The solution seems obvious: trap and eat the octopus!
EBL: My Octopus Teacher 🐙
AoSHQ: Morning Report 08.25.25
I just received this from @kurteichenwald. There are no words for how wild this email is. @VanityFair is apparently an odd place.I just received this from @kurteichenwald. There are no words for how wild this email is. @VanityFair is apparently an odd place. pic.twitter.com/Ik1bfjoKyl— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) April 3, 2018
Vanity Fair spox to @maxwelltani just now: "Kurt Eichenwald is not a contributing editor at Vanity Fair."— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) April 3, 2018
Kurt Eichenwald to @brianstelter just now: "I'm a contributing editor." pic.twitter.com/tmoS1mVbVf
Instapundit: Eichenwald exchanges and Remove the tentacles from across the land...Pictured: Kurt Eichenwald finding out he just got fired. pic.twitter.com/pfdYO9iL9c— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) April 3, 2018
Didn't @kurteichenwald watch Mad Men? #OctopusPorn #KurtEichenwald@TuckerCarlson @jtLOL @smitty_one_each @DaTechGuyblog @rogerlsimon @ali pic.twitter.com/xirfSwjJaM— Evi L. Bloggerlady (@MsEBL) June 8, 2017
Here's one for #KurtEichenwald... Little tame tho, just foreplay. 🐙👧🏻 pic.twitter.com/WwjveJqnnM— Jaxon Gator 🐊☀️ (@jaxon_gator) June 8, 2017
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| I am hungry now! |
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| Slow simmered octopus in tomato sauce is delicious... |
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| Tako to ama, The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife, Hokusai, 1841 Added creepy bonus: Barack is your husband too! |
One of my favorite moments in Mad Men (give me a pass, here, for violating the “no Mad Men after Memorial Day” rule of the blogosphere, because it’s from a few seasons ago) is when Japanophile Bert Cooper reveals his latest artistic acquisition, a paneled painting of a Geisha engaged in an intimate act with a Cephalopod, entitled “The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife.” Cooper intimates to his creeped-out colleagues that the painting stirs thoughts about the combination of counterintuition, creativity, and monomania required to be an ad-man.
“It also, in some way, reminds me of our business,” Cooper says. “Who is that man who imagined her ecstasy?”
That’s sort of the thought I had when I saw the latest fundraising pitch from team Obama-Biden: