{"id":256,"date":"2008-12-22T10:42:12","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T18:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=256"},"modified":"2008-12-22T11:07:28","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T19:07:28","slug":"lurking-monsters-of-the-festive-wossname","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"Lurking Monsters of the Festive Wossname"},"content":{"rendered":"

My brain has conked out for the holidays. I’ll be back in Jan, I swear, even if I have to feed electrodes up my nose and JOLT the porridge-like grey matter into life to do it (again ;p) Mean time, here are some FESTIVE MONSTERS<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

First up, by way of the ever-brilliant Boing Boing<\/a>, check out this Siphonophore<\/strong>. It’s “an eerily fantastic creature that appears to be a single, large organism, but which is actually a colony of numerous individual jellyfish-like animals that behave and function together as a single entity.”<\/p>\n

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Isn’t that amazing?? I do my best to make up decent monsters, but… wow! Put this\/these dude\/dudes in a book, someone, please!<\/p>\n

Next, in case you haven’t seen it already, here’s some recently released footage of an extremely rare elbowed Magnapinna<\/em> squid<\/strong> who recently paid a visit to a deep sea drilling site<\/a>….<\/p>\n

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As Ryan North of Dinsoaur Comics<\/a> says in his inimitable style, “So octopods are terrifying and we all know that but […] oh hey, looks like they’ve DEVELOPED ELBOWS AND INSANELY LONG ARMS AND LOVE TO STARE UNBLINKING AT THE CAMERA. holy crap you guys.” Quite.<\/p>\n

Third, here’s something that I’m secretly a bit pleased with. In one of my other lives I get to play with some truly excellent musicians in a band called Sour Mash Daddy And His Sixty Wives<\/strong>: I don’t normally mention our activities here, partly because we appear in public about as often as… well… the elbowed Magnapinna<\/em> squid! But on Dec 6th we did play a gig, and some film footage of this rare occurrence has survived (thanks, Laura). I should explain that singing duties are normally taken care of by members of the band who actually, like, know how to sing. But…<\/p>\n

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Heh (blushes) Hope you get a kick out of it! ;p<\/p>\n

My thanks, and a HUGELY HAPPY FESTIVE WOSSNAME<\/strong>, to everyone who happens to be reading this. Here’s to 2009, and whatever new adventures we have in it!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My brain has conked out for the holidays. I’ll be back in Jan, I swear, even if I have to feed electrodes up my nose and JOLT the porridge-like grey matter into life to do it (again ;p) Mean time, here are some FESTIVE MONSTERS. First up, by way of the ever-brilliant Boing Boing, check […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}