About

About the blog:

Aesthetic Octopus is a blog about music/internet trends/culture/cats/Lady GaGa & other etc.

We’re based in Colonial Williamsburg.

About the Writers:

Doctorate Upholder –

In his own words… “I clawed my way out of the doldrums of the great Atlantic to live the life of a human. This was about three years ago. I have not seen my mermaid father or killer whale mother since then.”

Doctorate Upholder founded this blog and is 45/90 of the Aesthetic Octopus radio show. His writing can also be found on other parts of the internet listed below!

• Flavorwire
• BuzzFeed
• Vinyl Tap
• The Flat Hat
• Lincoln Says Uncool

About the Radio Show:

John Kelly, who is critically acclaimed for his work as a painter, opera singer, actor, fashion illustrator, tightrope walker, musician, ballet dancer, and (most famously) a cross-dressing impersonator of Joni Mitchell, defined his rather chaotic artistic career when asked by the New Yorker, as an attempt to connect the dots while being an aesthetic octopus. Going in that same vein, The Eurocentric and Doctorate Upholder will be attempting to keep the dots connected of their multi-faceted, blogging-themed show for two hours every week.

About the History:

Aesthetic Octopus, the blog, is written by many writers from the formerly updated Knowledgement & Mind Expansiveness Company, with the exception of The Eurocentric. Therefore, here is some information on the Company of writers who now reside here.

This picture is not of our historic founding. If that was shown, your toes would totally explode.

The Company was founded back in 1776 a few days before the Declaration of Independence was signed. In all honesty, we are still a little mad about those hooligans stealing our thunder and starting the “land of the free” or whatever.

Obviously, those who work for the Company in its modern form are not the same members from long ago, but we do believe they are still with us in some way guiding us in the right direction (for clarification on how they are still with us: their corpses are all stuffed and standing in various heroic and sometimes erotic poses within our boardroom.)

Our forefathers founded the Company for you, and we preserve it for you as well. Basically, it is all about you. Now we could go on and on about how this is a company started by the people and for the people, but we’re not going to lie to you. We are not people. People did not start this company. We are above the people. The staff of the Company has and always will be members of an elite group of the human race that are clearly more cunning, clever, and classy (the three C’s) than just common “people.”

Common "people"

But we are here to help! I can not stress that enough (due to my lack of writing abilities). Even though we may be far more elite than you and your kin, we wish to help you achieve something still far short of greatness but yet far greater than your peers. That’s really all you can strive for at this point. Being far greater than your peers is a dream you’ll just have to settle on.

So here is our gift to you, the people. We shall dispense our knowledgement across the lands from sea to other body of water. And in the end, maybe your mind may just expansiveness.