The Wild Word
Creature comforts, animal antics, and everything zoo-adjacent.
The Watering Hole
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Natural Tendencies ~ Apparently That's Me: The Collection For Everyone With Exactly One Setting
Every animal I have ever written about has one setting it refuses to change. The sloth does not hurry. The honey badger does not consult. The capybara has never once read the group chat and never once felt bad about it. This shelf finally gives that whole crowd a job title, and it is called Natural Tendencies ~ Apparently That's Me . -
The Residents Admitted to Personalities, Then Found the Costume Bin
Two things happened at AmazooMania in the same stretch of days, and the residents would like it on record that neither one was their idea. First, every animal on the grounds admitted to a personality. Then, before anybody could process that, they found the costume bin.
Latest Articles
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Animals Over People: Pete Files the Report Nobody Assigned Him
I take the windsurfer. I do not ask. Micha has noted this in the log more than once, and I see no reason to change a working system. The point of the windsurfer is altitude, and the point of altitude is noticing things before anyone else does... which is how I came to be circling the far side of the pond when something landed in the Wildly Funny Animal T-Shirts collection. -
Deep End Zoo ~ Where the Whole Jungle Swims to Its Own Rhythm
Down at the pool, a hedgehog is hauling an apple up the high-board ladder. Standard Tuesday. The apple is a training partner (physics, the hedgehog insists), the cannonball is scheduled for noon, and the lanes have already been cleared. This is Deep End Zoo ~ our collection of premium animal tees where the whole menagerie has taken up aquatics and absolutely nobody on deck finds that worth mentioning. -
Tees That Walk In Loud
Around here, the collection called New Tees Just In is less a launch and more a shift change. I keep the roster. The animals keep everything else... the lane assignments, the set lists, the backstage politics. My job ends at writing it all down, and this week the schedule reads: water first >>> soundcheck >>> everybody else clock in.
