Saturday, June 29, 2019

Wedding Ring Found on Fish (2019)



WMAQ-TV [Chicago]
24 June 2019

A Fish Tale With A Wedding Ring To It

A group of suburban friends went out fishing on a boat Friday morning just north of Waukegan when they caught a fish with a wedding band attached to its tail. […] [Jason] Rose lives in Newaygo, Michigan, and said that on May 4, the divorced charter boat captain got the idea to set his old wedding band free on the tail of a fish. […] [Jim] Nelligan says the fish was in good health when he and his friends caught it seven weeks later about a hundred miles away. However, neither man seems to want to keep the ring—Nelligan says he’s been encountering boat problems since the minute he brought the ring on board, and Rose says “life’s been going pretty good for (the) last month” without the ring. […]

Chicago Sun-Times
24 June 2019
The Steelhead and the Wedding Ring: The Beginning From Love Lost


Friday, June 28, 2019

Letter to the Department of Internal Revenue (1967)


Other Scenes (New York City), vol. 1, no. 6, April 1967, p. 3. A long variant of “The Debtor’s Letter,” in which a man details his lifelong hardships. “I am replying to your letter in which you itemize the varying amounts I am alleged to owe your department and I am interested in your observation that you are in a position to make life difficult for me.”


Thursday, June 27, 2019

Swallowing Insects & Spiders While Asleep



Jeff Corriveau, Deflocked, 27 June 2019. “I just read this awful article that says bugs crawl into our mouths while we sleep.” 1 of 3 panels.



The Sisters Brothers (Jacques Audiard, 2018). After a spider enters the mouth of a man (played by John. C. Reilly) sleeping outside, he becomes sick and feverish. (In the 2011 novel by Patrick DeWitt, the spider crawls into his boot and bites his toe.)