Tentacled Tattoo

Little Sailor Girl by ~Ambervu13

Acropolis Now!

BREAKING NEWS UPDATE via Mitchell: Colossal Squid WebCasts!
Don't miss the Dissection Table!

There's nothing like a PhDiva in Givenchy.

Tentacled Triangulation

Guinea pig via Dadanoia's

Note one of the featured mp3's: Say Hi to Your Mom - The Death of Girl Number Two.mp3

Breaking News Update: Coming to America: Neil Diamond for President


Yet another breaking news update: I've further expanded my blogosphere of influence with Neil Diamond for President!

Danger Dogs

Given the state of the economy I've been very frugal lately, but a part of me sure is tempted to splurge and order one of these Danger Dog signs from Nepal. I wonder how much the artists are paid though...

Pierre's New Wetsuit

Balding penguin's wetsuit lets him swim again
Pierre's bare tush had kept him shivering on the sidelines as peers played

Hat tip to Wagga for this find!


In other news, I just happened to come across this interesting poster by Perdita Corleone.

Happy Fishnet Friday!

Fishnets by ~domalon
TGIFF!
This morning I'm enjoying a quite refreshing Lupicia grapefruit green tea.

I was only joking

Lassie for Dinner

This story really disturbed me...

On my first trip to China I met a dog who was a dead ringer for Lassie. He lived with a dozen other dogs at a remote training camp for Olympic skiers in Manchuria, where a friend and I were spending a few days as we explored the area's backcountry skiing. In return for food and lodging we gave the Chinese athletes some clinics in American ski techniques.

The dog quickly became my friend. He would twirl happily in my arms before I headed up the slopes each morning and would be waiting for me when I returned. Dropping to my knees, I'd play tag with him, and he'd wag his tail so hard that his entire body would shimmy. The Chinese skiers paid no attention to the dogs.

On the day before we departed, at lunch, our translator stood and called the mess hall to silence. "To thank our American friends for showing us so much about skiing," he announced, "our chef will prepare a special dish tonight." He nodded to the head coach, who waved his hand toward the door. Two of the Chinese skiers, standing at the ready, opened it with a flourish, and the white-aproned chef stepped inside, holding aloft my friend, the collie, by his tail. He had been gutted from throat to groin.

Stunned, I couldn't say a word, but that evening when a large platter of dog meat was put in the center of our table, I regained my voice. My ski partner, a better cultural ambassador than I, gingerly took a few bits of the dish with her chopsticks. I declined. "Please thank the head coach," I told our translator, "but I can't. I have too many friends at home who are dogs."

More from An Olympic disgrace



When the fur is finally peeled off over the animals' heads, their naked, bloody bodies are thrown onto a pile of those who have gone before them. Some are still alive, breathing in ragged gasps and blinking slowly. Some of the animals' hearts are still beating five to 10 minutes after they are skinned. One investigator recorded a skinned raccoon dog on the heap of carcasses who had enough strength to lift his bloodied head and stare into the camera.

Pledge to go fur-free at PETA.org.

This is very disturbing video of raccoon dogs and foxes being skinned alive. It is horrifying to see a completely conscious raccoon dog moving about for a good 5 to 10 minutes after being completely skinned alive. Why can't they at least bother to make sure the animal is dead before skinning them? Absolutely cruel, inhumane and barbaric!

If you see someone wearing fur you might want to remind them of the torture the animal had to endure.
In this Beijing News report, half the raccoon dogs and foxes were skinned alive.






Further memories of drafting the 80's and meat is murder (yet fur is worse)!

L'il Abner Salutes Orange Crush!

Th'Offishul Drink of Dogpatch!

"With Li'l Abner," writes Richard Marschall, "Capp was calling society absurd, not just silly; human nature not simply misguided, but irredeemably and irreducibly corrupt. Unlike any other strip, and indeed unlike many other pieces of literature, Li'l Abner was more than a satire of the human condition. It was a commentary on human nature itself."

I'm not exactly sure what's going on with Moonbeam and the pig.



Wasn't L'il Abner an influence on Robert Crumb? Odd memories of encountering Crumb's brother meditating on Market St. to be told later...

More NSFW Purple Haze at Zillow Book!

Follow the trail

When will it end?

Humpty Dumpty by ~ravencrown

The First Ladies by ~xelalex42

Mein Fuhrer update for Buzz Saw:
Hitlery is wearing a flag pin so she must be patriotic.

Edgar's Toilet weighs in.

Another Hitlery update for Buzz Saw:

Hitler-ly Clinton by ~Ultraloco

Another breaking news update!
Yes, I shall encounter my 20th High School reunion this year and I'm not so sure if I want to partake in it having been forwarded this YouTube video that reminds me how much I hated it (nope, I'm not one of those asshats in the audience).



My version:

Hello Kitty fights flab and such

Plus, after pounding the shuttlecock with their pussy emblazoned playthings, they can quickly check that all important body fat count with another cat-friendly contrivance.

Tea Party

Tea Party III by ~xmansonx

Not exactly the sort of tea party I had in mind, but the combination of tea, fishnets, guns and cats in this image was compelling (see I'm not an arugula loving, elitist SF Bay Area snob!).

Anyway, I returned to this incredible tea shop in Chinatown today and was reminded once again of how impressive their tea is. Yes, I spent far more money on it than I would prefer, but tea lasts – especially Blest Tea. I’m still enjoying a bag I bought over 6 months ago. They haven’t been around much longer than that, but finally have a “web site”: http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/blesttea
I highly recommend the Honey Green and Milk Oolong.


This afternoon I was happy to discover my tea fortune was Buddha.
Society's Punch_02 by ~caspash13lds

Tanuki Koi!

Koi?

Nope.
It’s a flying tanuki crushing a hunter under the weight of its mammoth testicles.

More Kage-e at Pink Tentacle

My diminished life.

Seahorses and Koi

Swimming Horses by scrappyboy

Eat more broccoli

Danish public health ad via Sexoteric

Mona Lisa's Tentacles & Crazy Black Stockings

Naoto Hattori via Pink Tentacle




"I'm Scooba-Doo. Come on, let's get with it!"

Garbage Island

Garbage by *IElioI

Further details here:
Garbage Island 5:12
Eric Lanford talks with Thomas Morton about island-sized piles of plastic floating in the Pacific Ocean.

How to eat well in spite of it all

via Found in Mom's Basement: Vintage ad for Kraft mac & cheese resigns itself to 1975's crappy economy
Tonight's dinner doesn't have to look like today's economy.

Regarding eating well I would like to point you in this direction.

Given the degree of the overall SHTF, I've found it necessary to remain in Hillary Ignore mode.

Bride of Cthulhu

Nicotine suggested that we do a Japanese-style tentacle shoot. I suggested covering her in chocolate syrup. We decided to do both.
Richard Kadrey via Warren ellis

In other news I should have blogged: Japanese penis pandemonium

Wise Elephant in the House

via Andrew Sullivan

Delicious Friends

::otoshimono::

Speaking of delicious, I really enjoyed this Tie Guan Yin tea this morning and this is mostly a note to self to order some more.

Wall Street and the War Mongering Monkey

Hat tip to Wagga for this one.
If the linky (F Blogger) doesn't work for you try this: Keating on Wall Street

I thought this was bizarre too.

In Canada's 2008 seal slaughter news check out Daily Koi.

Termite Biofuel

Termite by ~cocor

Now this is intriguing...

Termites... these ground-dwelling insect pests cause millions of dollars worth of damage each year to wooden structures by eating them. Now scientists are closer to understanding how termites convert wood into energy - and how we humans might do the same; cleanly, "greenly" and economically.

Excerpted from Biofuel From A Termite's Butt?

Free Tibet.

BREAKING NEWS UPDATE!

(04-07) 12:22 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Three demonstrators scaled the south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge today and unfurled a banner in a protest intended to draw attention to Chinese human rights violations in Tibet.

I think I'll participate in Candle Lights for Human Rights tomorrow night.

Join Richard Gere, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Tibetan leaders and other special guests for a historic rally and candle light vigil in support of the Tibetan people and their struggle for basic human rights. As China prepares to host the Olympics in August, the government is conducting the worst crackdown in Tibet since the 1960s Cultural Revolution.

Come show your support for the Tibetan and Chinese people on the eve of the Beijing Olympic torch passing through San Francisco - the only stop in North America.


Tuesday April 8th 2008
United Nations Plaza
1150 Market Street
San Francisco, CA
Civic Center BART


Rally & Speeches 6:00pm
Culture / Music 7:15pm
Candle Light Vigil 8:00pm

Happy Fishnet Friday!

1953 Cosmo cover featuring comedian Jackie Gleason via Found in Mom's Basement

BREAKING NEWS UPDATE!

wagga said...
Thong thung blue, everybody knows one...thorry...

Neil Diamond's Thong Theory:

The Big Squid Overlords are Here!

Tentacles by *Bumblescutt


I fell asleep and woke up to that PBS program within the last 24 hours.

Want koi? If so start with my new Daily Koi blog.
BREAKING NEWS UPDATE!
Titus Andronicus is one of my favorite Shakespeare plays so I was remiss in not highlighting Bumblescutt's Lavinia:

Written in baby seal blood: "F@ck Off"

This seal was struck by the hunter and wounded before it escaped into the water so it is not included in Canada's quota of 275,000 seals this year.


On Monday the IFAW team continued to document Canada's commercial seal hunt off the east coast of Cape Breton. We saw four boats; two medium size boats and two small skiffs, along with the Coast Guard vessel. The boats were moving through the ice pans searching for the young pups. Although this is my seventh year documenting Canada's commercial seal hunt, one can never be completely prepared for the cruelty that we witness. We documented sealers both shooting seals from their boats and clubbing them on the ice.

I saw animals being shot from boats and injured; these young seals were not killed quickly or humanely like the Canadian government claims they are. One animal was crawling around on the ice bleeding for over a minute before the boat arrived and a sealer jumped down onto the ice pan to kill it with a club. It never ceases to amaze me that sealers see a seal crawling around on the ice suffering, yet they don't act quickly and shoot the animal again to put it out of it's misery.

IFAW documents the seal hunt for a few days a year and we can only be filming one boat at time. Yet every year we see animals being shot or clubbed and left to suffer. We see animals hooked and skinned alive, as we did yesterday. The most striking image from yesterday's footage involved a seal that was injured and then hooked in the face and dragged back to the boat. We were moving between boats and came across a sealer on the ice with what appeared to be a dead seal. He started writing in the snow with a bloody finger; the message was "F@ck Off".

As we were circling to get a better shot of his message to us, the seal that was on the ice behind him, tried to sit up! This was clearly not swimming reflex, this animal was still conscious. The sealer did not respond by taking action to quickly kill the seal as required by the Marine Mammal Regulations, instead he hooked it in the face and then proceeded to drag the animal across the ice and onto the boat, still alive. What we document out here is unacceptable and the world needs to see what only a few people have the ability to view in person. IFAW is here to document the hunt so that the world can see that this hunt is inherently cruel and is not monitored or enforced like the government claims.
More from IFAW.org

This seal was struck by the hunter and wounded before it escaped into the water. This is known as seal that has been struck and lost.

The following are eye-witness accounts from crewmembers onboard the Farley Mowat. The very witnessing of these events is considered illegal by the Canadian government.

We encountered the sealing vessel the Cathy Erlene, registered to Sydney NS. Upon approach we saw two small aluminum boats carrying two men each darting from ice floe to ice floe searching for baby seals. It seemed they had a system. The barbarians on the Cathy Erlene were cruising through the ice searching for the few seal pups there were. They carried on their disgusting massacre carelessly firing upon the unsuspecting babies, their only goal to find and maim the infants. We witnessed two helpless victims, meters from the ship writhing in agony, hot blood spilling onto the ice and heard their cries as they continued to suffer for a good long time awaiting the small boats to arrive and fulfill their doom. Stepping onto the ice the babies, still alive turn their heads to the approaching man with a club. There is nothing humane about this massacre. What I saw today I will never forget, their cries will fill my thoughts and torture my soul. I can say I am truly embarrassed to be of the same race as these cowards and ashamed to be a Canadian today.
-Shannon Mann, Canada

Nothing prepared me for this, no video or previous encounter with the sealers on the ice. I watched in horror and disgust as two murderers clammered from their small boat, club in hand, and smashed in the skull of a baby harp seal. For an hour or so my memories are fuzzy with blood, abuse and worst of all the cries of seals as they are brutally killed. We will do whatever we can to expose this unnecessary, disgusting slaughter of life. Canada can not continue to censor its dirty secret any longer.
- Laura Dakin UK

First sight of human life on the ice I see two men lifting a seal impaled through the neck onto a sealing boat... the seal was still moving. There was lots of ice covered with blood everywhere. There was a larger boat that the smaller boats were dropping off the seals to be skinned, one of the crew of the boat got up to wave smuggly at us. They were skinning them and throwing the seal carcasses back overboard. They call it a seal hunt but I don't think walking up to a stationary seal and smashing its head in is hunting, it is an act of pure cruelty. No wonder they don't want the rest of the world to see what is happening.
- Daniel Bishop, England

It is untrue to say that killing these seals is being done humanely. Today we have seen sealers shooting the baby seals to wound them so they can't flee, beating them with wooden clubs then killing them by cutting thearteries under their flippers. The seals die slowly and in pain. It is a horrible thing to see.
- Dr Merryn Redenbach, Australia

When I woke this morning I looked through the port hole and saw red patches of blood on the ice and I knew the seal hunt had begun. On the deck I immediately saw a small boat and two men who stopped on a little piece of ice in order to slaughter an innocent baby harp seal. Actually there were two small boats and one sealing ship. The hunters carried a hakapik and bashed the seal's head. Some of the seals were still alive when they were delivered back to the sealing ship where they were finally skinned.
- Anne Fourier, France

Cephalopods in Outer Space

The Burning of Tokyo

Outer Space is a Lonely Place

Alex Gross via Suzanne G.

In other cephalopod news: Love in the octopus' garden