Rick Griffin is an author based out of Madison, Alabama. He has a dog named Apollo and once rode him bareback up the slopes of Kilimanjaro in an attempt to lasso the sun. For three days and nights they climbed, eating nothing but snow and ice, but the sun evaded them, staying ever out of reach. Then Rick snatched an eagle out of the air and rode it to the moon. From there, his rope reached the sun, but he was unable to pull it back down to earth. So he leaped off the moon's surface, riding the orbit counter the earth's for six month until they met in the middle. Rick pulled the sun home, and met Apollo at his front door. However, Apollo still refused to play fetch with anything larger than his head.