Catalina Triangle strangeness includes the Avalon “sleepkiller,” the 33rd Parallel link, Natalie Wood and Phil Hartman, sado-masochistic padres and blood-soaked natives, ghosts and pirates, a 30-kiloton nuke, mountain ranges spun sideways, Borderland and Bight, Gyre and eddy, counter-current and undercurrent, earthquake and tsunami, moonscape sea craters, underwater oases, and the largest animal (with the largest penis, a ten-footer) ever to draw breath and spout water vapor (the animal, not the organ) in the long sweep of phallic time on Mother Earth herself … beginning-of-life stuff.