I aspire someday to be personified as a sinister octopus

[mmcirvin]

Strange Maps presents a history of the land octopus, its tentacles forever strangling the globe.

..."personified" isn't the word here, is it?

Comments

[tomscud.livejournal.com]

octopodomorphism?

I aspire someday to be personified as a sinister octopus

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

Cool link. I hadn't looked at "Strange Maps" for a while, thanks for reminding me of that site.

Non map related "personification as a sinister octopus", 1892:



Caricature of notorious New Orleans prostitute Emma Johnson from the New Orleans "Mascot". Or maybe it should be categorized as the earliest known US assimilation of the Japanese tradition of Tentacle Pr0n.

Re: I aspire someday to be personified as a sinister octopus

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Some of Strange Maps' recent articles have stretched the concept of a map a bit far to reach for new material, but this one's a corker.

[agent-mimi.livejournal.com]

Depicted?

I'm not down with the 6-legged octopus in that one poster. It ain't right.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Judging from the other examples. 8-leggedness is far from a requirement for the land octopus.

[agent-mimi.livejournal.com]

Huh. And here I only noticed one example. Perhaps my brain assumed the other legs were on the other side of the world/land mass and out of my line of vision.

Still, I ain't fer it, I'm agin' it.