DS Spotlights: Punks Doing Good April 2025: Rescuing Reptiles, Other Coldblooded Creatures, and his Dad too!

Punk rock and lizards go well with each other. The Jesus Lizard, and Dead Milkmen’s Big Lizard In My Backyard album are just two examples.

For Patrick Kamberos – aka “Pat D Waggon” – reptiles, amphibians, and other exotic creatures are a huge part of his life. Kamberos, along with two of his fellow native Chicagoans, Michael and Shay Edelen, run Cold Blooded & Bizarre in Charlotte, NC.

Kamberos regularly returns to Chicago to hang with friends and family in the punk scene there.