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Otaku Tako

It’s kind of a long story, but I saw a print online by the great Japanese painter and printmaker Hokusai today that featured, oh, I’ll just say there was a woman, and an octopus. Moving with lighting speed, I passed the image along to my favorite expert on matters Japanese and blue. This was the result. Safe for work, but the links there in may not be. Both Manuel and I were googling furiously after his initial straightforward short-link to the image; I’d post a link in the comments to find that he’d sent it to me via email.

Now, I think I’m happy to say, I know a lot more about tentacles than I once did.

UPDATE: Welcome BoingBoing tentacle mongers!

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Hopkin Saga Unfolds

Jeff (apparently the first person on the intarweb to blog the tearjerker Hopkin tale) updates us with Hopkin: Still Lost .

AN UPDATE TO THE UPDATE: As she notes in the comments to Jeff’s entry, it was not Jeff, but the beautiful and talented (and obviously insightful) Samantha who launched the frog pix that launched a thousand photoshop remixes. Kinda. I mean, Terry had something to do with it, and… and…

Did I mention lovely? And that Jeff is of course a lucky lucky man? No? Will these do?

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the lights

Damme and Damme!

I missed what appears to have been the biggest display of the Northern Lights over the lower 48 since 1988 last night.

Weeping and wailing will occupy me for the evening. There’s some sort of possibility of a replay, I hear tell. If that tip pans out, the wailing will end earlier than scheduled.

Thanks to y2k for trying to alert me, although I’d logged off when his kind email arrived.