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( Of course the first one is a cockroach! )

If Rock Band ever gets the rights to "Cult of Personality" I will die happy playing it. My arms will probably fly off and I'll bleed to death, my face in a tortured rictus of exhausted glee ( Read more... )

It took until number 255 for me to finally profile a cockroach in my 365 Urban Species project.  If I did the project again, for 2009 (which I am considering--with some trepidation) it would not take so long.  In fact, given that the year begins with three and a half months of cold, lifeless bleakness, probably the 2009 project would begin with ( Read more... )

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The question came up: why did I wait until I visited Texas to profile cockroaches? Because, there really isn't any rhyme or reason behind the 365 urban species project: it's a challenge to myself, to profile them as I encounter them, not, unfortunately, when I want to. So I didn't get any pictures of cockroaches until I visited Texas this year ( Read more... )

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