oh, faithful readers, this is a sad day. we have lost one of the silent defenders of our hominid realm against the invading insectoid hoard. as i, DARK, was showering post-training a series of events occurred that circumstantially led to the untimely demise of the great arachnoid hero, Spider "Long Legs" Webster. as i retracted the shower curtain i noticed a small object fall to the shower floor. i realized it was too massive and, well,
alive to be a rogue hair, so i searched the area and found our hero fighting valiantly against the barrage of pressurized and artificially heated water plummeting from a source unknown to him. perhaps some
vengeful god had marked him for death. perhaps
clouds can form indoors and rain on you. how should he know? he's a spider! well despite the tempest surrounding him, he managed to claw his way to apparent safety. i, seeing his will to live, decided to move from his path, because i was unaware what he would've needed to do to live, but i knew what he was gonna do: live. and god help whoever was trying to prevent him from doing it! alas, in my act of self preservation i bumped an old bottle of hippie conditioner. this sent the bottle plummeting. i imagine that at this time, everything was moving in slow motion for Spider: focused and valiant, our hero fights the torrent, his situation seems ever more futile with each passing moment, yet his arachnid resolve growing with each ill-fated swipe of the leg. only now, with survival tantalizingly close does he look up and notice the white and orange monolith to human vanity descending upon him. ever the spider's spider in life, i imagine that at this point he looked down, smiled and said something profound and affirming under his breath, and like
bill murray at the end of 'lost in translation', i'm certain it was just right. (under the same circumstances, my offering would have been more like
this). our hero Spider Webster, lost his life in a moment of such serendipitous awesome that i had no choice but to immortalize him on this blog. that picture at he beginning of this eulogy of sorts is of his final resting place upon the label of the monolith (kubrickian innit?) my, friends, the awesome sauceness and tragedy of his passing is outshined only by the excellent life he lived. a veteran of the arachno-hornet war, he made his name by webbing and draining over 30 hornets during the famed battle of 2 houses down and 1 street over. he was awarded the spidra medal of valor, the arachnid equivalent to the human medal of honor. after his honorable discharge, he retired to my bathroom, where his awesomeness continued. he has left hundreds of would be pests hollow and digested in his wake thus earning the repuation of being the pestcide with a pulse of the DARKlair. his contributions to my non-bug prblem cannot be overstated and he shall be sorely missed. so rest in peace, Spider "Long Legs" Webster. you're controlling God's pest problem now!