Love Potion K9

Prepare for a conflicted reaction should you click the link to Eat Yer Heart Out Rachel Ray, Dan Epstein’s brilliant, albeit a bit disgusting, dot connector to Steve Don’t Eat It. Scroll down to Volume 3, if you are feeling strong.

Beggin’ Strips are bacon-shaped, bacon-flavored treats for dogs. In the commercial a dog runs around the house like a maniac shouting (shouting? a dog? bizarre) BACON, BACON, BACON, BACON, BACON! It’s weird, because I do the exact same thing. Steve follows the natural trajectory to Beggins, Lettuce and Tomato. So glad I don’t live with this guy.

Speaking of dogs, a topic I have not worn thin on this blog – surprisingly, I am reminded of a story.

• My friend Barbara, chef/proprietress of Columbine in NYC, is a very funny person. The funniest person I have ever encountered in the flesh, actually. She can’t help it. Anyway, remember Spy Magazine? Right.
• In B’s words, The year was around ’88 or ’89. Bryan Miller was writing about restaurants for the Times. Truly enamored of the word nubbins, he scattered it with abandon in his reviews. So, a kid from Spy called and asked how I would describe a nubbin. I said, “I think it is the thing that doesn’t melt when hot water is poured onto the Gravy Train.”
• Here she is, in Wisconsin, circa 1997 or so, in Rosendale – speed trap capital of the world, where we made an emergency brat stop, or brot stop. At 10 am we were the first customers of the day.
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• Speaking of dogs and food. I do a fair amount of work for Vegetarian Times Magazine (don’t tell their readers about the stylist with bacon grease up her sleeves). Had some vegan biscotti sitting around a photo studio left from the previous day’s shoot. Vegan biscotti miss the eggs real bad. Take it from me. (Apologies to any vegans out there.) So, in comes the client, a guy from USA Weekend Magazine, and I say, “Try a biscotti!”. One bite and he quips, “Will it make my coat shiny?!”
• Btw, I know this post is a mess with font sizes, lack of paragraph breaks and so on. I beg (gin) forgiveness and promise you IT IS NOT MY FAULT. It is in fact, a server problem. Was shocked to find out that the quirk is in the tool, not the operator. So.