It’s a slow, sunny Saturday and my house is empty.
Before I go and watch Dollhouse — the fabled ‘good episode’, according to Whedon and Dushku, that we’ve all been waiting for — I thought I’d share a photo of a rather large bumble bee that flew into my room earlier.
I don’t know if it’s a queen bee, but I think you only usually find queen bees at this time of year, right? As they are searching for somewhere to make their hive? I couldn’t resist the compositional freebie offered by the wooden cross.
Ambles
Mar 21, 2009
I love how she seems to be looking out at the world, as if to say, “Alright, let’s do this thing!”
sebastian
Mar 21, 2009
Yeah! That’s why I chose this photo; it had more feeling than the rest.
That interpretation is better than ‘Seb, help me find my way out of your bedroom, there’s glass everywhere… help!’
Ambles
Mar 21, 2009
Thank you. But in all fairness, the interpretation is better only because I projected myself onto the Bee.
Although, your interpretation could easily reflect your own desperation at a self-inflicted captivity.
sebastian
Mar 21, 2009
It could well be! Though I tend to help all of the flies and wasps and bees out of my room rather quickly; an eternity spent banging your head against a piece of glass must be worse than hell…
The Polka Dotted Owl
Mar 21, 2009
dollhouse? really? is that about a girl group living together? Love the bumblebee picture. Just go ahead and that one to my tab! It is almost like the little fella is looking out at the world. Ironic.
The Polka Dotted Owl
Mar 21, 2009
umm what is up with my picture?!
sebastian
Mar 21, 2009
That’s your ‘gravatar’… a randomly generated monster that will haunt you forevermore on my blog — and other WordPress blogs! You got quite a cute one… be grateful!
Dollhouse is… well, an action sci-fi, but more of the action/characterisation and less of the sci-fi. You should watch it; girl power, and all that!
Eric
Mar 21, 2009
Kill it! Kill it dead! Fucking bees.
sebastian
Mar 21, 2009
I’ve noticed Americans often have a weird problem with bees…
These bumblebees are not the same as your bees — I think you’re talking about wasps, or American killer bees, both much nastier than these friendly guys.
Bumblebees die if they sting you (pulls their tail out, or something), so they rarely sting.
They just float around with a deep hmmmvrrmmmmhzzzhmmm…
Eric
Mar 22, 2009
I was stung in the ear as a child. This was before the whole killer bee thing made it past Central America. So. Fuck bees.
Hannah-Lane
Mar 22, 2009
I regret coming here today. because of you, I will now have nightmares for at least a week. Bees have to be the most terrifying things ever….except E.T. E.T. is scarier. thanks. now I’m thinking about bees AND E.T. and it’s all your fault.
sebastian
Mar 22, 2009
At least the bee is obviously trying to get away, or at least looking away from the viewer…
You can imagine she’s trying to escape from you! You could kick her up the ass at any moment; or squash her with a book!
When we were kids, Eric, a bunch of my friends ran almost-naked through some smelly, flowery bush and stirred up a wasp’s nest. I remember them rolling around on the ground like a mass epileptic fit…
Fun times.
Hannah-Lane
Mar 22, 2009
you don’t understand my fear. I curl up in the fetal position if I even suspect there is a bee near me. and all that she appears to be doing is trying to lull me into a sense of security so she can strike when I least suspect it. Like the iPhone (which is really an android waiting to kill us all and this is why you should sleep with a swiss army knife under you pillow and brush up on your judo).
sebastian
Mar 22, 2009
I sleep in a water bed, so that’s probably not a very wise idea; unless I want to think, for a minute or two after waking up, that I’ve wet myself in such a way that Noah would be proud of me.
You can have your irrational fears, I won’t try to stop you. I won’t go as far as to say that it’s cute, though
Hannah-Lane
Mar 22, 2009
so, my irrational fears are repulsive? nice.
and we all have to make sacrifices in the war against the iPhone. (p.s. waterbeds are awesome)
sebastian
Mar 22, 2009
There’s a vast chasm between cute and repulsive. I assure you that you’re not quite at the eww-hairy-warts stage… yet!
I’m not exactly anti-iPhone, but I did pass up the chance to own one recently … and got a Sony Ericsson instead. Does that make me cool?
Hannah-Lane
Mar 23, 2009
“not quite”? that means I’m close, yessssss something to strive for.
um well, I’m not sure it’s a phone that makes you cool..but had you said “blackberry storm”…well I’d be all over you in a heart beat.
sebastian
Mar 23, 2009
I was offered a Blackberry Storm! But I passed it up; it’s too big, and I carry my laptop most places anyway, so it’s a little pointless!
So you can be all over me in potentia.
You still didn’t respond to my comments on your blog. Lamer.
Hannah-Lane
Mar 23, 2009
well, i’m not convinced that “potentia” is really a word, but okay, I’ll go along with that.
omg yes I did! they are at the bottom of your comments in bold. and I thought I was the drunk one.
sebastian
Mar 23, 2009
Oh, you responded like that… Sorry, I was waiting for an email warning to tell me that you’d replied! Or at least the count to go up from ’1′ to ’2′… Sorry, sorry, a thousand times sorry — will you forgive me, o’ wench of utmost sobriety?
(Potentia exists only as ‘in potentia’, which means ‘could become true; has the possibility of becoming true’)
Hannah-Lane
Mar 23, 2009
okay, well maybe next time I’ll respond a special way just for you. maybe.
wench? did you really refer to me as a wench? oh dear. that’s a new one. but yes, you’re forgiven.