SPIDER-FLICKING TIME DOWN UNDER!: I’ve always been a bit of a poisonous creature aficionado, though I’m not overly good at it. I’ve been bitten, stuck, poked, stabbed, stung and otherwise envenomated by more toxic creatures than you can shake a stick at. The worst ever was a seemingly minor fanging by a small mountain centipede on Maui. That tiny touch of toxin had me trippin’ for highly harrowing hours on end.

My disluck with poisonous things is largely due to the fact I go out of my way to track them down … you know, just for…