architeuthis dux...

...otherwise known as the giant squid. i spent my saturday night watching a documentary on the discovery channel detailing the search for this ever-elusive octopod. perfectly content to do so, too - i've always had this freakish fascination with the underwater, alien world that's existed before us + continues to carry on as it always has, no matter how much we land inhabitants spin out further advances in science, technology, culture, and all like markers of a progressive society. i like the idea that the giant squid, the beluga whale, the great white, the portuguese man-of-war, the seahorse don't really care for us at all. all our years of impressive history shrink to trivial dimensions. to them it doesn't matter who we are or what we've done - just that we've come and gone without irreversibly disrupting the balance of their liquid universe that answers only to the magnetic affection of the moon. respect the giant squid - what a weird, weird creature with its oddly phallic shape, sprawling tentacles like medusa's hair and luminous round eyes shining as glowing saucers drifting in space.