Porcupine's are taking over...

Dear Diary...

Who knew that porcupines were such popular animals? Over the past few days, porcupines have been invading my world. First of all, I was watching Conan, and there was one of those animal expert dudes (who for whatever reason never seem to know anything about their animals). The guy had a porcupine with him and explained that if you pet them a certain way, the porcs (why not?) are quite soft, but if you are pricked by one, it can mean death. No, seriously. You will die. (If you fail to remove said porc before the stuff enters your bloodstream) So that was my first encounter withthe porcupine this weekend.
Then, I went to the zoo and saw some. Granted, it's the zoo, so who's surprised, right? I mean, the porcupine should have been more insulted than I was that I was invading its life.
But when I saw a human porcupine, I knew it was all over.
I was at a party, when suddenly a friend pointed out to me that one of the males had clearly been cross-bred with a porcupine. His black hair was sticking up in such clearly porc descendant deadly and poisonous weapons that I immediately feared for my life. Nonetheless, as it turned out, the procupine/human was a German guy with a fetish for extremely hard and spikey hair. What's with all of the gel, boys? I bet half of the gel economy is based on the market in Germany. No joke.
Just keeping you updated on the goings-on of my porcupine filled days.
(BTW, I did manage to mess up his hair and discovered that instead of venom, the porcuguy had regular strands of hair that could be separated...I never cease to be amazed.)

Signed,
AnimalEnthusiast

Sidenote--I learned a new song at the zoo. It goes like this: (Hit it, boys!)
" H-I-P for the hi-ii-p,
P-O-P-O for the hip-popo,
T-A for the tay,
M-U-S for the hip-popo-tay-mus,
(spoken quickly) ay-hippo, ay-hippopo!"
Nice, right? Now you know how to spell hippopotamus.