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Not a bad day, and after the last couple that was a great relief. It was not sunny, though. Clouds, clouds, clouds. Spooky declares our clouds too bright and needs sunglasses on cloudy days.
Today, after the text for Nan Goldin's exhibit had been proofread, corrected, and email away to a gallery in Sweden, we headed out to McWane, where Kathryn and I spent three hours photographing the Yale Peabody mosasaur. We're only about one-third finished; hopefully we will finish the photographing tomorrow. This is, by the way, just for references photos to be used while the paper is being written and for construction of a character matrix for phylogenetic matrix (0,1,2...). The whole thing will have to be photographed again for the actual publication. But it was good work, and Kathryn is a mean beast with her camera.
How about no politics today? Okay then.
But there's still the Big Cartel Shop, where we are selling copies of my books, rare ARCs, and audiobooks. For example, right now you can get an ARC of the second Dancy Flammarion collection, Comes a Pale Rider, or you can get a copy of the really splendid audiobook of Houses Under the Sea: Mythos Tales (on 17 CDs!). And then...we can buy more cat food.
Later Tater Beans,
Aunt Beast
4:32 p.m.
(A bit about this photo: Here I'm holding a molar from the archaeocete whale Basiloaurus cetoides, the Alabama State Fossil, collected from the Late Eocene-age Pachuta Marl Member (Yazoo Formation, Jackson Group) of Washington County, Alabama about 1980, when I was still in high school. This species grew to be 60-70 feet in length. Some of my formative paleontological experiences involved hunting for these early whales down in South Alabama. You can see a beautifully mounted cast of a Basilosaurus skeleton at the State Museum in Tuscaloosa and an actual mounted skeleton [actually a composite of several skeletons on display at the Smithsonian; the Smithsonian specimen was mounted about 1910, though the first Basilosaurus fossils ever collected were found in Louisiana and Alabama in 1832 and 1834, respectively]. Don't say I never learned you nothin'.)
Today, after the text for Nan Goldin's exhibit had been proofread, corrected, and email away to a gallery in Sweden, we headed out to McWane, where Kathryn and I spent three hours photographing the Yale Peabody mosasaur. We're only about one-third finished; hopefully we will finish the photographing tomorrow. This is, by the way, just for references photos to be used while the paper is being written and for construction of a character matrix for phylogenetic matrix (0,1,2...). The whole thing will have to be photographed again for the actual publication. But it was good work, and Kathryn is a mean beast with her camera.
How about no politics today? Okay then.
But there's still the Big Cartel Shop, where we are selling copies of my books, rare ARCs, and audiobooks. For example, right now you can get an ARC of the second Dancy Flammarion collection, Comes a Pale Rider, or you can get a copy of the really splendid audiobook of Houses Under the Sea: Mythos Tales (on 17 CDs!). And then...we can buy more cat food.
Later Tater Beans,
Aunt Beast
4:32 p.m.
(A bit about this photo: Here I'm holding a molar from the archaeocete whale Basiloaurus cetoides, the Alabama State Fossil, collected from the Late Eocene-age Pachuta Marl Member (Yazoo Formation, Jackson Group) of Washington County, Alabama about 1980, when I was still in high school. This species grew to be 60-70 feet in length. Some of my formative paleontological experiences involved hunting for these early whales down in South Alabama. You can see a beautifully mounted cast of a Basilosaurus skeleton at the State Museum in Tuscaloosa and an actual mounted skeleton [actually a composite of several skeletons on display at the Smithsonian; the Smithsonian specimen was mounted about 1910, though the first Basilosaurus fossils ever collected were found in Louisiana and Alabama in 1832 and 1834, respectively]. Don't say I never learned you nothin'.)