I had a report come in yesterday that no one has updated tiny dog since the day after Christmas. This seemed shocking, and so I sent a team of interns to look into the situation. Much to my chagrin they encountered a total lack of updates since the alleged date of 12/26. After a spate of soul-searching, I realized that the reasons behind this lapse were as follows:

• I am trying to get into work before 10:00 am this month.
  
• Every time I think of a content idea, it seems totally stupid once I really meditate on it for awhile. For example I bought this fabric shaver. You know, this thing that shaves off those gross thrift store fuzzies that coat your sweaters like the chicken pox after the first time you wash them. I became obsessed, shaving sweater after sweater, gleefully emptying the fuzz cartridge into the trash and marveling at the immense wads of unsightly pill that had caked my sweaters like Homer's five o'clock shadow. I was all set to sing the praises of the fabric shaver on tiny dog, and then I realized: could a subject be less indie rawk than a fabric shaver? What am I, sixty? Self-satisfied urban tastemakers would write off tiny dog as one of a million "mom blogs" out there, in which mothers mine the scatological effluvia of childrasing for web browsing voyeurs. (Ok so maybe the mom blog I linked to is totally funnier than tiny dog. Whatever.)
  
• Laziness.

As I often like to say to the husband when I sense he isn't listening, I'm glad we had this talk.

Random fiction corner returns

As you may be aware, tiny dog has written two speed novels, in addition to a host of other random fictional items that once appeared on the Random Fiction Corner.

I am happy to announce that the RFC is back and under construction. Right now it contains excerpts of the two novels in question, and after the new year, will feature short stories and, horrifyingly, excerpts from bad fan fiction I wrote on a manual typewriter when I was 12.

Enjoy (or, dont).

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