Tag: fish
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Like A Fish Needs A Bicycle…
Distinguished, notable feminists Gloria Steinem, Irina Dunn, and Flo Kennedy have alternately been credited with popularizing the phrase, “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” While I’m all about feminism, living in a house full of women I have sometimes taken pause to wonder if said fish ought not to be…
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Trout Fishing With Edgar
One, no, two big silvery, slippery shadowy trout lurk silent, tails sweep slowly steadying against the current, beneath a tangled lodgepole strainer Left over from spring’s high water. These fish must be grateful For a log like this, just right And rotting back to the mud it sprung from: A once-proud, once tree skeleton Now…
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Shameless Filet O’Fish/ Life Aquatic Rip-Off
Has everyone seen the new-ish Filet O’Fish Commercial that rips off one of my all-time favorite movies, Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou? Bad enough that this wonderfully quirky, subtle piece of off-beat cinematic brilliance is being draped in ugly commercialism, the Golden Arch-Villains employ a snotty, superior, hipsterish ironic tone to the…
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A Snowy Sunday Morning
Before you read further and get all indignant, let me remind you I’m a big fan of Jesus–my upbringing in the bosom of the Methodist Church formed the framework for much of my morality–and, of course, my cynicism, my expectations of inevitable hypocracy and, ironically enough, my deeply sentimental conviction that there is good in…
Old Road Apples 