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HELLO (Again)

Come meet our special celebrity guest, The Essential Frog, in person! [📸 Rachel]

Oh so you thought you could escape our emails?

OH HO HO! THINK AGAIN!

We now harass you from Alberta, where we are “frolicking in place” in the city of Calgary.

We'll keep it brief. This email is to invite ALL OF YOU to our Hobgoblin Travel Shindig! We'll have dishes to share from our favourite cuisines around the world, and plenty of stories to go along with them.

We'll even have some stories considered too salacious, too weird, too potentially embarrassing to be committed to the hallowed halls of this fine website! Johann ate what? How did Rachel lose that? Come up to our place, and you just might find out!

Date: Saturday, November 14, 2026
Time: TBD
Location: Calgary, Alberta (details will be provided to those who RSVP!)

Yes, that is The Essential Frog with an actual frog orchid! Rachel wept. [📸 Rachel]

Hope to see you all soon (or, in exactly four months)! We'll be watching.

Hobgoblin Conclusions

We crash-landed back in Canada on April 21, 2026. In case you're wondering, we did get macrons and eat them by the Eiffel Tower, near the flame-belching tuba. In our 22-hour layover we also took strolls over the Seine and along the Champs-Élysées, encountered Monet's waterlilies

It's a baby giraffe licking its own butt. Rejoice.

Animal Butts & Fronts

Do we really need another photo of a zebra butt? That is an an excellent example of the type of question we never asked ourselves. We saw a multitude of amazing animals in South Africa, and have MANY photos of front and butts. For your perusal, we present the wildlife

South Africa

Johann returned to the homeland, new bride and mother-in-law in tow. We met up with his parents at the airport, bundled into the car, and snoozed only a little. That afternoon we received a very warm welcome from Ouma Maureen and Oupa Johan, who are incredibly kind and have a

Global Pigeons

If you didn’t know, Rachel really likes pigeons. There are so many colour variations! And they do science about that which is neat. Humans have been buddies with pigeons for at least 5000 years and counting. Some of the amazing things we've learned about pigeons: Picasso loved,

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Hobgoblin Conclusions

Animal Butts & Fronts

South Africa

Global Pigeons