I’ve been pretty lax about posting for the last couple of weeks, due to a super-secret project. Well, I’m happy to announce that the project is complete, and can now be unleashed upon the world.

A little background for the uninitiated: Watchmen, in its original graphic novel form, featured a gigantic squid-like monster in a rather prominent role. The movie version of Watchmen hits theaters on March 6, and director Zack Snyder has promised it will remain faithful to the source material. With one small exception: he left out the squid. His movie is squidless. Whether the movie is good or bad, whether the new ending works or not, the fact will remain that we won’t get to see New York under attack from a monstrous cephalopod. What to do?

Sell “I [squid] NY” T-shirts, that’s what. You can’t change the movie, but you can sure as hell put a few more squids in the theater. People are excited about this movie, and you can set yourself apart from the Johnny-come-latelies by saying to the world, “Screw you, I read the book!” And if the movie turns out to be bad? Distance yourself from it by displaying your dedication to the original ending! Either way, the other nerds will love you.

If you don’t want one, you probably have a friend who will. Maybe it’s a Watchmen fan, maybe it’s a scientist who studies squids or something; I don’t know who your friends are. I just know that I don’t have much of an advertising budget for this project, so a little word-of-mouth couldn’t hurt. So come on; make the other nerds jealous.