Some of you will say “yawn… I’m so over the ‘bedbugs infest [insert-improbable-place-here]’ story.”

Me, too. But then my superstitious side kicks in and I think “if I dismiss this story, I’ll get bedbugs as cosmic retribution.” And I really don’t want to get bedbugs. I’m not proud of that superstitious side. But it exists. So: behold! I will post the latest “bedbugs infest [insert-improbable-place-here]” story.

They’ve infested the dressing rooms at Lincoln Center:

… bug-sniffing dogs apparently found the vermin in the carpets and costumes of the dressing rooms. “Please understand that this is an epidemic,” Mr. Heiser writes in his email. “Any signs of bedbug activity should not be considered a sign of an untidy house.”

As you were.

Brend an Kiley has worked as a child actor in New Orleans, as a member of the junior press corps at the 1988 Republican National Convention, and, for one happy April, as a bootlegger’s assistant in Nicaragua....

4 replies on “Bedbugs in Lincoln Center”

  1. Bug sniffing dogs. Who woulda thunk. The first time someone ordered such a beast, the clerk’s half of the phone call may have gone like this:

    “K9s-R-Us, how can I help you?”….”A drug sniffing dog? No problem”….”What, not a drug sniffing dog? What kind of sniffing did you say?” “Bug!!!?”….”Is this a joke? Is this Tom?”….”This really isn’t a joke then, you really want a bug sniffing dog. OK. Just what kind of bugs do you need this bug sniffing dog to sniff?….Red bugs?….Oh, BED bugs. Riiight. Look I’ve got real work to do, so I’m going to hang up now. ByBy.

  2. I told Dan in his earlier post when he said he was sniffered at the airport that maybe they were checking for bedbugs. You just never know.

  4. I just going to butt in an be logical here … how are dressing rooms at all a surprising or improbable place for bedbugs? You’ve got lots of people who are traveling all around, staying in hotels (bedbug hotspots), and bringing a lot of stuff with them to a dressing room. It would be surprising if Lincoln Center didn’t have bedbugs.

    As a person who lives in a bedbug infested building, is very attractive to bedbugs and gets huge welts but almost never gets bitten any more (with a bedbug proof mattress encasement, the occasional spray with professional grade insecticide, regular vacuuming, and lots of diatomaceous earth), I wish everyone would just calm down about bedbugs.

    Having lived in apartments with both bedbugs and fleas, and getting much smaller and less painful welts from fleas than from bedbugs, I prefer the bedbugs. Fleas jump, but bedbugs only crawl (and fall), and it’s pretty easy to bedbug proof your bed.

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