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This is something all squidblog readers will want to get their hands on:

Archibald is a giant squid made out of lycra and stuffed with polyester filling. He stands 15 feet tall, has black eyes, a hidden pocket, and is red in color.
For more information check out Archibald’s websites:

http://www.modernsquid.com
http://www.myspace.com/archibald_dux

Archibald would certainly make a great companion […]

A while back Squidblog brought you news of the Giant Land Squid, as presented on Discovery Channel’s Future is Wild.
It now seems that my original post was incorrect. The creature in the picture is not a Giant Land Squid, but is a Flish. The correct details are all on this website, where you can […]

Ok, so this isn’t actually a squid-related item, but its something I felt squidblog could not ignore, given our general sea-monster theme.
From the Museum of Hoaxes blog:
It’s long been argued that when people report seeing sea serpents, they might actually be seeing floating logs, strange waves, or shadows on the water, and mistaking these things […]

Squidblog is very excited today - our Angry Squid t-shirts finally arrived in the mail. So now we can spread the dire warnings of the revenge of the Angry Squid, as well as continue to proudly proclaim our allegiance to the Squid Overlords.

If you want to know why the squid is angry, have a look […]

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?
 

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!
 

From Milwaukee, Wisconsin, comes the story of a rather odd sculpture:
Says Joan: “I think it is ugly.”
“To me,” adds Lee, “it is kind of an odd thing to have up there. It’s weird.”
It is. It’s a squid with feathers - although maybe that is actually calamari breading. Maybe the heat from the chimney is turning […]

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

Read about it here, and here.