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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Hey what about these guys from Dr Who?
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
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 ...
I find it disturbing.
Every seed's a life.