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You might think since May featured the Mayfly that June might feature the June Bug. Well, that’s not exactly how it works. This blog is all about randomness, or at least unpredictability, a lesser, not totally random, form of randomness. If you crave true randomness, go here where you will find the true random number generator, the place you can be absolutely sure the numbers you need to generate will be totally and completely random, uninfluenced by even the scintilla of non-random contamination. I just received the randomly generated number 65. As Robert S. Coveyou once said, “the random generation of numbers is too important to be left to chance”.

 

Although June bugs are interesting, they’re not terribly so. They are a type of beetle, the type that generally ends up getting attached by a straight pin to a rectangle of styrofoam in a sixth grader’s science project. But they are supposedly edible, if you’re not too picky and can be enjoyed as a snack year round. As far as I know, June bugs are not on the menu at the June Bug Restaurant in Somerville, Massachusetts or the one in NewOrleans. So that’s it for June bugs.

 

Unless you’re talking about the musical group The Junebugs who describe themselves as “imagine Neil Young and Janis Joplin had three love children who all grew up to like folk rock and hip hop.” The Junebugs have three performances scheduled for June, two in Oregon and one in Idaho.

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At this point you might be thinking, where exactly do Napoleon and Elvis fit in? Well, Napoleon met his Waterloo 210 years ago, in June of 1815. Four months later he was cooling his jets in exile on St. Helena.

 

Elvis fell in love with a girl named June seventy years ago, June Juanico in 1955. That same year he gave a performance at Jesuit High School in New Orleans, the school Dr. John (aka Mac Rebbenac, the artist who inspired the muppet Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem) attended. Three years later, in the height of his career, Elvis filmed King Creole in 1958 on Royal Street in New Orleans, part of the territory Napoleon sold to the US in 1803. The lead role in the movie was originally meant for James Dean, and the project was canceled for a time after Dean’s tragic death. But when Elvis got the role and it was ultimately released, it was highly successful. With a production budget was $350,000 it went on to make 2.64 million dollars, which in today’s dollars (thanks to the inflation calculator) is 30 million, twice what the US paid France for the Louisiana purchase. (of course, the 15 million is worth $425 million in today’s dollars.)

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I could find no connection with Napoleon and June bugs, but it seems I do remember his interaction with another bugs…