
When Nick made yesterday’s “Thank you for being a frond” image (for some reason?), it reminded me of the time I made this.
When Bea Arthur died in 2009, I started making this image in MS Paint of a cartoon bee with Bea Arthur’s face, and I was going to write “RIP” underneath the cartoon bee in a really cheesy font. Then midway through making the image, I got REALLY SAD that she had passed away.
I didn’t know where all that grief came from, but suddenly I felt like a huge jerk, and I couldn’t bring myself to delete the image, nor post it anywhere. So, that image sat on my desktop for over a year. Just this little thumbnail of Bea Arthur with a bee’s body, with “beearthur.jpg” underneath it.
RIP Bea Arthur. Thank you for “Bea”-ing a friend.






