On a Sunday in January of 2004, Sally, Darryl and I were in
Buenos Aires and decided to go to the very popular street
market in Boca. As I was walking through the stalls, I met a
woman selling batik hangings. I particularly liked the one
featuring the pattern at left. You can't tell it from the photo,
but it's mostly teal in color.
Darryl asked me what it was, and I replied that it looked like
a couple of fish. Sally said they looked like bats. No
consensus was reached, so they were dubbed batfish.
Awhile back, I was lying in bed one night and thinking--for
some unknown reason--that I needed to give MattIsch.com
some kind of identifying symbol--a logo, if you will. The
batfish batik hanging over the bed filled the bill precisely.
Since I had been called "Bat Fish" by clever
second-graders since the early 1960's, it also had a bit of
personal cache.
Thus, A logo was born. Since I can't really decide if this is
two batfish or one batfish with two heads, I've declared
"batfish" to be both singular and plural.
Now you know.
Buenos Aires and decided to go to the very popular street
market in Boca. As I was walking through the stalls, I met a
woman selling batik hangings. I particularly liked the one
featuring the pattern at left. You can't tell it from the photo,
but it's mostly teal in color.
Darryl asked me what it was, and I replied that it looked like
a couple of fish. Sally said they looked like bats. No
consensus was reached, so they were dubbed batfish.
Awhile back, I was lying in bed one night and thinking--for
some unknown reason--that I needed to give MattIsch.com
some kind of identifying symbol--a logo, if you will. The
batfish batik hanging over the bed filled the bill precisely.
Since I had been called "Bat Fish" by clever
second-graders since the early 1960's, it also had a bit of
personal cache.
Thus, A logo was born. Since I can't really decide if this is
two batfish or one batfish with two heads, I've declared
"batfish" to be both singular and plural.
Now you know.
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