Beautyland
An alien is born in Philadelphia in the year 1977. Her name is Adina. She is tasked with living a human life and reporting the events of said life to her distant home planet via fax machine. “It is an interstellar crisscross apple sauce. Two celestially significant events occurring simultaneously: The departure of Voyager 1 and the arrival of Adina Giorno, early and yellowed like old newspaper. If like a newspaper Voyager intends to bring the news, this baby is meant to collect it, though no one knows that yet, including her. Even as the spacecraft breaches the troposphere, the delicate probe stretches her fist toward a heat lamp in the pediatric ward of Northeast Regional, having just been born—or landed—depending on perspective, premature. Wriggling, yearning, recovering in heat, full head of thick black hair, at the moment she is still mostly salt and feeling”
Davis Family Butterfly Vivarium
Butterfly vivarium at the American museum of natural History, NYC
Tampa - Alissa Nutting
Nutting by name, nutting by nature! Horny, Illegal, but very funny. Maybe you’re tired of the genre “Hot girls doing terrible things” but this is one of the best. A female middle school teacher grooms and seduces teenage boys in Florida! “I imagined Jack’s body made gigantic standing before me, the sun in the sky becoming the hot metal button of his jeans. If his enormous fingers reached down from the clouds and unbuttoned it, if his horizon-colored pants began to bunch and fall and his teenage sex of skyscraper proportions was freed, I would drive my car into his toe so he would kneel down to investigate and accidentally kill me when the sequoia-sized head of his penis came crashing through my windshield, all in the hopes that the last image seen before death is the backdrop to our eternity”
Gem and Mineral Hall
The Gem room at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. A dimly Lit, windowless room filled with big old crystals! The Robert Procop Gem and Mineral Hall presents more than 2,000 minerals, rocks, meteorites, and gems from across the globe.
