After much deliberation and hand-wringing… Teemu it is… and not just because that is the name of Roy’s favorite Anaheim Duck… (and an all around nice guy… always a great interview…) What sold it was this… Tuuli22: Teemu is the Finnish form of the Greek “Nikodemus” and means “chosen by the people” - I find that very [...]

Hello everyone, what a day!!! I got adopted today!!! You see, I had a pretty rough start… I was born on June 8th and my sister Myrtle and I were dumped off at the pound as newborns… we never really got to know our mommy… we were hand nursed and some really nice people at the [...]

But Matt, isn’t that the natural habitat of most bears in the Pacific Northwest? Yes, it is, but that doesn’t mean that bears shouldn’t be forced to evolve and, as if storybook characters, come to inhabit homes of their own where they eat porridge and sleep in proper beds. After all, we can’t have them [...]

The Critically Endangered grey-shanked douc langur. It’s a good thing that we possess the technology to photograph and film animals in the wild. That way, when a species disappears, it has the ability to haunt us for eternity.

Hey everyone! Here is the link to our Paws For A Cause page. We’ve already reached $6,015 dollars in donations (80% of our goal!), thanks to everyone that has donated! If you would like to donate, please visit the page linked above! We are pushing forward to meet our goal of $7,500 with less than a [...]

I feel like canned shit. Yes, you read that correctly - canned shit. I swear to God that there is someone out there with a fucking Voodoo doll of me that does something to it just before, or immediately after, I go on tour. The head cold thing I can deal with, though last night [...]

Place a person in a traumatic environment and they will become desensitized to a great many things. The sight of human corpses, dead animals, even the value of life itself. Soldiers returning from conflicts, such as the war in Iraq, have drowned wives in fits of rage and even murdered fellow comrades that they once [...]

There used to be a time when my grandparents grew beets, potatoes, cabbage, lettuce, rhubarb, grapes, cucumbers, and beans in their backyard. They passed when I was in my teens, but I’ve never forgotten how superior it was to eat vegetables freshly picked and cooked. Being that he came from another era altogether, my grandfather’s [...]

Last week, NFL star Michael Vick publicly admitted to being involved in a dog fighting operation and faces up to five years in prison for his role in it. He has also been indefinitely suspended by the NFL. Human beings have been watching animals kill one another for sport for thousands of years. Then again, [...]

While not commonly mentioned on this website, one thing that I am incredibly dedicated to is animal welfare. Being that I have four dogs myself, I’m obviously affected when I hear stories of animal abuse, no matter the species, and infuriated that it is still prevalent in our society. Yesterday, I was sent a link [...]