozzy where running around like maniacs. There’s something about the cold silence of a January morning, pierced by the occasional shriek of birds as they awaken, that is totally sublime. Steam rises up off the water. My mind’s as crisp as the dawn. The day can only go downhill from here …

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Dreaming of a white trash Christmas …

Post author By Bob Benz
Post date January 7, 2007

So while I was at the park yesterday morning, watching to dogs loop wide orbits through the wet grass, a pickup pulling a trailer full of Christmas trees sputtered in. A redneck hopped out, dumped the trees and went on his merry way. Clearly, the world is his trash can. I didn’t get a look at the license plate (it was hidden by the trailer, which had no plate), but It was hard to miss the Jesus/fish license plate on the front of the truck.

I guess that’s one way to put the Christ back in Christmas …