I keep thinking of the scene in “As Good As It Gets” when Jack Nicholson’s character gets a bit tearful after returning Greg Kinnear’s dog. He exclaims with a grim chuckle:
“Over a dog! Over an ugly dog!”
I know how Melvin Udell felt. My dog wasn’t ugly, but he was damn stupid. He has been gone [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Six Feet Under’
Most Novembers I break down and cry
If I had hands I’d be a writer, if I had brains I’d be a man
This was going to be a different kind of post. I was going to write about how, come the middle of August every year when I was in elementary school, I got bored. How at some point during the dog days, summer ground to a halt and I got excited about going back to school. [...]
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