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Every week, someone finds something that reminds them of me, and they send it off in an email. I think that every day someone strolls through a fish market and the PZ-spot in their brain lights up like a Tesla coil, triggering odd associations that can only be relieved by grounding them out in an email message. Some examples are below the fold.
A reader got a nice 60s vibe off this image, and thought it was perfect for me. Or maybe it was the octopus…
This is a jigsaw puzzle spotted at COSI:
Phil saw an episode of Cthulhu's Clues on his hotel TV, and of course he thought of me.
Hillary notes that the images that get highlighted on my blog seem to violate all of the rules of cuteness. Except maybe #24. All I can say to that is…Oh, for cute.
(Hillary also liked this story.
But it took half an hour for them just to join up, then they stayed that way for three hours. It kind of got boring. Then she reached around, grabbed him around the neck and bit his face off.
Now that's cute.)
Lately, I've been finding Myspace to be getting more than a little weird. I keep getting invites to be friends with people named Kissababe and Sexyhotty, and they've all got pictures of vertebrates in bikinis. I've been turning them down, but I don't know…if I got an invite from Licksasquid, I might accept.
At least, one reader thought I'd like this. It could be improved if there weren't a couple of mammals obscuring the view.
Comments
Posted by: Stanton | September 8, 2006 4:25 PM
You did get the recipes I sent, right?
Posted by: Joshua | September 8, 2006 4:43 PM
Eh?
Posted by: SEF | September 8, 2006 4:51 PM
I'm another one who had just had that "must tell PZ" impulse. :-D
Have you seen the "Pirateology" book (by Dugald Steer), PZ? A friend just bought it for their sproglets because they had enjoyed the "Dragonology" book so much. On the other hand/hook, you and yours might be a little old for that sort of thing ...
Posted by: 386sx | September 8, 2006 5:38 PM
Discharges from the PZ-spot
Wow, sounds a lot like the famous Dispatches from the Culture Wars, written by Danny Goldberg. Probably just a coincidence though!
Posted by: Jennifer Ouellette | September 8, 2006 6:31 PM
Hey, at least we're thinking of you. :) Imagine how horrible it would be to just be ignored. Instead, you are eternally condemned to spring to people's minds whenever they encounter cephalopods. Or pirates.... Argh!
Posted by: nemo ramjet | September 8, 2006 6:34 PM
You might think twice about Catherine Chalmers, PZ.
Her previous work, "FoodChain" (boy can you tell a gumby arts project from the "cool" abuse of grammar, ie, dropping spaces, in the title) is about as artistic as a pitbull arena. She feeds a tomato caterpillar to a non-native mantis, and feeds THAT to an Australian white's treefrog. In both cases, the animals have no freedom of action aside from killing and/or dying. I find this unnecessarily sadistic and the conditions, as "natural" as the colisseum.
In another work, she "executes" cockroaches on miniature electric chairs and nooses (which obviously wouldn't work on a cockrach but hey, who cares?). And paints nail-polish patterns on them to highlight "camouflague." Woa.
As an artist, I find her presentation shallow and vain, and her context as meaningful as a kid pulling the legs off of a daddy-long-legs.
As an armchair zoologist, I find her treatment of animals cruel, and her information seriously out-of-touch with reality.
you can get more loads of her mundane Sex in the City/Discovery Channel mishmash on www.catherinechalmers.com
Posted by: Siamang | September 8, 2006 6:55 PM
I thought you LIKED mammals.
Or is it just mammaries?
And then there's this image:
http://budplant.com/images/400/CHRS_2.jpg
From here:
http://budplant.com/product.asp?pn=CHRS&bhcd2=1157756058
Posted by: Paul | September 8, 2006 7:22 PM
well PZ,
I'm majoring in biology at the UA in Antwerp, Belgium and after silently following this blog for the better part of a year, my PZ-spot lighted up enough to start thinking about sending an email, and then, probably invoked by a certain noodle appendage, this post came up (or could it be just a plain coincidence .. nah must be a designed occasion)
it's a movie I encoutered through google-video
Henry Rollins pro evolution
I'm not sure how old it is though, because he makes it sound like the've just come up with ID
but he certainly makes a clear statement
greetz
Posted by: MikeM | September 8, 2006 7:58 PM
Practically every Bizzaro reminds me of you.
That's a good thing, right?
Posted by: coz | September 8, 2006 8:09 PM
I heart Henry Rollins.
Here is another...
Kraken of Doom
Its a funny little game called "Pirates of the Spanish Main", come in booster packs with various different boats, crew, treasure and monsters.
There is nothing wrong with 30 somethings sitting around drinking Chardonnay and messing about with tiny, teeny boats...nothing ;)
Posted by: coz | September 8, 2006 8:11 PM
Ok that link totally fugged up...
i'll do it the messy way
Kraken of Doom once more
http://www.flickr.com/photos/96644969@N00/236400206/
Posted by: tigtog | September 8, 2006 9:02 PM
How timely of you to have this thread, PZ. I just invoked your obstreperous powers on the Army because of #58 in 213 things Skippy is no longer allowed to do in the US Army, where Skippy is not allowed to mention squid in cadences.
As for the rest of the things Skippy is not allowed to do, I await the inevitable sitcom.
Posted by: No Nym | September 8, 2006 9:47 PM
Am I the only one who thought "Discharges from the PZ-spot" was going to be something, well, not so fresh? Remember, when you trackback someone, it's like trackbacking with everyone they've trackedback, too.
Posted by: Jon Voisey (aka the Angry Astronomer) | September 9, 2006 12:26 AM
Did you not get the pictures of the cute plushy squid I found at the San Diego I sent to you last month?
Posted by: Dark Matter | September 9, 2006 12:31 AM
I saw this on a website and knew some here would
like it (may not be work safe):
http://www.webagora.com.br/0/pupmast42/pages/Ara0744_Blanche.htm
I think I've read too much Lovecaft and Ramsey Campbell
to ever get the "tentacle love thang" though....
To each his own... :-)
Posted by: beccarii | September 9, 2006 2:28 AM
The "Cthulhu's Clues" link is broken. Is a fix available? I haven't been able to find one via Google.
Posted by: Pete | September 9, 2006 12:45 PM
When I saw this, I thought of all the Pharyngulati -
It's an amazing computer animation of the inner workings of a cell:
http://www.studiodaily.com/main/technique/tprojects/6850.html
You see cell-cell adhesion, cytoskeleton, actin and tubulin polymerization, mRNA export, translation, and secretion. Of course they left out the best part of the cell, the chromosomes - maybe that'll be the sequel.
Posted by: bernarda | September 10, 2006 3:57 AM
Here are a couple of sites you can add to your reading list.
http://www.badscience.net/?p=295#more-295
The dorkbot mentioned in the article might be of interest to nerds. As perhaps the other link it gives.
http://makezine.com/blog/
This will also be good for kids who are interested in tinkering with things. Scroll down to the little robot and the batometer and marble rolling.
Finance-challenged musicians will like the carboard box bass.
Posted by: bernarda | September 10, 2006 4:25 AM
I forgot to add this video with all sorts of strange creatures. Many tentacles, animal, vegetable, and mineral.
http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=7219698706729504500&q=henry+rollins
Posted by: Dragon*ConTV | September 10, 2006 4:44 PM
beccarii: the link isn't broken. Make sure you have Quicktime 7 to watch the video. ou can also check it out on YouTube.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=atI5Oi7O3rI