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AKA Damon Arvid. Under-the-radar writer, musician. Let's keep it that way. The cloud novels and other highlights are being collected at DamonArvid.com. To access all the music and Avocado Sun, click the big black box below.

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inky for president

4/14/2016

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The elusive Inky himself in an undated publicity still.
Cephalopods are super interesting, not too cute. They look like they could, in time, master the tribal flute.

I wrote a paper on them in the mid-1990s at UC Santa Cruz, enthused by Doc Ricketts,  Gary Snyder, redwoods, the Tao (accidental discoveries), the Bolivian quena, and kind outdoor. They are, as I remember, one of the few animals with a proportionally larger brain than our own. In other words, they have a higher potential capacity for lethargy, pollution, and fart-related jokes.

I used to visit the Monterey Aquarium a few times a week as a graduate student. Walking from the wharf and old Customs House along a rocky, seal-and-kelp bay through Cannery Row-gone-chic to the suitably foggy former coastal factory that is the Aquarium.

I spent a lot of time watching the sea turtle, tuna, sunfish, hammerheads, and (temporarily housed) juvenile Great White. Most memorable was a six-year-old octopus living in a darkish corner of the aquarium. Nearly unmoving, the creature would subtly change its colors, in hypnotic striations, as our eyes locked. Or didn't. Each time it was different. I almost wanted to let the cephalopod draw me to it, incise my neck with razor sharp beak and incapacitate me in its multitude of arms and suckers.*

For these reasons, and others I would remember if had access to my old biology paper, I throw my hat in favor of escape artist numero uno**––a true cephalopod of distinction, Inky––for President of the aqua corpus. 

I hope that my endorsement for the Inkster will sway a few voters.  I know Bernie is great and all––he picked up a respected Senatorial supporter––but can he make his way out of a maximum security aquarium, scoot nine feet, and slither down along drainpipe to the sea? Can he handle new responsibilities of  blending in within a complex coral ecosystem and sneaking up on slippery eels? I'm doubtful.
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Octopus, sunfish, shark, coral, and tiki. November, 2015, Boracay.
* You think Mowgli had it bad with the snake in the Jungle Book? Seen nothin' yet.
** Clearly outdoing CG-enhanced Nemo in all but the fundraising and super delegate categories. 
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