Sunday, January 29, 2006

Big Fish!!!

A Sunday afternoon stroll with JD allowed us to stumble upon all sorts of bizarre and unknown gastronomical finds. This big fish? He can be found somewhere between Calle Hortaleza in the city's finest gay neighborhood, Chueca, and Calle Conde de Austrias in the old Hapsburg quarter.
Another random day of photography in this crazy city.
By the way, you can't tell from the photo but this creature's mouth could easily fit a small child in it and them some. The white object pertruding from its gaping frozen jaws is indeed its tongue despite the fact that it appears to be another fish (this was Mike's original comment upon seeing this image). The tongue itself? It has, naturally(?), hundreds of tiny little teeth on it. Shocking? Yes. Hideous? Absolutely. I looked at it, amazed, for several minutes.

12 Comments:

Blogger Fernando Velásquez said...

That's my cousin Tito, who was reported missing a week ago. Thank God you found him! I'm gonna call his mom right now. Don't you think we look a lot alike? God bless your holy soul!

5:25 PM  
Blogger Michael K. said...

Now you can all understand why Patty was attracted to me in the first place, since it seems that she's already predisposed to stare in dumb amazement and fascination at appalling spectacles - or even to take pictures of them.

By the way, Patty, my operation is scheduled for next Tuesday, at 8 am. There's nothing like having teeth on your tongue! Man, are you gonna love it! ;)

10:11 PM  
Blogger Michael K. said...

It just occurred to me:

Why don't you use this as your profile picture?

10:28 PM  
Blogger Patty said...

Glad I found your long lost cousin Nando!!! Yes, I thought that big fish looked peruvian...;)

And Mike, yes you're right I should use this for my profile picture...if I can figure out how to size it down. Or, maybe I'll just wait for the perfect gitano- trani-hooker shot! Believe me, they're around...

I honestly think that if this fish just licked you, you would die. It had jaws on its tongue!!! EEEgad!

2:19 AM  
Blogger Nicholas Theisen said...

I kinda thought it looked like Mike, but I didn't want to be the first to say anything, cuz, honestly, his teetch scare me.

6:01 AM  
Blogger Mass Death Momma said...

Glad to see your research is coming along.

7:27 AM  
Blogger Andreea said...

Mike: are you having tooth implants done on your tongue next Tuesday or is it something more serious?

8:58 AM  
Blogger Michael K. said...

Yes, Romania, it's purely cosmetic tongue augmentation surgery. Routine procedure: nothing to worry about.

9:02 AM  
Blogger Biddy said...

I LOOOOVE giant fish. I just showed that picture to White Kitty who purred and showed me her belly. Mike, when your tongue has healed you'll have to come over so White Kitty can meet something with a scratchier tongue than herself.

I hope such sideshow delights are in season in June-El Chinchilla and I bought our tickets to come see you yesterday!

6:52 PM  
Blogger Andreea said...

quick question, unrelated: did Patty or Jon put up Collin´s blog? It´s fantastic: the remarks are witty, the photographs can easily be described as innovative works of art! Keep it up, Collin!! :D

1:48 PM  
Blogger Andreea said...

Patricinha, you're killing me! Post something, anything, pleeeeeeaseeeee...

7:51 PM  
Blogger megan saltzman said...

patty i think i saw the same exact fish 3 years ago in madrid. it might be made out of wax...

will you take a picture of the african dust sky i'm reading about in madrid? it's supposed to last 24 more hours.

xoxo

1:53 PM  

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