it's a bleak, cold, snowy saint patrick's day, the kind that makes everyone go to the bar, get drunk, and let the bullshit run. i'll do that last while avoiding the first. i'm 1/365 irish and my wife is part irish so i consider myself lucky, and also have a little rebellious orange irish on my mom's side, where a wallace married a young fisherman's daughter and lived in northern ireland for over twenty years, before coming to maryland.
in chicago they dyed the river bright green like they always do, on the saturday before saint patty's day, and it's a big drinking event, bars are full all up and down the river and the loop for all of saturday and well into sunday. but this year they saw a shark in the water and people got seriously wigged out about it. a shark in the chicago river - aren't those sharks supposed to be in salt water only? i want to point out that, since that river originally went down to the mississippi, but they dredged a canal to connect it to lake michigan so that boats could go from the great lakes to new orleans and back, that canal upset our understanding of which way the water actually goes. we can guess that it still by and large goes toward the mississippi. but right up there near chicago, does it still flow down to new orleans? does it drain the lake or lakes, or fill them up? it's not clear to me at all.
but it was clear, after a bit of hoo-hah, that the shark was a moviemaker's stunt to publicize some movie about sharks, and wasn't real; he'd made a contraption with a fin, and stuck it in the river just at the right time when it was turning bright green. he apparently was very clever and it looked like a shark; it fooled everyone, or at least, a lot of people. and keep in mind, the alcohol was on his side, in this incident. they thought they saw a shark.
As for me, no river, no bright green, no lake, no shark. we could go over to the mississippi itself and see if any of that dye made its way down the river, but i kind of doubt it. and there's been a lot of snow and rain to wash it away in any case.
no alcohol for me either, just coffee, one cup after another. a book almost done. snow melting, slowly but surely, and getting warmer, almost imperceptably, if that's a word. chao
in chicago they dyed the river bright green like they always do, on the saturday before saint patty's day, and it's a big drinking event, bars are full all up and down the river and the loop for all of saturday and well into sunday. but this year they saw a shark in the water and people got seriously wigged out about it. a shark in the chicago river - aren't those sharks supposed to be in salt water only? i want to point out that, since that river originally went down to the mississippi, but they dredged a canal to connect it to lake michigan so that boats could go from the great lakes to new orleans and back, that canal upset our understanding of which way the water actually goes. we can guess that it still by and large goes toward the mississippi. but right up there near chicago, does it still flow down to new orleans? does it drain the lake or lakes, or fill them up? it's not clear to me at all.
but it was clear, after a bit of hoo-hah, that the shark was a moviemaker's stunt to publicize some movie about sharks, and wasn't real; he'd made a contraption with a fin, and stuck it in the river just at the right time when it was turning bright green. he apparently was very clever and it looked like a shark; it fooled everyone, or at least, a lot of people. and keep in mind, the alcohol was on his side, in this incident. they thought they saw a shark.
As for me, no river, no bright green, no lake, no shark. we could go over to the mississippi itself and see if any of that dye made its way down the river, but i kind of doubt it. and there's been a lot of snow and rain to wash it away in any case.
no alcohol for me either, just coffee, one cup after another. a book almost done. snow melting, slowly but surely, and getting warmer, almost imperceptably, if that's a word. chao
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