Welcome to the PlastiNation - or - I Wanna Hold Your Gland

Bodyworlds2 last night with Tricia and Tatiana and Sara and Ethan and Becky and Wayne, beautiful gruesome. Get close enough to a plastinate and you can smell faint chemicals, mostly latex and trace phenols. I got a little too close and my nose brushed the Head Diver’s hand, setting a slight tremble up her arm. The Drawer Man and Hoop Man are my favorites, there’s a precise Cenobite artistry to their modifications. The Pregnancy Room was sparse but affecting, I’m a staunch pro-choicer but seeing see the fetuses at 6 and 7 months my first reaction was "Hey that’s totally a baby!" And then there are the little tubes with embryos at one, two, three, six, eight weeks and I think dude you can’t possibly have a problem with a woman deciding to remove that speck of tissue, that’s nothing. It’s an immediately real illustration of how and why we make decisions of where human life begins.

They have a camel! Man those things are huge and wooly. And no matter how many times I point at its feet and say "hey look - camel toe!" it’s still funny. Huh huh huh.