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Grey Ghosts

A collection of 93 issues

When you're in love with a beautiful dog.

Photos by Callie Neylan. This is Mies, the younger of my two Weimaraners. To make a long story short, he was returned to our breeder when he was six months old. She posted his picture (along with a few choice epithets thrown in to describe the idiots returning him) to

April 14th.

Happy Birthday to me! This photo sums up my life; sitting on the couch with the Weims, writing my thesis. Will took me out for a really nice birthday dinner after he took this. Then I went karaoking with my friends and drank far more than I know better to.

Dogs as users and humans as iPhones.

They say that intelligence can be measured by a species’ ability to use tools to accomplish goals. Alexandra Horowitz, in her book Inside Of A Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, And Know, theorizes how dogs use their favorite tool, a flesh and blood Swiss Army knife if you will – the

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Oslo. June 11, 2004 to August 5, 2017. Oslo (a.k.a. Ch. Nike + Eden’s Seabiscuit), 13, passed away quietly on August 5, 2017 in his favorite Chesterfield leather armchair at his home in Seattle, WA. After an extended period in hospice, he was euthanized due to complications of

Mies.

originally uploaded by Neylano. There’s nothing to say, really. He’s my beautiful dog. A tribute to his dad, Jaeger; September 11, 1994 – March 5, 2007.

Dogs and Modernism.

I just finished reading Natalia’s book, Chasing the Perfect and I started thinking about how dogs fit into the modernist dogma. Her dog, Janie, is an underlying, constant presence in this book, and it got me pondering. When you think of the modernist aesthetic, dogs are really the antithesis

I'm so getting one of these.

Wearing the dogs out so they behave when I’m not home is wearing me out. This may be just what I need….

Was Zum Teufel?!

originally uploaded by Neylano. Tues Mar 18 – During this week of collapsing banks, abusive Chinese, and a pissed off Dalai Lama, today begins with news of said D. Lama threatening to resign as the Tibetan leader if the fighting doesn’t stop. I showed this headline to Mies, threatening to

Dogs and the City.

Yesterday, Will and I took the dogs downtown for their daily outing. We hopped on the No. 2 (dogs are allowed on Metro buses as long as they pay full fare) and got off at Third and Bell to stop at Regrade Park, one of our favorite off-leash areas. We

Weims in the Nude.

I’m getting ready to write the next WZT, I swear. Until then, here’s a little Weim-related entertainment for you.