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The Brog Is San Diego Bound!

Well, I guess I've never surfed before. I guess I could do that...right?

That's right guys and gals, thanks to the small success of this site over the years, I've actually been able to save some cash and take this dog and pony show on the road*. You may remember a little dedication video last year made by friends of the site, Lea and Jesse. Well I'm visiting them and eating up all their refrigerated food.

It'll be a five day adventure starting this coming Thursday. Here's the deal. I'm kinda documenting this whole trip in some fashion or another [audio, video, but especially photo]. I kinda don't know where I should go or do. Out of the five days, I've got about a day and a half-worth of business to handle. That's about it.

It's San Diego, where people go, prior to going to heaven. I'm also fairly sure the latin of San Diego translates to "Heaven's waiting room." Don't quote me on that. So I've started an initiative, which is rare for me considering how my offline life is completely at odds with this whole trip. If you've ever visited or ever wanted to go to a certain place in San Diego, I'm your man. I'll also venture up to L.A. for a day, but it's really all about San Diego people.

Send me your suggestions via the comments below or my Twitter feed. I'll keep checking my timeline, this site, and in the coming days, a similar post is going up on Couchbound.

If you know of any odd spots, restaurants, dancing places that don't cost a fortune to get into, feed me with those suggestions. When I return, I'm sure I'll have a story to tell.

*Note: There will actually be no ponies involved, but several dogs.

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So it's been a week since I've posted. I've been holding out on ya Internet. Don't fret, it's all part of my plan of making the times I do post that much more special, and mildly confusing. Let's be honest, that last post was a bit heavy.

Today's topic: Animals are weird to me. I'm pretty sure if I was in the jungle with 99.9 percent of any animal, I'd managed to end up dead and partially eaten.

I say partially, in the case of an animal that just wants to kill me and not devour my [assumed] delicious hind quarters.

Below you'll find more inspiring images from our animal friends, that will not only brighten your day, but hopefully encourage you to make the most of it. Why? Dude there's a hawk eating out of some Nepalese guy's hand. Now quit reading and get to watchin'! 

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Commercial Break: Relationship Tips From A Peacock Spider

You know Peacock spider, we're not so different. I sometimes find myself in the woods taking calculated steps to attract the right mate. Sure, if I strike out I can always take the "maybe she wasn't the right one for you angle." You? Well, let's just say I hope you invested in running shoes.

Even still, the whole ritual mentality of, this is where you go and this is what you do in order to be successful in your short little lifespan, whilst attempting to attain a mate? I feel you dog...err...spider. I put on clothes I feel comfortable in. I go out to the woods, hoping that this little dance I'm doing isn't going to get my eyeballs eaten -- 'least that's what I'm always afraid of.

The ones that run away? Hey, there's no accounting for taste right? But the ones that stick around make the game a little more interesting don't they? You flash your flamboyant flag of color. I introduce myself. You're hoping fangs won't be crunching through your tiny exoskeleton before the dance is over. I'm hoping what I just said was endearing enough to continue the conversation. See? It's the same.

You move your legs at precise angles creating a very deliberate pattern. You vibrate and thrust your abs and why not, you've got a totally blasted core. Like you, we do all these things -- out here in the woods, but you do it with much dire circumstances on the line. I, or I should say, my species does it as if  dire circumstances were on the line.

Yes, yes. We can learn a lot from the Peacock spider. There are a lot of dances we do, none as important as our arachnid friend. 

Commercial Break: Elephants, They Be Painting

Glorious. Magnificent. And possibly a result of some good ole fashioned animal torture in order to produce an anomaly in the world of animal sociology. Geez, that wasn't called for at all was it? This is kind of my double-edged sword for posting this. 

Its easy to be a pessimist isn't it? Even something as odd and kinda cool as an elephant touching up a painting [one can only assume] he/she had been working on, could be the result of something negative. At the same time, its also double-delusional to think this creative little pachyderm dropped out of the womb with a the itch to get his Bob Ross on.

I'd prefer to think positive in spite of my cynical brain's negative leanings.

Top 10 Most Poisonous Animals

I may post a follow up of photos of these great animals, but man...the Stone Fish? I never would have guessed.  I knew about the Blowfish and the Yellow Dart Frog, but the fish that looks like it was created from heaps of sea dung and the face of a heavyweight fighter after a 12 round bout, one of Earth's most dangerous creatures...Amazing.