I remember being taken with at least one other photo you took at the aquarium and posted — the one of the little girl. (Was she clutching a Little Mermaid doll?)
I’ve never been! It seems like the antithesis of the dank old aquarium at Fair Park — which I must confess to liking. I think there is room for both, eh, aquaria. For beautiful shiny-new fab museums (memo to self: gotta go see the new AIC Modern when it opens soon) and for dusty old poky old storehouses of relics.
I cannot tell you how much I love the dank, dark old aquarium at Fair Park. The very thought of it fills me with a combined sense of longing and tragedy.
I remember it as so sweet to walk out of the heat and the blinding light into that cool, dark building. That smell that was not fishy, just . . . cool and moist. It felt like entering another world.
I’m kind of afraid of fish, as I think I’ve mentioned, but I always felt good about them when I was in that building.
No! Fuck. Does this mean I have to pound the pavement for money to recreate the dankness, which, because it is deliberately recreated dankness, will not be authentic dankness?
I think the closest thing I can get to an aquarium or a zoo here is well, our house of course, for the animal antics, or the pet store, where there are lizards who are very very social and crash into the walls of their tanks in order to come and, probably, eat you.
And then you sit down in front of them and they stare at you and you stare at them for ages, until somebody calls you because you have to go, or they have to close the pet store.
I especially like the tide pool ‘habitats’ that have become popular. Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium has one, as do the New England Aquarium and various other places.
That is wonderful, Deron.
thanks. it’s an older one, but it caught my eye looking through recently.
I remember being taken with at least one other photo you took at the aquarium and posted — the one of the little girl. (Was she clutching a Little Mermaid doll?)
yep.
I was thinking I might go down there this weekend.
I’ve never been! It seems like the antithesis of the dank old aquarium at Fair Park — which I must confess to liking. I think there is room for both, eh, aquaria. For beautiful shiny-new fab museums (memo to self: gotta go see the new AIC Modern when it opens soon) and for dusty old poky old storehouses of relics.
we see eye to eye on this.
I cannot tell you how much I love the dank, dark old aquarium at Fair Park. The very thought of it fills me with a combined sense of longing and tragedy.
is it still open?
I remember it as so sweet to walk out of the heat and the blinding light into that cool, dark building. That smell that was not fishy, just . . . cool and moist. It felt like entering another world.
I’m kind of afraid of fish, as I think I’ve mentioned, but I always felt good about them when I was in that building.
The Shed in spring is kinda like the Fair Park aquarium in Dallas.
And in Chicago we have the Shedd Aquarium.
Deron, do you think that’s “Dallas World Aquarium” or “Dallas World Aquarium”?
“Dallas World”. That’s what I’m going to start calling my the city of my birth.
The Aquarium at Fair Park is closed for renovations. The dankness is gone forever.
No! Fuck. Does this mean I have to pound the pavement for money to recreate the dankness, which, because it is deliberately recreated dankness, will not be authentic dankness?
Damn. Why do I have to do all the hard stuff?
[...] nearest approximation of the dankness I could conjure up on short [...]
You people are making me want to visit an aquarium tout suite. Failing that, a zoo.
I think the closest thing I can get to an aquarium or a zoo here is well, our house of course, for the animal antics, or the pet store, where there are lizards who are very very social and crash into the walls of their tanks in order to come and, probably, eat you.
And then you sit down in front of them and they stare at you and you stare at them for ages, until somebody calls you because you have to go, or they have to close the pet store.
I confess I prefer lizards to frogs. And to frog-like things.
I ain’t a fan of all things Disney, but when I visited Epcot (in 1987!) I was immensely enamored of The Living Seas aquarium.
I especially like the tide pool ‘habitats’ that have become popular. Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium has one, as do the New England Aquarium and various other places.
Tide pools created from the tears of Joaquin Phoenix.