Wow, has it really been since 2008 since I wrote anything here? Four years? That’s a crime. Though part of it was from not really liking our old blogging software/format. And I was writing a lot on LiveJournal.
And I kind of lost my voice for a while. Which you might have picked up on from my lack of posting here and how I’ve gone from at least one review a month to once a quarter here. Though I am doing the RevCast with Deanna, and I am very active on my and the RevSF Book of Face! (If you are there, you have “Liked” us, correct?) So it’s not like I’ve been gone or missing or not sharing my opinion with you all. But I need to get back to actually writing. I miss it.
So, this blog lives again!
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I wasn't familiar with the auhotr; I just came across the essay by chance, so I had no idea of the controversy on Metafilter. I am also fascinated/terrified by Humboldt squid and also glad, for the sake of my pocketbook, that Gold Bug is in another state @Borrowind Stimulating as always and compelling illustrations. I am similarly nauseated by fishy smells, though I didn't know of Lovecraft's distaste some things have fallen into place now.@acrasis I hadn't really thought about the transition to cephalopods from marine mammals before (nor the Star Trek connection), but I think you may be on to something. Not only are whales and dolphins intelligent and (mostly) gentle, they are social creatures we talk about schools of dolphins and pods of whales but cephalopods are mostly solitary creatures, and their intelligence is usually presented as crafty or even devious. (Think of the all the tales of captive octopi stealing fish from other tanks, for instance.) Cephalopods are much more suited to the Every Man For Himself ethos more prevalent in our culture now, I think.Thank you!