A candle for Laika

[gnimmel]

So it turned into a long weekend of pandas, hummingbirds, margaritas, sealions, curious beans, rainswept neon and red carpets, sunburn, peruvian tea, pelicans, Mexican maximalist decor, manga shops, blisters, the pacific, enormous fibreglass elephants &c. Which is all well and good. However, none of these things were the best thing about Southern

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[addedentry]

Fortean! Thank you. I went to Los Angeles in 2003, travelling by public transport during a public transport strike and thus never made it to the MJT.

[gnimmel]

Argh. Admittedly I left out the part where I left the MJT to find it pissing down with rain, and it turning out that Los Angeles buses don't work very well in the rain, and the contents of the very full bus being turfed out in a random part of the city due to the windscreen wipers failing. But if there had been no buses at all my entire tourism schedule would have been really screwed.

[smhwpf]

Museum of Win!

Ice-nine would be a rather dangerous thing to have in a museum. Or anywhere.

Anyway, if I ever happen to be you in Los Angeles, I shall be sure to pay a visit.

[hairyears]

Thank you for my daily dose of WTF... This is on my see-it-before-you-die list.

[yvesilena]

Post of awesome! And you can guess where my favourite spot is... I've always had a thing for the original space dog and been somewhat angry on her behalf, so the candle gives me joy.

[phlebas]

Have you read Laika?
(warning: it will make you cry)

[gnimmel]

Perhaps unsurprisingly, that was on sale in the gift shop.

[shermarama]

There was a book, there was a book I read where Laika had sort of fused with her spacecraft and become bionic and was still observing the world from orbit, but I can't remember what it was... Sounds like an excellent place, though.