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Dispatches from a world made tolerable by the presence of dogs. Also, unpopular opinions, stories, art, laughter, and the Suicide of the West.

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Dear Potsie; Please Adopt Me

topdog August 3, 2021Stories 2 Comments

Trying to get my art-career off the ground has been a long and disappointing challenge. It seems I keep getting pushed aside by those with more marketing savvy.

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Puppy playtime in the snow

topdog July 27, 2021Pet Portraits 2 Comments

The fight for dominance is fierce as these two evenly matched puppies battle for alpha status in a snowy cage match. Two enter. Two leave, but with biscuit treats.

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Hudson’s Secret

topdog July 24, 2021Stories 3 Comments

Hudson’s dark obsession gets the best of him yet again. Here is the (almost) true account of what happened.

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Confession: I Beat My Mother

topdog July 20, 2021Rural Living 2 Comments

I’ve lived out here in your woods for twenty-two years, and if I’ve learned anything at all I’ve learned to not take shit from Mother Nature.

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Dear Softball…

topdog July 17, 2021Stories 2 Comments

This is a blog post I wrote a couple days after my very last softball game, which happened on this day exactly ten years ago.

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Drivers Shocked As Truck Strikes, Kills Fallen Trans Bird

topdog July 15, 2021Stories 2 Comments

Drivers were shocked on their morning commute Wednesday when a trans bird fell from under the Sullivan Street overpass directly into west-bound traffic on Interstate 90…

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Book Cover Artwork: The Story of Echo

topdog July 12, 2021Art and Design 4 Comments

I recently completed illustration and book cover artwork for a fantasy/steampunk novel by J.E. Daniels titled “The Story of Echo”. The ebook is now available for purchase on Amazon, so I’ve been given the go ahead to reveal it here.

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How To Destroy the Home Rental Industry

topdog July 8, 2021Unpopular Opinions 3 Comments

Saw on the news tonight that rents in Spokane are very high and availability is very low. The reporter didn’t really have a clue but presented her idiocy with confidence and verve.

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Semi-Retired Is Like “Sorta Pregnant”

topdog July 7, 2021Stories 3 Comments

In which I announce my semi-retirement from the design biz, and ramble on and on about the “Good Ol’ Days” like every other old retired fart.

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Independence Day 2021

Happy Independence Day!

topdog July 4, 2021Time Wasters 2 Comments

I hope everyone has a good Independence Day. Here are a couple items of interest on this momentous day …

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Some men are born to Greatness, others have Greatness thrust upon them. 

Steve once bumped into Greatness at a party, spilling a large plastic lamp-leg of V8 and ruining Greatness’ Booty Shirt (the one with humping porcupines). Since then, Greatness has kept a wary distance, laid a curse, and erased Steve from his Christmas List.

But Steve, ever the optimist, presses on. 

He lives a quiet rural life with The Missus, two dogs, two cats, one bad knee, and occasional dry-eye. 

Knowing that Greatness has scorned him serves as motivation to keep Mediocrity from moving in. So he paints, writes, and posts his intermittently amusing thoughts here on Almost Daily.

Steve Merryman has been writing Almost Daily since just after the turn of the century.

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