bee (haiku)
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007While i was doing the artwork on this week’s strip i was reminded of an oddity worth sharing.
When I was a kid, directly across the street from my house lived these twin boys. They were about 8 years older than me and realy ‘geeky’. While boys their age like my brother were sneaking beers in the basement, these two were standing on their front steps in the pouring rain trying to photograph lightning. On a warm summer day, when everyone was playing kickball in the street, the twins were catching bees and putting them in their freezer. I’m not kidding.
Now, apparantly if you dont leave the bee in the freezer too long it will not die but it wont move around either. They had worked out just the right amount of time to freeze bees and wasps without killing them. They would remove them from the freezer and tie thread around them. I swear I’m not making this up. In a short while, the insect would come around and the twins would hold the other end of the string and fly their little bug kites or whatever you want to call it. I have no idea what the purpose was.
Interestingly enough, one twin grew up to be an entomologist and was working in a remote part of Africa when he was tragically killed in a freak car accident. It’s sad because apparantly he was putting all his buggy knowledge to really good use.
Before I go, let me make it clear I don’t think torturing insects is cool, except for roaches. I don’t give a crap what you do to roaches.
See you next week! 
June 6th, 2007 at 12:28 am
angry little bug
driven to sting by hatred
leaving self behind
June 6th, 2007 at 12:31 am
Singe their wings with fire.
Rip their legs off. It’s ok.
They’re only roaches
June 6th, 2007 at 1:36 am
calan fears the roach
irrational, unexplained
childhood trauma?
June 6th, 2007 at 1:53 am
quick change the subject-
the r word makes my skin crawl
the weather is nice
June 6th, 2007 at 4:15 am
which crawling is the
problem? the bugs, or the skin?
or the connection?
|-:’,
June 6th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
why did he say that?
angry bug in prison stripes
angry at the world
June 6th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
My grandfather tells me about how he used to tie fishing line to the back legs of japanese beetles as a kid. I don’t think they bothered freezing them though.
June 6th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
dan – i imagine it was challenging to hold those little legs still. hmm, fishing line, huh? that’s a lot thicker than thread. i guess those legs weren’t so little afterall. now i’m picturing japanese beetles the size of cats. eeeek!
June 6th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
can’t write a haiku
mind drawing a complete blank
needs to have a bee
June 6th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
bee – a word expert
yet he still spells ‘wussy’ wrong
or harmful balloon?
June 7th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
Idea stolen
Zef has taken words out from
My mouth for himself
June 7th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
*hasn’t seen anything similar by Starguy, but does note the similarities to Adam’s yesterday, though honestly just couldn’t think of a haiku and was oddly expressing that in haiku form*
June 7th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
left behind by the
mysterious bee die-off
rage masks loneliness
June 7th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
Aww man. I was really enjoying your story until someone died.
June 8th, 2007 at 12:21 am
What I meant was I was going to write something similar to what you wrote for this strip but you beat me to it.
June 8th, 2007 at 2:08 am
ahh, okay then
had me wondering. wording made it sound different 
June 11th, 2007 at 10:12 am
Careful Calan, you’ll upset the roaches again.
Cool comic this week, I appreciate the buggy theme.
June 30th, 2007 at 4:14 am
Ah, how ingenious
Our ability to bend
The will of all life
June 30th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
thanks adam.
awesome haiku, lamer!