I've got crab legs

 

My sideways journey as a crabe began because the National Calendar people designated this as National Crab Meat Day. So I scurried to find some existing designs to fit the sentiment. Believe it or not I'd created several crab designs in the past few years including:

This one was in response to constant social media stories I kept seeing about thousands of crabs vanishing from the Bering Sea. I envisioned aliens got tired of nabbing cows and were going after crabs.

And there was this one:

I think I created it in response to National Hermit Day or some such nonsense. So I posted both designs on Bluesky with serious doubts that I'd get much response. Then I enlisted ChatGPT to help me with another idea.

I'm actually proud of this one.  It took a bit of coaxing to get it out of ChatGPT because at first it had lots of cartoony crabs instead of the sleezy ones I envisioned.  So don't let anyone tell you AI is going to replace creatives because, although it is quick and usually pretty good, it gets stuck on certain things and still occasional delivers deformed images that you are better off repairing in Photoshop than going back and forth.  And I can't get it to not carry over stuff from previous designs. When I asked it to make a crab image of me it popped up a crab with my head holding a martini.  Even when I asked it to make my head more crablike it just stuck a crab shell on top of my head and a couple of crab eyes but it didn't remove my real eyes. So I fixed it myself.

The "I've got crab legs" headline here comes from these mind numbing commercials from a restaurant chain that killed its last crab in October 2023. It was called Sea Galley and they had commercials with sing chefs who literally had crab legs.

The jingle for the commercials was, "We've got crab legs, Sea Galley!" It is a ear worm for me to this day. But it is likely another pop culture reference that escapes most people.

Sorry, I'm feeling crabby today.

I'm sure you saw that one coming.