The $1 aisle at Target, contributing to the American educational experience…
What’s wrong with this picture?
Target, there’s no excuse for this….
Royce Cobblepot Video Interview and links!
So as I mentioned in the original post (Royce Cobblepot: Incredible Walrus “Furry†Costume) Royce himself commented on the blog at random prior to my posting about his costume. I asked if he’d be willing to do a short interview and talk about his costume and love of the walrus for our readers, and he agreed!
I wasn’t expecting more than an email response, and would have been very grateful for just that, but Royce greatly exceeded my expectations by creating an incredible interview video just for the site! Here it is:
Royce also provided some additional links in his original email response, including a link to his YouTube channel which is here:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E7698DB86425895B
Thanks Royce! You’re officially a “friend of the blog!”
The Beatles: I Am the Walrus Music Video
I had to link to it sooner or later. No search for the word Walrus on any web search engine, Twitter or anything else will fail to turn up a link to this song. So for you Beatles fans, here’s the psychedelic cartoon video:
Dreaming of a walrus? What does it mean?
So what does it mean to dream of a walrus? Funny you should ask, since according to the The Dream Moods Dictionary, to see a walrus in your dreams means the following:
To see a walrus in your dream, represents your display of dominance in some situation or relationship. You are always on the lookout for anybody who is trying to out-maneuver, out-rank, or out-wit you. Alternatively, the walrus represents your protective shell and thick-skin. You do not let the comments/criticism of others get to you.
For Eskimos and Native Americans in the North, the walrus symbolizes supernatural ability and power.
Now you know.
More dream interpretation can be found at The Dream Moods Dictionary.
AMAZING Underwater Walrus Photography
You have to check out this gallery of amazing underwater walrus photography by Goran Ehlme via the BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/07/sci_nat_beasts_of_the_deep/html/1.stm
Here’s the link. This is amazing stuff. I’m going to do some research on Goran’s work, and I’ll post a followup.
Twitter Account for the World Wide Walrus Web
I’ve started a Twitter account for the blog at: http://twitter.com/walrusweb
Mostly notifications of new posts and retweets of amusing or informative walrus-related Twitter updates. It’s Twitter, so of course Justin Bieber is already referenced in the stream. Come follow us, if you’re on Twitter.
The “Tweet Button” will eventually be added to posts here, but it’s not playing well with my WordPress theme, and I don’t have time to troubleshoot it right now, stay tuned.
“Tweet!” said the walrus.
Rotor the Walrus
As part of my ongoing quest to make you readers aware of walruses in popular culture, I give you Rotor the Walrus, a character in the Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon series. I became aware of Rotor by accident, I’m too old to have watched the Sonic cartoons and never played the games, but my young son has been very into Sonic for some time. One night when I had half an eye on the TV, I noticed Rotor! So here he is. Not as well known as other popular cartoon walruses (like Chumley, which is the most popular search term that brings viewers to this site). Rotor is the mechanical genius of Sonic’s team of “freedom fighters”. He is self-described as a nerd, and this quote appears on his fanclub site (linked below). “If I spend my time working on this, I don’t have to face other people”, which I suppose is a very walrusy sentiment.
Here’s a link to an info page about Rotor:
http://info.sonicretro.org/Rotor_Walrus
Here’s his wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotor_the_Walrus#Rotor
Rotor even has a fanclub site:
http://sonicsatam.com/thewalrusfanclub/
The Walrus Restaurant, Bismarck North Dakota
So I’m rooting around on Twitter and I discover a link to a place called the Walrus Restaurant! Clicking through, ’cause how could I not, I found a nicely done website for what looks to be a great place to eat and drink! They’re in Bismarck, North Dakota. Yeah, OK that rules out a lunchtime visit (I’m in Oregon). Actually, I’v never been to North Dakota but if I end up passing through you can bet that I’m going to grab a meal and a beer or two at the Walrus!
Menu, hours, etc are on their site which I like very much:
http://www.thewalrusrestaurant.com
I gotta get a t-shirt from this place. I love their logo. Judging form their Facebook page, this is a well-loved establishment with lots of great food and drink offerings. Makes me want to plan a road trip!
They are on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bismarck-ND/The-Walrus-Restaurant/168002072851
And Twitter:
http://twitter.com/TheWalrusBiz
Walrus Attack!
I had seen the image that accompanies this blog post before, but a little searching turned up the story that goes along with it…
…suddenly right in front of our boat the water exploded up and an enormous whiskered face launched up out of the water. He was so close that he put a front flipper up against the kayak and I could smell his breath. Walrus are HUGE, and those tusks are not small either! He dipped back under the water and I thought he was going to come up from under us and try tip us over.
This is an old blog post, from 2005, but the picture gives a great idea of how large a walrus is compared to a low-riding sea kayak. This encounter must have been frightening indeed.
Here’s the link to the original post, at Travelblog.org:
Never Mind The Polar Bears, Beware of the Walrus!
Amusing Walrus Page
Here’s a link to an amusingly-written, info and link-packed page by Grig “Punkie” Larson. Called, coincidentally, the World Wide Walrus! Mr Larson is a writer by trade, and the author of the (now out of print) Saga of the Punk Walrus (info page here). Anyway, I like this page. Mostly because it’s a fun read, and clearly a predecessor of this site, but not least because I’m old enough to miss the “old” World Wide Web and coming across still-existing old-school pages like this makes me smile.