This is my Siamese fighting fish Bela, and what a beautiful, charming creature he was—a turquoise crowntail. (Turquoise crowntails, as you will see if you ask the internet for pictures of them, look like small peacock plumes.) I lost him[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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While it’s true that Bela is very huge, Jonah’s great fish has to be a marine creature, not a freshwater one.
April Fool’s Day is weirdly widespread and has been for hundreds of years. As you can see, even fish get involved.
Usually he moves his fins a little even when torpid, but sometimes he doesn’t even do that. It’s disconcerting!
Why should cats be the only ones we berate this way? The title of this post, incidentally, is yet another funny thing Ignatz said and I stole from him.
Chuck Close said this, which is one of the most helpful things I have ever heard anyone say about the creative life.