Most exciting thing ever

FROM February 10, 2007

Believe me when I say one of the most exciting things I have ever seen occurred today: an orange butterfly, perched on a leaf, unfurling its long black coil of a tongue and prodding into the red tube base of a flower, the butterfly's body bucking as it sipped from the fronds, then rolling the tongue back up into a perfect O and fluttering away. New Yorkers, do NOT sleep on the butterfly conservatory at the Natural History Museum, where B and I sojourned today as extention of our mutual obsession with Walking with Cavemen (hosted by Alec Baldwin, aka Man of the Year). Fortuitously, and completely by coincidence, this was also the grand opening of a new wing - the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Hall of Human Origins, with all the Neanderthal backstories and light-up human migration patterns on plexiglass maps our hearts could possibly desire. We paid homage to Lucy, bowed down to Turkana Boy and were interested to discover people living in the Basque region of Spain are considered the oldest living ancestors of the first homo sapiens emerging from Europe (who got there by migrating from Africa, the original home turf of all mankind). Natural science - CAN YOU REALLY FEEL ME