Comments on: The Trans-Pecos: fried chicken and freshwater sharks

By: Martin Kohout

Martin Kohout — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:15:30 +0000

Uh… Ginny? It was a joke?

By: Ginny Burnett

Ginny Burnett — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:03:48 +0000

You know I hate being a crank (oh, HOW I hate it), but instead of freshwater sharks, don’t you mean that Balmorhea has its own breed of rare pupfish? (You must have confused this with the entry you wrote about Lake Nicaragua–freshwater sharks there!) I vividly recall a long-ago NPR report about the Balmorhea pupfish. I also recall the little girl who went with her family on that reporting trip, whose tiny toes the pupfish nipped. Had they actually been freshwater sharks, the toe nipping would have been a little less endearing–though probably more memorable!

By: H the Cat

H the Cat — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:41:38 +0000

Martin, Today’s offering is wonderful, a multi-laugh-out-louder. You all don’t have anything on me, by the way. In spite of having spent most of my childhood summers in Brewster County, I have never even been close to the park. I’ve never even been to Marfa ! What a cultural loser! Henry