Yes, we have had a lot of videos today, but this just popped up on YouTube‘s featured vids and I’ll be damned if I’m missing a jellyfish-themed music video. We are, as we have said, all about the jellyfish on the ol’ raincoaster blog.
Category Archives: Wildlife
snakes on a plane: the auditions
From DCLugi, and also Christopher Walken, Robert DeNiro, Jack Nicholson, Joe Pesce, and a special guest some of you might recognize…
alien goldfish!
In this crazy, mixed-up world, there are a few touchstones of normalcy that one turns to time and time again to clear away the aggro and alienation of interacting in our topsy-turvy civilization.
Puppies. Kittens. Babies. Clouds. The smell of bread baking. Cows grazing in a field.
Goldfish.
Until now.
pic o’ the day: Giant Jellyfish invasion
I wasn’t kidding when I said that Japan is being surrounded by hostile Giant Jellyfish. Check out this pic, from Pink Tentacle‘s coverage of the invasion; suddenly it makes more sense that the Japanese would strike back, powdering the slimy buggers. Of course, it still wouldn’t occur to a sane person (nor to a person who’d seen Attack of the Mushroom People) to make that powder into cookies and put it in her mouth, but there you go; we are talking about the Japanese, after all. They may be more plausible than the Romanians, but they’re just as wingnutty under those navy suits.
a cookie even Cookie Monster couldn’t love
You think I’m kidding? First off, it’s Japanese, which is the 21st Century’s version of Dali-esque. The entire nation seems populated by navy suit-clad, sex toy obssessed, seafood-fetishizing lunatics. Seriously, if there are sane Japanese people out there, I ain’t heard about it.
Secondly, they are made from giant, invading jellyfish.
Thirdly, they taste like it.
From Pink Tentacle:
As part of an ongoing battle against invading swarms of giant jellyfish in local waters, some residents of Fukui prefecture have developed a method for converting the jellyfish into powder, which is used to make souvenir cookies. The jellyfish treats, called “Ekura-chan saku-saku cookies,” are now on sale at JR Fukui station at a price of 580 yen for a box of 10…
The result is a cookie with a superbly textured sweetness nicely complemented by the bitter, salty flavor of jellyfish.
Simply charming. Not even in the name of research will I go near these godforsaken morsels of hellfire, not least because I know what they’re made from.
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