MAGIC CARPET ROMANS: I must take a segment to make mention of psychedelically inclined, fish-sucking Romans. Whadda ya mean that needs some explaining? It wouldn’t if you hadn’t missed the Fishology 101 class when we learned about the planet’s most hallucinogenic fish species, Sarpa salpa, which the likes of Omar Khayyám poetically dubbed “the dream fish.” It sports unidentified chemical agents leading to ichthyoallyeinotoxism. Try getting that out when you’re already hallucinating.