Pooch Cafe by Paul Gilligan for July 12, 2010

I didn’t know either.

I’m surprised they even have one…

From what we know of Poncho’s later life with Chazz, it’s clear this sibling will have a profound influence on him.

A trouble maker extraordinaire! But you’ll catch on Porcho!

Fight the power !

Power to the puppies!

… but he does now

Is this Poncho’s sister Gotho?

Fritzoid…..that’s the trap…..visualising what we “know”! Gilligan is sure to utilise licence (license)….blow our minds!!!

Yeah, yeah, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Take it up with the linguistic relativists, Gotho!

Boy this litter has produced some unique puppies.

They had to be unique puppies…. They have to cope with porcho!

“Unique” means one of a kind. Thank goodness there’ll only be one Porcho.

I’m tellin ya, cdward, I don’t think it’s a sister…

I agree with fritzoid - there’s something very male about him but yet not so, sort of like the Emperor in Star Wars

Poncho be carefull once you walk down the the path a civil-disobedience, the walk will become the opiate of the malcontent…. or if you brake it you may not be able to fix it.

This one’s a little more hardcore than your usual Goth or Emo; both those subcultures tend towards a certain “delicacy,” a capital-R Romantic nihilism, that I’m not picking up here. This guy/gal exists where Goth and Punk share roots (if not branches), where Punk overlaps Glam… Very CBGB, kinda New York Dolls.

It’s Iggy Pup!

What I want to know is how and when Porcho morphs into Poncho, but I guess all will be revealed in good tiome.

Took a while to get there, Fritz, but it was worth it.

I hope we get to meet some more of these siblings in future episodes.

anarchodog!!. one dog should be a skinhead… an antiracist redskin

Thanks, Jo Jo, but actually my first motive was simply to nail down New Pup’s type. “Iggy Pup” came to mind in the middle, and didn’t really change what I was going to say otherwise.

At some point (I’m guessing in London, late ‘70’s), there was probably a subculture that had this particular combination of traits: Dog-collars and black lipstick, a Clash-type “Smash the State” ideology, but with extra nihilism. And New Pup hasn’t actually looked forward to death yet, which is another contraindication of Goth/Emo. There’s probably a better band than Sisters of Mercy to link him/her/it to, but it would take somebody better-versed in Punk subtypes than I to identify it.

(By the way, I want to apologize for using “Jo-Jo” in reference to a certain other poster in this forum. It was not intended as any insulting reflection on you.)

jiriji, I’m kind of expecting that Porcho will remain “Porcho” until Chazz comes along. But, as you say, time will tell…