I wake up and winter is gone and it is spring and I decide I don’t have cancer today. The sun is shining and flowers are growing and I feel happy. Yesterday I was sad, thinking I had cancer. Yesterday is gone and my girlfriend is gone too. I remember she said last night, half asleep, tenderly “I will get up early and buy Krispy Kreme donuts for you. I will buy two chocolate-filled, and two raspberry-filled.”
The bees are buzzing outside my window. I lean out the window and try to learn bee language. It is difficult. I decide I can’t do it. I wonder if anyone has ever done it. Buzz buzz buzz, the bees say. What is that? Bees, tell me your secrets.
My girlfriend gets back with Krispy Kremes. She tells me she saw lots of fat people there, with fat kids. I tell her about the bees, and how I failed to learn bee language. She says “scientists have discovered insects are from another planet.”
That explains my problem with bee language.
I eat two Krispy Kremes and drink coffee and smoke two cigarettes.
I watch the bees and try to understand them. One bee is different. He’s built a leaf house, for privacy. He watches the other bees from the leaf house. He sips honey from a tiny wax cup.
I look closer and see the bee is writing on grey wasp paper. I want to say, write a bee dictionary in English. I want to learn about bee loneliness. It is impossible. The bee gets tired and goes to sleep. The bee twitches and buzzes. He dreams alien bee dreams.
Winter comes early this year. My girlfriend gets sick of me and Krispy Kreme donuts. I think cancer and dream cancer.
Snow covers the leaf house. I see the bee lighting a tiny fire of dry grass and writing with tiny bee gloves on, the kind with no fingers. His wings beat fast. He is strong and does not dream bee cancer.
Para Target
I was fooling around on the web the other day, checking out some CSS sites, when I ran across some :target demos and thought “neat, yea, :target... wouldn’t it be nice if Opera, the most advanced browser in the know universe, supported this super keen CSS3 pseudo class?” Well Opera doesn’t... not yet.
I decided to make some demos, which are basic, and maybe useless. I kind of like them though.
There
are
four
examples
which display hidden content on :focus, :hover, and :target. Firefox loves them all. Opera only likes the :hover demo. Safari might like these too.