Isn't that perverse?

I really can't decide. I drove past the big, newish aquarium facility near downtown. It was supposed to be a publicly-funded deal, non-profit and all that, but it quickly failed. A private restaurant chain bought the entire thing for a fraction of the money spent building the huge site and now it's some kind of overgrown, overpriced seafood restaurant.

It's one thing to order and eat steak at, say, a cattle ranch, I suppose. At the ranch, they raise the animals strictly for eating. But at the aquarium, the fish are on display for you to admire and appreciate as living miracles. Except for the ones on your plate that they've killed and destroyed. Isn't that just a little perverse?

CDs listened to today:

• Alfred Schnittke: Symphony No. 8
• Cuong Vu: Vu-Tet
• Nick Didkovsky: Amalia's Secret
• John Adams: Harmonielehre
• Beatles: Please Please Me
• The Joggers: Solid Guild
• Ingram Marshall: Hymnodic Delays
• Rand Steiger: Hexadecathlon: "A New-Slain Knight"