I Didn't Realize Ira Glass Might Be Insane
I love dogs and I love the radio program "This American Life" and I greatly admire Ira Glass for the depth, detail, and creativity of his reporting, but now I also have to consider that he is a very crazy person who is married to an even crazier person -- Ira Glass is a very busy man, but he essentially spends all of his free time taking care of a troubled dog that attacks people, is allergic to nearly every kind of food, and lunges at Ira when his wife is sleeping . . . this is a man at the pinnacle of his radio career and he can't have anyone over to his apartment because Piney will attack them (he's bitten six people) and while the dog is now eight years old, and has calmed down a bit (sometimes a stranger can look him in the eye and he won't bite him) he still has to move from food source to food source when he develops an allergy (tuna, bison, rabbit, kangaroo, etc.) and so if you are at all a fan of "This American Life" then you've got to listen to this table-turning interview; it's compelling and weird and what Ira and his wife have sacrificed for this dog defies all logic and reason, which makes their behavior either saintly and magical, or completely lunatic . . . and don't just judge by this fairly sweet Newsweek piece, listen to the actual interview with Ira Glass, it's in Act Three of the "Animal Sacrifice" episode.
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4 comments:
Owning any dog is an insane proposition. It's moronic to own a biting dog with eating disorders.
but normally he's so smart and well spoken!
But like everything else, one person's self-torture is another person's life-defining mission. It may be how he sleeps at night. He's obviously compelled by something that doesn't exist in Zman or me. Perhaps not having this dog in his life would make him the kind of lunatic that would do very bad things.
Just a thought.
bad movie plot: ira glass puts the dog down and this transforms him into a humanoid cujo.
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