Carver's Dog

I just came across a fun local blog, Carver's Dog.  Seems it's maintained by a fella out in Glendale with a background in journalism and documentaries.  The blog, most recently anyways, focuses on quick-hit, fun fiction and assorted book talk.  The latest entry is a Bukowski spoof involving Woody Woodpecker.  Some example prose:

“Damn, that shit is cold,” Bukowski complained as he popped open the can of Schlitz. He had acquired a fondness for lukewarm beer, six-packs consumed straight from the paper bag while propped up in bed in flea-bitten residential hotels and rooming houses. But the writer’s current digs, a cozy stucco bungalow on DeLongpre in Hollywood, had a decent icebox that chilled his beer to an almost unacceptable level of frigidity.

I think you New York readers might like this guy as well. 

I also enjoy the name of the blog, "Carver's Dog."  Need a surefire naming convention for any sort of best-selling novel or most-emailed article title?  Take a well known celebrity's name and make it possess something:  "Flaubert's Parrot,"  "Einstein's Dreams," "Lincoln's Melancholy," "Schroedinger's Cat" ... you literally can't lose! 

It's also a fun parlor game for use at the bar with your literary friends.  Who can be the most outrageous?  Go on... try it!

Fitzgerald's Tumbler

Milton's Optometrist

Larkin's Hemorrhoid

Hemingway's Gun Case

Washington's Dentures

Roosevelt's Wheel Chair

Dororthy Parker's Alcoholic First Husband

Schumpeter's Gangrene: Creative Destruction Breaks a Leg

And that's just off the top of my head!  Comments with more possessive fun are highly encouraged.  And, seriously folks, Carver's Dog is worth a visit.

Comments

[Rodger Jacobs]

Well, thank you. Actually I'm no longer in Glendale but am living temporarily in Las Vegas.

I must say that Hemingway's Gun Case is goddamn funny. Glad you enjoyed Bukowski's musings on Woody Woodpecker. I'm fraid I'll never look at that little bird the same way again.

[Rachel]

direct descendant of the notorious Dalton family of Old West banditry fame, Jacobs parlayed his knowledge of the Daltons and, more appropriately, their distant cousins Jesse and Frank James, into a stint as research consultant on the 1979 western "The Long Riders" for producer Stacy Keach and director Walter Hill. Throughout the 1980's Jacobs toiled as a screenwriter for various independent producers including actor Randy Quaid, for whom Jacobs developed a screenplay from the darkly comedic William Hjortsberg novel, "Alp". He also served as a development executive for the late Warren Stein ("Under the Gun") in 1992. As a journalist, his work has appeared in Eye Magazine, Hustler, Panik, Mind Kites, and E Commerce Business Magazine.