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“Dog Guy” rides again.

David S. Harvey, the artist formerly known as Dog Guy and more recently the city council gadfly of Irvine, CA is now running for mayor of that city.

http://whosyourmayor.com/

To quote Mr. Harvey’s post on an old LJ entry of mine:

WHOS YOUR MAYOR is easy to remember because it’s kind-of like whos’your
daddy…

New photos in the Scrapbook Too!

Best regards,

David S. Harvey

“The Huell Howser of City Hall Reporters”

Who Loves Ya!

It appears that the dog’s name is “Papucho”, by the way.

The dog.

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.

The concept of “Fruit Buzz” will be communicated to the female audience through “girl speak”.

McDonald’s Has Buzz Over Green Fork
May 11, 2005

CHICAGO — McDonald’s is supporting the launch of its Fruit & Walnut Premium Salad with a multimedia push and a “Green Fork” animated character in a campaign dubbed “Fruit Buzz.”

The marketing effort, via Burrell and DDB, Chicago, broke this week with 15- and 30-second TV spots, McDonald’s largest print buy and POP featuring Destiny’s Child. Spend was not given.

A part of “It’s what I eat and what I do” food/energy balance platform, “Fruit Buzz” is a “change in attitude and an overall happy feeling one gets after eating the Fruit & Walnut Premium Salad,” the fast-feeder said in a statement. “The concept of ‘Fruit Buzz” will be communicated to the female audience through ‘girl speak,’ allowing McDonald’s to talk to women in the same language that women talk to each other.”

In an animated spot via Burrell, a young woman is walking down the street on a spring day, but when she opens the door to her friend’s house she is transmogrified into her animated persona and is then ready to “Get a Fruit Buzz”.

McDonald’s print buy includes more than 30 multicultural titles and more than 20 in-language Asian specific publications. Inserts will appear in publications such as Vanity Fair, Bon Appetit, Essence, Estylo and Oprah. Also, in partnership with Conde Nast, many of its publications will include a Starburst insert and taglines like “It’s that feeling you get when everything is 60% off,” “Makes me feel better than knowing my ex-boyfriend is still single” and “Having one makes even a bad hair day feel good.”