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Category: Art • Cephalopods
Posted on: September 2, 2006 7:42 PM, by PZ Myers
MinnObserver sent me this photo from the state fair: even here in the midwest, people are gluing seeds into the form of very angry octopuses. Portents? Omens? Subconscious resonance with the Great Old Ones? Who knows.
Also, Mark Chu-Carroll finds a similarly ominous sculpture. It looks to be in the strange genre of cyclopic cephalopods.
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Comments
Hey what about these guys from Dr Who?
Posted by: Zarquon | September 2, 2006 8:20 PM
Was that a Cthulu reference? Am I to understand that PZ is not truly an atheist, but actually a closet member of the CCC?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus_Crusade_for_Cthulhu
Posted by: mr.orange | September 2, 2006 8:45 PM
mr.orange: That page does say they have a branch at UMinnesota ...
Maybe that's the student club I should have joined when I was an undergraduate ... oh well ...
Posted by: Keith Douglas | September 2, 2006 9:18 PM
I find it disturbing.
Every seed's a life.
Posted by: craig | September 3, 2006 3:20 AM