Another martini evening. A gathering of good friends in a lounge on Avenue B. Joey's birthday. A kind of cool place, with exposed brick, tons of candles, and old comfy arm chairs and couches. Unfortunatley, it was also a bit chilly, so we all sat there in our scarves and gloves.
Martinis.
Somehow we all discovered, collectively (please do not ask me how) that - as children - we all feared the coelacanth.
What a random thing.
Somehow, the coelacanth came up - and Liz said, off-handedly, "God, that fish haunted me as a child."
It spread like wildfire.
"Me too!"
"God, me too! I used to have nightmares about the coelacanth!"
We were roaring with laughter and chattering like crazy about the coelacanth.
"What IS it?? Why is it so scary?"
"Didn't they just find one recently?"
"It just is the scariest fish to me - I don't know why ..."
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I found it so humorous: A big Italian guy with pinky rings and a tough New York accent, saying seriously, in this kind of "No kidding" way: "I used to have nightmares about that fish."
HAHA!
Posted by sheilaHmmm...can't say they ever bothered me. Or that they really ever came up at all. Ha, don't even try, coelacanth, DON'T EVEN TRY! :-p
Posted by: Dave J at April 4, 2004 7:52 PM"a lounge on Avenue B. Joey's birthday. A kind of cool place, with exposed brick, tons of candles, and old comfy arm chairs and couches."
My guess is The Musical Box?
Posted by: Rob A. at April 5, 2004 8:04 AMRob A - Nope!!
This place doesn't even have a sign outside. You can barely tell it is there.
Any other guesses?
Posted by: red at April 5, 2004 10:32 AMDave J:
" Or that they really ever came up at all. "
HA HA
So true. Like : why the hell would that prehistoric fish come up at all? I don't know. But it did. And we found a collective bond of fear amongst us.
Posted by: red at April 5, 2004 10:44 AM