There is a very careful, and potentially awkward, balance that one must make when trying to train a cockroach. A large part being the maximum duration that one can abide wearing the cumbersome runner costume. But in the cutthroat world of competitive cockroach training, some will go to extremes to realize even the most minute of advantages. Competition cockroach taming was, predictably, invented in deep rural West Virginia as a public health initiative. Created in one of those small towns where there is nothing to do after 6 pm on a Friday night but drink and shoot at stop signs, it was the hope of the local health department that a healthy fixation on vermin would quell the rocketing teen pregnancy epidemic. While it was slightly more effective than publishing a list of all the town’s cousins weekly in the local paper, any success was offset by a new outbreak of VD at the nursing home.
Sometimes my ink tests turn into little stories #CompetitionCockroachTaming #BugsNotDrugs #NothingIsReal
![screenshot of Picture of the Day blog post: 6 ducks flying right to left into a blue/white sunbeam, wispy lit up cloud highlights in background of mostly overcast sky, tips of trees poke just above bottom edge of photo, text overlay reads:
reality is an opinion--
or at least a question
of perception.
is this the divine light
of revelation or just a
smudge on the lens?
[links to latest 4Shadows improv rock band LP: https://4shadows.bandcamp.com/album/traveling-through-revelation-vol-5 ]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hly6vo67bcyu6ld3ixnrpl7o/bafkreihuv7qxs72df5jfrlvlvyevxmr2qbckt7vmcoxj3sh7cbotkdsn3y)
