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chicago baseball in october
have you seen this years new bugs? there are the new little bee's that seem to be just absolutely everywhere. theres the recent upgrade of that beetle that looks like a ladybug, all new features for this season. there was a transulecent tiny green spider on my car window this evening. all the regular old bugs have disappeared by this time of year, even the spiders have given up their battle for my room, regrouping to reinvade next spring. but all the new bugs, they stick around a little later into fall... but my question is, where do they come from? for years and years i was accustomed to the same old bugs every summer; flies, ants, bees, wasps, those rolly polly things, earwigs, catapillars, worms, and every couple years some locust or seceda's. it was maybe 5 years ago i first noticed a new bug. and i remember it vividly becuase for a brief moment i thought i was first witness to some previousvly undiscovered species. until some one saw me staring and said, "oh that, thats the new bug... but now, they are everywhere, and every year seems to bring more. are they all- like that asian beetle that came over to eat all our trees- accidently shipped over in shoddy fruit boxes? in my more paranoid moments i believe them to be tiny government robots, but thats another story for another time... the game is on again, i have to go. the cubs are winning, and once again, sammy is tracing the outline of some ancient seal in the outfield with his feet...