Dog Bytes
“Carver’s Dog is home to Rodger Jacobs, a writer in greater things than just a simple blog. I stumbled upon it through Perrero, and have been reading it ever since. His stories are often surreal, and have an unexpected twist at the end. He can make what seems to be a boring story going nowhere suddenly spring to life in the course of a couple words. Being able to surprise and delight your readers in this day and age takes a lot of talent. In addition to that, some very lively discussions spring out of his stories, and he always responds to feedback.”
“Angeleno writer Rodger Jacobs has cried the beloved country as an LA exile since September 2006, first depositing himself in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood, then on an especially arid side of Las Vegas, where he patiently tends to an often uncooperative ailing mother while tattooing a keyboard with blog entries, fiction, poems, and book reviews …
“(Rodger’s) body of work crosses classes, crowds, cultures; it’s not the Authorized Version, and that’s its special place: it’s LA, unauthorized and unrepentant. For fiction, he will squeeze a character named Bukowski next to a cartoon figure, perchance Pinocchio or Woody Woodpecker; as a critic, he snarks in a way that gives more rise to laughter than bitterness, even if the first anecdote he turns to is a desperately private one. He does not suffer fools gladly, and these tend to feel sheepish on approach.
“His blog Carver’s Dog is his best yet, and he has put together many. He’s had run-ins everywhere, and he is joyously indifferent to your judgment. Among people of our City who know the City yet don’t drive around too much, you can have DJ Waldie, I’ll take Rodger Jacobs; way more fun over here, and there’s something new every day.”
– Joseph Mailander, Street Hassle
“(Carver’s Dog) focuses on quick-hit, fun fiction and assorted book talk.”
“Rodger Jacobs of Carver’s Dog is a prolific writer who, under the pseudonym Martin Brimmer is credited with writing hundreds of screenplays, not one of which you’d want to tell your mother you’d seen. (Unless you and your mother have a far different relationship than my mother and I have). His Brimmer days in the past, Rodger now writes about what Jack London didn’t write as well as super-short fiction about Paul Newman and breakfast (among other things).”
– Nichole Esmon, esmon.net (19 Questions For Rodger Jacobs)
