Catfish - Harcsa - Namazu
Just thought we'd start the New Year (hope it's a good one for you all) by introducing a new blogger to CentralBudapest.com: Catfish or 'Harcsabajusz', as he is known in his native Hungarian.
Just to state the (hopefully) obvious, Catfish is not your average blogger, but his creation serves a useful purpose. Through Catfish I can offload all the theories, observations and various polemical epistemic detritus (e.g. ideas, passing thoughts etc...) that pass through my head and have no other outlet. It gives me a chance to simply brainstorm and explore these ideas, whilst using this place as a disembodied memory.
Obviously, I'd also be interesting in knowing if anyone else has similar interest, thought or ideas.
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Credits, and why 'Catfish'?
Just to give credit where it is due, the mustache on the dummy was borrowed from Norbert Wiczek (for some freakish facial hair, just look at the winner of the 'freestyle' category).
This type of mustache is called a 'catfish' mustache, known by its Hungarian name, harcsabajusz and is an accepted separate category in the world championships, for those that compete on these things. There is a more meaningful reason why I have called the dummy Catfish/Harcsabajusz, but I'll save that for the next post.
n.b. To be honest,
I find ventriloquists' dummies, clowns, puppets etc... pretty disturbing, so am not entirely sure this semantic proxy is a good idea. I'm still haunted from watching Magic and the dummy Corky years ago. Still, as far as I know, Catfish will
be the world's first blogging ventriloquist's dummy.
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