my Cracked.com article (relevant)

[Scythemantis]

Last month, I submitted an article to cracked.com (essentially what cracked magazine mutated into) and it was finally publicized last week! I talk about why people shouldn't be so hard on various widely despised organisms:

http://www.cracked.com/article_17481_5-most-hated-creatures-on-planet-dont-deserve-it.html

Unfortunately, they cut out what I thought were some of the most compelling arguments, almost all of the references I cited, and two entire entries on flies and intestinal parasites. I actually meant the article to be entirely inverts, but they asked me to add more choices so I wrote up rats and bacteria. I also feel that they dumbed down my grammar and flow, the opening paragraphs to most of the creatures aren't mine at all, and they chose a photograph of a crane fly for the mosquito entry.

Still, I'm happy something I wrote was accepted by a mainstream internet publication. This one article has half a million views in only a week. That could be half a million people who learned something new about wildlife and at least a few who might feel a little worse about spraying RAID.

If you're interested, here's what they cut out:

http://bogleech.com/bio-flyhate.html - flies
http://bogleech.com/bio-parahate.html - parasites
http://bogleech.com/bio-hate.html - some stuff they removed from the others.

 

[ex0tics]

Was a great read.

 

[Nikos]

good one!

and I really like your comics man! nice stuff!

 

[MudCrabDude]

Regarding the Cockroach:

Maybe Pixar just needs to make a movie starring one of these guys.

Um...you have seen "Wall-E", have you?

 

[violentblossom]

No kidding?? I JUST read that last week! :worship:

 

[Scythemantis]

The pixar reference is one joke the editorial added themselves before the article went up, but to be fair to them, they did specify starring role. Wall-E's roach was just a sidekick, at best

 

[MudCrabDude]

The pixar reference is one joke the editorial added themselves before the article went up, but to be fair to them, they did specify starring role. Wall-E's roach was just a sidekick, at best

Ah, I see. I thought it ("starring role") also meant a co-starring role as well (which I thought was cute anyway). :}

 

[Scythemantis]

I remember reading an interview mentioning how the Pixar animators "challenged" each other to make the cockroach cute without changing it much from reality.

Of course, most of us already find the reality endearing.