perfect weirdness

Early on in Sebastian Junger's bestseller The Perfect Storm, one of the fishermen in Gloucester, Massachusetts, describes the beauty of his work and how he gets to see things other people don't get to see: whales breaching, porpoises following the boat.

I've caught shit they don't even have in books - really weird shit, monstrous-looking things.

The sorts of barely imagined things, probably, that have also been captured on one of this blog's favourite blogs.

pic: John Hawkes, Mark Wahlberg, Allen Payne and William Fichter in 'The Perfect Storm' (2000)