My first awful experience with a spider was at the age of 10 in the garage of my house. I was talking the family trash out to the curb, when my cat, Chelsea, snuck past my feet and pounced out the back door. My pleas for her to return inside very woefully in vain, as she saw something fun to play with in the corner of the garage: a black widow. How could I be so sure it was a black widow?
There was a fine, silky web about two feet in diameter crafted delicately in the corner of the dimly lit garage. The web itself was more of an oblong shape and much closer to the ground than the ceiling, and due to the fine threads, it took the correct lighting to see it stand out. In the center of the web was an eight legged creature pitch black in color the size of my thumb. Standing out like a scarlet letter was a crimson hour-glass shape on the spider's back. And I suppose that alone was motivation enough for my cat to whack it with her paw. I imagine it probably hurt the spider quite well to have this large feline smack it with great force, but it had almost instant revenge by biting my cat, at which point she jumped about five feet into the air making the most bizarre growl merged with a moan and hiss. I began to panic as I worried for my can and quickly finished off the spider. To great relief, no problems came to my cat.
I have know many other circumstances of friends and animals being bit by spider. This includes one cat dying to a brown recluse and a friend almost loosing his hand to the same brown, nasty vile spider.
More recently, I personally experience a nasty spider bit to my neck that swelled up for about a week. Very ugly, and very unattractive. It was also quite painful and iched a great deal. And what did I deserve to have this thrown upon me? Did I upset a religious spider sect? Did I mistakenly wash the 'itsy-bitsy spider' down a drain. I may never know.
But with all of this hate, could I really condone scientists performing experiments on spiders? There are some individuals up in Canada that are performing these sorts of tests with no noticeable conscience or regard to ethics. This is extremely frightening seeing that they are using toxins that have lead to the deaths of people, and we are much larger than a spider weighing in at a few grams. I could vent for some time about what they are doing, but I think one should see it to understand.
Yes...
I know...
Spider's and drugs are actually a really, really, good thing. Humorous and entertaining as well :D Just ask cab498...
"I watched this and laughed for forty-five minutes! Absolutely the funniest stuff I have seen in weeks. I wonder what would happen if you contacted the Canadian Wildlife Service about the crack spider's bitch? "
The video does pose a very interesting question, a question that an individual by the alias of wildcat9529 asks:
"I'd like to know more about the crack spider's bitch, lol "
Yes, I would like to know the answer to this question too. It is an interesting look that has really never been answered, even in a day in which we have Discovery Channel and Animal Planet. Even the late Steve Irwin was never able to answer such a great question, and he was the best animal enthusiast ever.
Hmm....
I think there is someone who might know... the individual called RedoranGaurd, for he must know something we don't:
"Lemme be your bitch mister Crackspider!!! "
Obviously he know's there are benefits to this classification in the animal kingdom.
But this cannot be taken for truth as tuttt99 says:
"Wouldn't want to be the crack spider's bitch. lol. "
Could this mean that RedoranGaurd is simply a crazy masochistic person?
It could be so, in fact there could be a moral to these experiments being done by the Canadian scientists. geedunk seems to be onto it.
"Do drugs = become the crack spider's bitch. Let this be a lesson to all, ennit? "
Darkultra agrees:
"The funny thing is, this clip might actually appeal to young people, and sway some of them away from drugs. muahaha "
We can only hope that the Canadians won't give up their fight to accomplish some very important things:
1- Get spider's completely stoned.
2- Save our children from drugs.
3- Make us laugh silly.
Perhaps those thoughtful Canadian scientist offered the crack spider's bitch to Hollywood:
8 comments:
this was great. Obviously some proofreading would help with the minor typos and stuff. When you introduced the comments from the other people, I felt as though there was a digression from your original purpose. But this is a rough draft and you'll obviously work on that. The little cartoon of the guy bashing himself to death was hilarious too by the way.
That is a really fun idea. I like the casual style it is written in, I think it helps us to feel what you are going through.
Watch out for the spelling errors.
I am excited to read the final post.
There was a good variety of mediums used here, including text, pictures, and video, and they flowed together smoothly. I liked the topic, it immediately caught my attention.
I noticed a couple grammatical errors which shouldn't be too hard to fix.
This was great! It had rich writing and kept my attention the whole time. My only suggestion would be to go back and re-read. there are a few minor spelling errors and such.
Good stuff. A few grammatical errors here and there. You definitely hit all of the major criteria points. You distinguished dialog in a clear manner which helped in reading
Wouldn't venom be the crack spider and not the crack spider's bitch?
Very clever, very fun. There are some word agreement issues, so be sure to review it for grammar. Also, some of the colors of text don't show up well on my monitor.
You use all three styles in a compelling manner. They are fun to read and informative. However I think we need to work on transitions and a conclusion. Right now the sections need some help flowing together... i.e. I don't understand the relationship between your pet story and the spider video/commentary.
You might be able to pull it off by wrapping it up in a concluding paragraph, or might need some explicit transitions.
Good work!
Very entertaining. A few typos that I'm sure you've already caught so that's nothing big. However, I did feel that it changed gears too rapidly from your own experiences to making comments on the youtube video. So the content is good but maybe just come up with a way to tie it all together.
Overall very funny.
Sounds good, like the video, photos and the link tot he spider phobia therapy.
"hurt the spider quite well" this wording made slow my reading pace. Is there another way to state the same idea?
Some thoughts for meeting requirements:
1: The writing styles are segregated. Is there a way to have these different styles more intertwined, thus increasing the flow? Recall & observation first, then video, followed by conversation.
2: One font was very light in color. Difficult to see.
3: Link to spider phobia page - wording deals with spider population. Any way to make this more topic specific?
4: ":D" - what does this mean?
Once again, enjoyed it. Good luck with the final revision.
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