September 08, 2005
Boxelder WHAT Days?
In my Internet research for a project, I've come across what may be the most unfortunately named festival ever: Minneota's Boxelder Bug Days.
No, gentle readers, I am not making this up. In the name of Hera, I wish I were. The festival, held in a town with quite possibly the most unoriginal name in the state ["Hey, let's just take out the S! They'll think it's a whole different word!"], involves box elder bug races and something called a "Bug Market."
This, readers, is a box elder bug.* I kill a lot of them at work in the summer.
This image is taken from Eden Advanced Pest Technologies, which describes box elder bugs as pests. They crawl into your house in the fall, breed, and emerge in droves in the spring. Colour me charmed. Sounds like just the thing I'd build a festival around.
So, if you like six-legged flying pests crawling across your counter and buzzing through your house when you have guests over, celebrate it by coming to Boxelder Bug Days in Minneota, MN.
I'm ready to move to South Dakota now.
same bitch time, same bitch channel...
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*Yes, there is supposed to be a space between "box" and "elder."