This just cannot be right. Stolen from Wandering Coyote (note crediting source…always a good thing to do…every time you credit a source, an angel gets his wings).
Giant Squid caught on film for Cephalopodmas
I’m not crediting this to anyone, because it seems that everyone but me has already mentioned it. (UPDATE: Metro whined, so he gets credit. But Archie is nicer) But I heard about it straight from the Squid, so there nyeah.
Some 1,000 kilometres south of Tokyo, a giant sea creature lurks beneath the ocean surface.
Japanese scientists at the National Science Museum of Japan caught this big reddish animal on film, during research on habitats in the deep sea.
The three-and-a-halfmetre long squid is still a baby by giant squid standards.
It’s been captured some 650 meters under the water.
[Tsunemi Kunodera, Chief Researcherg]: “Nobody – except for fishermen – had ever seen live giant squids. We believe this is the first time a live giant squid was captured on video.”
This legendary animal hasn’t ever survived capture. Samples are pickled in a container for further research.
Dwelling in the deep seas, these monster squids are believed to grow to a tremendous size… with unconfirmed reports of some up to 20 meters long.
Japanese Scientists are also the first in the world to take still pictures of the squid in its natural environment during 2005.
Billy Idol, Yellin’ at the Christmas Tree
Because I still can’t get the damn podcast to work, and I refust to post the vid of his surgically transformed face producing “Jingle Bell Rock,” surely the most insipid, heartless and banal seasonal tune ever committed to vinyl/digital.
A Downtown EastSide Christmas
Ho, ho, hotels all over the Downtown EastSide keep Christmas in their own unique ways. Unlike the Chinese restaurants that simply layer new tinsel over the old and leave the whole spangly mess up all year round, the hotels and flophouses, to be fair, do try to get into the spirit of things at the time, each in its own way.
The Patricia, flyer of the Red Ensign, bastion of respectability, old-fashioned refinement, microbrewed house beer, and sad old run-down gentlemen who still stand when a lady walks into the pub:
The Drake, a somewhat different establishment:
the ULTIMATE cheapo Christmas gift
Beating out even acrylic slipper socks. If’n I don’t scare up some spare cash pronto, this may well be what everyone gets this year…a certificate indicating that a donation has been made in your name to the charity of my choice. Click to see which it is.
One size fits all!
Fake Charity Donation Certificate Generator
and, for good measure
