Now that my likeness on your post office wall has been eclipsed by Edward Rist and his takedown of rare and exotic birds, and while my accidental brush with depravity rings hollow – compliments of a couple of gifted song birds and an imaginary affront to Audubon, the only way to reestablish myself as some form of natural history anti-Christ would be find something twice as rare and make flies with it.
Us fly tying degenerates being a vain crowd, proud of our hardscrabble hoarding nature, and determined to accumulate enormous collections of shoeboxes that hide the grisly remnants of odd fauna frozen in death. Unfortunately the competition is becoming fierce, with Jeffrey Daumer and Edward Rist making it tough to one up the competition…
We feel we may have rose to the occasion. It’s much tougher when there’s only one available, but it makes a sturdy and handsome tail …
… given this week’s callousness, it’s Hell I’m headed for surely, but which remains unknown. Hopefully Salman Rushdie has brushed up on his classics, as we’ve got a couple millennia of small talk coming .
What about hair from the beard of my postman Muhammad?
A little more plentiful, but he’ll put up a fight.
LMAO…thank you!
Bravo! That made my morning….
I guess there’s no lack of substitutes. The real thing though…
Perhaps the fly should be named the Fatwah.
Hey, waste not want not; That’s my motto!!
powdered unicorn horn will add glint and sparkle that no synthetic can rival.
perhaps you can pluck the hairs from a captive wood sprite. amazing stuff, i must say.
that way you’d only risk the opprobrium of hordes of mary-jane shod eight year olds.
I would have thought more of an emerger wing than tailing material but to each his own.
I don’t think that even a small state like Maryland can plead damage from the placement of a discarded feather, found on a forest floor, in the band of a Fishing hat. Fly tiers may even put a fortunate find of powdered Unicorn to a more interesting purpose. It’s the unfortunate and commercial bearding of the mailman that the “State” has reason to take offense from. Capitalist swine across America can plead -good fortune- and the protected species; the Mailman, might vanish from our sidewalks forever. Our enthusiasm for exotic materials must be constrained before it is neccessary to carry firearms in the face of the popularity of the Fatwah fly.