Mermaids

• Late last night, my friend and fellow blogger Miriam Goldstein sent me an e-mail with the title "please oh please debunk this.
(Wired News)
• Mermaids: The Body Found, which aired over the weekend as part of Animal Planets Monster Week, revealed a true TV abomination. An unnatural hybrid that was as disturbing as it was gruesome. A freak whose very existence threatens us all.
(Los Angeles Times)
• Do mermaids exist? According to the new Animal Planet documentary, "Mermaids: The Body Found," maybe.
(The Inquisitr)
• As if we didn't have enough probably fictitious but possibly real beings to worry about. All over basic cable, people are searching for Bigfoot, hunting down ghosts, looking for extraterrestrials.
(New York Times)
• Mark Moore Gallery describes Allison Schulniks paintings as distinctively textured, which may be the understatement of the year.
(Huffington Post)
• The idea of mermaids has tantalized seafarers for millenia, and as part of Monster Week on Animal Planet, the network aired Charlie Foleys speculative documentary on the aquatic creatures.
(Huffington Post)
• It took five years to give birth to a mermaid.
(New York Post)
• Animal Planet will rebroadcast its hugely popular mockumentary Mermaids: The Body Found tonight at 8 p.m. and again at 11 p.m. Eastern and Pacific times, and 7 p.m. and 10 p.m Central..
(Examiner)
• Forgive us our impatience, but — what's next? "We've been told that mermaids are the new vampires," laughs Bahram Olfati, vice-president of trade books for Indigo Books Music.
(The Vancouver Sun)