Bliss by Harry Bliss for January 07, 2022

He mastered it at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Is he going to sell the screen rights?

That’s quite a pooch!

Nice to see that going to Dog Obedience School paid off ;-)

This dog appreciates your critique, dawg!

And to think, that dog used to eat his homework.

But will the critics love it as well?

Hey, I got dinged by a prof for doing that at University! >:(

The third fire hydrant scene has got to go, though.

I thought that was writer’s suicide? Dogs get all the breaks…

Dog tales

Wouldn’t that be first dog to third dog?

Treat? Treat? Treat?

Good boy!

Brian Griffin was his inspiration.

Smartest dog in the funnies! I love the wagging tail at the praise, too.

The most dazzling grammatical switcheroo I’ve ever come across is at the end of 10 Degrees and Getting Colder by Gordon Lightfoot, where the third person past tense narrative suddenly becomes second person present tense:

https://youtu.be/JmlL86FKdxk

Smart dog…..

Not only is muffins a good writer, but dogs can apparently distinguish between languages.

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/06/1070710852/is-your-dog-bilingual-a-new-study-suggests-their-brains-can-tell-languages-apart#:~:text=Is%20your%20dog%20bilingual%3F,can%20tell%20languages%20apart%20%3A%20NPR&text=Music%20Of%202021-,Is%20your%20dog%20bilingual%3F,recognize%20the%20change%20in%20language.