Full of spidery goodness

Zzzzz zzzzz thud.

That's what I've had to put up with for most of the day.

Zzzzz zzzzz thud.

Opening the window on a beautiful summers day didn't seem like a bad idea at the time. How could I have know that the bluebottle from HELL would seize the opportunity to invade my home and proceed to attempt to drive me insane with it's constant and disproportionately loud buzzing. And I do mean loud - how can something so small make such a racket?

And as if the buzzing alone isn't enough, the pesky creature has been banging against the window trying to get back out again. Of the four available panes it's managed to thwack itself against three of them, but has so far missed the open pane, despite my frantic gesticulations and shouts of "Down a bit. No, go left!". Sigh.

I swear I wish harm to no living creature, but that bluebottle is beginning to try my patience. It's proven surprisingly swift and has thus far managed to evade my faltering attempts to capture it or shoo it out the window. I've tried to reason with it, but to no avail. Somehow I've failed to communicate that that rolled up newspaper is looking to be an increasingly attractive option. I've managed to trap the thing in the bedroom for the time being, but it's only a temporary solution - I'll need to sleep at some point after all. What I really need is big old spider to come along and gobble it up. I've no particularly love for spiders, but in their favour is the fact that they've always proven much easier to capture under a glass and dispose of out the door.

In lieu of an actual spider though, I was much cheered to discover that the trailer for Spider-man 3 was released today. The arrival of the film itself remains a depressingly long way away, but gosh-darnit if the trailer didn't bring an inane grin to my face. Rather interestingly, it pretty much confirms that the black costume featured in publicity photos is Venom, a character who in many ways epitomises the worst excesses of comics in the 90's and who comes with an insanely complicated backstory that's wholly unworkable for the film. I'm sure the script will successfully distill things down into something more manageable. though. I'm rather looking forward to the film anyway. There just haven't been enough movies featuring evil costumes with a taste for human brains if you ask me....