Cthulhu Captured!

Folklore says the Great Old Ones lived ages before there were any humans, and came to the young Earth out of the sky. According to Cthulhu mythology, a few of the species still lie dreaming, sleeping until the correct astrological alignment occurs. Than Cthulhu the great and terrorizing old one will rise from the black depths to enslave the human population. From time to time proof of his existence surfaces across the globe where his loyal followers praise his name and warns us all of the day the old ones will rise.

As he slumbers he sends out psionic thoughts of doom creating waves of misunderstood artistic phenomena such as the architecture like the picture below to reminds the non-believers that Cthulhu's presence is ever eminent (it also explain a lot of weirdness in Soviet Russia).



Cthulhuoid creature have become much more common in the last dozen years as human population continues to grow and experiment with the ever dwindling food supply. Cthulhu: Eater of Souls is sending a message.



However, Cthulhu the great and terrorizing old one said to be waiting at the bottom of the ocean floor may have been captured. Cthulhu which is being downplayed to avoid the frantic despair fabled to follow his claim of enslavement is simply called octosquid.

Cthulhu / octosquid. was captured near Keahole Point on the big island of Hawaii. The media claims it was an accident, that ‘octosquid was brought up from a depth of 3000 feet by a pipeline operated by Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority. He has 8 tentacles, an octopus head and squid mantle but is only approximately a foot long.

I thought the eater of souls would be much bigger.

There Is Certain Etiquette To Dinner Parties.

1. Invitations: Neat, clean, typed or even emailed

2) Greet your guests as they come to the door.

3) Introduce guests to each other

4) Offer guests beverages and hors de oeuvres.

5) During hors de oeuvres, slip out to the kitchen to ensure your dead wife and son cannot be seen by helpful dinner party guests putting away leftovers in your refrigerator.

A Belgian man did not follow etiquette and his poor housekeeping skills and the murder was discovered by a noisy dinner guests. Don't you just hate when they do go snooping around looking for dirt?

So next time you plan to have a dinner party, make sure you use Molly Maids before the murder and after - a messy house is just so tacky.


Note: Yes, I realize this is a horrible atrocious act of cruelty and I mean no disrespect in this play of humor -- but ya just gotta laugh at the world and other people’s stupidity otherwise you may make a few human Popsicles yourself.

7-Elevens Become Simpsons 'Kwik-E-Marts'

7-Eleven Inc. turned 6,000-plus stores in North America into Kwik-E-Marts, the fictional convenience stores in "The Simpsons." The latest example of marketers using 'we can laugh at ourselves" marketing is receiving smiles and offering Squishees instead of Slurpes. The temporary 'Kwik-E-Marts' will sell items that until now existed only on television: Buzz Cola, KrustyO's cereal and the slushy drink knockoff of Slurpees (Squishees).

The 'Kwik-E-Marts (temporary) renovation is all part of the movie campaign hype and loves to lampoon 7-Eleven as a store that sells all kinds of unhealthy snacks. The movie opens July 27th and I may see the movie based on the cool 'Kwik-E-Marts stunt alone.

7-Eleven has contracted with manufacturers of similar products to make their Kwik-E-Mart counterparts. Malt-O-Meal, the cereal maker, will conjure up a recipe for KrustyO's, for example. Other products will simply be renamed. One flavor of 7-Eleven's own Slurpee will be sold as "WooHoo! Blue Vanilla" Squishee for the month.

The stunt is a cheap way to call attention to their movie, since 7-Eleven is bearing all the costs. They're hoping the kwik E Mark shows the omnipresent chain has a quality rarely seen in other corporations — the ability to laugh at themselves.

"We thought if you really want to do something different, the idea of actually changing stores into Kwik-E-Marts was over the top but a natural," said Bobbi Merkel, an executive for of 7-Eleven's advertising agency, FreshWorks, a unit of Omnicom Group Inc. "It shows they get the joke."

The month long promotion has been rumored for a long while but was able to keep spoilers at bay until the stores were ready for their Kwik makeover.

The U.S. locations where a 7-Eleven store was transformed into a Kwik-E-Mart are:

• New York City
• Chicago, Illinois
• Dallas, Texas
• Denver, Colorado
• Burbank, California
• Los Angeles, California - 7-11 at Venice and Sepulveda in Los Angeles, CA
  
• Henderson, Nevada
• Orlando, Florida
• Mountain View, California
• Seattle, Washington
• Bladensburg, Maryland

Controversy?

Kwik E Mart is run by a man with a thick Indian accent so the promotion was not entirely risk-free. The proprietor of Kwik-E-Mart is Apu who speaks in a heavy Indian accent. He is based on a manager Matt Groening encountered while shopping at a 7-Eleven in Los Angeles nearly 20 years ago and plays to stereotypes about convenience-store employees and Asian immigrants.

While many of 7-Eleven's franchisees are Indian, Rita Bargerhuff, a 7-Eleven marketing executive said they were "overwhelmingly positive" after hearing of the Kwik-E-Mart idea, but still "it was not a 100 percent endorsement."

"There was definitely a concern of offending people," she said. "But they seemed to understand that 'The Simpsons' makes fun of everybody. The vast majority saw this as a great opportunity."

Kumar Assandas, a Las Vegas 28-year-old franchisee whose parents immigrated from India is one of the temporary Kwik-E-Marts.
"I know it's a stereotype, but it doesn't bother me. Everybody knows it's a joke," Assandas said. "I'm a big Simpsons fan myself, and maybe subconsciously it even inspired me to become a 7-Eleven owner."

Create Your Own Simpson’s Avatar

In promotion of the Simpson movie, the website is a designed to look like a busy metropolitan city. One of the nifty features is the ability to create your own Simpson’s avatar – which you can than tour Springfield with.

I tried to go many of Springfield's attraction, but sadly many parts of Springfield are Coming Soon. Moe’s Tavern was open though - doesn't that figure. I tried my hand at the Love Tester and was told I'm Hubba Hubba, must be the purple hair.

However be warned, Moe's tavern does post the occasional notice such as mine which said I was Wanted for having a fake ID... unfortunately your character doesn't really talk to the Simpson charters so I wasn't able to put to the test the act of getting a beer with my supposed fake ID.

The unfinished website is cute for a minute waster as they have games and a gallery but they really should have completed the website before going Live.