Noah Baumbach Writes Hilarious Tale About Bee on Cocaine

Most of us have never imagined what it would be like to be a bee on cocaine. Then again, most of us aren’t Noah Baumbach.

The exceedingly talented writer-director, currently at work on his next film, Greenburg, read an article in The New York Times about researchers who gave liquid cocaine to bees to study addiction and decided to retell the story from the bee’s perspective. The result, which ran in The New Yorker’s Shouts & Murmurs sketch column, is a hilarious, exuberant rumination on picnics, stingers and 1,000 proof Stella Artois.

There are the highs (“taste this nectar, taste it, taste it… slurp”) and the inevitable lows (“from now on, nothing stronger than honey”). But mostly the piece is a reminder that some people see the world through much different eyes than the rest of us do.

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