Ahoy, Matey.
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.
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Just a random attorney writing about daily life with Little Filthy, my rotten dog.
September 14th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
This post is totally fishy.
September 15th, 2008 at 12:18 am
Aaahhh…good ole “whore’s drawers”…. interesting.
September 15th, 2008 at 7:46 am
Never read Moby Dick and I’ve never had Monkfish
Halibut = the yum!
September 15th, 2008 at 7:48 am
This post has a lot of fish mentioned. And even a whale!
September 15th, 2008 at 9:08 am
J J’s Fishhouse in Pouslbo,WA has Halibut and Chips to die for. The Halibut is so fresh, crispy on the outside and moist and flaky inside. The chips are shoestring and delicious and also comes with great poppy seed coleslaw(no Mayonnaise also a plus). If you ever check out this neat little town across the sound from Seattle eat there.
September 15th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
The best part about sailing in Lake Michigan? You don’t have to hose your boat off afterward and there’s nothing in there that will eat you. Alright, I guess that’s two best parts. The monkfish, no thank you.
I had this amazing trout the other night…part of a brewery dinner we’d ‘won’ (read: paid through the nose for) at a silent auction. I would classify it as a semi-foodie experience with a damn lot of beer. Each course, and there were five, was paired with a different beer. A pint of said beer. It was faaaaaabulous.
September 15th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
There’s something inherently wrong with fishing from a plane!!!
September 15th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Avitania – fishy is as fishy does.
Buzd – That sounds very good. Of course, I’m hungry as hell but yeah, that sounds really good.
KT – Sounds very good! Mmmm, beer and fish. heh.
September 16th, 2008 at 5:05 am
It’s a toss-up between what made me the happiest…the wild mushroom appetizer (paired with Scooter Brown Ale) or the Chocolate Stout cupcake with a Stout Ice Cream Float (paired with Sheepshead Stout). All in all I ate waaaaay too much.
September 17th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
I have a hatred of all things “fishy”. I pretty much think if it came out of the water you should leave it’s slimy ass where you found it.
GAG… just can’t eat it. It doesn’t hurt that I have a serious seafood allergy anyway, but even if I didn’t I would rather lick out the hair belly-button of a 300 lb. eunuch than eat fish.
September 19th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Please tell me you’re joking.
A TV show called “Tuna Wranglers” ?!? About folks fishing for Tuna?
WHAT IS HAPPENING?! >said in best Dominique Dunn in “Poltergeist”
November 27th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Glad I am not the only one who found tuna wranglers a trifle lame. If tuna is brain food, maybe the wranglers should partake of a tuna or two?