Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Summer ruined before summer even starts


[What could have been]

NO CICADAS.

That's right. As the Daily Intelligencer put it in a headline today:

The Cicada Invasion of New York City Has Been Canceled

Boo!

We were counting on swarms of cicadas to peacefully emerge in Tompkins Square Park.

We were counting on posting hundreds of cicada posts. Hundreds.

Now what are we supposed to write about?

Updated 11:30:

Maybe it will be the Summer of Bees again?
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16 comments:

  1. marjorieJune 5, 2013 at 7:52 PM

    There is a child out there named Cicada Moskowitz! (http://forward.com/articles/128802/where-god-meets-green/) We could all write about her!

    Or yes, I suppose the farshtunkiner bikes.

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  2. Laura Goggin PhotographyJune 5, 2013 at 9:45 PM

    I was really looking forward to a cicadapocalypse.

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  3. AnonymousJune 5, 2013 at 10:25 PM

    CitiBikes!!! AAAAHHHHHHH!!!

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  4. EV GrieveJune 5, 2013 at 10:43 PM

    @goggla & anon

    Citibikeapocalypse!

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  5. EV GrieveJune 5, 2013 at 11:06 PM

    @ anon 10:58

    Oh, TRUE! I have really slacked off on that beat.

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  6. DrGeckoJune 5, 2013 at 11:30 PM

    You don't have to write about anything, you know, as long as there are arrows.

    --> You've been slacking off those, too.

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  7. EV GrieveJune 5, 2013 at 11:32 PM

    Wow. Slacking on DBGB sidewalk cafe coverage... arrows. [Weeping]

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  8. AnonymousJune 6, 2013 at 12:15 AM

    FYI. This photo shows a murmuration of Starlings.
    If they were Cicadas and Cicadas were that large we could all eat well tonight?

    peter.

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  9. AnonymousJune 6, 2013 at 7:23 AM

    Did you see this?

    http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=9128989

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  10. nygrumpJune 6, 2013 at 8:55 AM

    Its very sad. The cicadas go into their 17 year slumber, meanwhile the human cancer builds roads and parking lots and leech fields and malls and the cicada wakes up and can't go anywhere.

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  11. AnonymousJune 6, 2013 at 9:51 AM

    Postponed..delayed..cancelled..hmmmm

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  12. EV GrieveJune 6, 2013 at 9:59 AM

    @ anon 7:23

    I did see that! I linked to it in the post.

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  13. EV ArrowJune 6, 2013 at 10:00 AM

    @ DrGecko & @evgrieve

    I'm here. Waiting. Willing. Ready.

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  14. DrGeckoJune 6, 2013 at 10:17 AM

    @EV Arrow - You made Grieve cry. You are a bad arrow. You can just go stick it.

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  15. THE NOTORIOUS L.I.B.E.R.A.T.I.O.N.June 6, 2013 at 11:56 AM

    Yes! We need a status update on DBGDDEECCBG'S

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  16. dwgJune 6, 2013 at 1:57 PM

    Was up at Storm King Sculpture Gardens this weekend just after they hit. Wings and carcasses everywhere.

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