I have nothing to update right now, so I'll be digging into the archives.

[originally posted October 28, 2003]

Sure, he's cute. Of course you can keep him. But heed these three warnings: Don't ever get him wet. Keep him away from bright light. And the most important thing, the one thing you must never forget: no matter how much he cries, no matter how much he begs . . . never, never feed him after midnight. ~ Gremlins

Now, I'm sure y'all are wondering how I picked the Xanga username GizmoDogg.   Well, back in the mid 80's I had a cute little mongrel of a dog who looked a lot like the little furry creature named Gizmo from the movie Gremlins.  Remember that one?  Wasn't Phoebe Cates a super hottie?  Oh yeah.    *sigh*  Of course, not as hot as she was in Fast Times at Ridgemont High.  Hubba hubba... remember the pool scene? 

Umm... I'll be right back........

Anyways, where was I?  Oh yeah.  GizmoDogg.  Well, I named my dog Gizmo after the little creature.  No, the picture on the right is not my dog.  I haven't scanned any pix of him, but luckily I found a very good likeness of him online.  He was my favorite pet of all time.  Half Shih-Tzu, half Chihuahua.  I loved that dog very much.  But then on Memorial Day weekend of 1997, Gizmo had grown so old and frail that we decided to let him go.   I remember, the day we put him to sleep, the vet asked me if I wanted to keep his collar.  It's a small blue collar with tiny paw prints along its length.  I took it off, and vowed to keep it forever.  To this day, if you ride in my car, you'll see Gizmo's collar wrapped around the driver's side sun visor.  Once in a while, I'll give it a little pat.  Only recently have I decided to honor his name by taking it as my username in Xanga as well as a few other websites, forums, etc.  But since the name Gizmo is a surprisingly common username around the world wide web, I chose to tag it with Dogg. 

So that's the story behind my xanga username.  How did you come up with yours?

'Til next time,
G-Dogg