| 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. |
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| The Legend of the Batfish |