holy cephalopods! According to Science*, the first 6-footed octopus (hexapus) has been discovered!

now typically, I would be 100% entirely jazzed about this wonderous, cryptozoology-meets-actually-actual-zoology news, but the 1955 Film “It Came from Beneath the Sea“** prophecized that the city of san francisco would be destroyed by a giant hexapus and, frankly, I’m concerned for my left-coast friends.

SF’ers: MOVE INLAND!

And while we are on the topic, I’d like to encourage everyone ever, who reads my blog, to purchase their very own tentacle arm:

*let me be the first to commend the cnn.com copy-editors for properly pluralizing “hexapus” as “hexapuses” and not “hexapi”. also, this quote makes me giggle incessantly:

Octopuses are renowned for having three hearts, blue blood and the ability to alter their skin complexion in the blink of an eye.

heh “renowned”?

**see one of my first blog posts, “Cryptozoology: a film series“, in which this movie could easily fit.

I find businessmen to be an infinite source of entertainment.

/Favorite businessmen phrases/

• Win win
• Team Player
• Brain Dump
• Core Competency

/Businessman on a trampoline/

/Businessmen: the Filmathon/

• 9 to 5 (If I were in charge of the world, Dabney Coleman, Dolly Parton and Lily Tomlin would be in every movie.)
• Office Space (this one is fairly obvious)
• Joe Vs. the Volcano (it’s worth it to watch tom hanks and meg ryan commit volcano-cide.)
• Falling Down (”I don’t want to be your buddy, Rick. I just want some breakfast.”)

/Businessman: the Hunted (kids in the hall)/

1. Like Water for Chocolate (Edible)
2. Back to the Future (Oedipal)
3. Delicatessen (Edible)
4. Hamlet (Oedipal)
5. The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover (Edible, possibly also a little bit oedipal)

I apologize for the image above. it is tasteless. well, maybe tasteless is the wrong word. it’s definitely boorish… and philistine.

I have and will continue to devote hours, nay! weeks, of my life creating movie marathons … to be an uber-geek, I have separated the Cryptozoology series into Land/Sea:

Land//

• Harry and the Henderson’s: sasquatch AND john lithgow, together. what is not to love?
• Krull: starring ken marshall, who you may remember from “Feds”, krull creates it’s own mythos with a ginormous spider-beast guarding the widow of the web, speed horses that leave a flaming trail as they run, cyclops and a very young liam neeson.
• Legend: unicorns, tim-curry-as-sinister-horned-horseman, and a soundtrack by german ethereal-electronic gurus tangerine dream.
• Clash of the Titans: one of stop-motion creature-animator ray harryhausen’s last films, it includes a pegasus, kraken*, cerberus, and a robot owl named bubo (who may or may not inspire a spin-off marathon entitled “the cyborg-menagerie”).
• Pete’s Dragon: helen reddy (responsible for 2nd-wave-feminism’s anthem “I am Woman” and currently employed as a hypnotherapist in sydney) and red buttons (of the original “poseidon adventure”) sing with an animated dragon.

Sea//

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: kirk douglas battles bloodthirsty giant cephalopods. potentially the most respectable (if you are entirely narrow minded) film in this marathon.
• Splash: not even eugene levy can thwart the star(fish)-crossed love of tom hanks and darryl hannah as mermaid.
• The Incredible Mr. Limpet: “GLUB! The Face That Launched A Thousand Torpedoes!”… a magical human-fish, played by don knotts, fights the nazis.
• Creature from the Black Lagoon: another classic featuring a humanoid amphibian.

* The kraken in clash of the titans makes it eligible for both land and sea lists.