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Category: Art
Posted on: October 3, 2008 4:12 AM, by PZ Myers
I saw this picture, and thought it looked almost exactly like how Skatje reacted the first time we took her to a sushi bar. Except that she would have had an expression of horror and dread in the first panel.
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Comments
Posted by: jose | October 3, 2008 4:35 AM
hentai.
Posted by: Andre Vienne | October 3, 2008 4:48 AM
gb2/b/ ?
(I wonder if, with enough of this, I can upgrade my handbasket to a go-kart.)
Posted by: Sam | October 3, 2008 4:52 AM
Uhh, I'm not judging or anything, but why are you looking at websites called lolita-art?
Posted by: Kobra | October 3, 2008 4:57 AM
I was anticipating hentai. :P
Posted by: Robert | October 3, 2008 5:07 AM
/d/ is overthere ->
Posted by: Reynold | October 3, 2008 5:10 AM
You're a weird, weird, man, PZ.
I too, would like to know just what the heck you're doing at that site.
Posted by: Masks of Eris | October 3, 2008 5:12 AM
At #3: DeviantART, despite the name, is just a sort of Youtube/Wordpress.com-like host for people that draw, paint, etc., and lolita-art is apparently the handle of the fella/felless who drew this one.
(I can't diss weird handles since mine has the name of a Greek goddess when I'm a Finnish male atheist. Ugh.)
Posted by: Yakov S. | October 3, 2008 5:38 AM
In Soviet Russia, sushi eats you!
Posted by: alex | October 3, 2008 5:54 AM
in the local supermarket in my bit of Japan, they sell full sets of Octopus tentacles with the mouthparts still attached.
also, they're shrinkwrapped.
Posted by: Jorg Willekens | October 3, 2008 6:18 AM
Oddly enough the last panel looked like a facehugger to me... It isn't at second inspection, but I guess it's the way how I think ;-)
Posted by: Jorg Willekens | October 3, 2008 6:30 AM
@alex: Is that so surprising? On my last vacation in Tuscany, I bought a complete squid (calamari), including, well everything: ink sac, intestines (dunno if it's called that way), beak, eye.... Well, I think it was everything. I'm not a biologist ;-)
Oh, the squid was very yummy.
Posted by: GodS | October 3, 2008 6:42 AM
How comes that some people tag pictures of a pretty girl with big eyes "lolita art"? I just see a pretty lady, some sushi and a squid under unusual circumstances. You guys must be specialists, huh?
Posted by: Azkyroth | October 3, 2008 6:46 AM
The "lolita-art.deviantart.com" URL might be related.
Posted by: alex | October 3, 2008 6:54 AM
Jorg:
it certainly surprised me. they looked like they were smiling.
Posted by: ptet | October 3, 2008 7:27 AM
Kinda cthulhoid...
Posted by: bsk | October 3, 2008 7:43 AM
Lolita-art is the name of the artist, for those not versed in the world of Deviantart.
That being said, we all know what happens in the fifth panel.
Posted by: rickflick | October 3, 2008 7:46 AM
This actually happened to my wife while we were scuba diving in Hawaii. Well, not the sushi part. The dive guide found an octopus under a rock and we were passing it around the group of divers. I decided to clamp on to my wife's face and wouldn't let go until she put her head down near the rocks where it climbed off and then swam away. She was left with some pink round spots on her face and about a pint of slime dripping from her chin.
Posted by: rickflick | October 3, 2008 7:52 AM
Correction..."IT decided to clamp onto my wife's face"
I wouldn't think of doing such a thing.
Posted by: bsk | October 3, 2008 7:54 AM
"I decided to clamp on to my wife's face" - not something one usually describes to strangers, but thank you for that lovely image.
:)
Posted by: Joe | October 3, 2008 8:29 AM
Is it just me, or is that thing missing a tentacle?
Posted by: stoat100 | October 3, 2008 8:39 AM
Is it an out-take of the 'Old Boy' remake with a female protagonist? Or maybe a squid protagonist?
Posted by: tceisele | October 3, 2008 8:41 AM
Rickflick [#18]
Too bad. For a minute there, I thought maybe it was going to be a "How I met my wife" story.
Posted by: Michelle | October 3, 2008 8:46 AM
One thing at a time! It has to rape her face first!Posted by: CyberLizard | October 3, 2008 8:48 AM
You mean that's NOT what's supposed to happen in sushi bars? 'cause that's always been my experience.
Posted by: mr P | October 3, 2008 9:11 AM
That last frame is actually a scene from Alien
Posted by: E.V. | October 3, 2008 9:14 AM
Octopus or Squid? And the girl needs to be checked for a thyroid problem.
Posted by: gyokusai | October 3, 2008 9:17 AM
The missing one's down in the girl's trachea. Molluscs watch movies too, you know.
^_^J.
Posted by: Cuttlefish, OM | October 3, 2008 9:24 AM
heh...
.
.
.
If you find an appeal in an octopus meal--
Say, for sushi you've got a real itch--
The cephalopods have their Octopus Gods
And I'm telling you, payback's a bitch.
http://digitalcuttlefish.blogspot.com/2007/10/talk-to-tentacle.html
Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp, KoT, OM | October 3, 2008 9:31 AM
Cuttlefish win
Posted by: E.V. | October 3, 2008 9:32 AM
Cuttlefish for National Poet Laureate!
Posted by: Bjorn Watland | October 3, 2008 10:05 AM
Speaking of bars, Minnesota Atheists is hosting a pub crawl in the Wedge area of Minneapolis. It's fairly godless, but we can do better. Grab a latte and a beer and make an art installation in front of your favorite Co-Op!
http://mnatheists.org/content/view/175/1/
Posted by: Bjorn Watland | October 3, 2008 10:06 AM
Pub Crawl is Tonight! CC Club at 7:30 PM.
Posted by: AJS | October 3, 2008 10:09 AM
This reminds me why, although no longer vegetarian, I remain staunchly anichthyophagous.
Posted by: Kobra | October 3, 2008 10:43 AM
Cuttlefish, let me introduce you to http://www.limerickdb.com
Posted by: Miss Infidel | October 3, 2008 10:46 AM
Someone needs to get Gordon Freeman up here in this joint.
Posted by: Tim | October 3, 2008 11:00 AM
Hey, PZ, the caption could have been the same for the comic as it was for the Friday Cephalopod: Contact article. =)
Cephalopod and Homo-Sapiens (on our turf).
Posted by: Mike | October 3, 2008 11:23 AM
Knowing the predilections of your family, PZ, and the high regard in which the formidable Skatje is held, I cannot but conclude that Skatje is the cephalopod in this image. For The Win. ;-)
Posted by: Tony Sidaway | October 3, 2008 11:28 AM
The final frame reminds me of Alien. I wonder whether Giger was influenced by the Japanese tentacle stuff. Probably not. His early work often featured ducts and pipes disappearing into and reappearing from odd parts of the human anatomy.
Posted by: Chris P | October 3, 2008 11:59 AM
Having had sushi in Japan, what I didn't like was the piece of something that got BIGGER in my mouth as I chewed on it.
Managed to hide it in the left over soup in the soup bowl, but whoooaaa.
Chris P
Posted by: DaveG | October 3, 2008 12:27 PM
Just realized Giger may have been inspired by Not Of This Earth - the flying umbrella was the best part of that movie.
Posted by: the petey | October 3, 2008 12:30 PM
this brings back scary anime memories
Posted by: kermit | October 3, 2008 12:36 PM
For those who haven't seen it, there is a fifth panel of sorts at the bottom or the web page - follow the link. The pic at the bottom changes; refresh the page once or twice if necessary.
Posted by: E.V. | October 3, 2008 1:08 PM
Kobra, do these people not understand scansion? With wildly varying syllable counts, mismatched stress pattern agreement between lines and poor rhyming - it's maddening to wade through all the dreck for the few that "get it".Cuttlefish has mad sick skilz and the ear of an artist/satirist.
Posted by: Emmet Caulfield | October 3, 2008 1:45 PM
There once was a man from Japan
whose limericks just wouldn't scan.
When asked why this was,
he answered, "Because
I always cram as many syllables into the last line as I possibly can."
-- http://limerickdb.com/?11
Posted by: Mrs Tilton | October 3, 2008 1:50 PM
Cuttlefish is the molluscan reincarnation of Sir William S. Gilbert and I claim my five pounds.
Posted by: cicely | October 3, 2008 2:20 PM
More kudos for Cuttlefish!
Posted by: Sili | October 3, 2008 4:12 PM
Looks familiar. I guess I musta seen it in someone's favourites. It's been featured last year after all.
Posted by: JJR | October 3, 2008 6:14 PM
Ah, animation cells from a rejected episode of Azumanga Daioh!
Thanks, PZ!
;-)
Posted by: Insineratehymn | October 3, 2008 10:05 PM
This picture is arousing me as we speak.
Posted by: Kseniya | October 3, 2008 10:31 PM
Gosh! Hasn't poor Sakaki suffered enough?
Posted by: Monado | October 3, 2008 11:00 PM
It reminds me of a beer commercial... Hapless tourist in Japan orders "sushi surprise" because it comes with his favourite beer. It latches on to his face. He says, in a muffled voice, "It tastes funny." The hostess says brightly, "It lay eggs now."
Naturally, I can't remember the brand of beer.
Posted by: pcarini | October 4, 2008 3:35 AM
If Cuttlefish hadn't put in an appearance I'd have given the win to Yakov S. (#8) for the obvious but requisite Soviet Russia joke. Better luck next time, Yakov, but thanks for playing, I got a good laugh out of that (what can I say? I'm easily entertained.)
Posted by: Jim Thomerson | October 4, 2008 5:19 PM
Fish collection curator friend told me of hosting some visiting Japanese ichthologists. They arranged a meal in his honor. Seems the best and most honorable thing (next to fugu?) you can be offered to eat is a small live octopus. There is a quick swallow technique. Occasionally people get it wrong and choke to death on a small live octopus in their trachia. The point is to have the glorious experience of feeling the octopus die in your stomach.
Once on a poorly planned field trip (ie, we had nothing to eat all day) we ended up at dark at the University of Texas Marine Lab at Aransas Pass. They had set up a tide trap with a light over it in the channel. A school of about 30 eight-inch long squid came in to feast on the attracted small fishes. I found a cast net and caught the whole school first throw. We took them into the kitchen, heated up some Crisco in a big frying pan, rolled the squid in flour, and threw them in. We ate every thing but the pen and beak. It was my first time to eat squid. Boy were they good!
Posted by: David Johnson | October 5, 2008 12:20 PM
Well, you certainly have to appreciate the freshness of that sushi!