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Cthulhu Cosplayer [My Confined Space]

Complete with tasty beverage…OF MADNESS!

Cthulhu Cosplayer [My Confined Space]

Ectoplasmid Joshua Normal sends harrowed missives from the front lines of the Internet made flesh: a Furry-on-Trekkie bowling tourney, hyped to the level of ridiculousness by BoingBoing, Fark, and the rest of the usual suspects. Happily for me and the rest of the irritable old guard, the furry menace was defeated in honorable combat:

The Trekkies and Klingons won. Which wasn’t really a shock to anyone watching. The Furs did their best but seemed to be a bit handicapped by the fact that they were wearing giant masks that I can only assume made seeing down the lanes difficult at best and well nigh impossible at worst. Add to that the lack of fursuit sized bore holes in the bowling balls and you had the inevitable. Half blind people granny rolling the balls down the lanes. With the exception of a few very talented furs the gutters saw more actions that night than the pins.

Foreheads vs Fursuits [KimoKawaii]

Is there truly anything more ridiculous than a “furry”? Perhaps, a person who likes to dress up as an alien caveman?

Now, we here at Ectomo definitely aren’t the most straight-laced, vanilla, fetish-free people on Earth. I’ve got a thing for medical equipment, Eliza’s got a thing for tentacles, and Brownlee…diapers and Pez. So we definitely are not the kind of people to point the finger and laugh. But there’s just something so…unutterably wrong about getting your rocks off by dressing up in fur suits and pretending to be anthropomorphic animals that it’s impossible–impossible, I tell you!–to NOT mock furries.

Klingons are a bit harder to mock, simply because Star Trek is cool and I, personally, am afraid to mock Klingons because Klingons can and will pound your ass into dust. It is their warrior nature, after all!

So what could possibly be stranger than a Furries vs. Klingons bowling tournament?! There has to be an Ectomo reader/slave somewhere in the Atlanta area who can attend this carnival of ca-raziness and report back on the insanity.

Myself, though, I have my money on the Klingons. After all, bowling is not that much different than a batleth tournament, and you just know all those goofy furries are going to be tripping over their stuffed tails.

Furries vs. Klingons courtesy of LJ Community Atlanta Furs.

Brownie Monster Domo-Kun not required, although props will be considered when scoring, along with moustaches and bikinis. Just take a photo of yourself doing what Tim is doing above and either post a link to it in the comments or email it to us. The winner will receive a Cthulhu plushie; if we have runners-up, we’ll splash out some Cthulhu Action Figures their way.

It is rare that I find a collaborative website these days that actually impels me to recruit new members, but Shoutfit is immensely cool.

Imagine social networking based entirely on personal fashion.

It’s an ideal excuse to dress up and take photos of yourself, an activity previously limited to professional camgirls, “alternative” models, and the attention-starved. Not only are the outfits stored in an organized fashion, but you can designate areas of the photo to annotate, similar to the Flickr “notes” feature. However, this annotation can, if desired, link back to your “Closet“, where photos of your individual items of clothing, jewelry, and accessories can be stored on their own.

As the coup de grace, there is a Collage feature which allows you to cobble together speculative outfits, something that once had the sartorialists tearing apart their closets and trying on slashes of makeup just to find the right combination.

Features currently missing: “blog this” button, multiple views of a single item or outfit, notifications when people add your outfits to “favorites”, being able to track which outfits by other people that you favorited. But I believe the site is in beta and will continue to be updated.

My account is set to private, fortunately for you. But there are a ton of people worth watching, ranging from steampunks to goths to hipsters to hippies.

Suck it, cosplayers. You only think you have style.

From The City of Angels, I proudly present the winners of The Las Floristas Headdress Ball! [Vintage Photo Livejournal]

Whom shalt thou call? Professor Cornelius Venkkman, Ectoplasm Exterminator & Son! As seen at the San Diego Comic Con last weekend.

Steampunk Ghostbuster [earthdog’s Flickr] : ectotweeted by Joel