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Jungle Jim’s, the destination grocery store/amusement park increases its zaniness even more by including a large mural of Jim the Wizard himself playing poker with a variety of primates.

Stuff You Missed in History Class podcast recently featured in episode on Cassius Coolidge and Dogs Playing Poker.

MAD Magazine has upper its already stellar game by embracing Dogs Playing Poker.

If you want a custom poker dogs paintings with your own pooches, head on over to Etsy where you can get a version of A Friend in Need, A Bold Bluffor more with your own pooches substituted for the traditional dogs.

While hiking the Colorado Trail last year, we stopped in Fairplay, Colorado for resupply and relaxation.

If you are one of the people that is trying to strike it rich with your old dogs playing poker prints, and does not bother to read the FAQ, you can instead watch this short clip from Pawn Stars.

As part of a sponsorship for the World Series of Poker, 888Poker commissioned a series of real life dogs playing poker images to “reimagine a modern-day version” of the classic paintings.

Dogs are not the only animals which can play poker.

Les Fox of West Highland Fine Art & Publishing is running a Kickstarter campaign to publish a book on dogs playing poker and Cassius Coolidge.

While hiking the Florida Trail I passed through Moore Haven on the west side of Lake Okeechobee and saw Adams Angler’s Reef, which had an original mural of dogs playing pool on the outside of its building.

Jerry Griffith, who produces Useless History, recently published an episode on YouTube about Cassius Coolidge and his infamous dogs playing poker paintings.

While finishing up my summer in Europe, I ran across a random cafe in Istanbul, Turkey which was proudly displaying a tapestry of dogs playing poker above its tables.

While tramping around New Zealand, I happened through Queenstown and while walking around downtown saw the Lonely Dog gallery by Ivan Clarke.

A house, (crappy) car, good paying job with benefits, no family responsibilities, and an otherwise seemingly normal life has been too burdensome for me, so I am off to see the world.

Despite a car accident earlier in the week (no injuries, other guy’s fault) and arriving in Antwerp, NY late in the afternoon, my pilgrimage to the birthplace of Cassius Coolidge was successful.

After competing at Ironman Lake Placid, like every true dogs playing poker fan, I will make my lifetime pilgrimage to Antwerp, NY, birthplace of Cassius Coolidge, the artist of the canine poker players.

As promised DogsPlayingPoker.org contributed 10% of the price of prints purchased in October through it to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

In honor of breast cancer awareness month in October, DogsPlayingPoker.org has gone pink!

For those with a garnering to get stuck by lightening (or spelled a word backwards), yet another variant of Coolidge’s poker dogs exists.

For those trendy people out there that have the internets on their iPhones, an application worthy of download finally exists.

Thanks to a little sleuthing by yours truly on a very quiet floor of the University of Iowa Library, the illustrations by Cassius Coolidge from The Wonderful Electric Elephant are now available for your viewing pleasure.

  Coolidge was a busy artist.

According to the Watertown Daily Times, the Philadelphia Historical Society (of New York) plans to open a museum starting this summer.

According to the Watertown Daily Times, the Cassius Coolidge self portrait that hung in the Antwerp, New York library has been fully restored.

A new artist’s painting, of course in the dogs playing poker/pool genre, have been added to the gallery.

The American Kennel Club recently released the results of a survey that determined which dogs are most popular in American culture.

With Christmas quickly approaching, do not forget to get that someone special in your life one of the plethora of dogs playing poker paintings.

Some new paintings have been added to the DPP gallery.

Cassius Coolidge’s self portrait The town of Antwerp, New York has hired a firm to restore the 1872 Cassius Coolidge self portrait.

Owl Square Press has made a new version of the classic A Friend in Need for those of the overly politically correct persuasion.

This site is slightly cleaner starting today, as my agreement with an SEO firm has finally expired and the in line text links on several pages have been removed.

Exceeded my fundraising goal!

Only a couple weeks left until I run the Path to Progress 5K, raising money for the American Brain Tumor Association.

Just passing along a quick update on how the fundraising has been going for the Path to Progress 5K, sponsored by the American Brain Tumor Association.

Donate to ABTA On April 25th I will be running the Path to Progress 5K in Chicago.

After way too long, I finally got DogsPlayingPoker.org slightly polished and much more maintainable.

Doyle New York has come through again with respect to Coolidge.

A couple of neat news items have crossed my desk.

The auctions for Coolidge’s paintings have gone through.

Well, more Coolidge works will be auctioned off in February by Doyle New York.

After way too long and much neglect, I have stopped mooching off my alumni status and actually got real hosting for DogsPlayingPoker.org.

For those of you still trying to make a quick buck off old dogs playing poker paintings, maybe you should check out Middle Tennessee State University auctions.

Dogs playing poker made it into the Top 5 dogs for the 21st century on MSNBC.

I will be running the Chicago Marathon this fall in support of the American Brain Tumor Association.

You may think just because this site is very rarely updated that it is dead, but alas that is just barely not the case.

There has actually been quite a bit of news coverage about the auctions.

After 2 minutes and 52 seconds (according to eBay) and 70 bids later, the original Coolidge paintings sold for an astonishing $520,000, 10x what the auction house had estimated.

You can track the upcoming auction of the original Coolidge paintings by Doyle New York live on eBay.

Original Coolidge Art!!

Today’s Frazz comic mentions Dogs Playing Poker shirts, of which I own a couple.