Spider envy

We have a lot of wolf-spiders here. I’ve always liked them. I got to hold one in Thailand that was almost tarantula sized; gray and very active, it ran around and around my hand till I had trouble breaking the web it left on each pass like Luke trying to bring down an AT-AT. One of my post-collegiate wild-life high points.

Recently a friend, well “friend” is a pretty strong word… a guy I know, well “know” sort of implies that I can even tell you anything besides his name and nationality… This guy, yeah, that’s it, has this web site—Stolen Pixel—where he puts up photos. Recently he put up the hottest looking wolf spider I ever saw anywhere. Observe–

I was horny happy to see it but also jealous. Very.

I like the wolf spiders here. But they are not racy. Not sexy. They’re actually even pretty hard to see at all. See for yourself, if you can–

Stealth isn’t exactly sexy. It is dangerous though and I suppose that’s a kind of sexy too.

Still, I’d like to be able to compete with Daniel so the only recourse I have is go with a garish background which only barely competes with the amazing natural color of his spider. This one on the roof of my car. Neither blending in nor competing so well. Um… but I had two. He only had one. More is better! Yay, USA!