Who are the Bees?

So as part of my package deal on wordpress.com (“package deal” meaning I registered for an account in order to post on a blog with my fellow UA SLISers) I got this blog page as well. With all this open space just screaming for minimally-formatted and grammatically dubious text, whatever could I do but start a blog?

But what to name it? I wracked my brain to no avail… until I was reading this book at lunch one day. It’s called Watch the Skies!, by Curtis Peebles. It is a history of the UFO myth in the United States, from its beginnings in the 1940s to the early 90s (it was published in 1994). It’s an interesting book, written by an aerospace historian and UFO skeptic. As a fellow skeptic, yet a person highly interested in tales of the paranormal, supernatural, and plain old weird, I find this kind of stuff fascinating.

Anyway, about half-way through the book Peebles referenced a 1960s or 1970s book by a believer in which the author attempted to explain the inconsistent descriptions of UFOs, specifically their small size and impossible agility. The guy said that for the aliens to survive the UFOs’ 90° turns, they would have to have the body structure of an insect.

Specifically, he described the pilots of these UFOs as “Intelligent Martian super-bees.” Say what?!?

I found this description so delightfully bizarre that I swore I would find a way to incorporate it into my daily life. So, a few title alterations and one drawing of a bee in a UFO later, I had my blog concept. It’s slightly odd, a little wacky, and definitely kooky—just like me.

You’ll see…

~ by Amy on June 25, 2008.