love, charlie

May 1, 2009 10:47 AM

Charlie plays. Charlie explores. Charlie bites. Charlie relaxes. Charlie sleeps. Charlie loves.

love, charlie ran from July 12, 2003 to January 1, 2008. Charlie occasionally visits here.

posted by Joe Beese (38 comments total)

You're kidding, right?
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 10:59 AM on May 1, 2009 [2 favorites]

If it wasn't for digital photography this would have caused uncountable gallons of photofinishing chemicals to get dumped into the wastewater system, so... I guess it's a dog blog.
posted by GuyZero at 11:01 AM on May 1, 2009

I, for one, find Charlie adorable and am enjoying flipping though his photos. But it may be because he, like I, is a native Minnesotan, and I suffer from an excess of civic pride.
posted by Astro Zombie at 11:01 AM on May 1, 2009

I'm not sure about Charlie's Nazi propaganda music, though.
posted by crapmatic at 11:02 AM on May 1, 2009

Charlie bites.
posted by Science! at 11:05 AM on May 1, 2009 [1 favorite]

Charley says always tell your mummy before you go off somewhere.
posted by Bernt Pancreas at 11:14 AM on May 1, 2009 [1 favorite]

I was with, Science! on this one. I was so hoping it was a blog about a biting baby.
posted by cjorgensen at 11:14 AM on May 1, 2009

I hate whippets. A whippet looks like a dog that would suffer bowel blockage if it ate a raisin. Whippets look like dogs whose spines would fracture if anyone sneezed in their general direction. I really hate whippets. Charlie is a whippet, right? Whip it.
posted by Mike D at 11:15 AM on May 1, 2009 [1 favorite]

On the internet, no-one wants to see you're a dog.
posted by mdoar at 11:15 AM on May 1, 2009

i am pro-cute, and i vote
posted by facetious at 11:18 AM on May 1, 2009

by the way, the kid whose finger gets bitten in Sciences! link is a frickin genius! more articulate and self-possessed than most of the 16-year-olds I've met. wow.
posted by facetious at 11:20 AM on May 1, 2009

Is it time for dog-flickr-set Thunderdome? Because I really think it's dog-flickr-set Thunderdome.
posted by COBRA! at 11:22 AM on May 1, 2009

Is it time for dog-flickr-set Thunderdome?

I think we're beyond that at this point.
posted by burnmp3s at 11:31 AM on May 1, 2009

i like the font their daughter made with the letters people wrote them.
posted by fuzzypantalones at 11:33 AM on May 1, 2009

I think we're beyond that at this point.

Bring it.
posted by COBRA! at 11:36 AM on May 1, 2009

Fine. But.....DOES CHARLIE SURF??? NO HE DON'T! Charlie don't surf
posted by spicynuts at 11:37 AM on May 1, 2009 [5 favorites]

GYODog.
posted by kuujjuarapik at 11:45 AM on May 1, 2009 [1 favorite]

He thinks he's people
posted by DU at 11:48 AM on May 1, 2009

I'm pro dogs that don't look like rats. Charlie fails in that respect. I bet he's an annoying, yappy little shit, too, and that all their friends secretly hate him. Give me a dog whose bark will rattle my bones, or give me a cat. There is no middle ground.

(Well, that's an exaggeration. Middle sized dogs are okay.)
posted by Caduceus at 11:50 AM on May 1, 2009

I bet you're an annoying, yappy little shit, too! I'd probably lose that bet but you know, it's a fun game to play.
posted by spicynuts at 11:53 AM on May 1, 2009

Don't listen to 'em, Joe. It's a very fine dogblog.

Dogblog. Dogblog, dogblog.

Man, that's better than "grape-ape."

Dogblog! Dogblog! Dogblog! I made you out of clay. . . .
posted by palmcorder_yajna at 12:02 PM on May 1, 2009 [1 favorite]

Oh, and for COBRA!:

Not on Flickr, but still: Brought.
posted by palmcorder_yajna at 12:04 PM on May 1, 2009

Italian Greyhound! I have two. They're wonderful, and they do lots of Charlie-esque things. Charlie is beautiful. I will send this link to my husband who is having a woefully iggie-less day at work, and he will like it.

Iglets! They do think they're people, and they are not annoying yappy little shits. They are elegant miniature sight hounds. They are a little bit like hot water bottles who love you, actually. To hell with the haters. Iglets are love.




Iglets! ♥
posted by Neofelis at 12:07 PM on May 1, 2009

Your favorite dog sucks.
posted by Joe Beese at 12:08 PM on May 1, 2009

Your favorite bitch sucks.
posted by spicynuts at 12:09 PM on May 1, 2009

Your favorite bitch sucks.

Must... resist... mother... joke...
posted by GuyZero at 12:21 PM on May 1, 2009

Resistance is futile.
posted by spicynuts at 12:28 PM on May 1, 2009

Your favorite bitch sucks your mother.

There.
posted by palmcorder_yajna at 12:29 PM on May 1, 2009

Charlie Says. Charlie paints. Charlie decorates.
Sorry, Charlie.
posted by not_on_display at 1:45 PM on May 1, 2009

I'll take five of these lovely Charlie dogblog posts over the typical Ezra Pound Dave Eggers NPR Wolfram intellectual mumbo jumbo, if you know what I mean.
posted by kingbenny at 1:54 PM on May 1, 2009

YOU NO LOVE CHARLIE
posted by Smart Dalek at 2:49 PM on May 1, 2009

I don't like rat dogs either, but whippets are pretty cool little dogs. A lady down the street from me has a pack of those little bastards and they are a blast. They are also very good friends of my huge, but not fat, cat.

So, yes, ME LOVE CHARLIE!
posted by snsranch at 4:04 PM on May 1, 2009

Mike D, pretty sure Charlie is an Italian Greyhound.

Note to Charlie's owner: There is nothing sadder or more disturbing than a chubby Italian Greyhound, so do keep exercising Charlie.
posted by ethnomethodologist at 4:28 PM on May 1, 2009

Yep, Charlie's definitely an Italian Greyhound and I can verify that there is nothing sadder than a chubbly iglet; we fostered one, and at his fattest Taylor looked like a glum Christmas turkey on stilts. Some pics of him here, though most of them are "after" his weight loss.

Oh, he was a charming dog. So pretty.
posted by Neofelis at 6:17 PM on May 1, 2009

I clicked on this one first and assumed that it was all about the reptile. I was disappointed to find out otherwise.
posted by squalor at 6:23 PM on May 1, 2009

you do realize that the first page of the archives is the most puppy-filled, right?
posted by sexyrobot at 10:11 PM on May 1, 2009

Charlie. Charlie. Charlie. Charlie. Charlie.
posted by Fiasco da Gama at 8:33 PM on May 3, 2009

That's no moon whippet. That's an Italian Greyhound. I know, I own one.
posted by bz at 9:31 AM on May 4, 2009 [1 favorite]