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Today in Artistic Interpretations of the Elder Gods news

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Dale Chihuly is world-famous as an artist. The Benvenuto Cellini of blown glass, his mysterious and compelling aquatic forms have mesmerized art lovers on all continents. But these photographs of unearthly beauty from Shelley Powers provide shocking proof that he hides a terrible secret.

Does Dale Chihuly Worship the Great Old Ones?

The Call of Chihuly

In the guise of a foul-tempered, eyepatched, befrizzed and corpulent artiste, Dale Chihuly walks among us. Or is that hops? Could this all be an elaborate disguise? Could that vast body conceal the chitinous shell of the Fungi from Yuggoth? Perhaps when he moves he shows traces of the odd hopping gait of the Deep Ones. Then again; perhaps this is all perfectly normal…

The Onions from Out of Time

Could his art really be a complex plan to seduce the will of the free peoples of the world and bend them to the will of the slavering god Cthulhu?

Gaze upon his creations and resist…if you can. For how many have heard, and responded to, The Call of Chihuly?

They are coming!!! Ia! Ia!

today in Microscopic Octopus news

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Baby octopus

So how cool is that? Can't you just imagine it cloned and grown huge, with a frickin' laser beam on its head? Oh fine, be that way. But I can. And there's more microscopic Squid-and-Octo-tacity where that came from:

Clio, don't look at me it's the scientific name!

The BBC reports on new aquatic coolness from the bottom of the ocean.

A three-week voyage of discovery in the Atlantic has returned with tiny animals which appear new to science.

They include waif-like plankton with delicate translucent bodies related to jellyfish, hundreds of microscopic shrimps, and several kinds of fish.

The voyage is part of the ongoing Census of Marine Life (CoML) which aims to map ocean life throughout the world…

"The deep ocean below 1,000m (3,300ft) is rarely sampled," observed Peter Wiebe, from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the US, lead scientist on the recent voyage…

Salpa Maxima

[finds] include shrimp-like copepods and ostracods, swimming worms, and tiny jellyfish – some of the gooiest and most fragile animals in the sea.

This was one of the first projects to sequence DNA at sea, a process which Dr Wiebe believes will become much more common as scientists seek quick and easy ways to identify species.

See? Cloning comin' up! Tolja!

Salp. Bet you're happy they're microscopic; who wants to see that in their sushi?

The Shebeen Club Presents: Edgar Allan Poe’s 170th Wedding Anniversary!

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Shebeen For immediate release: post/forward at will!

Who: The Shebeen Club, Vancouver's monthly literary gathering

What: Edgar Allan Poe's 170th Wedding Anniversary!

When: 7-9pm Tuesday, May 16th, 2006 (3rd Tuesday ea month)

Where: The Shebeen, behind the Irish Heather, 217 Carrall

Why:  To honour the master of horrors, on this, the day of his ultimate horror. Although I'm sure the bride could say the same.

How (much)? $20 before May 12th, $25 thereafter; reservations and media inquiries: lorraine DOT murphy AT gmail DOT com.

Admission includes a Poe-tastic dinner/drink combo specially selected for appropriate thrills, plus door prizes embodying the grandeur of fallen gentility, a Poe-themed presentation, and a horribly good time!

Dress: Anything antique, anything Goth, anything shabby-genteel.
Bonus prize for anyone who turns up with an actual raven, dead or alive. That is to say that one or more of "the raven and the guest" must be alive.

Background: The Shebeen Club, a History in Press Releases

Come with us, our clothes all tatty, we're Vancouver's literati,
Writing many a quaint and curious volume of best-selling(?) lore,

As we celebrate Poe's wedding, you can join us; they're both deading,
As they both croaked long ago, long ago, in days of yore.

"Bride and Groom, long dead," Sean mutters, "long ago, in days of yore;
Missed the party, ever more."

And two ravens, never flitting, still are sitting, still are sitting
On the old Blood Alley railings just beyond the Shebeen's door;

And their eyes have all the seeming of some ghostlings that are dreaming.
And the streetlamp o'er them streaming shows their shadows on the floor;

And the Shebeen Club, under their gaze that steals in from outdoors
Shall be uplifted—evermore!

Meet & Mingle 7-7:30
Listen & Learn 7:30-8
Whispered tales of undying madness and horror, like the mortifying time you confused August Derleth with Lord Dunsany 8-whenever Berenice comes for us.

At last I have found you!

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This was the very first video I ever saw on the web, and it has haunted my nightmares ever since. So I thought I'd share the pain. And no worries about the owner asserting his copyright and taking it down; can you imagine laying claim to this?

Leonard Nimoy performs the Ballad of Bilbo Baggins.

One minute and thirty-six seconds of absolute horror.

 

And look, a cover version. Some High Schoolers did a claymation Ballad of Bilbo Baggins, which sucks far less

 

Hey Whitney, how about a remake?

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Stop the Madness, a 1985 anti-drug PSA from the Reagan White House, featuring Whitney Houston, LaToya Jackson, and some rockin' eighties dance moves!