A helpful reader (see comments in last entry) informed me that the creature we observed on the sidewalk last night was a Jerusalem Cricket. Grotesque and obscure beast, no? And the average size of those things can top 2.5 inches. Wow.
I am really enjoying the book I am reading right now. Also I couldn’t be happier that my love of reading voraciously has returned. There seemed to be a fallow period in the past year or so where I hardly ever picked up books. Huh.
Back to my bookwormin self…
“The Jerusalem Crickets” was also the name of Hopey Glass’ band in Love and Rockets. Why am I mentioning this? Any excuse to shake some of this comic-book trivia out of my head.
Oh, how I ITCH.
…and yet I looked for more
Dr. Bug would like to know if you ever find another of those huge, creepy, crawly whoppers again.
scratching
Oh, Christ that’s ugly.
I mean, no. I — Everything is beauuuuuuuuutiful, in its own waaa-aayy, Under God’s —
Nope. Sorry. That is one ugly motherfucker.
Ew? Ew. EEEEEEW. Ew.