How Eliyanna and I spent 7 hours on Friday. Well, I drove the first half, she did the second. She’s sporting a $pread fake tattoo, which is awesome.
Upon arrival in Philly we went to the Mutter Museum (their tagline is “disturbingly informative” and it is). Lots of more (and more disturbing) photos are on my Flickr.
Confusion about time and promotion for the event at Passional meant that there were only three people there other than me and Eliyanna. There was, however, alcohol, and so I made myself a vodka cran and did my reading. It was heavy on the vodka.
Pretty much everything with the reading got fucked up, including our place to stay, so Eliyanna and I decided to treat ourselves to a swank hotel, where we ordered dessert via room service and lay in bed watching TV. Definitely a good end to a long but thoroughly awesome week. I’ll write more in-depth about it once I’ve recovered a little bit.
9:56 pm
Oh the Mutter Museum does a fine job of being quite disturbing. Sorry South Street wasnt more hip for ya.
4:42 pm
What happened at Passional?
3:26 am
OMG a fake $pread tattoo? Like a rub on one? How can I get one?
7:52 am
There was no chance you could have cropped my bulging stomach out of that photo huh? No problem. I’m FINE with that.
12:50 pm
I totally have to read your book. I’m not naked on my blog but I let everything else hang out. Congrats on your success!
8:34 am
If you’ve got an address I can send some too, I’d be happy to send some $pread tattoos!
DFP - the nakedness is both literal and figurative, so technically you are naked on the Internet
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[…] Mythic Creatures? Dragons, Unicorns & Mermaids Running through January 6, 2008 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns & Mermaids features “spectacular sculptures, paintings, and textiles, along with a number of cultural objects ranging from medieval tapestries to shadow puppets to ceremonial masks and helmets from around the world which will bring to light surprising similarities as well as differences in the ways peoples around the world have envisioned and depicted these strange and wonderful creatures.” The exhibits are divided into Water: Creatures of the Deep, Land: Creatures of the Earth, Air: Creatures of the Sky, and Dragons: Creatures of Power, presumably indicating that the ever-popular lizard things must hold down the Fire side of the four corners, and Christ Almighty! I wouldn’t want to be the museum curator opening any packages from the Phoenix Society. Image from the Aberdeen Bestiary courtesy of Wikipedia. Says the museum: “For thousands of years, fantastical creatures have been embedded in the human experience through legends and fables, ancient art, and even in the accounts of early naturalists.” Speaking of au naturalists, I ran across this exhibit only moments after receiving an emissive from Queen of the Museum Nerds Audacia Ray, who, while quick to acknowledge that her recent visit to the American Urological Museum near Baltimore qualifies her for a merit badge in Strange Museology and she gets a silver star for recently hitting the Mütter Museum in Philly, she earns a blue polyester shirt and a coveted pair of Spock ears for her trip to the Natural History Museum in Salzburg, which she clocks as her strangest exhibition… er, that is to say… her strangest museum (which is saying a lot if you know the Mütter ). Says Ray: “It’s a regular natural history museum, if a little outdated stylistically, and it has a whole section devoted to anatomical oddities, plus it has a stuffed baby liger. But that’s not the strange part - the strange part is that there is a whole section devoted to mythological creatures, which includes a large taxidermied unicorn. All that stuff is right next to the tropical birds, and there isn’t much of an effort at saying that these creatures come from the imagination. And if you’ve been to museums and overheard people making assumptions without reading the labels, you know that kids walk away from that museum believing in unicorns. Which is kind of awesome. Or terrible.” Unicorn from a fresco in Palazzo Farnese, Rome, probably by Domenichino, courtesy of Wikipedia. […]
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[…] her for a merit badge in Strange Museology and she gets a silver star for recently hitting the Mütter Museum in Philly, she earns a blue polyester shirt and a coveted pair of Spock ears for her trip to the […]