tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post6183030905409069593..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Too Much Rain for the Sharks?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-57600877167042736722011-05-20T07:02:26.619-07:002011-05-20T07:02:26.619-07:00Lals, we'll probably never rank among the big ...Lals, we'll probably never rank among the big league fishin' 'n huntin' bards. (This may be just as well.) My own youthful experience in this department probably parallels yours, transferred to the Midwest. The irregular brief vacation trips with family... my grandfather sometimes took a week's rental on a little place in a nowhere burg with wooden boards for sidewalks and a large silver globular water tower overlooking a tiny lake with water slides & c. There was fishing out of a rowboat. My major and perhaps only catch, some sad looking bluegills which probably should have been thrown back. Instead they were fried in a pan and et.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-21906172634392679932011-05-19T19:33:18.081-07:002011-05-19T19:33:18.081-07:00Tom, thanks for alerting us to this and for the be...Tom, thanks for alerting us to this and for the beautifully articulated memories. When I was a boy staying at my grandma's down the Jersey shore, I used to bait a hook with a piece of white bread and tie it to a string and fish through the holes in the jetty nearest her place. I'd catch all kinds of smaller fish that liked to hover beneath the rocks. Of course, only one or two a fishing expedition. Then take them home and clean them and cook them for her and me. Most of those fish people don't even know about any more, like one we called something that sounded to my ten-year-old ears like Bacall (as in Lauren). I have no idea what happened to them, but the beaches now and then littered with debris from hospitals (needles, used bandages, etc.) might explain it. Thanks again, as always.Lallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05310472614196384595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-30332968517861664072011-05-19T07:20:36.228-07:002011-05-19T07:20:36.228-07:00Curtis,
Grizzly Bears have a sad, sad history in ...Curtis,<br /><br />Grizzly Bears have a sad, sad history in these parts. (The common U. of California employee answering-machine message excitedly urging, "Go Bears!!" has always rung curiously in my probably warped ears.)<br /><br />However at least the Leopard Shark has managed to avoid adoption as mascot or icon by any sporting teams that I know of.<br /><br /><br />Steve,<br /><br />Yes, perhaps you and Johnny have seen the Leopard Sharks, in that same place.<br /><br />Then again...<br /><br />sense of retrospect, is that<br />one present pass away<br /><br />that is to say, disappearingTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-3607743170162800852011-05-19T06:04:30.127-07:002011-05-19T06:04:30.127-07:00Tom,
Thanks for bringing us this sad news, otherw...Tom,<br /><br />Thanks for bringing us this sad news, otherwise not known, and for memories of "small family expeditions onto the broad shallow tidal flats" of Duxbury Reef (which kindle such memories of my own). . . . As for "die-off," as Curtis says, "what will they think of next?" Poor leopard sharks. . . .<br /><br />5.19 <br /><br />light coming into sky above still black<br />ridge, white circle of moon by branches<br />in foreground, wave sounding in channel<br /><br /> sense of retrospect, is that<br /> one present pass away<br /><br /> that is to say, disappearing<br /> from, but will see it<br /><br />silver of sunlight reflected in channel,<br />wingspan of cormorant flapping above itSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-16672226292111200122011-05-19T04:03:46.904-07:002011-05-19T04:03:46.904-07:00It would be nice to see this piece appear as an ad...It would be nice to see this piece appear as an adjunct to Ms. Zito's piece in an updated edition of the Chronicle, in print and online (where the photos you've chosen would bring the story literally to light). So sad. Around Orange County, New York our non-predatory, but still hysterically perceived threat, is the black bear. Again, a single (tragic, but easily explained) incident of unfortunate bear-human interaction (i.e., worse than a nosebleed) in a hundred years. As for Dominique Strauss-Kahn, things seem to get clearer and stranger at the same time. I've read certain news stories that seem to defy any normal editing rules in that they contain (without comment or acknowledgement by the reporter) numerous unsourced, contradictory and irreconcilable statements. Watching Washington DC-based tv news pundits, who certainly both know him and until last week sought to curry favor with him, struggle to figure out their new affect, is making me dizzy. "Die-off" -- what will they think of next?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-89387776808698532732011-05-19T03:53:25.195-07:002011-05-19T03:53:25.195-07:00There do exist photos of the stranded, thrashing s...There do exist photos of the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150160415682411.293797.167200017410" rel="nofollow">stranded, thrashing sharks</a> ...not happy-making to view, and one lacked the heart to post them, while at the same time recognising, the truth is the truth, and there are always those who would wish to learn by seeing it.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com