This recent piece from NPR gives us a glimpse into one very talented person's dog and cat humor. Francesco Marciuliano, who used to write for The Onion News Network and has written the comic strip, Sally Forth, for nearly 18 years, took a stab at writing poems in the voice of cats and dogs a few years ago, and soon became the best-selling author of two books.
This NPR article with accompanying audio makes a case for cats getting the short end of the stick, so to speak (although no self-respecting cat would ever gnaw on a stick), because they do so well in short Internet bursts. Dogs, on the other paw, do better with longer works, like entire books, for example. What do you think? Are cats just made for brevity, but dogs (perhaps that much more interesting) can tackle longer works of poetry and prose? Do let us know...
This NPR article with accompanying audio makes a case for cats getting the short end of the stick, so to speak (although no self-respecting cat would ever gnaw on a stick), because they do so well in short Internet bursts. Dogs, on the other paw, do better with longer works, like entire books, for example. What do you think? Are cats just made for brevity, but dogs (perhaps that much more interesting) can tackle longer works of poetry and prose? Do let us know...
