#a400 :: Black widow
March 22, 2009
This one has been hanging around the handrail on our front steps for a few weeks, check rx always skittering away when I want to photograph and then attempt to kill it.
I failed miserably at both, site price until this past weekend.
I don’t feel good about having ended such a magnificent creature, ampoule but I decided I’d feel even worse rushing one of my family to the hospital for treatment.
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We had lots of those in the garage in Burbank. They also used to love to live inside the reel mechanism of the garden hose reel.
I remember in grade school, I was fascinated by black widow spiders and I decided I would change my name to an hourglass shape, predating the Formerly-known-as-Prince idea. I even turned in papers with only the hourglass symbol! Yes, my mom was called….
I’ve always been amazed at the intensity of how black they are. It’s a total absence of light. An arachnoid black hole. They really are amazing looking but they’re so dangerous!
Man, I wonder what your dining customers would say if they knew about your obsession with a poisonous arachnid metaphor.
They ARE fantastically elegant – their very architecture screams DON’T. FUCK. WITH. ME.
pffft. that was grade school. I got my weirdness under control after that 😛
Bugs and related critters skeeve me out to no end. I confess i do have to force myself to taste when they order shellfish of any kind. Shrimp, crab, lobster, mussels, scallops, GAG!
I can look at any bug as long as it’s contained, but out in the open, fagettaboudit!