Oh, hello. It’s me, Olive the Pug, the official office dog of The Mercury. Over the course of the past six years I have been featured in this paper and online countless times.
Recently it has been brought to my attention that the creatively bankrupt animal plagiarists at the Willamette Week have launched a blog for their disfigured corgi (or whatever mangled breed it claims to be) mascot, Bruce. This town is surely big enough for two weekly paper pups—plus, I’m petite as fuck—but it seems that in classic WW tradition, Bruce is ripping me off.
Case in point, this dashing photo of me from our 2006 drinking issue.. Man, I got so wasted off Sessions that night. Sure enough, over four years later, there is this crap. Stupid Bruce, you can’t even get up to the bar.
And again, this photo of me from 2009 wearing the Fantastic Mr. Fox promotional tie. Damn I look good. So good that we blogged that picture a second time last year. Maybe that is where the uncreative WW hacks got the idea to strap the very same tie around this bloated waste of fur.
I’m not saying this is animal plagiarism—okay, maybe I am—but there are a LOT of similarities. To summarize, fuck you Bruce.
Plagiarists? More like pugiarists!
(For the record, pugs aren’t dogs; they’re a way of life….a very, very sad way of life.)
That fucker Bruce is plagiarizing my dog’s face!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leahverwey/39…
I’m with Olive. Fuck you, Bruce.
Awwww… that Bruce dog is cute.
Bruce is way cuter.
Traitors in our midst!?
I demand more Olive juice.
Pugs are the studidest dogs ever..
That Bruce fellow looks mighty dapper. I’d buy him a scotch.
@Graham You can’t blame the dog. Really, it’s pug owners who are the studidest people ever
Willamette Week: the Mr. Brainwash to the Mercury’s Banksy…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUwjF6LkXuE
I dunno that Bruce is pretty fuckin’ adorable and Olive does look like a gargoyle, a cute cartoon gargoyle but none the less. Sorry, I’m superficial that ay.
How do you expect me to hate a corgi?!
Corgis have regular-size bodies but short legs. I repeat: REGULAR SIZE BODIES BUT SHORT LEGS.
I hate people who hate corgis.
It’s official: Graham would troll a dog.
Also, +1 PR Walters.
APT.
Sorry. Corgis > Pugs.
@Olive — you can’t fuck Bruce he is fixed just like the rest of the WillyWeak codgers. They will talk for hour about T.U.R.P. procedures.
My doxie can kick both of those dogs ass. So there.
A friend of mine just adopted a pug from pug rescue. There was nothing physically wrong with the dog. It was just so damned ugly the owner got rid of it. I love that pug.
For hj’s and bj’s call 503-294-0840.
deep insight PRWalters.