Archive for May, 2005

Squiddities in the Star Wars universe

Tuesday, May 31st, 2005

Squidblog is certainly no fan of the Star Wars franchise, but we do appreciate George Lucas’ obvious affinity with squid.
Quarren, or “Squid Heads” as they are sometimes rudely called, are an alien species characterized by the four tentacles that protrude from their jaws. They have deep turquoise eyes, and each hand is capped with finned […]

The Calamari Wrestler

Tuesday, May 24th, 2005

I hope this film gets a mainstream release:
Giant squid crashes championship match & steals title belt.
REVIEW SUMMARY (From NYT)
When Koji Taguchi (Akira) wins a championship wrestling match, his delight is cut short by the intervention of a giant squid (a rubber-clad Osamu Nishimura), whose slithering tentacle swipes the Championship Belt. The remaining nine appendages proceed […]

Squiddy the Chef

Monday, May 16th, 2005

From the New Yorker, comes this winning entry in a squiddy captioning contest:

Read about it here, and here.

el diablo rojo: vampires of the sea

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005

From the Canadian news site globeandmail.com comes this story of a frightening encounter with a humboldt squid:
Some descriptions from witnesses sound like the plot to a horror movie — water roiling with tentacles; otherworldly creatures suddenly launching into the air from beneath the surface; nightfall bringing to the surface vicious predators that slip back into […]


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