Except…the text is disturbing. It’s on the wrong side of the continent. Read this story of a common occurrence around Puget Sound.
Douglass Brown was 15 when he saw a giant tentacle emerge from Puget Sound.
He was in Tacoma, walking down the beach with a girl he liked. Then he looked out at the water.
“I see this arm come out of the water. It was 10, 15 feet in the air,” Brown says. “It looked like an octopus or something like that, and I just took off running.”
I can so imagine walking along the beach with my girl when I was that young, and enjoying the aquatic wildlife. Except that I can’t imagine running — that’s the part where you hold each other a little closer, and sigh romantically.
(Also, I think the “10, 15 feet” part is a gross exaggeration. “Inches,” maybe. But then, one does tend to inflate in those situations.)
“the part where you hold each other a little closer with our tentacles entwined”
FTFY
I wonder what ever happened to that girl who young Douglass Brown was with? He reported that he “took off running” but made no mention of the girl’s outcome. Perhaps she was lured into the deep for a happy life with the tentacled beast?!?
Ahhh, that’s better.
Something in this poster reminded me of home — An escsaped zebrafish’s point-of-view of the mad doctor’s labs?
I am reminded of this book trailer for “Sense and Sensibilities and Sea Monsters.”
PZ, where did you find that poster? All my Goggle searches turn up are Batman references. (Curse you, DC comics!)
Akira MacKenzie #6
try this link
http://stevethomasart.blogspot.ca
http://alfalfapress.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/tree-octopus.png
Also, the author’s name links to the place where you can buy the poster.
Dan:
I’ve seen enough hentai…
Thanks! I didn’t notice the link.
Speaking of New England, the Old Gods apparently put on a firework show to celebrate the new book release by Stephen King:
“Great Ball Of Fire Lights Up Sky Over New England” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ball-of-fire-lights-up-sky_us_573b0f9fe4b077d4d6f3f757
If a tentacle emerges from Puget Sound and it can be seen in Massachusetts then that is one hellacious cephalopd.
More likely, the FSM waving a strand “Hi!”
C’mon blf, noodles don’t have suckers!
Akira @6
This would certainly explain why Arkham Asylum has such a high rate of repeat inmates.