November 05, 2006
Bedbugs!
Has anyone else been watching Channel 4 over the last day? The pimping for a News 4 Investigation into bedbugs (BEDBUGS!) is currently going non-stop. Makes me wonder if this piece was months in the making, created to stop a documented plague of bedbug suffering by St. Louisans and our hotel guests, or whether some industrious producer at the station noticed that SNL actress Maya Rudolph and her husband, director Paul Thomas Anderson, were suing their landlords for an infestation of bedbugs in their NY digs. Then the KMOV piece, you know, just sorta came out around the same time.
Tomorrow, 10 p.m. Bedbugs (they're back!) on News 4. Cannot wait.
I brought this up with coworkers. They straightfacedly informed me that bedbugs are A Very Serious Issue, esp. in cheap motels. The bedbugs BITE and cause irritation. I then informed my coworkers that my bedroom is infested with giant, overgrown, bitey bedbugs.... hairy, orange ones.... They're called cats.
Personally, being both broke and curious, I will take a ratty old Route 66 motel over a corporate chain any day, bedbugs in the mattress and dead roaches in the bathroom be damned.
Posted by Claire N-B on Thu., Nov 9, 2006 at 10:16 AM