Random Esquire

I have been blogging for years and the very best part about it has been the readers.  I am impressed and touched by the kindness and consideration virtual strangers have for each other.  It reinforces this hope/wish/belief that people really do want to come together and be with each other in some unique fashion.  So I was really touched when Debra from Rubbermoon contacted me with the idea of creating a rubber stamp… of Little Filthy.

And she made it happen.  Starting now, you can buy a rubber stamp of Little Filthy.  Artist Gretchen Ehrsam drew Little Filthy for the stamp.  And you know what’s even more cool?  All of the profit from Little Filthy stamps will go to the American Cancer Society.  Debra asked me what charity I would like to receive the money and I chose the ACS because…

…because everyone reading this can probably complete that sentence.  That’s why.

So!  If you want a little bit of Little Filthy in your life… please buy a stamp.

To make this more fun for us all, if you buy a stamp from Debra in the next week, I will stick your name in a drawing that I’ll do for a $50 gift certificate to a store of your choice.  Oh, and dude, you get a freakin’ Little Filthy stamp!  How cool is that??

Thank you, Debra.  Thank you, Gretchen.  Thank you, readers.

And thank you, Little Filthy.  You’re a good dog.

I’ve been teaching Little Filthy not to eat kleenex.  He has recently discovered how to remove them from the box.  Would you like to see how it’s going?

I planted a crumpled up kleenex on the end of my coffee table and started recording.  Then I left the room, walked down the hall and into the bathroom and closed the door for about a minute.  He followed me down the hall and watched me close the door.  Then, apparently, he waited a bit before trotting right back into the living room and getting the kleenex off of the table.

You can hear me walk away right at the beginning of the video. Then, if you skip ahead to about :36, you’ll start to hear him trot back and then commit the dirty crime.

This has to stop.  His butt has become a kleenex dispenser of its own.