natural and unnatural history

for proper verbosity, turn you attention here. in the meantime, here are some pretty pictures. summer has returned to the penthouse loft and i can't even begin to write when it is this hot (or maybe i just have chocolate hangover, who knows) but i can post pixels. lots of colored pixels.

The University of Michigan Museum of Natural History is very cool for displaying strange old dead stuff. not the most ethical way for wee little babes to learn about the intricasies of science, but hey, i'm always up for the preservation of history through visually odd cabinets of curiosities. (psst..just don't make any more. dead things, bad, but it tickles the fancy of my latent victorian sensibilities. ooooh spooky.)

i really thought this monkey just might come to life and eat my face:



but thankfully, it did not, because more fun was to be had, not to mention death by resurrected shaggy monkies is not necessarily the way i want to end my days. not very rockstar.

THIS was cool:



bats and moths and beetles (oh MY!) all arranged in what i thought was just some tripnofied pattern but really was a depiction of buzzards when you stepped back far enough. whomever put this together was NOT right in the head. i approve.

next, after a pleasantly long, fast and well sonically enhanced drive out to the country was the abandoned Prehistoric Forest amusement park in Irish Hills. just seeing hills in Michigan is a feat in and of itself. fields of thousands of sunflowers all facing the same direction is also rather nifty, and a proper entry into the life is good column.

broken animitronic reptillian/avian things are less scary than taxidermied monkies, but still just as entertaining.



my co-conspirator (of course in excellent woodland camouflage) thought it'd be fun to taunt the angry thing with big teeth by venturing into its stomping ground and taking a picture.



in the future, i'd advise against such things, as our friend the dimetrodon might have eaten FLESH....



in case you didn't see...



FLESH!

rarrrrr! scared yet? i thought so.