Cephalopod Awareness Day Alert #2

We have another round of cephalopodic loveliness. Send me more!

• Chris Clarke contemplates the word "sepia".

• Why chiropractors shouldn't mess around with invertebrates.

• Kevin submits the ubiquitous octopus vs. shark movie.

• How can something so cute be angry? (Oh, man, I hear that one all the time.)

• Poulperia. I think it's a variant on Santeria.

• Roger Burnham sends us some movies:
  href="http://blennylips.com/Critter%20Clips/Below/Critter/Mollusks/Caribbea
  n%20Reef%20Squid/Caribbean%20Reef%20Squid%20001.wmv">Caribbean Reef Squid 001,
  href="http://blennylips.com/Critter%20Clips/Below/Critter/Mollusks/Caribbea
  n%20Reef%20Squid/Caribbean%20Reef%20Squid%20002.wmv">Caribbean Reef Squid 002, and
  href="http://blennylips.com/Critter%20Clips/Below/Critter/Mollusks/Common%2
  0Octopus/Common%20Octopus%20001.wmv">Common Octopus 001

• Octopuppy. It's art!

• More cephalopoetry, from the Cuttlefish Poet:

  A Cuttlefish Limerick or Three

  The cuttlefish: Squid-like, you think?
  Just a cephalopod in the drink?
  Then you also should know it
  Refers to a poet,
  Or any who hide in their ink.

  For writers who think that they're odd
  And ignored, by indifferent God,
  Don't allow yourself--perish
  The thought, and just cherish
  Your label of "Cephalopod"

  For today, there will be no rebuttal--
  We will celebrate, loud and unsubtle!
  Just the same as each squid
  And each octopus did,
  We'll shake all of our legs, and our cuttle!

  A Cuttlefish Double-Dactyl

  Inkily, thinkily,
  Deepwater cuttlefish
  Hide in their ink (to a
  Poet, that's odd)

  Writing, you see, is not
  Characteristically
  Part of the life of a
  Cephalopod.

  the classic Ogden Nash--

  THE OCTOPUS

  Tell me, O Octopus, I begs
  Is those things arms, or is they legs?
  I marvel at thee, Octopus;
  If I were thou, I'd call me Us.)