Tourist Rage!!!

Well okay, they're Canadians we're talking about here, so maybe it's more like tourist moderately-strongly-worded-emailing, but the tourists are ENRAGED AND OUT of CONTROL!!! however they're expressing it, and you would be too, if you'd ever had to fly Air Canada.

Passengers should be aware of their rights, Huot said, but they should also know their responsibilities, and that includes not putting live crustaceans in their suitcases.

Okay so Pepe is a prawn, not a lobster. He's still the ugliest Muppet you've ever seen!

That's right! If you're going to be flying with live Crustaceans, be sure to keep them in your pants, along with the monkeys. Learn from:

the example of one man whose luggage was lost while he was travelling from Halifax to Toronto. It was found four days later – but neither the bag nor the live lobsters it contained survived the delay.

"There's not a lot we can do about that, and that passenger will fall into the category of not being happy with the settlement."

As will everyone in the vicinity of the lost luggage, I would guess.

In another case, he said, "a passenger wanted two round-the-world tickets because the different melons all tasted the same in his fruit cup."

I'd be for it, but only halfway. Literally. And hang a sign around his neck so that the people in Sierra Leone or wherever he ends up will know that he's the melonhead who insisted on being deported because the airline meal tasted prefab.

Feelin’ Smaug

and you would, too, if you had a bag this cool. No word on the cost, but given the amount of work involved it's gotta be like yachts: if you have to ask, you can't afford it.

Dragon Bag Side View

Dragon Bag Side View

Book Review: Dianetics

DianeticsI wouldn't trust myself to review this book. Like the Necronomicon, this is a book best read by those you really wouldn't miss if it came right down to it. If you heard they'd become members of a sinister cult and had taken off to Arabia to rendezvous with a malevolent and unspeakably long-lived nobleman from Eastern Europe, to search for the Nameless City in the shifting sands of the desert, and you really wouldn't mind, then that's the person you should ask to review this book.

Because that means reading it. And that means the thetans will know you're out there. To say nothing of Tom Cruise.

Dianetics, Reviewed by Fat Joe Thomas, whom I do not know and so wouldn't particularly miss and who seems to have vanished from the blogosphere on or about April 4,

THE VERY DAY AFTER POSTING THIS REVIEW!

Half-way through this book, I wanted to stop reading. But, it wouldn’t let me. It made me finish. I couldn’t return it and get my money back and I couldn’t stop reading it. If I ever have kids, the book is going to make my kids read it. The book has put my family and friends under surveillance. They don’t want to talk to me anymore. They’re worried the book will take their money, too.

Today in Artistic Interpretations of the Elder Gods news

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

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?