While I'm locked in desperate combat with the keyboard, some of my friends (for brevity's sake, let's refer to them as "slackers with evil, swine-like tendencies") are deeply concerned for my well-being.

Which is why they send me photographs like this from their smartphones:



This still-warm, dying-October-Caddis-driven photo comes courtesy Chris Raine, the bamboo fly rod builder who clearly knows what it's like to have bamboo slivers driven up under his fingernails (how else do you explain this photo, which -- not to belabor the point -- isn't the only one he sent).

Important Announcement
Starting next week, the Underground will be taking applications for the position of "New Best Friend."

No health benefits, but you get to walk Wally the Wonderdog.

See you anywhere but the river, Tom Chandler.