Monday, July 10, 2006
My neighborhood celebrity
Even though the park that I let Caese and Chingy! off-leash in every day is huge and could easily accomodate an official dog-friendly space, there is no designated dog run there. This means that every day, I run the risk of getting a $150 ticket ($300 x 2 dogs) every time I want to throw sticks for Caesar and let Chingy! wander off. Therefore, I support building a dog run where my dogs can roam and piss freely without risk of monetary penalty, and am on the St. Nick Park Dog Run E-mail List Google Group, or whatever.
SInce being added to the list by Jet's owner (most of the dog people in the park never know each other's names, but know everyone else by their dogs), I've received several updates on the status of how the run is doing through the Tammany Hall-esque network of Community Boards and Community Panel and Community Council-type groups we have to appease in order to get official approval to build the dog run. I keep waiting for the e-mail that says "Show up and shovel gravel," because as I'm perennially broke, I feel that physical labor will be my contribution to the Dog Run efforts. In addition to tracking the arduous process of navigating the dog run civic bureaucracy, I've also received e-mails from many of my neighbors who wish to alert one another about wine tastings, outdoor jazz concerts, and other various non-dog-related events. One particularly enthusiastic proponent of these events was someone named "Tamara Tunie." I couldn't think why that name sounded so familiar, because I was pretty sure I didn't know someone by that name. Yet every time I got one of her e-mails, I wondered why I felt like I'd seen the name a thousand times.
Then, when I actually went to one of these events from the dog run mailing list (outdoor Afro-Cuban jazzfest down the street), I was with the d-o-double g's, J-Sexy, Neo (+ dog), Cubdiggity (+ dog), and Francophile sitting on our blanket waiting for the concert to start. I was busy trying to control Caesar, who was considerably agitated on account of the approaching thunderstorms that ultimately resulted in the concert ending after an hour anyway. J-Sexy suddenly started elbowing me frantically.
I looked up, and saw this woman walking by. I had seen her around the park with her French bulldog, who was friendly with Chingy! as they are both smashed-face, dense little dogs. I can't explain it, but Chingy! just loves to see other Pugs, bulldogs of any kind, and Boston terriers, seemingly on the basis that they are all squat, low-slung, heavy little dogs that are built like furry little hams stuffed with lead or mercury. On the occasions that Chingy! and her Frenchie started grunting at each other, I always thought she looked recognizable, but I couldn't quite place where I'd seen her.
However, once J-Sexy started elbowing me, it all clicked together. J-Sexy is OBSESSED with "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit," and immediately recognized that the familiar name "Tamara Tunie" was associated with this familiar face:
And HERE is a picture I found of her going topless in the suck-ass movie The Devil's Advocate that I'm including just because gratuitous tit-shots are fun:
Anyway, she plays the medical examiner on "SVU", and apparently has been in a bunch of stuff on Broadway, and was in "As the World Turns" for awhile. So, while it might be a bit of a stretch to call her a "celebrity," she's at least on TV, and she's not too cool to live in Sugar Hill! And her dog is really cute. And her boobs are really perky!
SInce being added to the list by Jet's owner (most of the dog people in the park never know each other's names, but know everyone else by their dogs), I've received several updates on the status of how the run is doing through the Tammany Hall-esque network of Community Boards and Community Panel and Community Council-type groups we have to appease in order to get official approval to build the dog run. I keep waiting for the e-mail that says "Show up and shovel gravel," because as I'm perennially broke, I feel that physical labor will be my contribution to the Dog Run efforts. In addition to tracking the arduous process of navigating the dog run civic bureaucracy, I've also received e-mails from many of my neighbors who wish to alert one another about wine tastings, outdoor jazz concerts, and other various non-dog-related events. One particularly enthusiastic proponent of these events was someone named "Tamara Tunie." I couldn't think why that name sounded so familiar, because I was pretty sure I didn't know someone by that name. Yet every time I got one of her e-mails, I wondered why I felt like I'd seen the name a thousand times.
Then, when I actually went to one of these events from the dog run mailing list (outdoor Afro-Cuban jazzfest down the street), I was with the d-o-double g's, J-Sexy, Neo (+ dog), Cubdiggity (+ dog), and Francophile sitting on our blanket waiting for the concert to start. I was busy trying to control Caesar, who was considerably agitated on account of the approaching thunderstorms that ultimately resulted in the concert ending after an hour anyway. J-Sexy suddenly started elbowing me frantically.
I looked up, and saw this woman walking by. I had seen her around the park with her French bulldog, who was friendly with Chingy! as they are both smashed-face, dense little dogs. I can't explain it, but Chingy! just loves to see other Pugs, bulldogs of any kind, and Boston terriers, seemingly on the basis that they are all squat, low-slung, heavy little dogs that are built like furry little hams stuffed with lead or mercury. On the occasions that Chingy! and her Frenchie started grunting at each other, I always thought she looked recognizable, but I couldn't quite place where I'd seen her.
However, once J-Sexy started elbowing me, it all clicked together. J-Sexy is OBSESSED with "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit," and immediately recognized that the familiar name "Tamara Tunie" was associated with this familiar face:
And HERE is a picture I found of her going topless in the suck-ass movie The Devil's Advocate that I'm including just because gratuitous tit-shots are fun:
Anyway, she plays the medical examiner on "SVU", and apparently has been in a bunch of stuff on Broadway, and was in "As the World Turns" for awhile. So, while it might be a bit of a stretch to call her a "celebrity," she's at least on TV, and she's not too cool to live in Sugar Hill! And her dog is really cute. And her boobs are really perky!
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