Last Night’s Dream
I bought an octopus.
R Kikuo Johnson captures The Shark King | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources
Oh man, I absolutely loved his first book, so this is a must-buy. Plus: Sharks. Could he be pandering to me any harder?
February 22, 2012
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Would I be a crazy person if I spent this much money to hug and kiss a dolphin and/or sea lion? I am serious.
Real talk: dolphins are amazing. As a brat from Florida I have had dozens of actual wildlife encounters with dolphins, but have also done one of these resort-style things as well, in Hawaii. There’s a level of guilt involved — dolphins are smart as fuuuuuuck and keeping them for our amusement seems barbaric — but at the same time, dolphins are smart as fuuuuuuuck, and they seem to actively enjoy interacting with an animal as smart as they are (that would be humans), so that mitigates the guilt a bit.
I say do it, why not.
December 29, 2011
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December 16, 2011
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August 1, 2011
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You guys. YOU GUYS.
We’re editors of the #SHARK tag on Tumblr along with Topher Grace (remember That 70’s Show?) and something called “Discovery News” which we’re assuming has something to do with Magellan or some shit.
EDITORS, Y’ALL.
Hopefully Discovery will try to bribe you into voting to support their corporate interests, and you can either (a.) expose them and become internet heroes or (b.) just stay quiet and make that money, yo. Win-win either way.
December 9, 2010
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I swear, the internet. How does it know to smash together the things I love most in the world? No, no, don’t tell me. I want to believe there’s still magic.
(via fuckyeahsharks)
November 19, 2010
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True American Dog: Kooly The Bear Tight Ropes Over Shark Mountain
God how I love this site. (Thank you, KFan.)
The BP-Spill Baby-Turtle Brigade - NYTimes.com
Great piece on Alabama’s attempts to protect its nurseries of baby turtles after the oil spill, and another blast from my past — growing up in Florida, we always knew how to spot and avoid loggerhead turtle nests. I really do miss living by the ocean sometimes.
BBC News - Whale's 'yacht landing' caught on film
OH MY GOD HELLO MUST-WATCH.
September 20, 2010
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“
Q. WE KNOW THAT DOLPHINS ARE HIGHLY TRAINABLE. BUT HOW SMART ARE THEY, REALLY?
A. Let me tell you a story. One of the first dolphins I ever worked with was Circe. I’d bring her a fish when I wanted her to do certain things. If she didn’t do them, I did a “time-out” where I turned my back and walked away. Well, there was a certain type of fish that Circe loathed because it had a spiny tail. So I accommodated her by cutting the spines off of the tail. One day, I forgot to do that. Circe spit it out, swam to the other side of the pool and placed herself into a vertical position that mimicked my time-out. I wanted to test this. I gave her untrimmed fish on four different days. Whenever I gave her fish with spiny tails, she gave me a time-out. What that suggested was that she saw time out as a correction and used it back on me. Well, that’s how we learn to communicate.
”A Conversation With Diana Reiss - Studying the Big-Brained Dolphin - Interview - NYTimes.com
(Head explosion)
August 26, 2010
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Great white shark spotted in waters off Provincetown, Truro | masslive.com
My complexes re: large groups of gays (I always feel like a bad gay when around others) have made me avoid Provincetown (and Fire Island) all my life, but tell me there are great white sharks and suddenly it’s my #1 most-wanted vacation destination. (My roommate is going next weekend; I hope he does not get eaten, but I hope he does get photos.) (via Phil)
August 13, 2010
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How The Male Angler Fish Gets Completely Screwed - The Oatmeal
I am thinking I might need a new recurring tag entitled “Horrifying Lovecraftian Sea Life.” (mustache-twirl to Craig)
Surfer Responds to Great White Sharks by Holding Video Camera in Water -- Vulture
This man is kind of an idiot, and yet I respect him nonetheless for providing me with probably the most intense minute and thirty-eight seconds of my day.
“ Walker’s first love was marine biology, with his idol being Jacques Cousteau, and he joined the Board of Directors of The Billfish Foundation in 2006. He recently fulfilled a lifelong dream by starring in a National Geographic documentary about great white sharks, which aired on November 16, 2009. He spent 11 days as part of the crew, catching and tagging 7 great whites off the coast of Mexico. The expedition, led by Franciscan monk Chris Fischer, gathers measurements and DNA samples, and places satellite tags on the sharks to increase knowledge about shark movements in the oceans. ”
Paul Walker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yes, that is heartthrob actor Paul Walker. I was watching an HD show about great white sharks this afternoon (AS YOU DO) and suddeny they introduce the deckhand as “Actor and adventurer Paul Walker” and I was all “WHUUUUU?!?!?”
There is nothing hotter than a dude with a passionate interest in marine biology.
Chum Buddy; what happens when badassery and sleeping equipment procreate.
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As always my response to this is at the 0:52 mark.
