Allie Ward

Unless you like roaches, which we do.

We love them, right?

We appreciate them.

Felipe Jimenez and Aura, first-time question asker, want to know, Felipe asked, I would like to know if theologist has the ringtone La Cucaracha.

You do not.

Just checking.

A few people asked what you thought of the song.

Other people asked if you've seen Joe's apartment.

Have you seen Joe's apartment?

Not a dude named Joe, but a movie called Joe's apartment about roaches.

It's fine.

The entire movie is about a guy who moves to New York and has an apartment infested with roaches who talk and are up to a lot of mayhem.

And it is a horrifying way to approach the rom-com genre.

But let's just say after 30 years, 30 years ago, Joe's Apartment was released.

People still talk about it.

So I guess it is a movie.

It has legs.

Now, another indelible art of the cockroach is Franz Kafka's 1915 literary masterpiece, Metamorphosis, which I'm not going to consider this a spoiler because it's literally the first paragraph and it's been out for 100 years.

So consider this opening graph kind of like a sampler platter of some cockroach pop culture.

So it reads one morning when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.