{"id":7044,"date":"2012-01-03T21:12:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T03:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=7044"},"modified":"2012-01-12T10:23:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T16:23:53","slug":"rest-in-peace-dingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=7044","title":{"rendered":"Rest in Peace, Dingo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the favorite commenters (well, one of MY favorite commenters) from the <em>Comics Curmudgeon<\/em>, Jeff Gillette, died in his home on Monday.\u00a0 Dingo was only 47 years old (too soon, too soon!) and had a wicked, nasty, unforgiving wit.\u00a0 He could be dirtier than all get out (I&#8217;m sure his photo is next to Webster&#8217;s definition of &#8220;raunchy&#8221;), which suited me just fine.\u00a0\u00a0 I always hoped that one day we might be able to meet in Las Vegas (he designed gaming machines), or that he could coddle me though learning how to put music to my occasional little .gif mashups.\u00a0 Well, heck.<\/p>\n<p>Dingo was one very cool fellow.\u00a0 He even introduced me to Paul Rudd, and if Hollywood ever gets so desperate for a <em>Rex Morgan, M.D.<\/em> movie (aka, &#8220;scraping the bottom of the creativity barrel&#8221;), you can be I&#8217;ll be front and center with Paul as Dingo and my first and only choice for Rex.\u00a0 Dingo also introduced me to some very questionable online comic sites (read, feelthy), but I sent him interesting stuff\u00a0 in return, so I think we have a draw.\u00a0 (I think I had more naked photos of Paul Rudd, though.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking warm thoughts for him and all his family, whom he absolutely adored &#8212; I&#8217;m pretty sure that the feeling was mutual.\u00a0 The lucky guy even won a fishing trip &#8220;up north&#8221; a few years ago, and got to take his dad fishing, too (but without Rusty and Sassy and Kelly Welly!).\u00a0 And here&#8217;s a little thing I put together for Jeff during one of his job-searching safaris.\u00a0 He liked it&#8230;that&#8217;s cool.\u00a0\u00a0 Until we can really meet again, Dingo,<\/p>\n<p>Much love<\/p>\n<p>bats :[<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Dingo-n-Mutts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7045\" title=\"Dingo n Mutts\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Dingo-n-Mutts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the favorite commenters (well, one of MY favorite commenters) from the Comics Curmudgeon, Jeff Gillette, died in his home on Monday.\u00a0 Dingo was only 47 years old (too soon, too soon!) and had a wicked, nasty, unforgiving wit.\u00a0 He could be dirtier than all get out (I&#8217;m sure his photo is next to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7044"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7089,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7044\/revisions\/7089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}