As some of you may remember, Animated Meat first came to life in 2008 as a way to document some sights that managed to slip through the cracks of most popular travel websites. You may also remember that the original website was built on Apple's now defunct iWeb. From there, it migrated over to WordPress where it met an untimely demise at the hands of Russian hackers. Many of those old, pre-2012 entries have found a new home here in the Before the Now section. I would consider these posts as my starting place as a writer, probably comparable to a musician's first demo tapes. They are very rough, but I took them all seriously and wrote each one with passion. While I would like to believe that I have matured in my abilities as a writer, it is my hope that I carry this same blind passion into all of my new efforts.
Who knew that Santa Ana had a zoo? I didn’t, did you?
You can find value, at the Santa Ana Zoo.
This monkey beckons us to join his crew, at the Santa Ana Zoo.
There was some bamboo, at the Santa Ana Zoo.
They even have a choo-choo, at the Santa Ana Zoo.
It’s called a Rhea but I mistook it for an emu, at the Santa Ana Zoo.
The monkeys were nice and didn’t throw poo, at the Santa Ana Zoo.
The lemurs made a hullabaloo, at the Santa Ana Zoo.
The camels have one hump not two, at the Santa Ana Zoo.