Posted on 12/11/2022 7:07:00 PM PST by nickcarraway
Hold your breath, the bug sandwich has just been opened.
“The smell is something you have to get used to,” explains Erin Kmit as she takes the lid off said apparatus, which is a Tupperware container filled with sunset moths whose suns have set, individually arranged between sheets of paper towel that double as insect funeral shrouds.
Covered from forehead-to-foot in tattoos, hair tinged with blue, Kmit’s as colorful in both appearance and vocabulary as the deceased bugs she presents to the three women seated around her, arms resting on a tie-dyed, pentagram-adorned tablecloth.
Each has a block of Styrofoam in front of them, as Kmit tutors the trio on how to properly pin these butterfly doppelgangers into beatific keepsakes of death.
“We’re gonna stab him through that abdomen,” she instructs her charges, advising them not to poke the creatures through the wings — lest the holes be visible when they dry — showing her students the different ways they can be displayed: belly down, belly up or as if suspended in flight.
She tells them that she can demonstrate how to pull a moth’s tongue out, if they so desire.
They do not.
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“Bugs are fun and easy, right?” Kmit encourages by way of goodbye. “If you guys have problems or you just want to come here and play with bugs, we can totally play with bugs.”
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Kermit?
WTH did I just read?
Normalizing playing with dead things.
What could go wrong?
In before the Monty Python skit.
en·to·mol·o·gy
noun
the branch of zoology concerned with the study of insects.
If you’ve ever seen any of the mummy movies, you’ll know better than to mess with the dead.
Wonder if this would cover pedoJoe, the diaper sniffer??? /s
Larry Darrel and Darrel pet store
10% off if you win the put hand in gag touch and tell game.
That was exactly how I was pronouncing her last name as I read this article.
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