I was telling some folks about this at a party last night, and I found a link to provide more info. This is quite possibly the single greatest thing I've ever seen in a museum. London's Victoria & Albert Museum possesses this fantastic Indian artifact. It's a carved, painted statue of a tiger ripping out the throat of a British soldier...AND IT'S A ( Read more... )

September 6, 2007
Now we are sitting in a Haagen-Dazs Cafe in Hiroshima, having spent the day here. We got up way too early this morning to catch the shinkansen to Hiroshima-eki, but it paid off -- we arrived around 10:30 a.m. and thus had plenty of time to explore the Peace Park and museum, plus to get lunch and visit Hiroshima-jo.
Ugh. We're ( Read more... )

Opting mainly for sloth today, Trowa and I slept way late, lazed around, and didn't do one productive thing all day until it was time to get ready to see the Body Worlds 2 exhibit at the Museum of Science at 6:45 p.m. I can see how some people might find this sort of thing offensive, disgusting, or disrespectful, but I found it fascinating, thought ( Read more... )