For those of you in the New York City area, paleo artist Ray Troll and paleobotanist Kirk Johnson will be presenting a lecture on their wonderful book Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway (see my review here, pick it up here) on October 21 at the AMNH. It looks like it will be a lot of fun, and I'm going to make sure that I catch this one.
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i [heart] Ray Troll. good to see an Alaskan from a small town getting into the national spotlight. irony intended =)
true story: i'm wearing his DaVinci Cod shirt now (Mona was a cannery girl!)