St. Patrick's Day Parade

Celebrate the holiday right by checking out the St. Patrick's Day Parade. Where else can you see the Chicago River dyed green?! It'll be broadcast live on WGN and yours truly will be in it. Why's that you say? Because there will be unicorns in this year's parade. Oh yes, unicorns. The Field Museum is promoting our new exhibition Mythic Creatures and I get to pass out flyers on it. hooooray.

Image courtesy of unicorns.com

Slacker

I've totally slacked lately in the blogging world, and that's partly because work has been absolutely crazy. We are getting ready to open a crazy cool exhibition called Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns & Mermaids here at The Field Museum and my office is in full force, all hands on deck mode. The show is all about mythic creatures (duh) and how they've existed in the world for generations. It talks about how people found mastodon bones, and decided giants existed and how a dwarf elephant skull made people believe in the cyclops. All very cool. Check it out, and waste time there instead of here. Because I'm obviously sucking at updating :)

Image: © D. Finnin/AMNH