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Back in my days of hanging out in comic book shops I was inquiring about what Dungeons and Dragons was all about. This D&D kid in the store showed me a stack of his card collection and proceeded to boggle my mind with a slurry of D&D jargon outlining the importance of hit points, special weapons, an imaginative Dungeon Master, and where to find cheap graph paper. Flipping through his card stack, I came across the "Gelatinous Cube" card.

From Wikipedia:

"A gelatinous cube looks like a transparent ooze of mindless, gelatinous matter in the shape of a cube. It slides through dungeon corridors, absorbing everything in its path, digesting everything organic and secreting non-digestible matter in its wake. Contact with its exterior can result in a paralyzing electric shock, after which the cube will proceed to slowly digest its stunned and helpless prey.

Reproduction is through a form of asexual 'budding', in which a smaller, stub cube is left behind in a side corridor to grow into a full-sized cube, although these stub cubes run the risk of being absorbed by their own parent on its next trip down the corridor. Scholars have determined that juvenile gelatinous cubes grow to fit their own natural environment, adapting their exterior proportions to the size of the corridors they most commonly sweep.

Gelatinous cubes typically live underground. Some legends whisper of monstrous, "legendary" gelatinous cubes in the deep and secret places beneath the earth that have grown to several hundred thousand cubic feet of volume."

I couldn't stop talking about the Gelatinous Cube. While I was, and still am, not a player of D&D, this was the point of which I became an advocate of its radness. I had mostly forgotten about the Gelatinous Cube untill reading about this blob that seems to be eating the alaskan coast right now. (http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/16/mystery-blob-devouri.html) Back when I first found out about the Gelatinous Cube, google search didn't yield much information on the subject. I decided to re-Google "Gelatinous Cube." Gelatinous Cube seems to be gaining momentum as a sort of mega nerdy meme, and I'm super stoked.

Gelatinous cube; while I am not a player of Dungeons and Dragons, I am a huge fan. Just as I am not a fan of all sharks, but think Great Whites are awesome. And like I think Star Wars as a whole sort of sucks, I think that Chewbacca and R2 D2 are worthy of movie franchises of their very own.