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Let’s chat about insects. The last time I truly studied insects was in Mrs. Saylor’s third grade class. We had this project where we’d have to get a milk carton and half a pantyhose and create some sort of habitat for an insect we were supposed to bring into class. Now, I’m going to be completely honest with you when I say that my insect was practically the largest and most bad ass moth you’ve ever seen. Mothra-esque, to say the least. We found it the morning I was supposed to bring it in to school and it was, to this day, the biggest insect I’d ever seen and it lived the longest of any in the class. I’m still not entirely convinced it wasn’t actually Mothra. Moving on.

In any event, I really am not up and fresh on my insect knowledge and I wish that I was. For today, when I went to my outside storage closet to deposit of a few items, I noticed something stuck to the inside of the door. Behold my photographic evidence:

It appears to me that it’s a butterfly in some sort of “cocoon” phase and that one day I will open the storage closet and hundreds of butterflies will spill out. There is, of course, the chance that it isn’t even this at all, but something totally terrible and terrifying. Like locust. Or snakes. But I don’t even know if there is a hint of accuracy or logic in that reasoning. Time will tell, I suppose.

So put on your entomology hats, Interns. Let’s I.D. this son-of-a-gun.

Any and all suggestions are appreciated and will be further investigated.

While my Boone County Fair photos are coming soon (and not even close to being this cool), please check out some that my friend Taylor took. They’re freakin’ awesome and beautiful.

 Update: My Boone County Fair photos can be found here.

I do love you, Rachael, really, I do. But I must admit that I’ve become very tired of waiting for your next album to come out. I know it’s going to be wonderful, and I know it’s going to be fantastic, I just wish it wasn’t taking so long. I’m not pointing fingers, I’m just expressing my feelings on the matter. In case you were interested.

So, while we may be coming up on year 4 of waiting for the follow-up to her 2004 album, Happenstance (that still kicks my ass every time I listen to it), she has been touring. Very, very, very sparingly and as of very soon, you’re going to be able to catch Ms. Yamagta on tour with none other than Ms. Mandy Moore, who was most recently caught sharing the sack with my Main Man and Future Husband, John Crushinski in License to Wed (Which I still have to see. I’m the worst Future Wife ever. I’m waiting for Dollar Theater.).

Mandy’s a doll. I wish she didn’t have to sing in her movies, but there is no part of me doubts that she’s an absolutely wonderful person.

Mandy and Rachael have written together on many occasions and actually, when I most recently saw Rachael at Hotel Cafe back in L.A., Mandy was there in the audience and she really is that beautiful.

So, here’s a link to the tour dates. Like I said, I really don’t think that any of us are able to check ‘em out, with an exception of Katy, but it’s good to know that Rachael is doing something substantial with her life and talents. Whoops, did I say that out loud?