Summary: The year of the dog and the dog days mean that I, Bandit Banjo Fisher-Paulson, get to howl: a dispatch from Dogpatch. There are lots of celestial bodies, but the biggest is Sirius, the dog star, and the 20 days before and the 20 days after its heliacal rising are called the dog days. Heliacal. That’s a big word for a 15-pound Pekingese. I can barely bark it, let alone spell it. So let me explain it for the humans.
