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There is a band from Northern California called “Giant Squid”. They describe their sound as “eclectic indie-metal” and this press release makes the following comparisons:
Any fan of artistically intelligent and organically heavy indie-rock music, in the vein of ISIS, SONIC YOUTH, PLEASURE FOREVER, BLACK HEART PROCESSION, TARANTULA HAWK, MY BLOODY VALENTINE, PELICAN, MOGWAI, ULVER, NEUROSIS, […]

This one comes via Ika-San on TONMO.
To fully understand it you need to know about the recent documentary film “Grizzly Man“. But even if you haven’t seen the film (and we at squidblog haven’t seen it yet), it still strikes a very familiar note. We aren’t THAT obsessed, are we?
 

Scientists at the MBL (Marine Biological Laboratory) have recently launched the Squid Genome Project, a scientific collaboration to identify the genes of the long-finned squid—information they say will aid in the complex process of researching debilitating neurological diseases, including Multiple Sclerosis, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, and Alzheimer’s disease.
The effort is being co-directed by […]

If you thought the 25 foot crochet squid was fearsome, what do you think about Malcolm and Dorothy Clarke’s incredible museum?
Here is what the museum is all about:
The idea came to Malcolm after retirement from a career in research and a further 14 years in unpaid research on squids, cetaceans and other squid predators […]

I have to credit Clem from tonmo.com for this awesome find, on the aptly named Monster Crochet blog. For this is surely a fearsome monster!
 

Just in case you weren’t traumatised enough by the treatment of the giant squid by the Japanese scientists who recently snapped both photos and a giant tentacle, actor/musician Kevin Bacon has decided to rub salt in the wound:
ACTOR Kevin Bacon was so moved by the story of a giant squid he’s written a song about […]

I can’t wait for this one to reach our screens. Squidbillies is a new animated TV series that sounds a tad weird, but certainly seems worth a look.
Here is the blurb on the show from TV.com:
Five million years ago, the Atlantic Ocean covered North America all the way to the Ohio Valley. As the […]

From MTV.com, Keira Knightley talks about a day on set filming the upcoming “Pirates of the Caribbean” sequels:
“I had my first day back [recently], because we had a little bit of a break over the summer. My first day back was being dragged across the deck by an invisible giant squid, invisible because it’s […]

From SGIsland News comes this remarkable story:
A very rare Giant Squid was caught alive by one of the long-lining vessels fishing in South Georgia waters on June 25th. The animal was caught on a number of hooks on a longline that had been set at a depth of 1625 metres to target Patagonian Toothfish. The […]

From Sanich News:
They’re back - the monster killers from the deep.
Hundreds of dead man-sized Humboldt squid normally found in the tropics have been washing up on the beaches from Port Hardy to Haida Gwaii, formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands, to Alaska.