I’m alive and finally finished posting my India stuff as well as a thing from my trip to Tahoe. I also got back from a trip to the Windy City this laborial day weekend, so expect some goodies sometime. You know how I roll, better late than never!
I am now stateside. I have a number of new exciting places for you to visit. Real updates soon, but India was definitely unique and challenging, but I feel like I explored and learned much.
A small Wichita, Kansas theme park is on the auction block. It seems like your typical small and old-time amusement park. If it ends up being haunted or somesuch I shall let you know, dear reader.
An Anglican Monk is quite the busy traveler. I think I’d rather spend more time seeing stuff and less time traveling, but hey, I’m not a monk either (but you should fear my drunken crab style).
The zoo in Tulsa, Oklahoma is adding some scripture on creationism. Not sure how the story in Genesis relates specifically, but personally I think they should have removed the statue of Ganesh (and the republican elephant, for good measure.
See also the Museum of Earth History for a another tenuous science/religion exhibit.
An AR museum is planned to open betwixt to primate labs in Madison, Wisconsin. Looks like it will be pretty intense. I can’t watch those videos anymore.
I’m not sure when the National Primate Research Exhibition Hall shall open, but I’m in Wisconsin enough that it will probably get a visit not too long after it opens. We’ll see how well their fundraising goes.
A salute to the Black Power salute from the 1964 Olympics is to be erected in San Jose, California. Stay tuned until 16 October 2005. This event was well before your humble narrator’s time, but apparently it caused quite a stir back in the day, but is not very stirred now. Somehow though, to me, a statue seems like a strange choice of memorial for this. Maybe I’m just imagining what statues would appear 40 years from now.
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100 years after Verne’s death a curious spectacle appears in Nantes, France. Apparently there was a huge elephant that squirted water as well as a child giant that, er, did as well. Looks like it was really sugoi. Wish I’d have caught it.
A statue in Santa Rosa, CA has sone good greif when it went wandering over the weekend. I think these are like the cow statues in Chicago or the coffe cups in Seattle, or atleast they were until one ended up like Big Boy. If they put the slightly-worse-for-wear Charlie Brown a final home I’ll maybe post a full article, but the news is funny anyways.
A bouquet of corpse flower blooms commin atcha. I found out on Wednesday that Ted the Titan, a huge stinky blower that blooms once every 6 years or so was all but bloomed out. Thank you SF Chronicle for that all-summer-in-a-day experience. I did go see it that evening and it is still huge but not smelly anymore, which saddens me. I can see pictures all I want, but my interweb is smell deaf.
But those of you out in the midwest U.S. fear thee not, for there is a bigger and better and not-in-the-past-er bloom coming your way in Wisconsin, by the name of Big Bucky. Should be blooming within the week, so get out there you people and start writing those yo momma jokes that you’ll use when you’re there.