California Blorpin’

by Meg on July 1, 2009

All the seals are brown
And the pebbles grey
I’ve been for a swim
In this man made bay

I’d be safe and warm
If I was in L.A.
California blorpin’
Stuck in Germanaaaay

GERMANY/

A California sea lion at the Wuppertal Zoo in Germany dreams of going home. By Ina Fassbender. Spotted by Ryan with no last name.

{ 51 comments }

1 Mary (the first) 07.01.09 at 2:39 pm

OMG I needed that so moishe! What a day.

2 Leslie (not the author!!) 07.01.09 at 2:41 pm

Meg, meg, meg..

one of THA BEST SONGS EVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
(thank you so much for the warm sunshiny feeling….)

3 Katrina 07.01.09 at 2:41 pm

Blorpitude!

4 eknirb 07.01.09 at 2:47 pm

great lyrics, and lookit Mr. McPudgersons if ya will.

5 berthaservant 07.01.09 at 2:48 pm

Just part of all of the great blorpiness awaiting you on the beautiful coast of California. Don’t forget these blorpish monsters o’ the deep: THE ELEPHANT SEAL.

http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=1115

6 Wincey 07.01.09 at 2:49 pm

That’s the best thing that’s happened to me all day. I’m gonna have that song in my head for ages now.

7 earlybird1 07.01.09 at 2:58 pm

“Someone please roll me over, I’m done on this side!”

8 skippymom 07.01.09 at 2:59 pm

Shouldn’t this also be Cute Or Sad? (also, sympathy to Ryan, whose parents couldn’t afford a last name)

9 Robin 07.01.09 at 3:02 pm

IBeing a left coaster, I’ve seen alot of sea-lions and that cuddly blob, is simlutaneously cuttiest and most obese Sea Lion I could possibly conceive of.

10 skippymom 07.01.09 at 3:06 pm

The rough texture of that ledge where he’s lying looks pretty ouchy–but I suppose he can’t feel it through all the blorp.

11 Mario 07.01.09 at 3:09 pm

He looks like a real life Dr. Seuss character!

12 freetomato 07.01.09 at 3:21 pm

*sigh* I miss my California home (I am in the deep south now). Last summer when I was out west we went to San Francisco and the wharf was covered in hundreds of sea-lion blorpi-chunks sunning themselves. I could have watched them all day. I want to pet one – I wonder if they are as soft as they look?

13 AmyJ 07.01.09 at 3:31 pm

Blorp lion looks like he’s getting ready for take-off – can that much blorp be airborne…?

Happy ear worm!!

14 AuntieMame 07.01.09 at 3:36 pm

Blobbular!

15 Pheas 07.01.09 at 3:40 pm

You ARE a bratwurst, sir!

16 Theresa 07.01.09 at 3:52 pm

Pheas, that was just what I was thinking!!!

17 Von Zeppelin 07.01.09 at 4:07 pm

Thanks for the Mama and the Poppas flashback. This guy looks mellow enough to be at one of their concerts, circa 1967.

18 2catsonmylap 07.01.09 at 4:07 pm

earss at 9 and 3!!!

19 TheGreatKatzini 07.01.09 at 4:14 pm

This seal looks like I feel – far to hot and conked out… Yes, it’s now actually summer here in Germany. Hooray.

20 Kiri 07.01.09 at 5:15 pm

If you see anyone volunteer to give him a wafer thin mint, duck and cover.

21 Tractatus Blorpico-Philosophicus 07.01.09 at 5:24 pm

Blorpapalooza! Ich sehe das Blorp.

22 chanpon 07.01.09 at 5:51 pm

Err…time to hit the gym?

23 Redbone 07.01.09 at 5:58 pm

freetomato,
Here in the deep south, we still have big blorpy people to watch! Doesn’t that count for something? They make a lot of the same noises, too, though I’ve never heard a sea lion holler for more butter for its grits.

24 Leslie T. 07.01.09 at 6:03 pm

ummmm….

Tag as Blorp, perhaps????
Perhaps I have missed some crucial reason for the choice not to do so????

Yours in peace, butterflies, rhinestones, etc, etc.

25 Theo 07.01.09 at 6:06 pm

I haven’t told Meg about the “Blorp” tag yet. I’ve been waiting to see how long it’ll be before she notices. ;)

(Meanwhile, I continue tagging and plodding on, alone, all alone in the wilderness…)

26 freetomato 07.01.09 at 6:27 pm

Well, redbone, I too saw the article about the largest concentration of human blorpitude being in the south. I do love it here and have lots of friends, but I have had quite a wave of “California Dreaming” lately and am making plans to move back home once our boy goes off to college. When I get back home I intend to introduce my left-coast friends to such wonders as grits, boiled peanuts, pecan pie and fried okra :)

27 bunmom 07.01.09 at 6:43 pm

Freetomato, you have company. I’m also a California native, now in the deep south and dreaming of home and the blorpy seals off the coast.

28 Nekussa 07.01.09 at 6:58 pm

Sooooooooooooooooo round!

29 Dianna 07.01.09 at 7:52 pm

Wow… I was singing along with that. :)

30 A. 07.01.09 at 8:30 pm

Blorporiffic!

31 Ruth 07.01.09 at 9:32 pm

Awwwwwww…………….such adorable blorpitude !

32 hon glad 07.01.09 at 10:59 pm

Sealio- I will start my press-ups in a minute.

33 smarsh 07.01.09 at 11:46 pm

Holy blorpitude batman!

34 Carlisa 07.02.09 at 4:32 am

To blorpivion and beeeyawn!
The whisker face is kilingk me!

35 T.U.M. 07.02.09 at 5:08 am

Ich bin ein Blorpliner!

36 Lizzums 07.02.09 at 5:33 am

Mmmm… boiled peanuts…. Yep, Deep Southerner through and through…. anyone else tried peanuts in their Coke? I hear that’s a truly southern thing as well. I find it’s best in glass bottles.

37 pyrit 07.02.09 at 5:53 am

Sounds like Theo is studying migration patterns.

38 Kristabelle 07.02.09 at 6:16 am

The Mamas and the Papas! AWESOME way to start my Faux Friday!!!

How very ‘Merikan of you, Meg!

39 zeldapie 07.02.09 at 7:25 am

Mein Gott! Solche Blorpiness!
I think this sea lion has had a few too many Appfelstrudel und Schnitzel mit Noodels und things of this nature…

40 Katrina 07.02.09 at 7:33 am

Blorp-o-vision- in color! I wonder why people are getting so blorp-o-liciously fat?

41 January 07.02.09 at 8:32 am

Me thinks the kind german people are feeding too many heavy german-type fish dishes. Needs a California salad diet for a while.

42 Leslie (not the author!!) 07.02.09 at 9:25 am

Theo — when you’re plodding along, alone, wildnerness et al:
How do you do the CO blogging? do you carry a laptop & a massive external battery?

43 Katrina 07.02.09 at 10:45 am

Leslie (not the author!!)- an extension cord of course, silly!

44 Lula Mae 07.02.09 at 12:26 pm

ÜBERBLÖRP!

(awesome lyrics, too!)

45 Lula Mae 07.02.09 at 1:25 pm

Whoskers McSchnizzle just crossed mind…

46 Carlisa 07.02.09 at 1:35 pm

(wants to plop on the blorp)

47 Carolina 07.02.09 at 1:56 pm

Meg, those lyrics….
Someone needs a holiday……….
Thanks for the laugh!

48 Elle 07.02.09 at 5:20 pm

As your friendly neighborhood marine biologist, I feel obliged to note that poor Mr. Bloorp is quite over-fed.
As a lover of cute-ness, I must note that OMFGSNUGGLES.

49 Subhangi 07.02.09 at 10:35 pm

O_O

50 Sam 07.03.09 at 4:53 am

Totally sublime.

51 L 07.06.09 at 7:02 pm

Stopped into a pond
I passed along the way
Well, I got too many fleas
yet I begin to play

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