I saw the trailer for the Pirates of the Caribbean sequel, and this stalked into view:

Oh. My. Dog. Two of my obsessions, squid and pirates, personified. I must see this movie. I went looking for more information, and found this bit of artwork:

Ack! Look at his arms! It's an arthropod! Make that three obsessions!

Come July, I'm going to be front row center. And they'd darn well better give Davy Jones (who is going to be played by Bill Nighy) plenty of screen time, or I'm going to be writing nasty letters to Disney executives…

Dear sirs;

While you have tantalized your prospective audiences with promises of a prominent role for a cephalopod-arthropod-pirate chimera for the past seven months, it has come to my attention that said glorious being was sadly missing from some of the scenes in the movie. This is clearly a case of bait-and-switch, and I will be contacting the Better Business Bureau to demand additional footage … insult to my religion … demeaning to multiple phyla … might be mollified if original costume and headgear were shipped to my address immediately.

It's a little rough, I know, but I've got time to work myself up into high dudgeon and refine my demands a little bit.

By the way, I saw the trailer at the Narnia showing, so maybe part of my disappointment with that movie can be accounted for by the fact that I'd been driven to a fevered pitch by a brief trailer, and then discovered that Narnia has no squid at all in it. Not a one. Talking beavers, sure, but the molluscs as a whole are ignored completely. Wankers.