The Wild Word
Creature comforts, animal antics, and everything zoo-adjacent.
The Watering Hole
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The Residents After Dark: The Shift Nobody Told You About
Squawk. Pete here, reporting live from my perch with a confession... the good stuff around here does not happen during visiting hours. It happens after. The gates click shut, the last stroller rolls out, and somewhere in the dark a moth straightens its bones, a possum checks the schedule, and the whole place changes management. That is what The Residents After Dark is about: the shift that starts the moment you go home.
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.
