The Ultimate Internal BS Destroyer
Posted on April 11th, 2012
The thing I like to read when the alibis and distractions start piling up. –Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth
Tagged: Bukowski
The thing I like to read when the alibis and distractions start piling up. –Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth
Tagged: Bukowski
Pulp Fly, coming to a kindle, pad, tablet or miscellaneous near you. April 1st. Roll Call: Bartholdt, Ralph Cerveniak, Alex Dunn, Matt Ebanks, Davin Gracie, Michael Landeen, Alex Me Smithhammer, Bruce Smythe, Matt Stromness, Bjorn White, Bob
Tagged: fly-fishing literature, Pulp Fly
Marquesa is a book penned well before the existence of blogs, but it is the type of published work every fly fishing blogger wishes he’d written. Author Jeffrey Cardena’s account of his solitary venture by houseboat in the Marquesas Keys, an atoll sitting 30 miles west of Key West, is as compelling a first person fishing narrative as you’ll read. Cardenas was, and still is, a well-regarded Keys fishing guide, but his words are not confined to that world. He writes without pretense, in a natural voice that perfectly reflects his sheer joy and wonderment from being immersed in this wilderness with tarpon, permit, sharks and even cassiopea. He limits his descriptions of the actual fly fishing–a very good thing–and when he does talk about it…
Tagged: book review, Departure Publishing, Jeffrey Cadenas, Key West, Marquesa, permit, tarpon
If you work or live in Manhattan, stop by the Orvis Store on 44th and 5th. I’ll be signing copies of The Blitz: Fly Fishing The Atlantic Migration starting at noon. Feats of Strength start at 12:15.
Tagged: book signings, Departure Publishing, New York City, Orvis, the blitz
The Camp-site Sports Shop in Huntington, NY, carries The Blitz. Atlantic Outfitters in Port Washington, NY, carries The Blitz. We support them anyhow but are glad they’re carrying.
We got a video. We’s bona fide. The Blitz: Fly Fishing The Atlantic Migration
Tagged: Departure Publishing, Fly Fishing Book, the blitz
Or, rather than commit contest fraud, have your actual kids enter the ongoing Fishy Kid Writing Contest. You have to be 17 or under to participate. John Kennedy Toole wrote his first novel at 16, so get on it. The contest runs through May 31st.
I stopped subscribing to the New Yorker a few years ago, mostly as a time saving measure. My Dad still gets it. He cuts out articles from newspapers and magazines that I might like and mails them to me, and this week he clipped a New Yorker essay by John McPhee about fly fishing for pickerel. I could read anything by McPhee, even his 700-page opus about geology, but particularly his essays on fishing. Here’s a bit of his description of pickerel: This family–Esocidae–is not popular with aesthetes, with people who torture trout. Put a pickerel in a pond full of trout, and before long all that’s in there is a larger pickerel. There are people who hunt pickerel with shotguns. In Vermont, that…
Tagged: john mcphee, New Yorker, wordsmiths
Read a book 6,372 times in a year and minor details creep into your subconscious, fostering questions. How come you don’t say goodnight to the fly fishing rabbit? Why is the rabbit holding the net in mid cast? Why is he fishing for another rabbit? Is the illustrator promoting cannibalism? Pointless research reveals it is shameless self promotion. The fly fishing rabbit painting in Goodnight Moon is from a scene in another book by the author and illustrator, Runaway Bunny. Either way, I need to get out more.
Tagged: Goodnight Moon, Runaway Bunny, winter hiatus reading