Meet the splangs

Tuesday, January 19, 2010


This little darling is actually part slug, part plant. It's also part awesome, part disgusting. It's a slug that can survive by photosynthesis. Put it in a tank with nothing but sunlight to feed it, and it will thrive.

It's officially known as Elysia chlorotica, but that's an unpleasant mouthful. I say we call them splangs, an unholy mashup of slug and plant. (Hey, it's better than calling them plugs. Or slants. Or sluts. Anything's better than calling them sluts.)

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"Science fiction plucks from within us our deepest fears and hopes, then shows them to us in rough disguise: the monster and the rocket." - W.H. Auden

Who is he, this one who is called "Greg Stacy"?

Greg Stacy began the MONSTERS AND ROCKETS blog in April of 2009. Prior to that, he was editor of the popular sci-fi/horror news website DARKWOLDS.COM. He has also written for LA WEEKLY, OC WEEKLY, UTNE READER and LOS ANGELES CITYBEAT. He always feels weird writing about himself in the third person.

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