Artifact ID day

[trochee]

okay, I think the local Artifact ID Day is pretty cool.

Do you have something that you can't quite place? If it's from somewhere along the Pacific Rim or North America, one of the Burke's curators may be able to help you figure it out. Experts will be on hand to identify objects from the Northwest Coast, Pacific Islands, and Asia, in addition to specimens from throughout the natural world (including bones, fossils, or animal teeth).

I live in an apartment, so this isn't something I will bring something to, but it's the kind of thing that would be fun with kids.

Comments

[ex-caracola454.livejournal.com]

it's the kind of thing that would be fun with kids....

Ha! I just imagined you saying that as a father. Papa J!

[trochee.livejournal.com]

hah, you join the ranks of lapartera, beckyb and blackwingedboy in giving me and imtboo a hard time.

[ex-caracola454.livejournal.com]

At least I'm in good company :-)

[trochee.livejournal.com]

indeed you are. I feel lucky to know that this awesome group of people thinks that we are well-suited.

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

Ha.
You don't want to know what *I* imagined.

[trochee.livejournal.com]

but I want to know what you imagined.

[bwb-archive.livejournal.com]

"it's the kind of thing that would be fun with kids"

Yes, kids *are* awfully hard sometimes to identify. It would be fun to take them and see where they are from.

[trochee.livejournal.com]

"see, I, uh, found, uh, this set of bones in a bag of lime under my, uh, a guy I know's house? and, uh, I, I mean he doesn't want them so maybe you could take them."

[bwb-archive.livejournal.com]

No, I mean identify the kids! They are hard to place.

Oh that's not what you meant, is it?

[trochee.livejournal.com]

heh. for the record, o citizens of the future who come to review my suitability for the Supreme Court, I was joking about the bags of lime.

Turns out carrion beetles work just fine...

[bwb-archive.livejournal.com]

I'll call the death cab.

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

I'll call Cutie !

[trochee.livejournal.com]

hah! here's a Jim Woodring cartoon that makes me think of "cutie":

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

Um...

[trochee.livejournal.com]

bahahah!

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

sorry. very big. you can delete it. i didn't have time to make it small. i am going home to do yoga . i don't have time for the internet. ;)

[bwb-archive.livejournal.com]

You never have to! You just look in a mirror.

You're sweet.

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

Aw.

[trochee.livejournal.com]

here's a Jim Woodring cover that is a little like what I was thinking about the "death cab", in terms of feel. only imagine bigger, and bright yellow, with a black skull painted on one side:

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

At this point we are losing everyone else on this thread. Oh well.
That's what happens when we all know each other so well.
We make theatre for our friends.