okay so I know I've been AWOL for a hot minute (life! chaos! also frankly kind of terrified tbh) but I need every single one of you to read this whole post because Wednesday is a BIG deal and I am not playing around!!!
Some of you have literally been here since 2003, back when this blog was just me losing my mind over a legendary love frog I was CONVINCED was real (I was right btw. never doubt me). Some of you found me more recently because of everything going on with Cataclysm Chemical. Either way — hi!!! welcome!!! buckle up!!
Ok here's the deal. Cataclysm Chemical has been doing SECRET, undisclosed research on a living, breathing animal — the Sapito Amor!! The same frog I wrote about on this blog literally decades ago when I had zero proof it was even real!! IT'S REAL. A multi-billion dollar chemical company found it before any of us could protect it, and they have been testing on it. I'm shaking typing this. actually shaking rn.
(quick backstory for anyone new: my husband — yes, THAT Marcus, Dr. Mr. Fun himself, my hottie hubby, still cannot believe he said yes — got roped into a blind fragrance testing panel a few months back and recognized the compound signature from his own research immediately. He wouldn't say a word about it over text. We have very personal reasons to assume this company reads our messages (long story, ask me sometime, it's a WHOLE thing). So he drove straight to the house and told me in person at 11pm looking like he'd seen a ghost. that's genuinely how any of this started unraveling. I trust that man's nose more than I trust most government agencies.)
I spent two decades defending the idea that this frog might exist. I never once imagined the people who'd prove me right would also be the ones hurting it.
This Wednesday is our next demonstration and I need as many of you there as HUMANLY possible. Not gonna lie to you and pretend one protest fixes everything overnight, it doesn't, but attention is literally the only leverage we've got right now, and attention only grows if people keep SHOWING UP.
I know not everyone reading this lives anywhere near New Mexico, lol. If you can't be there Wednesday, you can still help!! Share this post, say the company's name out loud to someone who hasn't heard it yet, and if you're a local news person ANYWHERE, please ask your outlets why this isn't bigger news?? Cataclysm Chemical is a chemical weapons and biohazard waste company that decided a frog was next. Say that sentence in your head again. Unhinged. Actually deranged behavior from them, truly.
Ok real talk for a sec bc I feel like I owe you guys some honesty after being gone so long: I don't fully know how this ends. I don't know if showing up outside a fence line five separate times is enough to change anything a company this size does. But I know that NOT showing up definitely isn't enough, and I would rather be standing there being loud about it than sitting here being quiet. Frogs deserve better than this and I will die on this hill!! 🐸
see you Wednesday!! — Lisa 🐸💛
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