D o n t Y o u T h i n k

Yesterday Was Crazy

It felt so Day After Tomorrow yesterday here in the city.  I saw torrential downpours, large chunks of hail, lightning 20 feet away, funnel clouds in Staten Island on TV, thunder that, at one point, caused me to check for some sort of airplane crash outside, and birds fall from the sky.  I also saw sunny skies and experienced temperatures ranging from 50 to like 65 degrees. 

WTF? 

I'm from Florida, where the weather is famously unpredictable, and I've never seen such a dynamic display of weather such as I witnessed yesterday here in good old NYC . 

KeepInTouchBodyToBody

I am so stoked about BODIES...The Exhibition, opening November 19th right by my house in the South Street Seaport.  The exhibit will feature human bodies (and portions thereof) which have been forever preserved by "polymer preservation," a process that inovlves hardened iquid silicone rubber.  The process is called "plastination" by a similar but unrelated exhibition called Body Worlds.  Learn all about it here - it's some serious Six Feet Under shit.  I think Body Worlds was the first exhibit of this sort, but please correct me if I'm wrong.  These two exhibits are also not to be confused with The Universe Within, Bodies Revealed, or Body Exploration in Taiwan, which apparently had a legal run-in with the apparent inventor of plastination, Dr. Gunther von Hagens, who really creeps me out and totally looks like Judge Doom. Who knew playing with dead bodies could be so lucrative?   

Check out more pictures after the jump - they're really crazy.  And let me know if you plan on visiting the exhibit by the seaport.  Tickets are $25, and it's up until December 31st.  I will probably check it out sometime in December.   

The Colossal Colon

                                                      

CAN YOU GUESS WHAT ALL THESE THRILLED PEOPLE HAVE IN COMMON?They are all happily posing with the Colossal Colon, located in Washington, DC, of course, because no real state would think this is correct.  Not even a red state.  Mind you, I do not oppose education on any subject, including the colon, its workings, and, of course, colo-rectal cancer.  That this was funded by Katie Couric and The Today Show comes only as a mild surprise.  Visitors are expected to actually crawl through a giant reproduction of a colon, complete with giant reproductions of pieces of shit and cancer stuck to the inside.  This is why morning television program executives should reign in the budgets these people have to work with.  This, like Katie Couric, is just wrong people.  WRONG.  Learn more at the Colossal Colon webpage.