You might think this is a post about cute dogs, but it’s really another post about my ongoing back injury and why these are the first photos I have taken in months. But first, the cute dogs.

On Sunday, I went to the McGhoulrick Dogs Halloween Costume Parade in McGolrick Park in Greenpoint thrown by McGolrick Dogs. That’s a lot of McGs in a sentence but we gotta work with what we have been given. It started at 1pm yesterday and I got there shortly after 1 and was gone by probably 1:45pm. It’s not a tremendous amount of time to photograph dogs, hence the fairly small gallery but I was just happy to be photographing anything. If you want more halloween doggos I have photographed the Tompkins Square Park parade twice.

Possibly during, or maybe shortly after the last thing I photographed, The Gathering of the Juggalos, I did something terrible to my back. It sounds like it’s a herniated disc, but I am still waiting for the results of one more test. That back injury has also led to some sort of hip impingement and now I am in physical therapy three times a week and can barely walk because after a few minutes the pain is so severe that I just lay down in the middle of the sidewalk until it stops and I can walk a little farther. It’s a nightmare, but the PT has helped in that I can walk a little bit farther than I could a few weeks ago. 

Today I went to get an epidural like my doctor suggested for some short term pain management while I continue physical therapy, but when I got there they told me they needed insurance approval which could take up to 10 days. They did give me some sort of numbing shot which I hope will help in the very short term because I have friends in town this week for NFT NYC and I want to hang out with them and other nerds who care about collectable JPGs. It helped a bit today, but I didn’t go too far. Anyway, back to the dogs…

On Sunday the Dolphins were playing the Bills and the Dolphins are very bad and the Bills are pretty good and despite me running the world’s largest Miami Dolphins fan club I really didn’t want to go. I have skipped exactly one game in 20 years without having work as an excuse and I figured a dog parade counts and I just felt like it was a way better idea to watch dogs with my girlfriend than spend another $80+ taking an Uber back and forth to my Dolphins bar since I can’t walk. 

I couldn’t shoot a ton because of my back, but I did shoot a number of photos. They aren’t the best shots I have ever taken, but they are very cute and I was very happy to update my site with something other than nudes for a change. Anyway, that’s enough complaining, but hopefully I will be back with some sort of NFT NYC update, but who knows? In the meantime let’ look at some dogs. 

Click here to see all my photos from the McGhoulrick Dogs Halloween Costume Parade.

 

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