On a blustery cold November day, your Dogs warmed their old erudite hearts reading emails from resolute listeners… and then reverted to propense form by prattling on about KJ’s Snappers and genteelly discoursing on why Apple has appellations and numbers for operating systems, what canine Buddy has been up to, impedimenta PJ is spending money on, and RJ’s and Sue’s Halloween. In other words, and propitiously, it’s us!

Links: Shed Dogs; Lewis Monson (painter of the dog in the foreground of this week’s cover art); the 2010 Prius, BC doctor remuneration; Trophy Town (documentary on the world champion Trail Smoke Eaters); fancy words; Merlin Mann; dollar store candy bars.