Iris rented The Eye last weekend, but the real horror on TV definitely came from the Silence of the Bees episode of Nature. That the crisis is occurring—I originally had "happening"—on such a fundamental level, like a secret conspiracy across the earth, scares the shit outta me, and strikes me almost as science fiction, something Grant Morrison might dream up to threaten our very existence (see Mageddon) or a throwaway remark from Doctor Who (actually it was their aerodynamics, in "The Deadly Assasin"; I recall Tom Baker's getting shut down by the brigadier for offering "the energization of hydrogen" as an alternative to our dependence on fossil fuels, what like thirty years ago). But I observe a real Community Collapse Disorder taking place, too, driving as I did during lunch today to a comic book store that's no longer at the circa-2002 address the Internet's good for, and shudder to imagine how difficult it must be to maintain a small business these days.