Lethal Dose

The site’s under construction (as Citizen Robot admonished me, “you are NOT another wordpress weblog!”) - but for now it’s a template and I can’t erase it. This weekend the real design should be done.

Mavis and I were just lameting the lack of bees. I know, you say, bees? They sting! But they also make honey, build combs, pollinate flowers, and make that lovely sound on hot summer afternoons. Now, they are disappearing and the food chain is all disrupted … where is Gloria Swanson when you need her?

“In 1974, Swanson starred in the infamous TV movie The Killer Bees - playing a hag who keeps a horde of deadly bees that she unleashes on her enemies.”

Some bees are sexy, like the Honeybees!

or Honeycone:

even though the word is really “honeycomb,” who cares? Maybe they made it “cone” so you didn’t think it was a hair product, and sweet, like ice cream.

Master of Disaster Irwin Allen made “The Swarm” which, when pronounced by local Boston radio announcers, was “The SWOM.” I saw it at the drive-in:

sometimes, being a bee can turn tragic, like Susan Cabot, who played:

she was murdered by her own son who was a mentally disturbed dwarf! You can read about it on Findadeath. Thanks, Scott Michaels!

Sadly, Susan didn’t have a beehive because maybe it would have protected her from a dwarf with a baseball bat. No one could ever hit Dusty on the head!

Naturally, the drummer in The Honeycombs, Honey Lantree, had quite a substantial beehive:

Muddy Waters, Slim Harpo, and John Belushi all sang of being King Bees …

and Queen Bees were played by both Joan Crawford,

and The Lady Reed!

Here’s to the Spirit of the Beehive! To Bee or Not to Bee - that is the question.