Roxy Is Watching You!

Yes, that’s Roxy, my favorite Rottweiler, eyeballing you from my blog header photo, sporting her new pink collar.

If you squint just a bit to the right of her head, you can see an unfocused Apollo guarding her back.  He’s my other favorite Rottweiler.  But you can’t see his new red nearly identical collar.

Aren’t they cute?

Here’s a similar closeup of Apollo:

Apollo Posing for His Close-Up
Apollo Posing for His Close-Up

And because I just can’t leave well enough alone, and will change my header photograph the next time I take a nifty photograph, here’s the photo I used to crop the shot above from:

Roxy Watching Me
Roxy Watching Me and You

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Some folks are asking me about my thoughts on the Westboro Baptist Church deciding to picket the funeral of the nine-year-old victim of the Tucson shooting. Very briefly: 1. Fred Phelps and his pals make me wish I were a religious man, so I could enjoy imagining the lot of them spending eternity as a human centipede in the very bowels of Hell. But that’s really not a good reason to want to be religious. 2. The day Charlie Stross pointed me to an … Read More

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