With the changes of seasons comes the end of Daylight Savings Time. The sun may start going down before we get out of work, but everything gets hotter when the sun goes down, right? To be fair, don’t you think we should be warranted to implement a “Weekend Savings Time” where our weekend officially begins on Thursday?
Thursday is the new Friday … and Discovery Place is a new form of nightlife.
Last Thursday, I went via Kiss 95.1 to Body Worlds. Before opening the exhibit, they had a wine tasting featuring Shannon Ridge wines. Since I’ve been detoxing my liver as of late, all it took was a few sips to give me a buzz. I was like a kid in Disney World running thru Discovery Place playing with all the scientific toys. Then came a close encounter of the third kind.
My older sister is a forensic pathologist; I’ve visited her in her “office,” and seen her National Geographic documentary. Therefore, I have a completely different image of corpses than the ones at Discovery Place preserved in paraffin. Either I failed to grasp that they were real cadavers, or the wine gave me short-term amnesia, but I felt like I was in a wax museum.
On a cadaver that was cut in halves for internal viewings of the organs, I pointed to what looked like a massive dissected legume. “What is that?” I asked, accidentally grazing it with my finger (oops). My girlfriends waited for a sign of silliness, but I had a stagnant look of obliviousness on my face. “Those are BALLS!” they shamefully had to inform me. In other words, I touched a dead man’s testicles. Note: alcohol doesn’t just impair judgment; it renders all form of common sense. At least now I know what a man with balls looks like.
I’m not sure if it was the wine, the fat preserved from an obese person displayed in a glass case, the tattoo on the cadaver made to look 3-D, or the fact the muscles resembled pork barbecue, but Body Worlds made me crave Pepto-Bismol.
But it was fascinating nonetheless, learning is fun and Discovery Place is so cool. Cooler than cool (ice cold) because Body Worlds was extended until Jan. 6 due to popular demand.
After the anatomy lesson, we went to TILT to shake our bodies to the sounds of DJ Rowshay.
Speaking of TILT, some shameless self-promotion never hurts anybody. I’ll be at TILT every Thursday to host CL‘s latest after-work event, Creative Lounging. We’ll be having drink specials, the best DJs the Q.C. has to offer and silent door prizes. Why not start your weekend with us every Thursday at Tilt starting Oct. 25?
This article appears in Oct 24-30, 2007.
