There's Flying Fish Records, founded in my hometown of Chicago in the 70s, and distributed by Rounder Records, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where, post-Brandeis, I lived next to a noisy bus-yard and worked in a cheese shop at Fresh Pond Mall before moving to Washington, D.C. and selling cheese of a different sort on Capitol Hill. And there's Flying Fish the restaurant, in Seattle, proffering sexed-up food for people with too much money and time on their hands. There's Alaska Airlines' flying salmon plane, (painted at taxpayer expense, no less). And Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit In The Sky," a great 1970 AM radio hit (remember?). And finally this, the other night, spotted by my son. I'm calling it Salmon In The Sky, Over Seattle.

The real deal.

TECHNORATI TAGS: SALMON, SEATTLE

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Posted by Matt Rosenberg at October 5, 2005 10:12 PM