http://meganpowell.net Fiction, random musings, and a few other odds and ends Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:54:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en But it's an octopus, anyway. Or was, before limb regeneration went wild. Ah, Japan. Without it, the internet would be a much less interesting place. http://meganpowell.net/blog/2008/07/23/too-late-for-squid-week/ Or a Zygon. Whatever floats your boat. http://meganpowell.net/blog/2008/07/11/be-a-squid/ From everybody's favorite food geek Alton Brown: dry and wet fried calamari recipes. http://meganpowell.net/blog/2008/07/10/eat-a-squid/ Scientists at the Institute of Marine Research in Vigo investigated sex between giant squid, which they deem "a fairly violent affair" involving a penis that is "a bit like a high-pressure fire hose." But having such a big penis does have one drawback: it seems that co-ordinating eight legs, two feeding ... http://meganpowell.net/blog/2008/07/09/squidy-sex/ http://meganpowell.net/blog/2008/07/08/squidy-kitty/ http://meganpowell.net/blog/2008/07/07/squidy-graffiti/ I can think of no more fitting way to kick off Squid Week '08 than with Jeff VanderMeer's Squidpunk Manifesto: Fiction that unlike New Weird, Steampunk, or Slipstream, is at its core not only about squid, but about the symbolism of squid as color-changing, highly-mobile, alien-looking, intelligent ocean-goers. As a powerful ... http://meganpowell.net/blog/2008/07/06/squidpunk/ I guess I can stop any time I want. (Aside from noting that I have not posted or kick started the db in a long time, I have nothing of interest to say.) http://meganpowell.net/blog/2008/07/01/six-weeks/ Patti's been doing a regular Friday series, asking folks to blog about favorite books that aren't "first-tier classics." A worthy goal, encompassing a great many books. In fact, I had a tough time narrowing down the list properly, especially with Patti's off-hand reference to "classics we can all name." Who's ... http://meganpowell.net/blog/2008/05/16/cuckoos-egg/ The California Supreme Court (dominated, incidentally, by Republicans) says discrimination is icky. A few years ago, I was in the camp that believed that, in a perfect world, there would be a distinction between civil unions and marriages. You get your civil union (with all the legal benefits) from the state, ... http://meganpowell.net/blog/2008/05/15/go-california/