If only it were TrueType or Postscript, I'd be using this octopus alphabet all the time.
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Looks like something out of Hellraiser from far away... Creepy and cool.
It would certainly give you a leg up on the other bloggers.
Sorry.
Somehow I almost expect to see Cuttlefish poems written in this. or at least the first letter of each paragraph, like the old illuminated manuscripts.
Want!
An octopus-themed alphabet book, for strange children with exceptionally good taste?
Awesome!
I give it 24 hours on the outside until a "By your command" is heard.
A, b, c, d, e, f, g;
H, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p.
Q, r, s, t, u, v,
W, x, w, and z.
Now I've said my ABCs.
Tell me what you think of me.
I love that song . . .
Use the squid alphabet, PZ. It will draw us deeper under your spell where we will be enabled to accomplish even more terrible things in your name.
@ 7: Why is there no "y?"
7: I dunno. Didn't ask.
Crudely Wrott #7
Do you really want to know?
Mozart wrote a series of variations on the music.
Actually Mozart's variations were on Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. Totally different song. :o)
Same melody: ABC song, Twinkle Twinkle, and Baa Baa Black Sheep.
You can do them all in a round.
Yes, I have children. How did you know?
Sorry, Liz. I was shooting for sarcasm, but was pretty sure it wasn't going to come across. I was a music major and had to dissect Twelve Variations on "Ah vous dirai-je, Maman.
Randyduck, we didn’t just have to dissect it; we had to write our own, thirteenth, variation. Somewhere I’ve still got a copy of that assignment.
As homework assignments go, it was actually quite a lot of fun.
Cheers,
b&
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EAC Memographer
BAAWA Knight of Blasphemy
``All but God can prove this sentence true.''
And you still don't believe in God? Well, Cthulhu of course being God.
Sure beats the Shroud of Turin as a manifestation of the divine -- not that it's saying much.
Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/mxaa3p
That is amazing. Any chance your book will be typeset w/ the octopus alphabet?
Glen,
So long as we’re on the subject…one of my Music History professors often stated that the only sacred music was Mozart; all else is profane.
Me? Well, Mozart wrote lots of good stuff, but I don’t think he can hold a candle to Bach or Stravinsky. And, as good as Mozart’s operas are, he’s got nothing on Verdi and Strauss.
He did write an awesome trombone aria in the Requim, though. I have to give him that. I just wish he had written more than valved tympani parts for trumpet. Shit, even Papa Mozart wrote a trumpet concerto; Wolfie had no excuse.
Cheers,
b&
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EAC Memographer
BAAWA Knight of Blasphemy
``All but God can prove this sentence true.''
A is for Aquatic, which these animals are.
B is for Brachiopods which these are not.
C is for Cephalopod . . .
It would use too much ink.
Some horrible octopus serial killer is at work here evidently. Rest assured though, through incredibly good investigative work I’ve narrowed it down to a few suspects. It's somebody that speaks English.
http://www.yourfonts.com/ might work...
...but I certainly don't like octopuses enough to waste my time with a scissors.
It's wrong, for one reason: the colour and textures don't vary. It is not nearly funky enough.
In lieu of an octopus font, there's always the Groupsex font…
http://www.fontriver.com/font/group_sex/
octupus? Ah... looked like beards/moustaches to me at first glance.
That statement is MUCH more heretical than PZ's on Sundays. Now I have a glimpse of how some people must feel reading this site.
I'm no music major, just a common listener, but I don't agree with your teacher either -- I side with those that say Mozart's music is thoroughly human.
Oh, and the font is great.
(Sorry for not breaking paragraphs. It seems I can't comment here properly.)
@11:
You can also sing "Oh Beautiful For Spacious Skies" to the tune of Gilligan's Island.
I've been damned by people for mentioning that.
I would love for some artist to render the octopus font as a woodcut printed with octopus ink.
I emphatically encourage you to begin each of your posts using this typeset for the first letter of the body. It would be a welcome change to the stuffy, plain bold type that is so uncharacteristic of your blog.