If you're not keen on seeing Christopher Nolan's
Inception in theatres, there's also
Salt starring Angelina Jolie. On the DVD shelves, keep your eyes peeled for
The Losers, Copout or
The Runaways for the rock & roll minded.
If you were tuned in to Q Saturday Afternoon last week, I told you a bit about the latest near-epidemic to hit Toronto in the last few years.
Bedbugs.
And yes, they actually bite.
Joe Fiorito of the
Toronto Star has been covering the story for a while, most recently on the
presence of the critters at the Toronto Reference Library.
They hide in carpets, in baseboards and, of course, in the sheets and mattress of your bed.
They're parasites, mostly feeding in the hour before sunrise on the blood of warm-blooded animals.
That means YOU.
Creeped out? You should be.
Bedbugs were almost wiped out in the spray-happy days of the '40s and '50s but have been making a resurgence in recent years, believed in part due to increased world travel.
You can pick them up on vacation and not even know it, until it's too late.
They're reddish-brown ...