I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Ahhhh, fishing on the Hudson.
Shizzam! I'm glad you didn't get any fish out of that river. You then probably would have been tempted to eat the damn thing. You would then glow in the dark, mutate and stop making sense.
Remember, the solution to pollution is dilution!
Ok, there are plenty of fish in the Hudson (despite the pollution) and plenty of types of fish, so I have to ask:
*Where* exactly on the Hudson were you fishing?
What the fuck were you doing fishing in the Hudson in the middle of winter?
I am assuming you knew enough not to eat what you caught.
Well, while you were gone you were voted "Most popular daily read" by readers of Left I on the News
I wasn't fishing. just a joke.
Send me the exact SAME PRICE you paid that scam artist (plus $100.00 s/h), and I GUARANTEE you fishes from the Hudson. You're too good a man to pass this offer up.
Stripers in season are a lot of fun, should you ever wish to to actually fish the Hudson.
But on another note, I assume you were interviewing for commentators spot? is your tongue as agile as your fingers? (WAIT That sounds BAAAD!... you know what I mean....)
If you weren't, you should be.
When I read earlier in the day on the Reuters site that they had issued a new terror alert for NYC, I knew something was afoot -- Homeland Security must have been tracking Atrios' fishing expedition.
But really, fishing this time of year -- come when the shad are running. Sadly, you DID miss the highlight of the season, Justin Ferrate's(NYC's best guide & prof of architectural history at Cooper Union)
tour of "The Spectacular Christmas Lights of Brooklyn." It's a fabulous journey into the surreal, completely over-the-top heart of the holiday season in Dyker Heights (in the shadow of the Verrazano Bridge, think Saturday Night Fever's Bay Ridge).
As to making enough to live here in style, hardly anyone does -- we all fake it, but love this burg more than anyone can imagine.
no radio job for me. just saying hello.
...well, by "style" i mean affording a modest two bedroom apartment in a reasonable location.
AND I THOUGHT YOU WERE A SAVVY GUY.
makes me think of rick's line in casablanca when asked what caused him to be in that city.
clearly, you were badly informed and failed to study the situation.
i think that stripers have returned to the hudson. and i hear reports that shad runs have returned. but these could be urban legends.
if you like freshwater fishing and want to catch fish, here are your options...
atlantic salmon on the kola peninsula
pacific salmon, grayling in alaska
peacock bass in venezuela
trout in argentina
but thinking that you would catch fish in the hudson, that makes me think that you are a candidate for diapers soon.
maybe you were just looking for an excuse to get to manhattan.
that must be it. because there is no desirable fishing in the hudson. and there hasn't been for more than 30 years.
anybody home up there?
My least favorite hated fish would have to be sole. That way you don't have to see the eyes.
Sole has no eyes.
Stripers and shad are indeed back ... they’re anamadrous fish, so no PCB problem there (GE likes to pretend that since that's not a problem, there's no PCB problem. Never mind the effect on the native fish, which still haven't recovered).
Record run of Spring Chinook" salmon forcast for the Columbia River (Oregon) - I have a brand new boat and would be honored to show how it's done out here. You fill my days with hope for change; seriously - I'd love to thank you.
Fishing is evil.
Little bit of heaven, 94.7, KMET, tweedlee.
Dman, Atrios, next time you're in NYC, drop me a line!
you know Atrios - I would have liked to have known you were local. You can live on the Jersey side for a fraction of what it costs to LIVE in NYC And you have access to ferries AND you actually CAN fish in the Shrewsbury. If I'd known you were coming and all that.....
No fish? cat is crushed. Actually the easiest way to get fresh fish in NYC is to stop at Citarella on Broadway at 75th (next to Fairway). I have to stop now, I'm making myself homesick. Hope you had a nice trip, welcome back.
Radio waves, radio waves
AM radio waves, FM radio waves
Radio waves, mind-numbing radio waves
Fish-stunning radio waves
Radio waves.
"Riverkeeper" by John Cronin and RFK Jr for the wisdom of fishing the Hudson. Bush will tell you that certain levels of PCBs are good for you...
manhattan is a great visit, but live there? not til i win a lottery.
Well, if fishing in the largest Superfund site doesn't do it for ya, I can set you up with spelunking in Nevada's nuclear testing area...
And I only occasionally went into town
To stock up on antibiotics
And shells for the shotgun that I kept around
Nice Roger Waters homage!
...ahhh, the Apple... THE most exciting place in the known universe. A bit stressful, though...
There is definitely something fishy about this post 
Atrios, did you get to fish in sight of Nyack, my home town? Wonderful place.
Come to Detroit! We'll put you up in a cabin on exotic Zug Island--you can go ice fishing for carp on the scenic Rouge River . . .
I've lived over the lowest reaches of the Hudson for 2 years now, people don't fish here.
People do fish on the other side of Manhattan, though, in the East River.
Def Rimjob,
For some reason, I read the first line of your post as 'Strippers in season are a lot of fun...'
More coffee...
There are actually poor people all the way up the river who fish it for food, and there’s some concern that NYSDEC doesn’t do enough to communicate the warnings to them (that you should only eat one river fish a month, and even that’s too much for pregnant women and children).
Did you stalk Sully?
Love is a burning thing after all.
"and no red snapper"
I don't see that anyone else picked up on th is, and although I haven't listened to it for about a year, I did listen to KAOS for the entire 1000 mile trip from Berkshires to Milwaukee when it first came out and believe that to be a direct quote.
Please confirm.
Thanks
A fan
Beware of satilite radio. I was considering purchasing a system for Christmas. I've read that the comapnies have a ton a red ink and, the FCC approved a law that will allow commercial radio to transmit in
in the Digital format. I wanted tobe able to listen to something other than my local hate radio station for news.
You can fish in the Hudson, and people do it all the time. But if you want to eat the fish, go to Sheepshead Bay and fish there.
As far as living in Manhattan, people do it all the time, even if the rents are high. There are more expensive, less interesting places to live. One can live in the boroughs for about half the price of a below 96th St Manhattan apartment. Or you can live with the negroes and puerto ricans
Can you swing 1000 a month for a big 2 bedroom in Washington Hts?
Did you fish from the Brooklyn Bridge? I could sell you a spot.
Clever Roger Waters reference there.
Anyone for the halli-butt plug?
I've listened to Michelangelo Signorile's radio show every day for about 8 months now, as soon as I found out about it. I'm not sure you'd necessarily have to be gay to like his show, a lot of it is liberal politics in general. Anyway, the gay-oriented discussions should appeal to anyone who cares about civil rights and equality.
I hope the poor guy doesn't have to work in one of the closet-sized studios!
...well, by "style" i mean affording a modest two bedroom apartment in a reasonable location.
I'm a former resident of Center City Philly (which is where I suspect Atrios World Headquarters is currently located) who moved to NYC 18 years ago...and was immediately hit by sticker shock in housing prices. I managed to survive by immediately forgetting any idea of living in trendy areas of Manhattan, and striking out for the wilds of Upper Manhattan, aka Washington Heights/Inwood. Yeah, it's a 25 minute ride on the subway to Midtown, and longer to Downtown, but at least we have two lines serving the area.
The problem now is, however, we've been discovered as the next Hot New Neighborhood. Rents for modest 2 bedroom apts. are now running around $1500. I'm lucky...after years of throwing my money at landlords who resent having to fix or maintain anything, I bought a co-op apt. in 1997 when the prices were still low due to the collapse of the co-op market in the late 80s-early 90s. Since then, prices for apts. like mine have sextupled. For a nice-sized 2 bedroom, I'm paying just over $1000/mo. in housing costs (mortgage and maintenence), though the maintenence in this building may go up for the first time in 16 years due to Mayor Mike's 18% property tax increases and a steep jump in post-9/11 insurance costs.
Good for you, monchie.
Much sympathy for your gentrification story. I lived in NYC for most of my life, & this has happened to me three times (Tribeca, East Village & Greenpoint). Now I live in the Catskills, where the fishing is excellent
Fishing on the Hudson in December...maybe you were fishing for the "invisible goldfish" the inventer of Sea Monkeys used to sell?
Be nice if Sirius radio's streaming format was something other then Windows Media...like say, Real Player, so those of us who ocassionally boot up an alternative OS could listen to it...
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