h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I wanna go to this in May. Anyone gonna join me?

I've seen it. Very interesting, in a macabre sort of way.

Wish I could. I love the idea and like seeing photos but cant handle actually being there

Enjoy it though!

What is it?

I was thinking the same 2 legs. I weren't sure if it was to do with Gunther Von Hagen, the disection bloke?

I think that's his name. He plasticises bodies and poses them in ways that not just look fabulous but also allow quite good anatomical views of the body's works. I cant cope with being around standing, posed dead people. I wish I could but I feel uncomfortable from here, let alone being there.

I cant even go on lame ghost trains, so dont worry, I *am* a freak.

That's the lad. See the site for more on him and what he does. Very interesting. http://www.bodyworlds.com/en.html
I'm thinking May 20 is the day for me, looks like a good lecture on that day.
http://www.msim.org.uk/whats-on/body-worlds-4

I've seen a couple of his autopsies on C4. Very relaxing stuff, I find.

btw 2legs and Psycorp... can either of you recommend comfortable cheap b&bs in the Manchester area?

Robyn, don't worry, I can't do ghost trains either. Or taxidermy animals. Yet somehow I watch human disections fine on TV. Suppose it is quite relaxing.

Can't think of any off the top of my head, but I shall have a think for you.

I can watch them on TV, and taxidermy animals I can do, but not people...

Well I'm back from those dark and terrible lands on the wrong side of the Thames... only Manchester wasn't so dark or indeed terrible. Really rather an agreeable place to spend a few days.
Bodyworlds was a curious experience for me. Each exhibit had it's own mixture of the mundane, the unsettling, artistic whimsy and wit. Perhaps the most disturbing being the ones that most elegantly fused scientific anatomical revelation with a powerful expression of the expanded limits of plastination as tool. Not to mention von Hagens wit. There was something of Ed Gein about these.

So... You enjoyed it then?

Enjoy wouldn't be the word I'd choose.

Experienced?

Yup.

How you been anyway mate, it's been quiet on the Azathoth front for a while... All ok?

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I come back to yikes my own post and it's gone. Most efficient.

Wow, erm... Good post, was it?