Its like Eric Carle made a movie about parasite sex! Adorable! Disgusting! Continue reading
Can’t think of a name for it…on the tip of my tongue, ah! Disgustable!
Category Archives: Don’t Go In the Water
Oh…no no no no….why I don’t…
I see a shark approach while paddling around, and the first thought is not: C) “I wonder if I can get this on camera…” Continue reading
Meanwhile, Under the Sea
There are things under the sea designed to creep you out. Continue reading
Why I Don’t Go in the Water: Blue Blistering Barnacles!
Grg gets a little ill looking at watched up on shore. Continue reading
Why I Don’t Go Into the Water: Urban Sturgeon
Grg retroactively reconsiders childhood activities after viewing pic of sturgeon that was retro-ly active. Continue reading
Why I don’t go ON the water…killer swans edition
Actually, I do go on the water. I love kayaking. I don’t love swans, especially now, as a swan has taken one of our own (from the BBC): Mr Hensley tried to swim to shore but eyewitnesses told the sheriff’s … Continue reading
Why I Don’t Go in the Water: lake monster edition
To be honest with you, ever since the black slime monster in Creepshow 2 as a young lad, I’ve been as equally ill at ease with lakes and fishing ponds (particularly those weird round ones with a swimming platform you … Continue reading
Why I Don’t Go In The Water: James Cameron is down there and he’s nuts
Seriously, James, there’s a reason our exploration of the ocean’s depths is, in your estimation, “piss poor,” and you say so why yourself: 16,000 pounds of pressure per square inch, or roughly 1,088 atmospheres of pressure. One atmosphere is the … Continue reading
Why I don’t go into the water: Strange Love at The Ocean’s Floor (Happy Valentine’s Day!)
Thank you Brian Switek for entering the phrase “bone-burrowing snotworm” into my nightmare lexicon. Today Brian wrote a lovely article on icthyosaur falls, which are like whale falls but, you know, they happened a long time ago to, you know, … Continue reading
Why I don’t go in the water…spoon worm
I didn’t want to use the name given at LiveLeak for the mortal fear of mentioning genitals in a subject heading. Fortunately, Urechis unicinctus, which apparently doesn’t have an official English name, is also called a spoon worm. I considered … Continue reading