Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight
Ohmidog!!! This is it -- the last blog entry (from me anyway) on the Baltimore Sun "Mutts" blog.
I don't know what the newspaper's plans are for the blog.
My plans for me, though, involve leaving the paper as of today, writing a book and continuing a dog blog of my own.
If you wish to check it out, you can visit Ohmidog.com. (I'm the master of at least one domain now.) If you wish to reach me, you can send an email to muttsblog@verizon.net.
Thanks for the 376,313 visits you paid in the past year. Thanks for you astute comments, and your wacky ones as well. Thanks for letting me ramble on -- now and then -- about my own dog, Ace.
But thanks, most of all, for caring about animals -- and especially to those of you who take that compassion and turn it into action.
This video (and, no, that's not me singing to a litter of boxers) seemed a fitting goodbye.
In a way, and I mean this respectfully, you've been a lot like my dog, Ace -- you've been loyal, there for me when I need you, you've made me laugh, you've made me feel more secure. And I don't even have to clean up after you.
Just like Ace, you've made my life much richer. Thanks.
Oh heck, let's hear it one more time.
Comments
Looking forward to reading your new blog. Wouldn't miss it!
Posted by: Julie | August 1, 2008 12:57 PM
I almost had a stroke when you said you were leaving.
Glad to know you`re starting your own blog.
This will be my last visit to the Baltimore Sun.
Their loss!
I was only coming here to read your blog.
I`ll be over to visit
ohmidog.com
Was ohmYdog taken?
Posted by: MG | August 1, 2008 1:36 PM
Ohmidog! Glad you are starting your own thing- I look forward to keeping up with all things dog with you and Ace on the new site!
Posted by: Marie | August 1, 2008 2:05 PM
I am so sorry that you are leaving, but I will definitely follow you!!!
The Sun sucks big time!!!!!
Posted by: Susan WNAJ | August 1, 2008 4:10 PM
Layoffs are tough. Sorry it's your paper going through the experience.
Thank you for this blog and will make your new blog a daily stop. Wish all good things for you and Ace.
Posted by: bluhawkk | August 1, 2008 4:54 PM
So glad to hear you'll still have a dog blog. I'll definitely be checking it out.
Note to bean counters of the Baltimore Sun: I would have been willing to pay a fee to be able to access the Mutts Blog. The blog has always had good writing, topics of great interest to me, and perhaps the most civil audience of any blog around. I think I have gotten a fuller view of what people in Baltimore are like from reading the Mutts Blog.
I'm happy that Ace and John will be around in cyberspace elsewhere, but I have to say I fear for a culture that doesn't support its newspapers. Or should I fear newspaper owners who put mega-profits ahead of a free, responsible, and robust press?
Posted by: Mary Schmidt | August 1, 2008 6:18 PM
I've enjoyed reading you and am glad you have a blog and book in the works. I'm looking forward to it.
Thanks
Posted by: Mike A | August 1, 2008 6:27 PM