We have another round of cephalopodic loveliness. Send me more!

• Chris Clarke contemplates the word “sepia”.

• Why chiropractors shouldn’t mess around with invertebrates.

• Kevin submits the ubiquitous octopus vs. shark movie.

• How can something so cute be angry? (Oh, man, I hear that one all the time.)

• Poulperia. I think it’s a variant on Santeria.

• Roger Burnham sends us some movies: Caribbean Reef Squid 001, Caribbean Reef Squid 002, and Common Octopus 001

• Octopuppy. It’s art!

• More cephalopoetry, from the Cuttlefish Poet:

  A Cuttlefish Limerick or Three

  The cuttlefish: Squid-like, you think?
  Just a cephalopod in the drink?
  Then you also should know it
  Refers to a poet,
  Or any who hide in their ink.

  For writers who think that they’re odd
  And ignored, by indifferent God,
  Don’t allow yourself–perish
  The thought, and just cherish
  Your label of “Cephalopod”

  For today, there will be no rebuttal–
  We will celebrate, loud and unsubtle!
  Just the same as each squid
  And each octopus did,
  We’ll shake all of our legs, and our cuttle!

  A Cuttlefish Double-Dactyl

  Inkily, thinkily,
  Deepwater cuttlefish
  Hide in their ink (to a
  Poet, that’s odd)

  Writing, you see, is not
  Characteristically
  Part of the life of a
  Cephalopod.

  the classic Ogden Nash–

  THE OCTOPUS

  Tell me, O Octopus, I begs
  Is those things arms, or is they legs?
  I marvel at thee, Octopus;
  If I were thou, I’d call me Us.)