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March 26, 2007
The Vampire Squid From Hell
That's what Sigourney Weaver called one of the deep sea creatures featured on Planet Earth last night. The show looked pretty bitchin' on our bitchin' plasma! I love shows like this, except when they show baby elephants getting eaten. I realize they want to show the animals in their natural habitat and all, but I think it would make for better TV if they shot one of the lions in the ass - not to kill it, just to injure it some. It would confuse all the other animals and add to the drama of the whole hunter/hunted thing.
My favorite part is the deep sea stuff - where things glow, dance and act all weird and sketchy - kinda like an underwater circuit party.
That's where I got my first look at the monkfish. Won't be eating that ever again. Have you seen what these things look like? Check this photo out - and no, that's not from happy hour at Cobalt - it's monkfish! I'm pretty sure The Ssssecret says, "If you eat ugly things, you will eventually become hideous." Which reminds me - next time some foodie snob says, "I'll have the Chilean Sea Bass," you say, "It's actually called the Patagonian Toothfish, you pretentious fuck! Chilean Sea Bass is some made up marketing name. It is neither Chilean, nor Sea Bass, mmm'kay?" Again, this will keep the conversation lively.
And I hope during my next lifetime, I don't get reincarnated as an isopod. I fear that will happen though, as my punishment for certain things. :(
And what does Clickboo think about monkfish and isopods? Find out here!
Posted by durban bud at March 26, 2007 10:23 PM
Comments
What? Sigourney Weaver is the narrator? Now I have to see this. Does your TiVo record in hi def?
Isopods are nasty. There's a parasitic kind that lodges in the gills of helpless fish and chews on their gills while they're alive.
Posted by: jimbo at March 27, 2007 02:37 AM
Yeah, that Planet Earth show was great. HD is the ultimate in TV viewing pleasure.
My man and I watched it on my bitchin new LCD, and were quite taken with the amazing quality of the whole thing..
Sigourney is a great host.
Your blog is awesome.
Posted by: Jeremy at March 27, 2007 03:30 AM
No breakfast for me after seeing that monkfish. I dont remember why, but it seems like this isnt the first time Ive said "No DB before breakfast."
And can I please be sitting beside you when you say, "Its actually called the Patagonian Toothfish, you pretentious fuck!" That sounds kind of fun.
Posted by: Long Story Longer at March 27, 2007 07:18 AM
Aye. Planet Earth was great...even gooder on the Plasma widescreen. We watched on that also.
Thanks for the monkfish pic. I feel sick now. Also called "frogfish" or "Seadevil". Yummy.
Posted by: Mike at March 27, 2007 07:53 AM
I think I want to visit this place 'Cobalt'...
Posted by: cb at March 27, 2007 08:55 AM
Dude, your blog is like so educational. I am smarter everytime I reed it!!
Posted by: homer at March 27, 2007 09:16 AM
I love that show! It's really awesome.
Posted by: patrick at March 27, 2007 10:04 AM
You don't want to come back as a sea-slug, either. Or maybe you do. They're hermaphroditic, and have a "penis battle" to see who gets to be the top. A quote from a sea slug site:
"Like nudibranchs, marine flatworms are hermaphrodites and it's possible that the wound near the top, right-hand end of this individual is from mating, since many species mate by inserting their penis into any part of their partner's body; wherever the sperm ends up, it migrates to the animal's ovaries where fertilization happens."
I do sorta like the part about "inserting their penis into any part of their partner's body ..."
Posted by: Raybob at March 27, 2007 11:06 AM
That's why I stick to safe seafood like scientifically engineered tilapia.
Posted by: Stephen at March 27, 2007 02:33 PM
First I don't eat anything that swims with my poop! I thought monk fish-which I just saw on the food network and fucking ugly-was called poor mans lobster. I heard that crabs are related to spiders-I hate spiders! Isopods are the cockroaches of the sea-um, does that come packed in water or oil?
Posted by: joey at March 27, 2007 09:30 PM
Omg, thats what a Monkfish looks like? I never knew. Not very apetizing. I've been eating Monkfish for years but I may stop now. I once saw one of those suckers while snorkeling in Puerto Rico many years ago. I thought I had stumbled upon some missing link fish from prehistoric times.
Posted by: Robocub at April 10, 2007 02:20 PM
i love this animals an it is bad that we are detroying them i love there lits an every thing else so stop p0lluting
Posted by: ashantiest at April 19, 2007 09:01 AM