Comments on: Bug

By: sween

sween — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:53:40 +0000

It is sort of weird that I have put more effort into this one comment on your blog than most of the past three moths of my own site….

By: jenny

jenny — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:53:59 +0000

Sandra: Buffy Rules! No head slapping allowed!
adena: But that’s just it – they use their powers for good! Except when they’re eating the heads off their mates.
Bubby: I can clearly remember when my parents told me about the birds and the mantisses. Scarred me for life.
THB: Too cool! When I was googling images for praying mantis, I came across a bunch of crazy martial arts photos – maybe it was your BF!
Sween: That is perhaps the greatest comment in the history of comments. You completely hijacked my comments section into a sort of parasitic blog! I love it! Especially the fact that the mantis is part of the play.

By: sween

sween — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 21:32:47 +0000

I read this and all I could think of was that I needed to know who was speaking.
So I’ve edited it. It’s now a four character piece, with yourself, two random strangers, and a praying mantis that has an annoying habit of speaking about himself in the third person:
Jenny: “Oh my god! Is that…?”
Praying Mantis: “It’s a praying mantis!”
Jenny: “In the Loop?!”
Random Stranger with No Short-Term Memory: “Oh my god!”
Praying Mantis: “I know!”
Another Random Stranger: “I’ve never seen one in real life before!”
Jenny: “That’s what I was just saying!”
Random Stranger with No Short-Term Memory: “Holy crap — a praying mantis!”
Praying Mantis: “Yup, praying mantis.”
Random Stranger with No Short-Term Memory: “Where?”
Praying Mantis: “Right here.”
Random Stranger with No Short-Term Memory: “Oh my god!”
Jenny: “Cool.”
Random Stranger with No Short-Term Memory: “What’s he doing here?”
Jenny: “Don’t know.”
Praying Mantis: “Staying dry.”
Jenny: “Just like us — ha!”
Random Stranger with No Short-Term Memory: “Ahhh! Ohmigod — what is that?!”
Another Random Stranger: “He’s not gonna attack you.”
Jenny: “Yeah — it’s just a praying mantis.”
Another Random Stranger: “Holy crap, look at his arms!”
Jenny: “His eyes are huge!”
Random Stranger with No Short-Term Memory: “Is that a praying mantis?”
Praying Mantis: “Poor little guy.”
Jenny: “Should we pick him up?”
Praying Mantis: “He’ll be okay.”
Another Random Stranger: “They can fly, right?”
Random Stranger with No Short-Term Memory: “I think so — or is that locusts I’m thinking of?”
Jenny: “It’s a plague!”
Praying Mantis: “Ha.”
Random Stranger with No Short-Term Memory: “Praying mantis — sure don’t see that everyday.”
Praying Mantis: “Not in Chicago, at least.”
Another Random Stranger: “That’s for sure!”
Jenny: “Well, take it easy!”
Praying Mantis: “You too!”
Praying Mantis: “Thanks!”
Jenny: “Bye!”
Random Stranger with No Short-Term Memory: “Praying mantis… ha!”
Aaaaaand… scene.
There. 20 minutes of work avoided.

By: teahouseblossom

teahouseblossom — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 15:30:01 +0000

Jeez, is that a scanning electron microscope image? That definitely makes it look doubly freaky.
My bf does praying mantis kung fu.

By: Bubby

Bubby — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 07:40:51 +0000

Y’know, when I was a kid, we lived on a farm. And every morning before school, we had to awaken early to milk the praying mantises. It was not an easy life, but really, it taught us what’s important… like how to find mantis breastesses in the glow of dawn. Lotta life lessons there, for sure.

By: adena

adena — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 03:33:35 +0000

Aww…he’s so cute!
(you know, apart from being evil, and all…)

By: sandra

sandra — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 03:26:19 +0000

There was an episode of Buffy (slaps self in head for being a dork) where one of the teachers at Sunnyvale high was a part-time praying mantis. She morphed into one at some stage and tried to eat one of the guys.
Good times.

By: jenny

jenny — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 00:55:36 +0000

Tracy Lynn: Didn’t they make a horror movie like that?
Peefer: Do you milk them before or after they’ve said their prayers?
Heather Anne: Picture? Wha-? Oh that? No, that’s an actual x-ray of my lung.
Jenn: It did actually start walking toward this woman who got a little too close to it.
Dustin: I’m quite fond of nature, as long as I don’t have to sleep or go to the bathroom in it. But re: Portland, I was told there would be buildings. No one said anything about greenery…

By: Dustin

Dustin — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 00:35:20 +0000

You are such a nature phobe. I’ll be praying for you when you reach Portland for TQ’07. What will you do surrounded by so much greenery?

By: Jenn

Jenn — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:33:43 +0000

I watched some nature program that spotlighted praying mantises. I laughed I heard that they will instinctively move toward the tallest thing available to them. If you had gone close, the little guy might have tried to climb up your leg, like one did to me in Japan. It got as far as my thigh before I freaked the hell out.