OH SWEET GOD THAT MAN HAS TENTACLE PIT! Thanks, Andreas!

r ator reminds us that the Tcho-Tcho people of Leng, located on a plateau just north of the Dreamlands have been making fine, Eldritch chocolate for generations or, perhaps, for a few months.

I’ve been fired many times from Ectomo; once for not procuring a picture of Spiderman for Eliza for the front page of the evening edition. Where was CB with Scott C’s Fez wearing Spiderclique then?

Ever wanted to be suspended from the ceiling in sculpture that looks suspiciously like viscous fluid excreted from the loins of a giant? Kimi points out that artist Ernesto Neto has you, eh, covered.

Llamapillar! Thanks, Shark Diver!

Anders Sandberg points out that Britons are already preparing their children for the return of the Old Ones.

Oh, and the moustachioed, zombie Octobee? Perhaps a subtle reminder, via Rhys Hale, that there is still an Octobee Coloring Contest going on!

Our first Cthulhu shipment went out last Friday and was gratefully received by the young squidlings of Jim and Karen Beesley. Despite the fact that Erin was taking a bath and Sam was douching out his gaping eye socket, they immediately fell into a thrashing frenzy of R’lyehian glossalia in front of their make shift Eldritch Shrine at the dining room table. Jim and Karen write:

The Cthulhus (Cthulhii ?!?) have arrived and they appear to have settled in - they immediately set up a Tupilak and created a candle light shrine in the Dining Room … although we’re a bit concerned about the implications of the Old Bay seasoning, and Sam seems to have fallen under their influence (note how his glowing eyes match the lesser Cthulhu eyes!)

The kids love them - and are reassured by the fact that they are to be eaten last (they have dropped a few pointed hints that we may be moved up the list if we don’t shape up).

Sam and Erin are considering selling indulgences for college tuition (Franchise opportunities are still available, but act fast). Maybe we can set up a banner ad on the site if things take off (and we don’t get eaten first).

As much as we loathe small children, Eliza and I are currently looking into adopting Sam and Erin as our own. True, they already have parents, but if that insinuating box of seasoning is anything to go by, they could invite us over and we could settle the issue of their parentage over a fine meal of Jim and Karen calamari.

Remember, you too can win a Cthulhu! You’ve got one more day to enter our Cthulhu/Ectomeme Contest. Chances are you can’t be as cool as Sam and Erin, but you can impotently try.

Just a reminder that you’ve got until Cthursday to enter our latest Cthulhu Contest Giveaway. This week’s theme is the best Lovecraft/Ectomeme mash-up. We’ve got six strong entries so far, so the odds are still good. Enter here!

Also, previous Cthursday Contest winners? Our slavishly unpaid intern (my Mom) reports that all Cthulhus are in the mail as of Friday and should take 3-5 days for delivery. God help you if you don’t send us a picture of you and your new Cthulhus.

Update: We’ve gotten one entry for this so far. Come on guys! We’re giving away a Cthulhu! You’ve got another week to enter.

Come up with the best Lovecraft-Ectomeme mash-up. Trepanation by tentacle, vagina coleoidea, Commie Cthulhu, Steampunk Nyarlathotep, etc. It only needs to be an amalgamation of something Lovecraftian with Ectomo’s perverse obsessions and can take any form: you can do a song, a photograph, an illustration, a movie, a story or just write a description.

The winner, of course, gets their very own Cthulhu plushie, plus the honor of being devoured first when Cthulhu slithers from the sea, rubbing the snot from his thousand eyes.

We’ll be announcing the winner next Cthursday. If your entry is something that you can leave in the comments here, do so, otherwise, email it to me.

Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!

After two weeks and 22 entries, we’ve finally picked our winners for our Cthulhu Cthursday “Goes Like This” Contest.

Picking two winners was not easy: as far as we’re concerned, every single one of you deserves the honor of being devoured first when Great Lord Cthulhu comes slithering to shore, and a consolation prize of a Cthulhu plushie until that glorious day.

As we sat down to judge the contest, Eliza and I realized the daunting task ahead of us. What was our criterion to be? Many of you — Chesh, Stammell, Jones, etc.) had tried to game the vote with props like eye patches, goggles, fezzes and moutstaches. Others of you — like Jilder, Giannia and Nicole — were attractive women who might possibly be bribed into having sex with me if you won the contest. And others were small children, batting their big moon cow eyes, trying to garner the sympathy vote… as if we had any sympathy whatsoever for our filthy larval forms.

Ultimately, Eliza and I decided to each pick our own personal favorite. The two grand prize winners, after the jump:

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Needless to say, tomorrow’s Cthursday, so hit us up with links, either in this comments thread, in ectotweet or via email. But also, this is your last shot to enter our Cthulhu Cthursday “Goes Like This” contest and get a chance to win one of two Cthulhus.

We’re going to be closing submissions in a few hours, then Eliza and I will confer on the winners. So if you want one last shot, pose in front of your web cam with your hand splayed tentacle-like in front of your mouth, then email us the picture or drop a link into the comments of the official thread.

The entries we’ve received so far are embedded above and linked below. If yours isn’t there, we probably just missed it, so try emailing me directly.

Cthulhu Cthursday “Goes Like This” Contest Entries [Flickr]

After much delay, our “Goes Like This” contest entrants so far. A vast constabulary of weird looking minions trump their hands in front of their face to call forth Great Cthulhu from his dreamless sleep in R’lyeh. Thanks to Flickr and the infinite horde of jabbering, illiterate, strangely prudish Muslims for deciding that a single nipple, tastefully displayed, was enough to make me a pornographer.

It’s not too late to enter: just drop a link to a picture of yourself “going like this” in the comments of this thread. The two best photos will get Cthulhu plushies.

Cthulhu Cthursday “Goes Like This” Contest Entries [Flickr]

I’ve been grinding my teeth for the last few hours, my fillings shooting sparks, trying to get to the bottom of the whole “Goes Like This” Flickr technical difficulty, where you couldn’t see the slideshow or the set if you weren’t logged in to Flickr (effectively making the whole thing useless). All the images had the correct permissions, they were all work safe. What gives?

Well, it turns out our Flickr account is not considered work safe, thanks to several smutty pictures Eliza has uploaded, replete with breasts and cunnilingus and the word fuck. Flickr has therefore flagged our account as adults only, which means no one can browse it if they aren’t logged in.

In other words, I’m going to have to create a new account for the contest entries, which blows. However, the good news is that this means we’re extending the “Goes Like This” contest for another week, and we’ll be giving away both first and second prizes to two lucky winners. This is just as well, as Eliza has vanished, and we haven’t been able to pick a winner for last week yet.

So if you haven’t entered, there’s still a week to win. Get to it! We’ve gotten some new entries in the last 12 hours so I’ll get a working slideshow up later today.

After some early reticent, we’ve got about 8 solid entries for our “Goes Like This” contest so far, and we’ve uploaded them all to Flickr so you can take a look and vote on your favorite in the comments. The award will not be entirely democratic — Eliza and I reserve the Floridian right to completely overturn the vote if we deem fit — but chances are it’ll all go to popular vote. We’ve uploaded the entries so far to the Goes Like This Flickr set, and you can see them in the Flash slideshow above: just click an image to find out who sent it in.

Incidentally, Eliza and I are going to put our sticky foreheads together later tonight and communicate through the morse-like pulsing of the cerebral goo beneath, so you still have time to enter the contest and win yourself a plush Cthulhu. This is a ridiculously easy contest to enter: all you need to do is take a picture of yourself with your hand in front of your face and drop a link to the image here, or email us. Get to it, holdouts! Although some of the more clever readers of this site have tried to game the vote with eyepatches, Cthulhus and fake moustaches, we’ve yet to get a really hot girl “go like this” while standing around in a bikini. Someone, for god’s sakes, make it so.

Cthulhu Contest “Goes Like This” Entries Set [Flickr]

Joshua Stammell Goes Like This, originally uploaded by Ectomo.

In an enantiomorphic world, reader Joshua Stammell “goes like this” over the head of his patchwork cat, a gorgeous feline throughly engrossed in the collected works of tfarcevoL .P.H. He gets extra points for the moustache, but will his moustache trump Jilder’s delectably tongueable eyehole?

Reminder: you’ve got only one day left to take a picture of you with a limp-wristed hand dangled in front of your face in tribute to Lord Cthulhu’s own tentacled mouth. Winner gets a Cthulhu plushie. We’ve only got three entries so far, which is an embarrassment. So come on: load up that web camera, take a picture and either email it to us or post the link in this thread.