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Mark

BAN BOTTOM TRAWLING!!!!

About Me

Saving the ocean one lap at a time.

My Interests

Roasts, making bread, plating food, leaving things to the last minute, boycotting the internet, being poor, finding recipes that use juniper berries

I'd like to meet:

Half human half squid, all action...also people who want to give me a Carcass t-shirt.....Richard Ellis.

Music:

Im out of touch....

Movies:

That Werner Herzog film "Heart of glass" where everyone in the cast is hypnotized. That was really weird. Bavaria, weird place. Good bread.

Television:

CBC! what the fuck. I cant' stop watching Degrassi

Books:

The search for the giant squid, Moby Dick, Mapping the Deep, Australian Women's Weekly Cookbooks, If Chins Could Talk, LOTR, Robert E. Howard, Fritz Leiber, Huxley, Anything by HP Lovecraft, Hellboy, B.P.R.D., The Coffin, The Authority, The Watchmen, Wildlife Encyclopedias, Eyewitness Books, Where's Waldo, Touching from a Distance, The Great and Secret Show, Into Thin Air, trash fantasy, Resume with monsters, Stranger in a strange land, Childhood's end, Choose your own adventure...

Heroes:

Tom Savini, Evil Knievel, Reinhold Messner

My Blog

Im showing artwork at this show....

the ypf presentsClustersExhibition Jan 14th to Feb 2nd at nota bene* galerie (3416 avenue du parc)Vernissage Sat. Jan 20th 1 pm-4:30 pmA exhibition of works of intimate scale presented in sprawling di...
Posted by Mark on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:26:00 PST

2007....

What the fuck is going on with the ocean. I've been neglecting updates on the world of the ocean. Man! things are bad out there.... Updates on the way.    ...
Posted by Mark on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 02:32:00 PST

Human faced fish!!!!

One of two 19-year-old fish with human-like facial features in Chongju, about 140 km (88 miles) south of Seoul on January 10, 2005. The hybrid species fish were born between a carp and a leather car...
Posted by Mark on Wed, 04 Jan 2006 12:08:00 PST

Revenge of the Fished

Fish spears man in eye and pierces brain November 24, 2005 FISHERMAN Adnan Walid, 39, died after a swordfish leapt out of the water and stabbed him in the eye. --HARIAN METRO Mr...
Posted by Mark on Fri, 25 Nov 2005 12:50:00 PST

Swarm Swarm Swarm!!!!

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2 005/02/27/SPG47BHNTB1.DTL They came from beneath the sea Just like in 1930: Giant squid invade Bay Area by the millions For years as ...
Posted by Mark on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Bad Ocean News

http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050211-043019-6762 r.htm Miami, FL, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- Predatory fish populations in the North Atlantic have decreased 90 percent in the past 40 to 50 years, ...
Posted by Mark on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Good News Ocean

Council votes to restrict bottom trawling in Aleutian Islands By ELIZABETH M. GILLESPIE ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER SEATTLE -- In a move to protect deep-sea coral beds and other sensitive fish ha...
Posted by Mark on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Catfish eats dog...

http://www.underwatertimes.com/stories/top_2004_weird.htm
Posted by Mark on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Time for a Time Out on High Seas Bottom Trawling

http://takeaction.oceana.org/campaign/highseastrawling
Posted by Mark on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST