diff --git a/parsers/people.py b/parsers/people.py
index 34a5ff3..f7e2f50 100644
--- a/parsers/people.py
+++ b/parsers/people.py
@@ -38,7 +38,13 @@ def parseMugShotAndBlurb(personline, header, person):
     elif mugShotPath[-3:]=='htm': #if person has an html page, find the image(s) and add it. Also, add the text from the html page to the "blurb" field in his model instance.
         personPageOld=open(mugShotPath,'r').read()
         if not person.blurb:
-            person.blurb=re.search('<body>.*<hr',personPageOld,re.DOTALL).group() #this needs to be refined, take care of the HTML and make sure it doesn't match beyond the blurb
+            pblurb=re.search('<body>.*<hr',personPageOld,re.DOTALL)
+            if pblurb:
+                #this needs to be refined, take care of the HTML and make sure it doesn't match beyond the blurb.
+                #Only finds the first image, not all of them
+                person.blurb=re.search('<body>.*<hr',personPageOld,re.DOTALL).group() 
+            else:
+                print "ERROR: --------------- Broken link or Blurb parse error in ", mugShotFilename
             for mugShotFilename in re.findall('i/.*?jpg',personPageOld,re.DOTALL):
                 mugShotPath = os.path.join(settings.EXPOWEB, "folk", mugShotFilename)
                 saveMugShot(mugShotPath=mugShotPath, mugShotFilename=mugShotFilename, person=person)
