As you may have noticed, the Blogthing has been on temporary hiatus as we get to the home stretch of the three-day workweek holiday season. Back soon.
In the meantime, please enjoy this extremely entertaining and seasonal video. They say it’s been floating around for a while, but it’s new to me. Maybe it’s new to you, too.
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This article appears in People of the Crab.
I’ll check out the video later, but wanted to say props to whoever took the cover photo on this week’s NCJ. It’s awesome.
~Monica~
That was our own Heidi Walters. She’ll be delighted to receive props from a pro such as yourself.
Talk about a guilty pleasure! Very funny and thank you.
Thanks Monica!
Same kudos from over here. Great story on the crabbers. Although, I was waiting for you to board one of the boats…but, you may have been upchucking for days.
Really good read.
Thanks Ekovox.
OK, here’s my sad crab boat story. I had the idea to go out on a boat — found a nice captain up in Trinidad willing to take a highly potential puker aboard — but then in the days leading up to the big adventure I quietly whined to various coworkers about how I:
a) always got seasick as a kid when I went deep-sea fishing with my Grandpa out of Crescent City (it helped that he offered susceptible people slug sandwiches at their greenest moment),
b) I’m pretty scared of the ocean anyway, and
c) I might be allergic to crab and what would I do if I went into crab-fume-induced anaphylactic shock out there an hour from shore?
I was just dialing up my doctor to see if I could get an EpiPen, some serious seasick meds and maybe a giant plastic bubble wrapped in neoprene and floats, when our office manager informed me calm-faced that I could not go out on a boat because if I died out there on the water the paper would go down with me. Sunk by insurance, not sentiment, mind you.
Too bad. Dangit. Whew.
Happily, though, the T-S’s John Driscoll did go out on a boat for his Seasons on the Sea series.