"Travels with Gnarly" - Book Idea for Cadillac Man

We have talked a lot about "Travels with Charlie" and authenticity and so ... but ... we already see you are living that in your own way ... so ...

"Travels with Gnarly" is the story ... from the dog's point of view.  The object isn't to parody Steinbeck and I haven't even read the book so maybe that's how "Travels with Charlie" went but there was that flash ... whoa ... that could be kind of cool.

Cadillac Man and I talked about flashes like that earlier and people get those.  We get ideas from somewhere and whizkids in the back room are probably trying to discover what makes them but we're going with fookin' magic.

It's the same with music as that melody comes into your head but who knows why.  You do not compute this thing, it simply appears.  Humans can do this and, for the time being, nothing else can.

(Ed:  for what time being?)

Until the space monsters get here.  We know you have seen that movie.


So, a talkin' dog is hardly Mozart and Hollywood would make a really awful movie out of it but that could be interesting reading in prose.  Yah, it's heresy to say it would suck as a movie but, once you've seen "Ironman" and all his Iron clones, that will about do it for movies ... except for "The Martian" as that one was cool.  See "Robin Crusoe on Mars" for an ancient fifties or sixties shot at a survival on Mars story and it is kind of cool.


It gives me some pride to hear Cadillac Man drew on the moto kamikaze ride across Europe for some moxie to break out.  He asked if I might want to join him on a jaunt to Yellowstone Park but I couldn't do it.  That turned out well because this was the First Major Step.  He invited his dog to join him and off they went ... some four thousand miles later he and his dog got back and now he has a Story.

So ... we're thinkin' here at the Rockhouse ... the dog has a story too.  I'm thinkin' transport comedy in which you're not slapping your thigh all the time but it carries you.  Mister Ed was a funny talking horse and he was one smart nag but that was more the thigh-slapper comedy rather than something which seems it could be so sublime.

(Ed:  why not write the fookin' book yerself?)

Canna do that, laddie.  That's nae me own travelin'.

Note:  sorry.  POL Arida was performing today and he's a good Scotsman which got me homesick for the old country.

(Ed:  hogwashhhhhhh!  You never even lived there until old home week.)

Well, I get homesick for what homesick would have been like if, well, that had been home which it wasn't ... not precisely.

(Ed:  shut up)

Thank you.

Note:  the above is not what I theorize constitutes transport comedy.  We suspect even Mister Ed would question it.


(Ed:  maybe this is a bit like "A Boy and His Dog" with their telepathic link and they communicate without silly woofing noises.)

Yah but they ate people and I'm highly sure Cadillac Man and his dog do not eat people.  That could be the difference.