Ella is a star!
- Feb. 12th, 2013 at 4:11 PM
Cute Overload: We've Found Nemo—He's Headed to Boston and NYC
Between her calendars, her videos, and her two appearances in Chuck Sambuchino's Red Dog/Blue Dog, she's probably better-known now than either of her two humans.
Here, Ella reacts to the Cute Overload news:
Crossposted from Inhuman Swill
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I once called Chicago "the Riviera of the Midwest" to a person visiting from the UK. Which, when he repeated this to other Chicagoans as if it were fact, caused great bemusement all around, and a certain slinking out of the room by me.