Tuesday, October 28, 2008

OMG Honey bee!

Hi guys,
tonight we focus on the issue of missing honey bees. We do this because I am embodying the ghost of a honey bee for Halloween, and also for a performance piece I am creating.
We do this because we love honey bees.
Here is a link to a pretty cute You Tube video about honey bees:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOIP0UPiLvA
and in case disco aint your thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m5vt07W2n4&feature=related
Yo, where my bees?
Okay, you've already heard of the missing honey bees, so tell me what you think happened to them, and don't worry about "science" and "facts", just make it an interesting story...the creator of the best bee story will get a free ticket to my "dance of the bee ghosts" at Naropa University on November 22nd.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Powerful symbols lose strength when repeated mindlessly over and over. Thus has the image of a man stuck with nails and left to die on a cross become something ordinary to see draped across a neckline; thus has a flag of rebellion against a colonial oppressor become a small pin to be worn (or not worn, as the case may be) by smug politicians as shorthand for a superficial patriotism. Today, we see this same process of erosion happening at the bees' expense. Around the world, couples are sitting side by side on couches, in chairs at dinner, in cars on the way home from parties. And what are these couples doing? They are killing the honey bees. "Honey? Can you hand me the toenail clippers?" "Honey- can you change into something less wrinkled?" "You just ran that light, Hon" "Thanks, Honey" "Love you honey!" Do not ask for whom the bell tolls: it tolls for the honeybees. Their name and nectar have been intoned so many times that their very existence has begun to fade. So worry not about the evils of cell phone towers and global warming- look first to yourself and your thoughtless patterns of speech, you killers of bees. And please, before it is too late, spare ye the bunny rabbits.

Fever Kate said...

Well, points for creativity, though the moral seems to be "love is killing the bees".
Can anybody give me something a bit more anti-establishment?
If not, Jacob will win one free ticket to "What really happened to the bees: When humans attack" or perhaps it will be called "Bush ate all the honey bees because he is the spawn of Satan and that kind of thing doesn't hurt him" or "Honey Bee: The Final Frontier".

Unknown said...

The moral, I believe, is that mindless pet names and unexamined habits are killing the bees. Why would I get jaded about love? Looking forward to the show!