Oh, Kuma, I don't want to be here with you, not like this. I want to be at my desk at work, comfortably focused on my immediate tasks; not here in this train, travelling with my unceasing unbidden thoughts of you. If I can't work then I want to be reading, or walking; or doing anything at all except for trying to breast this confusion of memory ( Read more... )

Dear Mischa ( Read more... )

Dear Mischa,

You know that we love you. Our lives are bound together by a thousand threads of interdependence, intimacy, food, walks, cuddles on the sofa, and, yes, love. Humans need dogs: we look to you for a certain indispensable social sustenance that somehow only a dog can provide, and you look to us for... well, everything else ( Read more... )

Another day, another train. So much of my life spent in trains. When I was knee-high to a wolfhound, trains made a continuous tacketytack, tacketytack noise. Another memory lost to progress and continuous welded rails. Someday soon I'll be at least physically old ( Read more... )

The peril of remaking movies, as ever, is that the original version was somehow inspired and yours probably isn't or you'd be the one making the iconoclastic work of flawed genius that inspired the next generation of filmmakers ( Read more... )

Dear small aggressive terriers ( Read more... )

Hang on.

I was warned this would happen. Malamutes take over your life, people said. You'll become a malamute person, they said. Resistance is futile.

Holy crap, were they ever right.

I may have a very biased viewpoint, but it occurs to me that mischamute is probably the best-known dog in the European furry fandom, largely because he enjoys Eurofurence so much. (At EF 15, he wanted to be in the hotel lobby more than he wanted to go for walks!-most days, he only wanted to be out for ten minutes before he started trying to get back to the ( Read more... )

Here's a photo that brings back memories. I don't remember how I got it, but I know where and roughly when it was. I was staying with raikawolf in California, probably in 2007, and I made the acquaintance of this malamute pup. Look at the paws on him-he may be as big as Mischa in that photo but he's still got plenty of growing to do!


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I travelled back to England to see my family on Easter weekend, but my flight was too late for me to get back to Cornwall that night. elfasi was passing by Heathrow, and he was kind enough to pick a stray wolf up and house it for the night ( Read more... )