That is cool.

The Ediacara fauna just keeps getting more and more interesting, doesn't it?

By the way, I never would have pegged you as being a Goon Squad fan. You were, what, five when that song came out?

Oh. OH. I didn't know that Veruca Salt was still together, or at least was at the time. I thought you were referring to this little piece from 1984. After all, it's always about the cephalopods. (Besides, for some reason, I thought you were considerably younger than I am. I don't know why.)

Edited at 2008-10-30 10:25 pm (UTC)

Think how I felt about it. The only reason I knew about the song was because I was dating a girl in 1985 who was addicted to a club called the Skyline, a high-rise club in a converted beer factory in Appleton, Wisconsin. The Skyline started out as a punk bar, so the owner put in a giant video screen to run lots of Echo and the Bunnymen and SSQ videos, and when the yupsters discovered it, he decided to clean it up and play lots of typically Eighties stuff. Yes, the song is horrible, but the stop-action work at least was well done. Besides, we both know that everything, even the Eighties, is improved with the judicious application of cephalopods.

I love this phrase from the article

that looked more like a modern party favor than a living animal

adorable

I am in the middle of reading ‘To Charles Fort with Love’ and I was happy and surprised to read how ‘The Road of Pins’ was in part based on La Bête de Gévaudan. I have loved the tale ever since seeing the wolf statues in Saugues and Auvers. Do you have other short-stories based on this? I now want to go buy the movie and do some reading on the beast.