Rocking out

The LA Natural History Museum is packed full of natural history, taxidermy, and rocks. Unlike The Getty, there's an entry fee for this museum. And what does the price of admission get you? The highest quality exhibits legally allowed by the state of California.

Take this one for example. A nice little display of a meteor that could have been floating around in our solar system for billions of years, traveling millions of miles at obscene speeds, surviving the blazing entrance into our atmosphere, and finally striking our Earth's surface to be examined by scientists and placed in a museum next to a fucking plastic toy from a McDonalds Happy Meal.

I also like this display that they entitled, 'Urban Birds' which was in their Wild Life exhibit. It was a bunch of little toys that were placed in a miniature cityscape. Most of the plastic figurines were birds or bird-related characters, but somehow Luigi made his way into the Natural History Museum. Oh yeah, now I remember that part in our planet's history when some Lasagna-eating Guinea, who also happens to be a videogame personality, slid down a flagpole and simultaneously ignigted a series of 6 dazzling fireworks in order to declare the conquering of Mushroom Land. That was a great moment in natrual history.