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If you have been paying attention to the “Ground Zero Mosque” debate, then you know that we live in a hateful world of small-minded bigots. Setting aside the larger, more obvious aspects of the non-issue, including the fact that we live in a country that (purportedly) celebrates freedom of religion, and the fact that this is election year fear-mongering of the crassest sort, there is the simple fact of the matter that lower Manhattan is an endless string of garbage businesses catering to a migrant collection of workers and tourists. There is nothing sacred about it. Moreover, this is a debate that is raging well outside of the boundaries of New York City proper, where most people (one assumes?) recognize the spurious and even dangerous logic behind a total non-issue. Shut up, Newt Gingrich, you criminal. Anyway, the point is: our country has been culturally slipping backwards for the past nine years, and it’s not getting any better. We should all enjoy the brief moments of pleasure and joy wherever we can find them, even if that means dressing up in a shaggy dog costume and working hard to legally change you name from Gary Guy Matthews to “Boomer the Dog.”
Good luck, sir, in your quest to find some momentary respite in the ENDLESS NIGHTMARE that is LIFE ON THIS PLANET. (Hahaha. So dramatic. WELL, AM I WRONG?) (Via TheDailyWhat.)
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I’m just glad Boomer has grown out of his gangsta phase.
The ironic tragedy is that countless ‘innate furries’ are run over chasing those spinners everytime the gang crosses the county line.
Is Steve in there somewhere?
Ghost riding the whip: not just for humans anymore!
Those KIA commercials are getting so obnoxious.
This guy’s unemployed? How is that possible?
It seems the economy has affected even the strongest of us.
Maybe Alvin Greene will hire him to make Alvin Greene action figures?
Dogs don’t have thumbs.
Is this Gary Guy Matthews trying to change his name to “Boomer the Dog” or a leaked clip of Quentin Tarantino playing “Gary Guy Matthews” trying to change his name to “Boomer the Dog”?
This guy seems so much more likeable than Tarantino.
I got in a Facebook argument (ugh, I know) about the ground zero thing earlier today, and it made me sad
In this era of seeking equal rights under all aspects of the law, I’m not sure petitioning the court to change your name to ‘Boomer the Dog’ counts as a “very bold move.” Then again, maybe this is the biggest shock to the Greentree community since they installed that traffic light by the ice creamery.
Buzzkill. Woof woof.
That guy is one errant spark away from a lifetime in the burn ward.
I wonder how many times he has narrowly escaped death-by-recycling.
I find it very strange that he doesn’t even seem to own a dog?
Would you own a miniature version of everything you’ve spent your life obsessing over and trying to become? Oh, right, children. Touché .
“Would you own a miniature version of everything you’ve spent your life obsessing over and trying to become?”
um…yes. yes i would. i’ve owned a few of them.
I’d screw me.
*Goodbye Horses*
By dressing up as a dog he also has a dog. He IS his own dog. Classic case of two birds, one stone.
Be Your Own Pet was on to something?
A model for efficiency is what they were on to. Not good music, but efficiency.
“I’m my own best friend.”
-John Candy, Spaceballs
Like Gandhi said: ‘be the dog you want to see’.
And besides that, an actual dog would only constantly remind him of all the pleasurable things he can never do. Like perceive ultra-sound, defecate in public, lick his testicles…
Maybe he has a piece of lint on a string?
Who has time to take care of dogs when you spend all of your time and money (which he has little of, being unemployed) jetsetting to furry conventions?
I wonder what his girlfriend thinks about all this.
“Boomer! It’s time for dog massage”
– His girlfriend/You
Instead of a mosque we should definitely just build a 100-story fur pile on Ground Zero.
Well, it WAS the site of a Burlington Coat Factory.
You’re the dog now, man.
I would like to take this opportunity to tell you that you are on fire today, Patrick.
Dude is a streaky hitter. I feel like you don’t hear much from him for a while, then he’s batting 1.000 for a while.
For real in the Fantasy Commenter Leagues, I am strictly a third round pick.
Sometimes you get the Bayes factor, sometimes the Bayes factor gets you
SIJTU (Signed in just to upvote.)
Oh man, the best part of that whole video is the shot at 1:12
The line between “We Should All Have Something That Makes Us So Happy” and “That’s Your Boyfriend” is thin indeed.
We should all find a boyfriend that makes us as happy as this guy, who is your boyfriend.
That’s your furry.
While I certainly support people being so luicky as to find something in life that makes them happy and RUNNING with it, I also maintain a strict personal stance on speaking to adults in full body animal and/or clown costumes in public for no apparent reason. I am against it. For me. The one man puppet bicycle I run into around town occasionally is as close as I get. Learning a little bit about the Gary Guy Matthews story has done nothing to make me consider changing that stance.
I wondered about that boy
Worlds be Colliding. This “dude” ( I am still not completely convinced HE is not a LESBIAN) is from Pittsburgh. I have seen him walking around Greentree and downtown when we have our giant Anthrocon convention.
“He is most comfortable wearing his Boomer Outfit.”
Really? Most Comfortable? He has Little Stringy Pieces of PAPER SCRATCHING HIS FACE
“This extreme fascination began when Gary was a child”
I tell ya, you can’t make this stuff up!
There is a Stooges “I Wanna Be Your Dog” joke here somewhere, but I’m not caffeinated enough to make it.
Then drink some coffee and pull it together.
Apparently he was denied his request. Sorry Boomer.
http://www.theawl.com/2010/08/dog-denied-day