I know, I know! This is totally a cop-out blog post. But I've been super busy compiling the latest Circus of the Spineless, which I'm hosting over at my homepage, the Cephalopodiatrist. There's some squiddy goodness there, along with plenty of other bizarre biology, so go check it out!
And if you write or read about invertebrates on the web, feel free to submit blog posts (your own or others') to kzelnio at the gmail for future Circuses.

This is about a thousand kinds of awesome.
It's a jazz tune called "Cephalopod" which includes these memorable lines:

Cephalopod.
Would you like to study cephalopods?
Teuthology is a branch of science split from malacology.
Their lack of myelin makes their nerves grow big;
Neurophysiologists will dance a jig.
Fascinating fauna which taste good in stew.

Of course, I must point out pedantically that teuthology technically only refers to the study of squid, which is why the term cephalopodiatrist needed to be invented.

Yikes! It's always interesting to have a reminder that the wild ocean remains wild, and taking a boat to sea is an entirely different matter from taking a car to the store:

A Coast Guard statement says they were aboard the 61-foot squid boat Midnight Hour when it began taking on water Tuesday night near Eagle Rock on the northwestern end of the island. Chief Andrew Reyes says four people left the boat in a skiff. Two others went into the water but were picked up by the skiff. A nearby boat then took all six to safety.

The boat sank. The report doesn't say why.

Newfoundland and Labrador (which is a single Canadian state province, in case any of my readers are as clueless as I was am) claims to have the highest concentration of preserved dead giant squid anywhere in the world. I'm pretty sure that's not true, since they have only 5 specimens and the Center for the Giant Squid in Luarca, Spain, has 23.