Clip of the Week: November 3, 2021
On November 3, 2021 by Elyse
If you’ve memorized all two hours and eight minutes of the movie “Jurassic Park,” are best friends with Chicago’s most famous resident dinosaur and want to make Joseph “My Resume Is Better than Yours” Leidy super jealous, do I have a vacation destination for you:
Bone City, they call it—and it is one of the most exclusive summer and fall resorts in the world. It is located away off in the Bad Lands country of northwestern Nebraska. . . It is some twenty miles from a railroad, with no stage to take one to the station. Neither are there any restaurants or hotels. . .
You could try for months to get in with the people there, and your money wouldn’t help you a bit. But it’s all very easy to become a member of the colony when you have the password; in fact, answering one or two pointed questions will give you social standing enough.
For instance, can you tell a prehistoric rhinoceros from a member of the Miohippus family, or maybe a dinosaur from a queer-looking cat that lived several million years ago? If you can, and are able to talk about those things, the people of Bone City will readily find you a bunk in one of the tents or shanties.
You see, it is a scientists’ playground, and not a place for the millionaire who would sit around on a hotel veranda. . . All summer and well into the fall [paleontologists] wield sledges, and pry away at the rocky hills near their camp, expecting every minute to turn up a giant dog or cat, or some other strange animal that roamed about the Middle West millions of years ago. . .
The scientists shout with glee when they uncover the skeleton of an ancestor of the modern horse, or that of the pig that lived a few million years ago—he could have swallowed two or three of the ordinary barn-yard hogs and still have had room for more, say the cheery vacationists of Bone City.
– The Evening Star, September 26, 1915
I’ve always wanted an invitation to an exclusive resort. . . Excuse me while I go bone up—yes, I’m groaning too—on the Miohippus family.
In case you missed them on Facebook and Twitter, please admire, cringe and/or laugh at my contributions to GIF IT UP, Europeana’s annual gif-making competition. I had entirely too much fun making them and hope you enjoy seeing them half as much.
GIF IT UP + Halloween = Whatever this is.

While hanging on the walls of the Art Institute of Chicago all day, Georges Lemmen’s “Portrait of the Artist’s Sister” spends her time swiping on dating apps. Paintings, they’re just like us!

I’m not the only one dreaming of travel.

I apologize for the overuse of stickers—I recognize I have a problem and will seek professional help.

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