Monthly Archives: April 2006

Cephalopodcasting

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It's amazing what you find on the Internet when you're innocently surfing for images of "Cthulhu Christmas Carols."Tonmo

Like this:

http://www.tonmo.com/ 

What is TONMO.com?
TONMO.com: The Octopus News Magazine Online is an online community and news magazine about anything and everything pertaining to octopuses, squids and cephalopods. This includes research and biology, mythology, pet care, children's books and activities, current events, art, photography, site reviews, books, movies, poetry and writing, pop culture, diving, fossils, tattoos, and even recipes.

Indeed. And this, in a world where Jocelyne Wildenstein still has no fansite; is there no justice?

And here is their Octopodcast, sure to be a source of slimy joy to cephalofanciers the world over:

http://www.tonmo.com/octopodcast/index.php

Episode 4: March 2006 — An interview with New Zealand's Kat Bolstad (tintenfisch on TONMO.com) about her work with cephalopods.

Episode 3: February 2006 — This episode features an interview with Chrissy Huffard regarding “walking octopuses”.

Episode 2: January 2006 — This episode features an interview with Carol Sauer.

Episode 1 (Pilot Episode): December 2005 — This is the pilot episode, where I try to work out some of my "ums" and "you knows"…

Ten Worst April Fool’s Pranks

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Strife

This is just brilliant; it perfectly exemplifies the thuggishness and ignorance that typify April Fool's Day. A list of the ten stupidest April Fool's jokes of all time, headed up by Saddam and Uday Hussein; hey, let no man say they weren't a barrel of laughs after hours. And Iraq gets the coveted #10 position as well:

#10: The Iraqi Ambassador's Final Joke

On April 1, 2003, as thousands of American-led coalition troops stormed across Iraq, the Iraqi ambassador to Russia, Abbas Khalaf Kunfuth, held a press conference in Moscow. Many were expecting him to announce that Iraq conceded defeat. Instead Kunfuth chose this moment to hold a gag press conference. Holding up a piece of paper that he identified as a news flash from Reuters, he read aloud from it: "The Americans have accidentally fired a nuclear missile into British forces, killing seven." Immediately the room full of reporters went silent with shock. Then Kunfuth grinned and shouted 'April Fools!' Only a few days after this unexpected moment of levity, the Iraqi government completely collapsed.

ho ho ho!

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Because it's always the right time for some demented Christmas Carols!!! Here is the collection from the eminent, prominent, and indubitably fragrant PDQ Bach:

Good King Kong looked out on his feet
And he saw that they were large.
“Ho, ho,” he said, “we go,” he said,
“To make some tracks in the snow,
Forsooth our feet are very large.”
Squinch, squinch, squinch.

Happy Video Game!

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According to http://www.sploid.com/news/2006/03/bob_ross_the_vi.php Bob RossSploid, Bob Ross, the world-renowned landscape artist, will be immortalized in a Happy Happy Video Game! All the actual artists I know are nuts about this guy; he's their Madonna, their touchstone and talisman, if not their benchmark.

With his preternaturally calm manner, his love of nature and a perfectly round Afro, Ross taught the world to paint "happy little trees," "happy little clouds" and "pretty little mountains."

We are lucky enough to live an age where his influence on the art world need never end.

By Request

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Viggo's black girlfriend is Josie D'Arby from some pathetic reality show of a few years ago; it's off nowadays. Latest completely unsubstantiated poop is that he was gonna marry his gay partner in London, as of two weeks ago; he did not. If you're really dying to know, he likes bossy women who know what they want and go home with strangers they meet in bars, so it doesn't actually rule many people out.

Except me. Ew! Not telling how I know that. Smart money says he's good at it, too.

As for the person who was searching for the Saskatchewan Lobster Recipe substitution, I am afraid I'm as clueless as you. But now, somewhat intrigued…