When I was a small boy, younger than the Gene depicted here, my father would go out about twice a year with the guys from the machine shop, where he worked. They'd go down to a restaurant on the Chattahoochee River and eat catfish caught from the waters there. My father would always come home in a very good mood and bring me a plate of soggy catfish and hushpuppies. To this day, it's the best thing I've ever eaten. He should have brought my mother a plate. She might not have looked at him so funny.