About

This is a dog-centric personal blog.

The person is me, MC. I’m currently a Ph.D. student in the humanities. This accounts for my pedantic streak and geeky diversions. I have a regional interest in East Asia, which will be reflected in many of my posts. I live with my dogs and “the Doggy Daddy” RJ in California, the San Francisco Bay Area. I have also spent time living in the American Midwest, Taiwan, and traveling throughout China.

And I am an unabashed sucker for dogs, especially the two that reside at the House of Two Bows.

The dogs are Bowdu the Shiba Inu and Bowpi the Basenji.
They both have Chinese names, and I explain the origin of their names here.

Frequent blog topics include other people’s dogs. Dogs in movies. Dogs in music and audio recordings. Dogs as personal and artistic inspiration. Dogs as newsmakers. Dogs as a vision of a more humane society.

In general, I keep things nice and friendly, loose and eclectic. Currently, you can expect a post every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday — sometimes more, seldom less. Thoughtful comments on entries old and new are always appreciated.

The vast majority of photos, writing, and video captures on this blog is my own work. Please do not reuse without proper attribution. You should link back to the original source (this blog), at the very minimum. I do the same for anything that I did not produce myself.

Seven featured posts:

• 20101108: In every link I called his name
• 20101126: Grandpa and his tugou
• 20110222: FILM: Goodbye, My Lady – 2000 Words and Some Screencaps
• 20110303: Hachiko’s droopy ear
• 20110526: The dog food I’ve eaten
• 20110826: The puppy mills that don’t look like puppy mills
• 20111214: The not-so-anomalous faithful dog

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