They must be using the rhythm method.
One two three,
Four five six,
Seven eight nine,
Ten eleven twelve,
Billion cicada bugs went
To the cicada bug picnic.
I have nieces, what can I say? I'm down with Grover.
So I’m in Virginia, and apparently I showed up just in time for a cicada orgy of Biblical proportions. It's proof God hates Bush. He has smote him with annoying green bugs. The air outside buzzes louder than their stockroom, and going for a stroll feels like you are walking on piles of Wheaties.
Doesn't anything out there eat these little bastards? I swear even the birds are waddling around on the ground all fat and bloated. "No really, I couldn't, not another. I'm stuffed."
After walking inside from a cigarette break, people have to brush the little winged hitchhikers off their shoulders. Pants. Hair. It can make for some excitement. It's a little like a corporate version of Indian Jones. Only minus bullwhips and booby traps.
Though that might liven up some of these Powerpoint sessions.
Comments
Check out cicadamania.com. Creeped me out. Some guy actually got sick after eating a bunch of these suckers. Hospitalized. Called into work the next day "Boss? I can't come in. Got some kind of bug . . ." Crawling on you is creepy enough. You want to eat something that's been marinating in fertilizer for 17 years? Ugh.
Posted by: Lynne | May 19, 2004 07:43 PM
Jimbo is quoting Grover and Dooce is channeling Telletubbies....a bizarre coincidence or a burgeoning blog movement?
Posted by: Kath | May 19, 2004 08:22 PM
ugh, that's disgusting. yet more proof that god hates america. ;)
oh, relax. you know i'm kidding!
Posted by: heather | May 19, 2004 10:59 PM
Oh! It's not that bad!!! Try keeping the dog away from them. Apparently they're like canine chicken McNuggets. Thank god I work downtown. Didya find 18th St. Lounge?
Posted by: Xdm | May 20, 2004 05:37 AM
did i find esl?
i haven't left this damn building since i got here.
Posted by: the mighty jimbo | May 20, 2004 07:21 AM
Cicadas are in the same arthropoda group as crabs (aquatic, not the kind jimbo gets), so if you have a shellfish allergy, you should stay away from them. But apparently they taste a bit 'nutty'. No baby bird will go hungry this spring, and even the squirrels are eating them. Their reproduction tactic is to overwhelm by numbers, in fact to sate all the predators. The leftover uneaten ones are the ones who get to get laid and lay eggs.
We don't have that many in MD and DC...they must be thick as thieves in VA!
Posted by: jimbo east | May 20, 2004 07:34 AM
Man, you came to D.C. a week too late. Just missed me - we could have torn up the town or something. Maybe peed on the White House fence. Now you're going to have to fly across the Pacific for some authentic drunken karaoke and octopus balls.
I'm kinda glad I missed the rowdy horny bugs. My eyes would be glowing red, too, if I went 17 years without an orgasm. Thank God for opposable thumbs.
Posted by: sid | May 20, 2004 08:01 AM
Doh. That sucks!!! Not sure where you are, you may be right around the corner from me. Give a holla if they release you. (I know how it goes.) I can't drink, but I can still buy. BTW - ESL got sort of trendy/cheesy a few years ago. All sorts of poseuers and Euro trashy swarthy men types. We called it 18th Street Lunge. It may have recovered. I hope so. FYI - I noticed the other night that Lebanese Taverna has a ton of veggie options. There is one downtown and two in No Va. Excellent food, nice family run business.
Posted by: xdm | May 20, 2004 11:33 AM
well, you know my thoughts on ESL - i wasn't referring to the club that eric and rob own, i was referring to the record label that paid me. they're total wannabe eurotrash with that club i agree :P
cover the cicadas in chocolate, deep fry...mmm. :P~
Posted by: tassy | May 20, 2004 11:37 AM
Tas- I'm not sure if Dc is in need of hip, cool places to hang, or if I'm so out of it in suburbia with a pregnant belly, that I just don't know what/where they are anymore! I'm thinkin' it's the latter. And Mighty JB: You're plague of locusts/7th sign theory isn't so bad. It's holds water with Reagan and Nixon, but falls apart with Truman, FDR, Wilson, Teddy R, Cleveland, JOhnson, Fillmore, etc. Ok, I have GOT to get back to work now...
Posted by: xdm | May 20, 2004 11:49 AM
I think you need this t-shirt to make you feel better about the cicadas.
www.shopodd.com/website/men/printed_tees/10463.html
Posted by: Nicole | May 20, 2004 12:23 PM
UM. EWW?
I hate bugs :(
Posted by: NetChick | May 20, 2004 05:30 PM
wait. where in VA are you? because the cicadas haven't hit us here in Richmond yet. weird.
well anyway, i hope you're having fun while you're here, and if you're going through Richmond and need tourism advice, email me at styrofoamkitty at hotmail dot com, because i am the master of good tourism advice. and i know all the good restaurants, even if i can't afford to eat at them. :)
Posted by: styro | May 21, 2004 07:18 AM
If you're bored, let me know. I've been in DC/VA so much it feels like a second home and I know some great places.
Posted by: Shawn | May 21, 2004 08:03 AM
i just moved to the east coast, and just found out about the 17 yr cicadas. apparently its a big thing when it happens...as you've noticed. people around me are so excited that its happening soon. its all slightly disturbing to me...17 yrs waiting for two weeks of living, and these creatures are in the ground right now just waiting to pop up...bad horror movie. now i'm just on pins and needles for the horror to erupt. :)
Posted by: agy | May 22, 2004 03:38 PM
Let's talk about the title, shall we? suure, mock people who use the rythym method. Like we're stupid for thinking it works.
IT WORKED FOR 14 YEARS DAMN IT, One mistake and all of a sudden, we're stupid for using it.
SCREW YOU!
Posted by: yvonne | May 22, 2004 10:40 PM