Yeah. I think spiders are awesome and all, but it's birthing season right now and there's some bigass pregnant spiders just hanging around everywhere and I'll literally cross the street to avoid contact with their webs. But the thing is, these guys are maybe the size of a quarter. When I was visiting family in Australia a spider fell on my cousin's car's windshield and unless I was totally hallucinating took up half the windshield. He just turned on the wipers and off it went, like it was no big deal. Meanwhile, I'm in the passenger side, pondering what I would've done with those extra 7 years of my life I just lost.

I've seen some big ass roaches in SE Asia, bigger than the width of my hand, they fly around. Lots of filthy cockroaches, more than anywhere else. Red city roaches, black forest roaches.

Cicada who's cries are like those of anguished children. Many praying mantis the size of my hand, stick bugs, giant hornets, god damn giant centipedes (san-vagina), hairy mother fucking millipedes, stink bugs that crawled in private places (sitting on a stink bug releases an arsenic like compound, not nice).

Not so many spiders, except these modest sized day-glow green ones, and some tiny shiny silver body ones. Am sure the bright colors mean they can hurt me.

I tend to stay in the cities, I have no intention of walking the jungles.


And no thanks to Australian budget hotels. Never again.

Frankly I'd be at least startled if anything unexpectedly jumped at me. But yeah these guys (gals) are way cute.