Random Fiction Corner

This section has been reinstated by request of The Nup. I was never too sure about this section, but here it is, back fron the dead. Blame him, if you don't like what you see.

Reviews: TV, books, movies, music

Check out tiny dog's ranting screeds on all the latest (well, not so late anymore) entertainment offerings, including TV shows, films, books, music, whatever. I used to have a policy of not reviewing music because I think music reviewers are earth's most primitive form of one celled scum until I realized I had already reviewed some music, so I linked to it.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the Guggenheim... mini-donuts: a gallery

See the online mini-donuts gallery here, for a limited summer engagement... but live the magic forever with the mini-donuts collection in paperback from Quirkyworks books, pictured at left.

What the fawk is mini-donuts, you ask? It is a collection of 18 paintings, in acrylic, watercolor, and mixed media, created by Quirkyworks and Tiny-dog, on three random, consecutive summer afternoons.

Diary Art

In my questionable past as a young person, I devoted much time to semi-legible illustrations in the margins of various types of bound materials, not the least of which were diaries. Peruse the pointless scrawlings in the diary art gallery.

Book Club

The first rule of Book Club is, you do not talk about Book Club, except that you have to talk about Book Club since it's a book club. Which is I guess, the second rule.

Mr. Tick

Once employed by tiny dog as an advice columnist before the bottle felled a promising career, Mr. Tick was a plastic, mouse-eared toy of Japanese origin who dispensed career advice to the masses. He now inexplicably lives in a cardboard box beneath a desk at a vast and allegedly monopolistic software company.

Lemon Pie by Dave Heath

"It happened on Friday, this Lemon Pie incident. Oh sure, we laugh about it now but it was deadly business at the time."

The tiny dog Breyer horse collection

Um, what? So maybe tiny dog collected model horses in the early 80's, and has finally gotten around to making a nerdy catalog of her collection with photos. What's it to ya? Think you're too good for the plastic horse?

Think again.

Where Elliott Smith fans go to mope

Yes, it's a geeky fan page, in which tiny dog rambles about Elliott's albums, one by one. He was great, he was irreplaceable, thus we will make geeky fan pages to honor his music and the fact that he is still alive la la la I can't hear you.

The Hall of Heads

A somewhat disturbing look at tiny-dog's ancestral origins, a relic of Internet history known as the Hall of Heads, named inexplicably after the great They Might Be Giants song of this name.

The letters page: an archive

Twas a time when tiny dog was largely known as a site where user mail was promptly answered. That all fell apart somewhere in '02, but you can enjoy the archive here.

Nupart

Finally... new art. I said "hey Nups... gimme some art" and he's all "here's what's on my hard drive" so basically what we are looking at here is the dregs of Nupper's hard drive.

	The Simpsons Collection: This page frighteningly continues to be a top draw here at tiny dog. It hails from a time when I was in the grip of a weird obsession to stalk Fred Meyer in hopes of spending wads of cash on "Muumu Homer" and "Bartman" action figures. I can't explain how I contracted this collecting disorder but was eventually able to bring it under control.
	Pez Rant: In which another spendy toy collection is pondered, but thankfully rejected.
	A Day in the Life of Corporate Silly Putty: Pointless meetings. Putty. Despair.

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Uberhoot: a cover art retrospective.

Uberhoot was a print-zine, a sort of pre-tiny dog, if you will, from the late 1990's. Check here for its visionary cover art concepts, and weep for the pre-web innocence of yore.

Whatever happened to Blank Mind Comix?

They're back! Now you can see all of the random comic selections that you thought were lost on an old cobweb forever. Actually you've probably never even seen them. And really, it's just as well.

When taco sauce speaks

In which tiny dog analyzes eight random taco bell sauce packets bearing sad attempts to appeal to the consumer via the noxious device of "emotional branding." There is also a related rant.

someone out there still knows something about what happened to fifteen-year-old Judith Mae Andersen on the last night she was seen alive, in August 1957, on her way home from a friend's. Her dismembered body was found later that month in a pair of oil drums floating in Chicago's Montrose Harbor, sparking one of the largest criminal investigations in Chicago's history. To this day, no one has ever been charged with her death.

In Late July 2003, an investigative group formed in Chicago after discovering an intriguing headline from the case. The Four Scientists (named after vague experts cited in news stories from the investigation) have revisited the mystery almost fifty years after it was left unsolved, and the details and progress of their research efforts will be unfolding in the coming days and weeks on the .

Head there immediately to share in 4Sci's progress, for this intriguing investigation will far outstrip anything you are likely to encounter here on Tiny Dog for the rest of the summer.