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"A note to Pound in heaven: Only one mistake, Ezra! You should have talked to women"
--George Oppen, _Twenty Six Fragments_
Archives:
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ManY PoETiKaL HaTs LisT:
Holly's Pirate-girl Hat,
chrismurray in a straw hat,
Michael Helsem's Gray Wyvern NOLA Fedora.
Duchamp's Rrose Selavy's flirting hat.
Max Ernst's Hats of The Hat Makes the Man.
Jordan Davis' The Hat!
poetry. hks' smelly head baseball cap.
Samuel Beckett's Lucky's
Black bowler hat,
giving his oration
on what's questionable in mankind,
in *Waiting for 'God-ot'*.
my friend John Phillips's 1969
dove gray fedora w/ wild feather.
Bob Dylan's mystery lover's Panama Hat.
Bob Creeley's Black Mountain Felt Boater Hat.
Duke Ellington's Satin
Top Hat. Acorn Hats of Tree.
Freud's 1950 City Fedora.
Joseph Brodsky's Sailor Cap.
Harry K Stammer's Copper Hat
Hell. Lewis LaCook's bowler hat(s).
Tom Beckett's Bad Hair Day
Furry Pimp Hat. Daughter Holly's black beret.
harry k stammer's fez. Cat
in the Hat's Hat & best
hat, Googling Texfiles:
crocheted hat with flames.
Harry K Stammer's tinseled berets.
Tex's 10 gallon Gary Cooper felt Stetson cowboy hat.
Jordan Davis's fedora.
Dali's High-heel Shoe Hat. Harry K Stammer's en-blog LAPD Hat
& aluminum baseball cap. cap'n caps. NY-Yankees caps. the HKS-in-person-caps
are blue or green no logos nor captions.
Ma Skanky Possum 10's nighttime cap.
moose antler hat. propeller beenie hat.
doo rag. knit face mask hat. Bob Dylan's & photographer Laziz
Hamani's panama hats. Mark Weiss's Publisher's Hat.
Rebecca Loudon's Seattle-TX-Hats'n'boots.
Ever-Evolving Links:
Silliman's Links
Dominic Rivron
Unidentified
Br Tom @ One & Plainer
Dan Waber: ars poetica anthology
Dan Waber: altered books anthology
chris daniels: Notes to a Fellow Traveller
Chris Daniels: Toward an Anti-Capitalist Poetry
David Daniels: The Gates Of Paradise
subterranean poets: Beijing Poetry Group
Charles Alexander/Chax Press: Chaxblog
Headlines Poetry: the latest weblog entries
Henry Gould's AlephoeBooks
Julie Choffel's Understory
Tom Murphy's former one
Jean Vengua's New Okir
Roger Pao's Asian-American Poetry
Tom Lisk: Oilcloth and Linoleum
Kevin Doran
Reb Livingston's Cackling Jackal Blog
Janet Holmes: Humanophone
Lorna Dee Cervantes
Mark Young's gamma ways
Brian Campbell: Out of the Woodwork
Shanna's DIY Publishing Blog
Galatea Resurrects: a Poetry Review
Tom Beckett
John Sakkis: BOTH BOTH
New Francois Luong:Voices in Utter Dark, KaBlow!sm is...
Old Francois Luong: Voices in Utter Dark
Margin Walker: Andrew Lundwall
Free Space Comix: the latest BK Stefans blog
Adam Lockhart, Experimentalist Composer
Antic View: Alan Bramhall & Jeff Harrison
lookouchblog: Jessica Smith
MiPOradio
Web Log -- Charles Bernstein
Google Poem Generator: Leevi Lehto
Marie Mutsuki Mockett
Feral Scholar: Stan Goff
worderos: Tom Beckett
In Galatea's Purse
Japundit
Quiet Desperation: Jim Ryal
Luca Antara: Martin Edmond
Brief Epigrams: Ryan Alexander MacDonald
Radio My Vocabulary: 4 pm Sunday Poetry Streams
Mark Lamoreaux: [[[0{:}0]]]
Hot Whiskey Blog
louder
Nick Bruno: They Shoot Poets Don't They?
Joe Massey: Rooted Fool
Kate Greenstreet: every other day
heuriskein: Tom Orange
Chiaroscuro Metropoli: Tom Beckett
Behrle's latest spout!
Fluffy Dollars: Michelle Detorie
Jane Dark's Sugar High!
The Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center
(Charles) Olson Now: Michael Kellaher & Ammiel Alcalay
kari edwards' TranssubMUTATION
Notes on the Revival: Jeremy Hawkins
PurPur: Petrus Pokus
Snapper Missives: Scott Pierce
A Sad Day for Sad Birds II: Gina Meyers
Great Works: Peter Philpot
zafusy: experimental poetry journal
Writeboard: a collaborative writing tool
John Latta: Rue Hazard
KP Harris: Croissant Factory
Stephanie Young's New Site
Stephen Vincent's New Site
Portable Press@Yo~Yo Labs
Square America
Amy King's blog
Robert: Peyoetry Hut
Muisti Kirja: Karri Kokko
Karri Kokko's Blonde on Blonde
Yummeee Blog (recipes)
Nice Guy Syndrome: Tim Botta
Left Hook
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Little Emerson
Fever, Light--by Sawako Nakayasu
Second Wish
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Alison Croggon
Radical Druid
Ron is Ron: the Ron Silliman Cartoon by Jim Behrle
Dagzine: Positions, Poetics, Populations: Gary Norris
Shadows within Shadows: Tom Beckett
Self Similar Writing: Jukka Pekka Kervinen
The Little Workshop: Cassie Lewis
Sky Bright: Jay Rosevear
Poesy Galore: Emily Lloyd
Lisa Jarnot's Blog
Poetry Hut: Jilly Dybka (has moved here)
Pornfeld: Michael Hoerman
Seven Apples: Justin Ulmer
Hi Spirits: Andrew Burke
Bacon Bargain!: Joe Massey
Ivy is here: Ivy Alvarez
Whimsy Speaks: Jeff Bahr
Umbrella: Jeff Wietor
Chicanas! (Susana L. Gallardo)
Masters of Photography
Blog of Disquiet: Gary Norris' Teaching Blog
Suzanna Gig Jig
Bad with Titles: Jay Thomas
Spaceship Tumblers! Tony Tost
Desert City: Ken Rumble
E-Po
Zotz!
Optative Mood: Tim Morris
ecritures bleues: Laura Carter
The Ingredient: Alli Warren
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Jewishy-Irishy: Laurel Snyder
Sea-Camel: Alberto Romero Bermo
Growing Nations: Jordan Stempleman
Tom Raworth
Entropy and Me: Hal Johnson
Scott Pierce: Snapper's Junk
Chicano Poet: Reyes Cardenas
Semio-Karl M&M
Stephen Vincent
Hoa Nguyen/Teacher's & Writers
a New Word Placements
Narcissus Works: Anny Ballardini
Richard Lopez
Tributary: Allen Bramhall
The_Delay: Chris Vitiello
Jukka Pekka Kervinen: Nonlinear Poetry
Lanny Quarles: Phaneronoemikon
Clifford Duffy: Fictions of Deleuze & Guattari
DagZine
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Steve Evans: Third Factory
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Tim Peterson: Mappemunde
WOOD'S LOT
Geof Huth: DBQP
Ann Marie Eldon
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Tony Tost: Unquiet Grave
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Tom Beckett: Vanishing Points
Dumbfoundry
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Jean Vengua's Okir
Hear-it dot org: info on hearing problems
Tim Yu's Tympan
James Yeager's Modern Lives
Tony Robinson: Geneva Convention
Daniel Nestor's Unpleasant Event
Ex-Lion Tamer
Carlos Arribas: Scriptorium
David Nemeth
Ela's Incertain Plume
Mairead Byrne's Heaven
Catherine Daly
Black Spring
Br.Tom's Finish Yr Phrase
Shin Yu Pai: makura-no-soshi
Harry K. Stammer: Downtown LA
Corina's Fledgling Wordsmith
Jilly Dybka's Poetry Hut
Ben Basan's Luminations
Katey: Chewing on Pencils
YaY!! Eileen Tabios: Chatelaine Poetics !
Jill Jones: Ruby Street
Geoffrey Gatza's BlazeVox
Bill Allegrezza's P-Ramblings
Gary Sullivan's Elsewhere
GoldenRuleJones
Poetry_Heat
Bookslut
Chickee's SuperDeluxeGoodPoems
As-Is !
John Latta's Hotel Point
Sawako Nakayasu's Ongoing Show
Shanna Compton's Brand New Insects
Crag Hill
kari edwards: transdada
Fluss
Michael Helsem's Gray Wyvern
Word Placement
Bogue's Blog
Jordan Davis: Equanimity
Robert Flach's Unadulterated Text
Michelle Bautista
Ironic Cinema
Mike Snider
Farewell Tonio!
In Through the Out Door
The Blonde Brunette
Awake at Dawn on Someone's Couch is Toast
Jukka-Pekka Kervinen:Non-Linear
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Chris Lott's Ruminate
Venepoetics
Laura: Yellowslip
Stick Poet Super Hero
Mighty Jens!
Radio UTA: Toni's Thursday Poetry Show
Tim Morris: Lection
Gabe Gudding
Constant Critic
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Jhananin's Insite
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Stephen Vincent
Stephanie Young: New Well Nourished Moon
Kasey Silem Mohammad's Newest Limetree
Lanny Quarles: (solipsis)//:phaneronoemikon
States Writes
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Simulacro
Braincase Links
Sentence
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poetry for the people: canwehaveourballback?
Ernesto Priego's Never Neutral
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Jim Behrle's Monkey's Gone to Heaven
David Kirschenbaum's Boog City
Not Nick Moudry
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Li Bloom's Abolone
Ron Silliman
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Chris Sullivan's Slight Publications
Chris Sullivan's Department of Culture
Kasey S. Mohammad's Old-New Limetree
Kasey's Old Limetree
James Meetze: Brutal Kittens
Cassie Lewis: The Jetty
Joseph Mosconi's Harlequin Knights
Nada Gordon's Ululate
ultimate: Stephanie Young's First Well Nourished Moon
Steve Evans: Third Factory
Noah Eli Gordon's Human Verb
Jean Vengua's Blue Kangaroo
Sawako Nakayasu: Texture Notes
Free Space Comix: BK Stefans
Crosfader
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Marsh Hawk Press group
Catherine Meng's Porthole Redux
Josh Corey's Cahiers de Corey
Very Nice! Shampoopoetry
UTA's Lit Mag: ZNine
Wild Honey Press
Jacket
JFK's Poetinresidence
Malcolm Davidson's Tram Spark poems
HYepez: RealiTi
HYpez: Mexperimental
Aimee Nez's Gila Monster
BestMaX: Jim Behrle's jismblog
Cori Copp's Littleshirleybean
Jordan Davis: Million Poems
Eileen Tabios: Corpsepoetics [see Chatelaine above]
YaY! Liz's Thirdwish
Ultra Linking
Henry Gould's HG Poetics
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Saturday, February 04, 2006
Regarding Active-Duty Soldiers' Resistance to the Military ...
I've had good reason the last few weeks to continually check-out these fine sites of grassroots resistance and struggle against not simply resistance to the war in Iraq, but the current state of individual resistance to militarism in the US. The following sites are especially helpful in that they cut the crap and have mostly clear links to other helpful resources for the everyday person caught up in a complex of mostly indecipherable authoritarianism, including gross physical and psychological abuse within the military, which is more the rule, yet the more specialized situation of verifiable conscientious objection (reversal since Vietnam!) with its now well- established avenues/paths of (official) resistance:
War Resisters Support Campaign
Traveling Soldier
Mother Speak for Soldiers
Citizen Soldier
the above found variously, in and around, via the excellent Stan Goff.
Stan Goff's site was originally brought to my attention several months ago by my good friend, the fierce activist, compassionate poet and excellent translator, chris daniels, of nft series... many thanks, chris, these are especially helpful to me.
Continuing to research tonight and tomorrow, will try to find some legal assistance on Monday, though links and contacts in that seem especially scarce.
Please, if anyone has any suggestions in relation to this complex of sites/subject matter/issues, do let me know, especially if it concerns immediate (as of Monday) legal counseling. Backchannel me at chris.murray AT gmail DOT com
many thanks and much love to Y'all reading Tex,
xo,
chris
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10:26 PM
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Friday, February 03, 2006
Oh, so very happy
to have opened my mail today and found:
a big package full of vibrant, violet magazines:
mem 3 !!
the cover design of mem 3 consists of
a floating music of leaves
(oaken-types) with, then:
one perfect, lone aspen imprint--
which exquistite design can only come from--as Bachelard
would put it-- the space of imaginative mind called
'infinite immenity'--
mem 3 features 5 pages each from poets Reb Livingston, Hoa Nguyen, Danielle Pafunda, Laurel Snyder, Katherine Varnes, and eep! li'l ol' me, Chris Murray ...
mem magazine is edited and published by the charmed, gracious, visionary experimentalist poet, Jill Stengel.
Jill: thanks so much for all you do.
mem 3 is energizing, inspirational, engaging, provocative.
i'm so grateful to be in it, grateful and tickled beyond belief!
Y'all:
Jill Stengel rocks poetry.
Yeah.
: )
order mem from a+bend press,
c/o Jill Stengel
P.O. Box 72298
Davis, CA 95617
or contact Jill via
Duration Press/a+bend press
or at
jilith AT aol DOT com
chris at
11:34 PM
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twilight, overpass, rainslick
Highway 81, southern tier, NYS, Jan. 2, 2006
--disposable cam
o~o/
chris at
6:36 PM
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Pic of a Pic: My Mother
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4:27 PM
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also from (and with such maravilloso eccentricity!)
Ezra Pound's ABC of Reading * :
EXHIBITS
The ideal way to present the next section of this booklet would be to give the quotations WITHOUT any comment whatever. I am afraid that would be too revolutionary. By long and wearing experience I have learned that in the present imperfect state of the world, one MUST tell the reader. I made a very bad mistake in my INSTIGATIONS, the book had a plan, I thought the reader would see it.
In the present case I shall not tell the student everything. The most intelligent students, those who most want to LEARN, will however encompass that end, and endear themselves to the struggling author if they will read the EXHIBITS, and not look at my footnotes until they have at least tried to find out WHAT THE EXHIBIT IS, and to guess why I have printed it. For any reader of sufficient intelligence this should be as good a game as Torquemada's cross-word abominations. I don't expect it to become ever as popular, but in an ideal REPUBLIC it would. ... Let us look at the evidence. (95, 99)
* EP, ABC of Reading (New Directions, 1960).
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3:42 PM
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Dept. of Footnotes:
a footnote found on page 92 of Ezra Pound's ABC of Reading * :
1. A Japanese student in America, on being asked the difference between prose and poetry, said: Poetry consists of gists and piths.
* Footnoted to the phrase DICHTEN = CONDENSARE.
Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading (New Directions, 1960).
chris at
2:53 PM
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Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Practice Pad *
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9:41 PM
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Tuesday, January 31, 2006
from (i love this poem!)
Sean Finney's
the obedient door * :
Stuff
When I reach up to pull some things and the shelf
with its irregular assortment of requests
is pulled by someone of my height,
I know that I will be asked again.
When someone of my height stands up
and the shelf in its shelved nature
is where my head was going,
of course everyone is woken up.
Dusting is all I'm doing now, but maybe
smashing that old pickle jar
would answer more completely,
certain stirrings
for which I have assembled objects
that might not be worth the trouble.
After all, bringing them home is not the problem.
(62) **
* Sean Finney, the obedient door (St. Helena and San Francisco: Meritage Press, 2005).
** This fine book is intriguingly illustrated by Ward Schumaker.
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11:15 PM
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A moment snapped from a car window:
remnant structures along the Erie canal, snowy,
driving south
of Rochester, New York,
January 2, 2006.
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6:18 PM
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--mermaid puzzle, via yavsoft .com
from Simone de Beauvior's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (Harper Collins, 1959) * :
On Readerly Identification
... I was busy waging an anxious war against blind ignorance. ... I was given only children's books, and they were chosen for me with the greatest care; they were based on the same moral standards as those observed by my parents and teachers; the good were rewarded, and the wicked punished: misadventures befell only those who were vain, ridiculous, and stupid. ... [O]ccasionally a book would speak to me more or less vaguely about the world around me or about myself: then it would make me wonder or dream, and sometimes it would shake my convictions. Andersen['s] [Fairy Tales] taught me what melancholy is; in his tales, objects suffer from neglect, are broken and pine away without deserving their unhappy fate; the little mermaid, before she passed into oblivion, was in agony at every step she took, as if she were walking on red-hot cinders, yet she had not done anything wrong: her tortures and her death made me sick at heart. A novel I read at Meyrignac, which was called _The Jungle Explorers_, gave me a nasty shock. The author related his extravagant adventures sufficiently well to make me feel I was actually taking part in them. The hero had a friend called Bob, who was rather stout, a good trencherman and absolutely devoted to his companion in danger; he won my sympathies at once. They were imprisoned in an Indian jail: they discovered a subterranean passage just wide enough to let a man crawl along. Bob went first; suddenly he uttered a terrible scream: he had encountered a python. With loudly beating heart and clammy palms I witnessed the grim tragedy: the serpent had devoured good old Bob! This story obsessed me for a long time. The mere idea of being swallowed alive was enough to make my blood run cold; but I should have been less shaken if I had disliked the victim. Bob's frightful death made nonsense of all the rules of life: it was obvious, now, that anything could happen.
(50-52)
* Translated from the french by James Kirkup.
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5:43 PM
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Pic of a Pic of My Favorite House
Of the three red houses we lived in (always red: most houses then were variations on gray or white, but my dad favored this brick-red, yeah :) while I was growing up, this one was my favorite. Hardwood flooring, a beautifully made dwelling. It was located a couple of blocks off Lake Avenue, near Kodak Park (Rochester, NY). Well, one year Kodak Company came through the neighborhood and bought everyone out. At first people did not want to sell, and several held out--these were all well made-houses--but first one, then another owner sold. Then finally the hold-outs had to give in. We were some of the last to go. Kodak quickly tore and flattened that spanse to make way for a parking lot (Joni Mitchell: so true!!). It was a great loss to see that house and the others go, to see the vibrant humanity of it flattened to asphalt and white stripes.
Now, this picture of a picture is all that's left of a very beautiful house full of warm and wrangly homelife. So, here I am, scrapbooking it to tex for myself, even if it's not a very well made photo (I'm not so good at taking pics of pics--sorry!!).
Y'all: keep on.
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5:31 PM
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Students in my writing course are just starting to read Araki Yasusada/Kent Johnson's Doubled Flowering. This should be lots of fun, eh?
: )
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5:01 PM
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Rest in Peace,
Mrs. Coretta Scott King.
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10:53 AM
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Monday, January 30, 2006
Driving across New York state, outside Rochester, toward Syracuse, January 7, 2006.
Worked on this one a little by adding color to the sky.
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12:59 PM
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off to the doctor soon
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12:55 PM
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Sunday, January 29, 2006
A lovely dinner with dottir Heather in Dallas (thank you, baby!!).
But things got a little wierd afterward. We were musing about some interesting items she displays in her urban industrial loft, along with a couple Dali and Miro prints acquired in Barcelona a couple years ago.
One item is a full blown, spikes-extended, dried (or drama-frozen en-medias-ras) pufferfish (about 4 inches in diameter, so rather large, I guess, for puffers) that I had found and got for her from a shell shop on Coronado Island, CA, last October when we were visiting for an MCRD event. Beautiful puffer. (I also got some abalone earrings and a bunny made of teensy shells). We were trying to tie a string around the pufferfish and hang it from a lamp, that extends from the 12 ft ceiling of exposed pipes and H&AC ducts. It fell onto a table, a foot away from my hand. Several spike tips flew off: embedding themselves directly into our hands! One, about a quarter inch long, landed deep into the knuckle of my left forefinger. Tiny puncture wound from it, and a spattering of shorter (tinier: less than an eighth of an inch), more superficial piece-wounds. Carefully pulled the litte spine tips out, the longer one being a little difficult to remove intact, though I was sure I got it all. Then poured rubbing alcohol on cleaned thoroughly, soaking in warm water. Alas: woke up today with a swollen, very stiff and painful knuckle and finger, and the other lesser cuts now weepy, as in allergic reaction. Heather had a sore skin reaction, too. I've something of a fever tonight. It may be something they treated the hapless pufferfish with, of course, but who knows...
wow, Pufferfish!!!--formiddable beyond the infamous internal toxins (their poisons are not delivered through their spikes, but when they are ingested, or so I am surmising after doing a little research) !
Needless to say, I'm off to the doctor tomorrow for a tetnus booster and perhaps some antibiotics (I almost never take anything, but this seems warranted) for what looks to be a combination of allergic reaction and impending infection of the knuckle joint. Can barely move my finger :(
How weird is this?--one of those manifestations in physics of chaos theory, so unlikely that, if you tried to reinact the circumstances and achieve the same effect, it would be near impossible odds. And anyway, I would definitely have moved my hand out of the vicinity. Ouch.
Puncture wound from severed, flying, pufferfish spikes! Yikes!
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