ANIMALS!!!!!!!!!!!
know what this guy is doing? he's looking on the side of the carnegie library at the GIANT ANIMALS!!! that's right, friends -- GIGANTIC ANIMALS are all around the library and museum!!! i saw them tonight, in the car with krista and paul on the way home from school, and i IMMEDIATELY turned into a seven year old! ANIMALS!!! as if this gigantic dinosaur weren't awesome enough, the carnegie museum of art has an exhibition right now called "fierce friends: artists & animals, 1750-1900". fierce! like pterodactyls!!!i'm totally going to check it out. you should, too.
posted by emily @ Tuesday, March 28, 2006
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Holy Fear Time for the former Elementary School Teacher--every year when it was time to do the Dinosaur lesson, I would break out into a cold sweat--I KNEW that there were 7 year old kids that knew way more I did about the dang Dinosaurs--I brushed up on the ages (Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous)--I looked at Dino pictures, I crossed my non-Dino loving fingers, and I went for it. I think that I probably know more about Dinosaurs than most adults due to the years of teaching it and all, but when I first moved to Pittsburgh an awful thing happened. I was in front of the Carnegie Library/Museum--I was looking at the statue of the Dinosaur that you posted with your blog, and a kid asked me what kind of Dinosaur it was--we chatted about the head size, the body type, etc . . .--I told him that it was probably a Brontosaurus (more correctly called an Apatosaurus)--THEN some other little child chimed in that I was totally WRONG--the Dinosaur at the Carnegie Library/Museum is a Diplodocus carnegii--they call him "Dippy."
The second kid was right--the first kid that I was talking to looked at me and had his first, "Adults are sometimes idiots moment." I hung my head in shame--and wrote off the friggin' Dinos forever!
Thanks for bringing back such a hideous memory.
Kisses.
sandy -- you're half-right. i'm not a boy. duh.
I received a little flyer in my mailbox about that, and they seem to be marketing it as a pro-vegetarianism/veganism event (which is totally cool, but it always scares me a little bit b/c I know all about factory farming and I don't want to be forced to look at the damn videos of the terrible things they do to cows and chickens anymore). On the front of the flyer it says: "Fierce Friends: Artists & Animals... A 'Free Range' of Ideas." Get it? Free range! Very clever. But it actually sounds kinda cool, and it's free, and they will have meat free snacks!
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