One of the best things about co-editing a zine called Space Squid is that everyone sends you squid stuff. I was never terribly into squid, mind you, the zine is named in honor of the Atwood quote, it doesn’t reflect any sort of squid obsession of mine or any of the other co-editors.
Nevertheless, squids are neat.
This grinning fellow is a promachoteuthis sulcus. Whatever that might be.
Here’s a squid sent from Germany by my friend Antje.
And here’s a contraption that my friend Sue sent. It’s a normal hand soap dispensor, except that it has weird rubber tentacle skirt. It also has a device on top that makes it impossible to dispense soap without getting a red ink mark on your hand.
The idea is to teach kids to wash their hands for a proper length of time in order to remove the Lady Macbethian spot on their palms. It will also teach kids to never trust adults or their sneaky tricks.
