The Call of Cthulhu in Under 2 Minutes, by The Brothers Grim and Grimy [Youtube]

Abstract: The recovery of an ancient gold headdress illuminates a manifestation of the poorly understood “Cthulhu” archetype in ancient Peruvian cosmovision.

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What if Frankie and Annette played beach blanket bingo at Martin’s Beach? It might have been something like this music video (click here to play).

Valley of the Arkhams by The Arkhams, Animation by Jonathan Wojcik [Newgrounds]

When I found this last weekend, I watched it obsessively a number of times. It just seems right. Not exactly a vision of prophecy, but for a myth of collapse it will do?

Apocalypse -Cthulhu- Now by Cthulinos [Youtube]
Apocalypse Now intro – In case you’ve forgotten the visual pun [Youtube]

Don’t say we didn’t warn you. According to the “I Write Like” internet toy,

“The first several hundred words of Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue” read like H.P. Lovecraft. And she didn’t mention Cthulhu once.”

That spooky resemblance between HPL and Matt Drudge makes more sense now.

Wherefore art thou, refudiate? Sarah Palin as Shakespeare by Carolyn Kellogg [Los Angeles Times]
Image: “One Nation Under Cthulhu” A response, artist unknown (drop a line if you know the credit) to “One Nation Under God,” [Jon McNaughton]

Had something else lined up for this week, but this hit teh internets as a breaking item of Yogsothothery a couple of days ago. And as Great Cthulhu is the Patron God of the Internet, who would deny it? And definitely check out the back.

If you are going to mod an instrument to look like the embodiment of humanity’s inevitable destiny to be an index fossil, you could do worse than to choose the ukulele. Like the dread lord, it emerges from the Pacific, and its call really hit the big time in the 1920s. Plus that whole Tiptoe through the Tulips thing seems right at home in a musical production of The King in Yellow.

Cthukhelele by Robin Stevenson [Twitter] via Neil Gaiman [Twitter] via Cory Doctorow [BoingBoing]

Arguably the most horrifying Cthulhu idol I have ever seen.

Cthulhu Bobblehead by stexe [Youtube]