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She usually just says she doesn’t need anything, and leaves you to guess.聽 This year she unwittingly helped me out. In late September she was semi-randomly pushing buttons on the TiVo remote while I was getting ready for bed (as she often does) when she came across the description of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130115012014/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharktopus" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','https://web.archive.org/web/20130115012014/http://en.wikipedia.org']);">Sharktopus (2010)</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Genetically engineered, a monster that is half-shark and half-octopus goes on a killing spree.</p></blockquote> <p>“Why can’t it ever the good halves of things? Why can’t it have a big smile and wave to eight people at once?”, she asked. After thinking about it a bit more she, rather sadly, commented on how the outcome would probably be the same with people killing it out of fear when it tried to hug them.</p> <p>The next morning I woke up and found I couldn’t shake the image of a happy, friendly sharktopus, smiling and waving.聽 My thoughts immediately went to <a title="The Fuzzy Slug - Manifestations of art by Natalie Metzger" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130115012014/http://www.thefuzzyslug.com/" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','https://web.archive.org/web/20130115012014/http://www.thefuzzyslug.com']);">Natalie Metzger</a>. I though she might also find the idea humorous, and as we already have some of her <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130115012014/http://www.flickr.com/photos/nmetzger/1227209664/" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','https://web.archive.org/web/20130115012014/http://www.flickr.com']);">art</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130115012014/http://www.flickr.com/photos/nmetzger/2274762843/" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','https://web.archive.org/web/20130115012014/http://www.flickr.com']);">photography</a> hanging in the house I figured I’d see if she would be willing to take a commission based on the idea.</p> <p>Natalie responded positively, and send along her (very reasonable) price sheet.聽 I looked it over, and my brain exploded.聽 There at the end of the list was “(~1ft.x1ft) stuffed animal”. <em>Stuffed animal!</em> How awesome would that be?</p> <p>I asked if an 8×10″ and stuffed animal could be done in time for Christmas.聽 About a week later I received a sketch. It was better than I imagined. Perfect. Well,almost. It only had one tooth, which gave it an amazingly cute smile, but knowing Denise I was pretty sure she envisioned it having a very toothy shark grin.聽 I managed to bring it up again in conversation and confirm my suspicions without awakening hers. I let Natalie know and she quickly made the change.</p> <p>Soon after this arrived via email:</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130115012014/http://www.flickr.com/photos/nmetzger/5321507637/" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','https://web.archive.org/web/20130115012014/http://www.flickr.com']);"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130115012014im_/http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5089/5321507637_bfdd2a5ded.jpg" alt="The Friendly Sharktopus " width="402" height="500"/></a></p> <p>The stuffed animal took a little longer, but when I saw <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130115012014/http://www.flickr.com/photos/nmetzger/5322116178/" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','https://web.archive.org/web/20130115012014/http://www.flickr.com']);">the photos Natalie sent</a> I knew Christmas couldn’t come soon enough. Luckily the box came on a day when I was working from home and alone in the house.聽 I opened it, took a quick peek at the awesomeness it contained, then packed it back up and hid it just as I heard the garage door opening.</p> <p>I wrapped the print, and the stuffed animal separately and made sure Christmas morning that these two particular presents were the last left under the tree.聽 I gave Denise the print to open first, and she understood at once what it was (and even recognized the artist on the spot). I could see she was pleased.聽 When I handed her the big giant box she had a bit of a “how are you going to top that one, and what in the world is this giant thing?” look on her face.</p> <p>Then she opened the box:</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130115012014/http://www.flickr.com/photos/jczorkmid/5329790977/" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','https://web.archive.org/web/20130115012014/http://www.flickr.com']);"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130115012014im_/http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5090/5329790977_d0188cbb65.jpg" alt="Denise and The Friendly Sharktopus" width="375" height="500"/></a><script type="text/javascript">AKPC_IDS += "903,";</script> <p class="akpc_pop">Popularity: 4%</p> <div class="sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled"><div class="robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing"><h3 class="sd-title">Share this:</h3><div class="sd-content"><ul><li class="share-facebook"><a rel="nofollow" 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