Well, dear readers, the horror story of yesterday, with cousin Dee Dee and Alan’s dog’s vicious killing by another dog is so sadly typical of what total reprehensible and selfish people are allowed to get away with. Note to such people: When you have a vicious dog who has viciously attempted to attack other dogs it is your moral and ethical duty to keep that dog behind a fence, chained, on a tight leash and with something binding it’s mouth so it cannot do its vicious dirty work. But no, these entitled people think their dogs can just do anything they like and this is what happened to poor Casey. This vicious dog came out of nowhere. Cousin Dee Dee, seeing what was about to happen acted quickly and scooped Casey in her arms. The vicious dog viciously snatched Casey from Dee Dee’s arms and then mauled Casey like a rag doll. Dee Dee screamed, tried to get the vicious dog away. I got all this from an e-mail yesterday morning, but some details were not clear, especially how she ultimately got the dog away enough to get Casey to the car and to a vet. Sadly, it was too late for Casey. Casey was Dee Dee and Alan’s child – there’s no other way to look at it. A sweet and smart dog that I’ve known since a mere pup. If this had been done to a child that dog would have been put down immediately, as it should be. The owners of the dog would have responsibility. But when a vicious animal attacks another animal the police don’t care, and the only thing one can do is report it to Animal Care, and their response is “we’ll investigate.” Really? Here’s how you investigate: You go get the dog and kill it. Period. That dog will do the same thing again and again and again. As Dee Dee found out, it was not the first time. She found out where the dog and its owners lived and got no satisfaction in talking to them. What else is new? It’s their dog, their dog can do anything, apparently. I’m hoping that Animal Care does more than investigate and I hope when the dust and grief settle that Dee Dee and Alan will sue these utter creeps for their disregard of anything other than their own little entitled world. If it were me, I would get one of the news channels to pay a visit and expose these jerks for the jerks they are. Once you get the media involved it is over for them. It’s a good thing I don’t have the address, that’s all I can tell you. RIP Casey and condolences to Dee Dee and Alan on their loss. I know this will not be easy to deal with – as I said, Casey was like their child. And to the idiot owners of the dog AND the vicious dog itself – karma will get you, make no mistake. And I’m hoping sooner than later.
That kind of colored the day yesterday. I did do a three-mile jog, planked and did thirty sit-ups early and then did some errands and whatnot. Then I had lunch with the Staitman clan and had a long and heartfelt chat with the kids and where I thought we should go in terms of the future Kritzerland shows and the growth I wanted to now have them start making. They’re both super talented kids, and I think I want to start challenging them with different kinds of material, as I always do with the kids I work with, most recently with Jenna Lea Rosen. We went to Casa Vega, which really is my favorite Mexican jernt and I had my usual two cheese enchiladas and one beef taco – as great as always. After that, I picked up one package and then came home and did some work on the computer. Then my friend Grant Geissman came by and helped hang some pictures that have been sitting on the floor, and he, as always, found the perfect places for them. After all that, I finally sat on my couch like so much fish.
Last night, I watched a motion picture on DVD entitled Racing With the Moon. I don’t really think I’d seen it since it came out. I remember liking some of it, and watching it all these years later I felt the same way – I liked some of it. Certainly I liked the performances of its three young leads – Sean Penn, Elizabeth McGovern and Nicholas Cage. But the script doesn’t quite work and the pace is, for me, a little off, and the supporting players aren’t especially memorable. Richard Benjamin’s direction is okay but not great. Dave Grusin’s score is, as always, great and Billy May’s big band charts are amazing.
I then read a few more chapters of Dark Market. It’s dense with information so I’m trying to retain names and incidents, but boy is it a horrifying, sickening and fascinating look at cyber crime and its beginnings and how its gotten worse and worse and how it will most likely continue to get worse.
After that, I listened to some music and relaxed.
Today, I shall do a jog, make sure everything is prepped for our new release announcement tomorrow, and then I’m seeing a talent show at four and having a dinner meeting at the Studio Café at six-thirty.
Tomorrow, I’ll be up at six in the morning to announce our new title, which is a gem, and then at noon I’ll be meeting a composer and our very own Nick Redman at a nearby Thai place, where we’ll sup and the composer will sign 100 booklets of an upcoming release. The rest of the week is working with Sandy, but I also have lunch meetings every single day except Wednesday, and that continues right into the weekend. So, a very busy week ahead.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do a jog, read, attend a talent show and have a dinner meeting. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s free-for-all day, the day in which you dear readers get to make with the topics and we all get to post about them. So, let’s have loads of lovely topics and loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, where I shall remember sweet Casey and hope that the vicious dog and his vicious owners get what’s coming to them.