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Brand New User Experiences

Lot of exciting changes to the User Experience here at Human Dog. Chief among them is our latest addition, Forced Reptile Ownership. Each visitor to HumanDog.tv has his or her IP address logged and tracked making it easy for us to send them a bucket full of snakes. Real, live, god-hating snakes. We choose the color. Pressing go in your browser’s address bar constitutes an Acceptance of Terms of Service which include an until-now unused clause requiring your ownership, care and feeding of any and all reptiles measuring less than 5 meters long we send in a washed out kitty litter bucket for the lifespan of said reptiles. And due to a gypsy’s curse, our headquarters is riddled with snakes. It’s Impossible to sleep with any confidence around here. But that all changes as...

FASCISM IN MICHIGAN

In Benton Harbor, financial manager Joseph Harris’s order means city officials can only call meetings to order, adjourn them and approve minutes of meetings. All other decision–making powers rest with Harris. As Michigan AFL-CIO President Mark Gaffney says: With the stripping of all power of duly elected officials in Benton Harbor and the attack on Detroit school teachers, we can now see the true nature of the Emergency Manager system. This is a real life instance of taking away our fundamental rights… These new powers are taking away the will and voice of the people by stripping away the rights of public officials elected by Michiganders. Gaffney said that emergency managers can exploiting the current crisis situation, creating a ”true case of political over-reach, and will simply add to...

Nightcap 04/18/11

Collecting errant skin flakes in envelopes and labeling them by the hour and location when and where they were shed isn’t enough anymore. You’ve got to get those skin flakes on twitter!

BREAKING THROUGH TO NEW AUDIENCES

In a continual effort to Breakthrough to New Audiences in New Ways, Human Dog will initiate a series of Mustard and Mustard-Related Item videos geared towards those embracing the Mustard-Centric Lifestyle.

Look forward this July to a 17 part series on "Things You Can Put Mustard On" as well as a companion E-Book Graphic Novel, "Things You Can Put On Mustard."

We'll also be freezing blocks of Mustard in our Bulk Freezer and leaving them there well after we've moved on to the next boarding house.

And of course we couldn't do any of this without the help of the fine folks at NewTek TriCaster.

On KOVACS

To me, Kovaks was the first indication that no matter how talented or brilliant you are, the people in charge will rob you of everything. I've seen that robbery of creativity growing to this day, when writers are no longer paid anything, anywhere, especially not here in Salon. Kovaks was deeply hurt by life and his career, but he kept creating anyway. His life should provide the guiding principle for every creator; don't expect or even hope for money, fame or love by creating. Just create, dammit.

SOURCE

STRUGGLE

I can't find my baby dolls. I set them aside for this specific reason and now that I need them I cannot find them. They are such nice baby dolls, perfect for this purpose. No others will do. I need these specific baby dolls to complete the picture, to make it right, to generate success and they are nowhere to be found.

I fear total failure will result in these baby dolls being somewhere they are not supposed to be.
Terrible.

Morning Constitutional 04/16/11

They say he spoke Dinosaur. They say he fell asleep falling down the stairs. They say his heart was 15% bigger than a bison of comparable weight. They say he could lift entire municipalities, shake out all the bad and leave the good feeling better about being good. They say he breathed more oxygen than was necessary but he planned on returning it one day, in little glass bottles labeled with pen. They say he didn’t like numbers, didn’t trust their many curves. They say he once spoke to a river, learned its secrets. They say he admired bricks because they were pure. They say his friendship brought many rewards, chief among them access to a vast DVD collection including all nine seasons of Dallas and his discretion with your peculiar tastes. They say he put gravy on his cereal...