I got a Djembe drum that I have wanted for a really, REALLy long time…I played today at the Golden Gate Park…It’s great, hand carved, chocolate wood, and a great dappled goat-skin head…
As I was exiting it was getting really dark, and you know right at the end of Haight street, there are a bunch of people with dogs, well, right as I walked by, one of the UN NEUTERED *pit bulls* attacked this fluffy white dog. The pit lunged at it from across the street, and I was so scared…the two owners were punching the pitbull to try and get it to release, and tugging at it’s back legs with all their weight, the whole time the white dog’s neck was in it’s mouth.
I was so scared that it was going to get me, I ran away across the street. it was literally 3 feet from me at one point, and when I turned around about a minute later, the white dog was still in the pit’s jaws.
I really want the ban on pitbulls in the city…I’m scared to walk around (and I already was aftraid of those dogs) and now I’ve seen them be vicious for NO reason at all.
Published by Pete Ippel
Pete Ippel, the son of a dancer and a musician, was born in Oak Park, Illinois and has been surrounded by the arts since birth. He moved to Morris, Illinois in 1989 and started to participate in athletics rather than dance. After high school, Pete attended Cornell University where he received a BA in psychology and a BFA in photo / digital art making. He continued to follow his sporting dreams in the high jump, which culminated in a school record leap of 7 feet 1/2 inch in 2001.
In May 2004 he attained an MFA degree in the New Genres department of the San Francisco Art Institute. Presently Pete is a practicing artist whose work is in numerous private collections and has been exhibited in New York, California, and internationally.
Mr. Ippel resides in Working Artists Ventura, a sustainable artist community in southern California. In addition, he teaches art, is a web developer, an active blogger, and still high jumps from time to time.
As a passionate problem solver and a pragmatic optimist, Pete’s art and his life are full of exciting challenges.
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