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Mr. Mackerel takes the stage

Mr Mackerel's Tribulation

Mice are better than rats? I do not think you can make that kind of distinction!

Hello, I’m Mr. Mackerel. I’m not a fish. I’ve been told I can pass for a fish, which is not a nice thing to say unless you’d consider dating a fish or have it polish your shoes. It turns out most people wouldn’t date a fish.

I like fish.

Yesterday I tied knots in a rainbow and it seemed to work for a while. Tell me, is it inadvisable to stand twitching and sizzling in the sun though you feel like you’re accomplishing the impossible? A young girl in pyjamas passed me by and told me I looked like a musician. I didn’t reply, because I was too busy pondering how nice it would be if there was a band of musicians called the Brotherhood of Nothing, and I could knight those melody carriers I thought fit to be part of the brotherhood, cheerfully hailing them as guardians of the people immersed. Crane birds, do they signify that such a thing is possible? They might as well!

Mr. Mackerel needs a nap. I am going to call it a French nap. It sounds better.

My thanks to “Admin”, who is going to give the reigns of this blog to me (Ed: for the most part). I like washed lettuce! It feels like limp pages of cracked paper! Candy for the ex-shoe polisher? I must assume that tomorrow I will wake up as myself once more.

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2 comments for “Mr. Mackerel takes the stage”

  1. I do know that mice are revered and sacred in India!
    http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/andy_jillian/globetrotters/1102725000/tpod.html

    As for fish… Turkey may find them holy-ish, but in Japan there’ve been koi (just pretty, massive goldfish) that are bought for over $100,000. Here is what is valued in pricey Koi: http://www.akca.org/library/tategoi3.htm and here… I learned even the beautiful Koi are susceptible to herpes. http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/pfk/pages/item.php?news=849 And it’s PRACTICAL, Mr. Mackerel.

    Posted by AnnaNo Gravatar | September 4, 2008, 5:55 am
  2. Those aren’t mice, they’re rats! Woe, we have encountered the mice/rats distinction we so desperately sought to evade.

    Herpes in fish, this worries me Anna. As you know I’m not a fish, but when goldfish get a disease such as herpes, something is UP UP UP AND AWAY.

    I imagine a Black Koi rewrite of the book Black Tulip, a quest for the black version of an extremely popular and madly prized organism. “He pressed the offspring against his chest, so as to protect them.” Something like that.

    Yours truly,
    Macky

    Posted by Mr. MackerelNo Gravatar | September 4, 2008, 10:38 pm

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