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New banner up today. Thanks to Seadragon for contributing one of her cicada photos, which I cropped, rotated and resized to make just right for my banner needs. I should note that not only are the cicadas pictured authentic Brook X 2004 cicadas; they are 100% born-and-bred Baltimore cicadas, hon. I believe the one on the left is eating a crab cake.

The original image is of a host of cicadas attached to a tree. When rotated 90 degrees, they look to me like a massive cicada army, marching to war against their evil cicada enemies (Question: objectively, would the cicadas' enemies be Evil? Perhaps the cicadas themselves are evil, and their enemies are really Good? Cicadas, after all, do feed on human children.). Seriously, I would not want to be wherever those guys are headed.

For those of you visiting from outside Cicada Swarm, 2004, this picture will give you a good idea of what we face each day. Keep in mind that in real life, the cicada is close to 6 feet long, and moves at speeds of up to 60 mph. You're walking to your car in the morning, and BAM!, you're bug breakfast. Certainly makes things more interesting around here.

And for those of you arriving here via a Google search for "kosher laws cicadas", all I have to say is that Kosher Bite is not that bad that you need to be looking into other options. If David Chu's closes down, however, we'll talk.