Have a Gibbous Cephalopodmas!
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Be on the look out for Santa Jaws!
“Don’t forget! Cephalopodmas falls on December 22nd by the human calendar! Get your special squamous someone something fetid!”
On the thirteenth day of Cephalopodmas,
Cthulhu gave to me
Thirteen Hapalochlaena,
Twelve ink sacs squirting,
Eleven Architeuthis,
Ten ammonites,
Nine tentacles strangling,
Vampyroteuthis infernalis,
Seven photophores a-flashing,
Six arms a-flaying,
Grimpoteuthis,
Four snapping beaks,
Three suckers,
Two cuttlefish,
And Histioteuthis heteropsis.
Worldwide celebrations
- Pharyngula: MERRY CEPHALOPODMAS, EVERYONE!
- YouTube: carol of the old ones
- a Christmas Cthulhu Podcast
- Merry frelling Cephalopodmas!
- Just Shelly: Happy Cephalopodmas!
- squid.us: Happy Cephalopodmas!
- SLUG SITE: Opisthobranch Molluscs celebrate the season too
UPDATE: I am assuming that this post by PZ Myers is the origin of the celebration of Cephalopodmas. Some one please correct me if I am wrong. As to the origins of cephalopodmas.org, I was able to confirm that it was started by Glenn Peters:
Short story short-ish: someone on Caitlin R. Kiernan’s journal mentioned cephalopodmas….I was amused by the idea…so I whipped up a quick website, and Caitlin wrote a carol for it.
UPDATE: It looks like the folks in Bump Town know how to prepare for Cephalopodmas! (via squid.us)
Tags: cephalopods
December 22nd, 2006 at 4:08 pm
[...] Last but not least, we must have music for this day: Thanks to Cephalopodcast for the link to the YouTube song Carol of the Old Ones. [...]
December 23rd, 2006 at 6:13 pm
Cephalopodmas is eternal and undying. It has neither beginning nor end; the world is shaped like a daisy chain of tentacular harmony, and time simply cycles around and through it like Mounties in the musical ride.