wash me x 8.

I was just sitting at my desk, staring into space, fantasizing about how clean a car could be if a octopus washed it. (I mean, ignoring the fact that the octopus would actually be a dead slimy pile on the front seat because of that whole needing to be in water to breathe and be buoyant thing.)

But, man, those tentacles could really get all of the crumbs out that are wedged in between my seats.

Octopus Car Wash is a chain, apparently. This picture is of their location in Madison, WI.

octopus wedding invites?

You will note the invitations don't show a male octopus jamming his sperm packet into the female octopus' beak. The invite also doesn't show the male then jetting off, leaving the female to guard the eggs until they hatch. At which point she dies of starvation because she didn't eat while watching said eggs. At which point, can I have the kitchen aid mixer they received as a present?

st. louis cephalopod

I was in St. Louis this weekend, and I thought it might be a cephalopod-free zone (sniff), but it turns out that even the spirt of st. louis used to have eight arms. This picture is of a fossil of an early, shelled octopus known as Techniceras. It was found in Missouri.

I don't know what Techniceras needed the quarter for. Perhaps Pleistocene vending machines.

japanese knitting site

I stumbled across this site (http://tokkyu2222.jugem.cc/). I think it is about knitting. And octopuses. And I know, I know, knitting and octopuses are just so trendy that combining them might be like "crossing the streams" in ghostbusters and after you look at these pictures you might experience complete and total particle reversal. So please be careful and don't say I didn't warn you. That being said, can we get a pair of the octopus gloves for our favorite pitcher, El Pulpo???

This one is an octopus brooch:



Complete particle reversal!!!!!

El Pulpo

Meet Antonia Alfonseca, pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies. He has an extra finger on each hand, and an extra toe on each foot (i.e. he is polydactylous). Alfonseca goes by the nickname "el pulpo" and "six fingers."

He says his extra finger never touches the ball when he pitches...but it is still pretty sweet.

octopus vs. jar

check out this video of an octopus opening a jar and getting a treat out of the jar. Take that, jar! Thanks to Marycat for this link!

pastapod

I made an interesting discovery in my homemade mac 'n cheese the other day:

I shall call this creature "pastapod," or "Octopus macoronus" as a proper name. I attempted to catch the wiley creature, but it quickly employed an escape route into the pasta. Check out its sweet camouflage:



But sadly, much like a clown fish in a dead coral reef, the pastapod is very obvious when it is removed from its habitat: