His kids were on that beach, too, in 2016
Tag: All That Jaws
Jul 30
What’s A Few Sharks Between Bombs?
Great shipwrecks of the 20th century:
1. The U.S.S. Indianapolis
2. The Edmund Fitzgerald
3. Watership Down/The Ark of the Covenant
Jul 04
Blaming the Estuary Victim: Bad Massachusetts Accents As Justification for Homicide
“Pond’s for old ladies.”
Jul 03
Eat A Rocking Chair: The 8-Day Amity Island Diet
“It’s gonna be the best Fourth of July we ever had.”
Jul 01
This Ain’t No Party Or Boating Accident: Chrissie Watkins
Poor crabbyhanded Chrissie Watkins: We pour out our Narragansett to you.
Jun 29
Unfriendly Waters: Why June 29 Is Christmas to “Jaws” Fans
Did Alex Kintner really die on June 29? Is his watch really over?
Jul 03
Holiday Roast: The 8-Day Amity Island Diet
Amity Island, like Brigadoon or King Arthur’s Avalon, is a place out of time that is powered by summer dollars and magical realism. But an Islander’s gotta eat — and not some license plate he found in a river. As has been proven with exhaustive scholarship, we cannot rely on police reports or flyers on …
Jun 29
June 29: Ichthyology Numerology
A lot of things happened on both Tinian and Amity Islands on June 29. Let us help you make some sense of it. Listen to “Show Me the Way to Indianapolis” by Fogelfoot If history is written by the victor, then we do not know whom to trust in the various official and unofficial written …
Jul 06
Farewell And Adieu, Bruce
It was the best Fourth of July Amity (which, as you know, means “friendship”) had ever had, until Estuary Victim was gobbled. The bright side was that Mayor Vaughn’s kids were on that beach, too, so he did something he was good at: he signed a voucher to pay Quint to kill the shark. Listen …
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Limericks of Loss And Regret: International Cormorant Edition