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I'm going to LACMA on Sunday. I may have to investigate (although I doubt the public has access).


I LOVE the Google Ads that appear to be "related" to this story:

Oooooh. I'll be in the hood on Sunday; may check this out as well. COOL!

Join us at LACMA.

Perhaps for brunch or lunch before you go? I've seen their current exhibitions not too long ago.

And going to that link informs you that:

The new Hancock Park slogan: "They moved the cemetery...but they left the bodies!"

Wait, bully sticks, as in, the things that Thurston munches on, his "cigars"? :eek: As in, the things I have touched??

My mom volunteers at the Page (Tar Pits) Museum, the bones' new home, so we've heard much about this already. Unfortunately, there isn't much to see at this point. Just blocks of asphalt sitting in crates until volunteers are able to excavate the bones from them. The first few bones are being worked on and can be seen inside the museum.

What is truly amazing is that these finds are going to double the museum's collection. My mom has given our out-of-town guests behind-the-scenes tours of the museum on several occasions, and the amount of bones they had in storage already was mind-boggling.

Here are some photos from their storage area from the visit of Heidi's sister and brother in-law, with nieces and nephews, from last year. There are a number of those aisles you see in the pictures, and each and every one of those trays is filled with bones. And this was before the new discoveries.

A couple more fun pics from that visit:

Our niece playing with a mammoth skull.



And LSPE with a saber-tooth skull.

We should definitely organize a behind-the-scenes swanking at the Page. We've been talking about it for some time!

The Boy would LOVE that. He has been begging me to take him back there since we went the last time.

May I make a request for the 2nd or 4th weekend of any month??

Haha, you never knew that?!

Awesome!

Thurston LOVES Bully sticks and chews on them regularly. I've known what they were for a long time, but I don't think I ever shared that with Chris (for obvious reasons). Personally, I'm not sure why what a Bully Stick is is any more disgusting than any other animal part dogs like to chew on (or what is ground up and put in commercial dog food). But, I pick up poop for a living, so who am I to have a sense of normal?

Sounds like a great idea to me! :D :cool:

Better he chews on those than something else...

I love the tar pits.

This discovery is so exciting. I can't wait to see how it all comes together.

I'd totally be up for a behind the scenes swanking.

I didn't know either, Caddie. :blush: And I have given them to my dog in the past. He seemed to enjoy them, but he's also been known to dig cat poop out of the litter box. He's not very discerning.

I've never been to the tar pits before. I'd love to go.

Apparently, Thurston has been to the tar pits.

I wanna go! (But I'm not sure when I'll be done with the weekly "excursions")

This cracks me up: Except, of course, for calling them "Bully Sticks." :rolleyes:

Bully Sticks, Teddy Brewster approved!

Visual Arsenic and Old Lace Mojo for the Cheeseman!

I think the plural of penis should be peni.

Technically, it's "penes".

That sounds so small.