Random Esquire

1.  Have you ever seen a Halibut?  It’s ugly.  When it’s born (hatched? wtf do I know), the eyes are on either side of the fish but then one slowly migrates to the other side as the fish rests flat on the ocean floor…so that both eyes are facing up.  That’s really jacked up, isn’t it? Picture here, at the bottom of the page.  No clue why it’s on the dog breed info page.  That’s jacked up, too.

2.   Speaking of ugly fish, here’s a monkfish.  Tell me you wouldn’t crap yourself if that bumped you in the water.

3.  Discovery Channel has this new show called Tuna Wranglers.  It’s pretty interesting to watch to see how they catch tuna (with a plane flying overhead to spot the school and boat that circles the school in a huge ass net that cinches at the bottom).  It’s no Deadliest Catch, though.  Apparently, I’m not the only one who thinks so because this blog (er,…called Pisstakers) did an entry on how tuna fishing is to crab fishing as catching a koala bear is to catching a black bear. Here are my favorite lines: “The only things they have in common are, they are all in a boat, all on the water, all after fish and all enjoy feeding false info to their competitors. Oh, and they all like a beer and return to port smelling like a whore’s drawers. ”

4.  I’m reading Moby Dick.