The dog.

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When I worked at the newspaper, we ran a comic strip written by David Lynch. It was called "The Angriest Dog in the World". The strip had the same frames each time: a small suburban house with a very angry dog straining at the end of his chain in the front yard, with one frame at night. The "content" consisted of dialogue from inside the house.

Lynch phoned in the strip weekly. Someone would take down his instructions ("First frame nothing. Second frame balloon from inside the house saying...") and then Geoff, the production guy, would make the balloons and text. All of the comic was therefore in Geoff's handwriting.

When I saw The David Lynch Daily Weather Report and heard his voice I immediately flashed back to taking those calls. "Hello, Los Angeles Reader." "Hi. I got a DOG for ya."

I don't miss the poverty, the craziness, the abuse, the other poverty, or the overall depressive funk of those years, but I do miss getting a DOG from DAVID LYNCH on the PHONE.

Geoff's a big time music industry dude now, produces Velvet Underground reissues and stuff.

Comments

[stimps.livejournal.com]

AIEEEE I LOVE IT

That is so cool, Mr. Iggy. It makes me incredibly happy. =D

I do a passable imitation of Cole from TP.

[hydrozoa.livejournal.com]

that's real nice. the story and also because now i know about the david lynch weather report.

[vertamae.livejournal.com]

I remember that strip, it ran in our local free weekly, Creative Loafing, for a while. I thought it was pretty stupid, but it must have been cool to talk to Lynch, I guess.

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

I totally remember the angriest dog in the world. Some people used to put it up on their doors at school.

[mendel.livejournal.com]

I had to go find the strips, and found this and this.

[ghost-notes.livejournal.com]

I love Lynch encounters. I've never ran into him personally, but I hear funny stories from people in Madison, Wis., where Lynch's editor, Mary Sweeney, is from, and Lynch occasionally spends time there.

[satoribee.livejournal.com]

Yes, I believe it ran in The New Times in Phoenix for a short while. I remember it getting hate mail, but I thought it was the best comic they ever ran.

[flipzagging.livejournal.com]

Who drew the original strip then?

Fantastic story. Maybe David Lynch is directing your life and that was the cameo?