Wednesday, July 17, 2013
"Blog"trospective 11: Monkeys Riding Dogs
Tom Franklin! Phil Oppenheim! Movies! The Moon! Sandwiches! The United States of America! The Beach Boys! Arnold Stang! Books with Owls in Them! Gelatin! What do all these people and things have in common? That's right: each has been the subject of one of our famous "blog"trospectives. And now we begin our archive of every monkey riding a dog that has ever appeared on the "blog." Use it for your research purposes! complicated emotions provoked by---do not seem to appear in this big book about Hinduism, though monkeys and dogs do appear separately---during a Cincinnati Bengals half-time show---Durkee, Lee, uncovers a trove of information on Whiplash the Cowboy Monkey---in chapter of my "cat book"---in film version of THE THREE MUSKETEERS---in THE FORSAKEN by Ace Atkins---in THE LOST ONES by Ace Atkins---in the Martin and Lewis vehicle THREE RING CIRCUS---likelihood of occurring in solace-based menageries---marriages destroyed by---may not appear in the works of Olga Tokarczuk---mistakenly thought to be part of a kingly procession in 1158---monkeys ride vicuñas, which are not dogs---specifically, monkeys in fringed, neon riding vests, riding on sheepdogs.