Amy Lu's View

I’m no graphic artist, but the new logo for the newly named Seattle hockey team doesn’t look much like StanLee.

This seems problematic as the team is “The Kraken” and StanLee IS the Kraken. My brother said so. When he housesat for us in the Before Times he would text me “Release the Kraken!” when he let StanLee out of his crate. It was a battle cry Chad and I soon adopted when we let StanLee out of his crate or out of the house.

In case you’ve missed the memo, StanLee is a bit hyperactive.

StanLee is definitely THE Kraken of the Chamy household, but maybe it’s not fair or accurate to claim he is the only Kraken. After all, the Kraken started as a mythological Norse beast before making it big as a meme from a cheesey cult 80’s movie so I guess the Kraken could be a cute, adorable, out-of-control little dog and a hockey mascot.

I wouldn’t know that “Release the Kraken!” is a meme from “Clash of the Titans” if it wasn’t for my brother. And I THOUGHT it was from the 1981 movie (which I just called cheesy but oh I loved it as an 11-year-old) but now after doing some Googling it looks like there was also a 2010 movie reboot that may have inspired the meme? Well I’m sticking with the 1981 version as my source of truth.

I was suprised when the weekly Trivia Mafia email that I received yesterday said that the Kraken was a Norse creature. I had in my head that it was a warm water beast–probably because “Clash of the Titans” is about Greek mythology (more or less). I also learned from the Trivia Mafia email that the Kraken inspired Lovecraft’s Cthulhu–cool.

As I say over and over again, I don’t believe in destiny or fate or signs, but I did decide to interpret the arrival of the Trivia Mafia newsletter about the Kraken as inspiration to blog our our Kraken (even though I clearly don’t have that much to say blog about).

One of the co-hosts of Chamy’s favorite podcast (Too Beautiful Too Live) was talking about the new Seattle team name and logo (which is really the only reason I know about it) and mistakenly said “Embrace the Kraken” instead of “Release the Kraken”. But sometimes you need to Embrace your Kraken, sometimes you need to Release it (for everything there is a season…)

I AM a little disappointed that the Seattle logo not only doesn’t look like StanLee (although the S could stand for StanLee) but that it doesn’t have anything obvious to do with a tentacled sea creature. (I know y’all can Google the logo if you haven’t already see it so I’m not going to include it…and I can’t easily find an image of it to upload. #$%& copyright!)

Again, not that I care anything about hockey but tentacles are cool.