{"id":841,"date":"2010-06-24T09:44:02","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T14:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/?p=841"},"modified":"2010-06-24T09:44:02","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T14:44:02","slug":"this-and-that-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/?p=841","title":{"rendered":"This and That"},"content":{"rendered":"

We spent yesterday afternoon at the Field Museum of Natural History, taking in the “Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age<\/a>” exhibit. The centerpiece artifact is Lyuba<\/a>, the one-month-old mammoth discovered frozen below the permafrost in northern Russia in 2007. She is remarkably well preserved for a creature some 40,000 years old: she is even cute in a baby animal sort of way. But as I gawked I couldn’t stop myself from wondering what separated this scientific exhibit from, say, the curios that drew crowds in 1840s and 50s New York to P.T. Barnum’s Museum<\/a>. Well, it’s something to do with the kids on a summer afternoon, and it’s air conditioned.
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If I were in England this weekend, I’d be trying to worm my way into the Glastonbury Festival. Among many others, one Raymond Douglas Davies will be taking the stage for a set on Sunday. A preview article<\/a> notes the role the Kinks had in establishing this annual music festival back in 1970:<\/p>\n

In 1970, founder and dairy farmer Michael Eavis decided to hold a music event and booked the Kinks for 500 pounds but, when they failed to show, got Marc Bolan instead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Typical. Ray is a little better about these things nowadays, so presumably he will actually play his scheduled set.<\/p>\n

Tonight, the plan is to catch the fabulous jazz chanteuse Dee Alexander in a free concert out on the Midway Plaisance<\/a>. Summertime, and the living’s easy….
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