Welcome to the doghouse, Steve. Hope you don’t have fleas.
As everybody knows, Steve Lopez is the highest paid writer at The Dog Trainer, making about ten times more than my master Ron got as editor of the Green Sheet.
Lopez is also famous for writing about a musical homeless guy that was made into a movie. Lopez was portrayed by Hollywood star Robert Downey Jr., who was on his way to being homeless himself before cleaning up his act. Now he’s
As a columnist, Lopez does have a tough job. He needs to come up with 800 or so words every few days to earn those big bucks. So I suppose I shouldn’t be offended if he borrows from me.
But for the record, all I get for my efforts is some crappy kibble, which is now doled out by some Nazi-like contraption in a fruitless effort to control my behavior after I bit the pool guy.
For those of you with short memories, two days ago I compared City Hall to a circus:
“I’ve been sitting on the sidelines over the last couple weeks watching our so-called leaders turn City Hall into a circus, seeing the showdown between our ringmaster mayor and his clowns at the DWP with the Council over whether LA is going to go broke without the a bailout from the utility. Controller Wendy Greuel’s been the girl on the flying trapeze.”
Pretty good, if I do say so myself. I particularly like the Wendy line. She’s so damn cute. Much cuter than the scary woman she replaced, who I think I once compared to the Wicked Witch from the East. Or was it the Wicked Witch from the West. You know who I mean. The one with those freaky flying monkeys.
But I digress.
Anyway, the headline on Steve’s offering this morning is: “Attention Cirque du L.A. ringmasters: Do your jobs”.
Steve’s subject, of course, is also the chaos and foolishness going on at City Hall over the last couple weeks
“They could sell tickets to the spectacle at City Hall — it might help fill the budget gap — and I’ve got the perfect name for the show.
“Cirque du L.A.”
OK, so the guy knows French. Big deal. I bet he can’t lick himself like I can.
Steve did come up with an original twist, one I hadn’t seen anyone do up till this point in the absurdity – he quoted the Wicked Witch from the East, or West or somewhere, and guess what? She had absolutely nothing interesting to say. At least Dick Riordan told Rick Orlov of the Green Sheet that the city should declare bankruptcy. Don’t you just love old Dick, don’t you miss Jimmy even?
But I digress — again. Back to Steve.
Before you hit me with the old “imitation is the most sincere form of flattery” crap, please remember I am a freaking dog writing for a blog that nobody at the Dog Trainer admits to even reading. Those guys on Spring Street have been dissing Ronnie since he was at the old HerEx writing front-page stories about crocodiles – or was it sea serpents? — in the storm drains.
And I suppose the circus-cirque thing could be just a coincidence. It’s not like it’s the most original metaphor. So I’m going to cut Steve some slack. It’s hard coming up with new ideas all the time and he did give credit to Walter Moore, remember the guy who ran a strong second to Antonio last year and would be a favorite to beat him if the election was this year..
After all, look what I wrote about this morning.
Woof!