diff --git a/src/main/groovy/offtopic/OfftopicClient.groovy b/src/main/groovy/offtopic/OfftopicClient.groovy
index aa55edb..fcc4048 100644
--- a/src/main/groovy/offtopic/OfftopicClient.groovy
+++ b/src/main/groovy/offtopic/OfftopicClient.groovy
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ class OfftopicClient {
     }
 
     public void createSubscribersFor(String topicsPattern) {
-        topicsPattern.split("\\+").each { topic ->
+        topicsFrom(topicsPattern).each { topic ->
             if (topic.length() == 0) {
                 return
             }
@@ -57,4 +57,30 @@ class OfftopicClient {
             subscriber.shutdown()
         }
     }
+
+    public ArrayList<String> topicsFrom(String topicsPattern) {
+        ArrayList<String> topics = new ArrayList<String>()
+        topicsPattern.split("\\+").each { topic ->
+            if (topic.length() == 0) {
+                return
+            }
+            if (topic.indexOf('*') >= 0) {
+                topics.addAll(lookupTopicsFor(topicsPattern))
+            }
+            else {
+                topics.add(topic)
+            }
+        }
+        return topics
+    }
+
+    private ArrayList<String> lookupTopicsFor(String topicPattern) {
+        ArrayList<String> topics = new ArrayList<String>()
+        KafkaService.fetchTopics().each { topic ->
+            if (topic =~ topicPattern) {
+                topics.add(topic)
+            }
+        }
+        return topics
+    }
 }
diff --git a/src/main/groovy/offtopic/curator/CuratorPool.groovy b/src/main/groovy/offtopic/curator/CuratorPool.groovy
index bbc7b2b..ae094f8 100644
--- a/src/main/groovy/offtopic/curator/CuratorPool.groovy
+++ b/src/main/groovy/offtopic/curator/CuratorPool.groovy
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ class CuratorPool extends GenericObjectPool<CuratorClient>{
 
     private CuratorPool(String zookeepers) {
         super(new CuratorClientObjectFactory(zookeepers))
-        println "CREATING WITH ${zookeepers}"
     }
 
     public static void withCurator(Closure closure) {
diff --git a/src/test/groovy/offtopic/OfftopicClientSpec.groovy b/src/test/groovy/offtopic/OfftopicClientSpec.groovy
index 3b6ce5d..f3990b4 100644
--- a/src/test/groovy/offtopic/OfftopicClientSpec.groovy
+++ b/src/test/groovy/offtopic/OfftopicClientSpec.groovy
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 package offtopic
 
-import spock.lang.Specification
+import spock.lang.*
 
 class OfftopicClientSpec extends Specification {
     def "initialization should create a clientId"() {
@@ -43,3 +43,56 @@ class OfftopicClientCreateSubscribersSpec extends Specification {
         this.client.subscribers.size() == 1
     }
 }
+
+class OfftopicClientTopicParsingSpec extends Specification {
+    def client = null
+    def setup() {
+        this.client = new OfftopicClient()
+    }
+
+    def "a single topic"() {
+        when:
+        def topics = this.client.topicsFrom('topic')
+
+        then:
+        topics.size() == 1
+    }
+
+    def "plus-delimited topics"() {
+        when:
+        def topics = this.client.topicsFrom('topic+some.topic')
+
+        then:
+        topics.size() == 2
+    }
+}
+
+class OfftopicClientTopicLookupSpec extends Specification {
+    def client
+
+    def setup() {
+        // Mocking out KafkaService so we don't actually have to hit Zookeeper
+        GroovyMock(KafkaService, global: true)
+        this.client = new OfftopicClient()
+    }
+
+    def "looking up topics that don't exist"() {
+        when:
+        // Call fetchTopics() once and return an empty Array
+        1 * KafkaService.fetchTopics() >> []
+        def topics = this.client.lookupTopicsFor('spock.*')
+
+        then:
+        topics.size() == 0
+    }
+
+    def "looking up topics against topics that exist"() {
+        when:
+        // Call fetchTopics() once and return an empty Array
+        1 * KafkaService.fetchTopics() >> ['foo', 'bar', 'spock.rocks']
+        def topics = this.client.lookupTopicsFor('spock.*')
+
+        then:
+        topics.size() == 1
+    }
+}