Paradise Lost

Sorry for so few posts the last few days. Got a lot of good stuff queued. Let's start with this one, from Wright (and check out the television version on Outside The Lines, Sunday at 9 ET):

HOUMA, La. —

The greatest tarpon fisherman who ever lived sits in a house on the side of a forgotten bayou, stuck in a blue recliner, watching his world die on live television. Oil gushes out of the well, every lost barrel another line in his obituary.

Though he's only 55, Lance "Coon" Schouest is about to become obsolete. Everything's being taken from him, in living color with a network logo and theme music. His way of life, his job, the marshes he grew up in and possibly even an entire breed of fish that has survived since dinosaurs walked the earth. The tarpon has taken every disaster man and nature could throw at it.

Until now.