11/17/09 Star Wars die cast model of Boba Fett's ship Slave I, sold on eBay for $5.50.This morning, as I packed up this unbelievably awesome space ship, I thought about what a cool job it would be to design vehicles for the Star Wars movies.
That, in turn, got me thinking about other dream jobs.
My great friend Jason once commented that one of the most interesting jobs in the world must be working in the storage room at the American Museum of Natural History. Jason always said the best thing would be to get in good with this guy and have him sneak you into the back rooms. He imagined it would go something like this:
Oh, yeah, come on in. Just watch out for all that sand, it gets everywhere whenever we unpack another Pharaoh. Now, let's see. Um, well, these boxes over here have all the extra dinosaur bones in them. Go ahead, take one. Nobody'll miss it. And that gun, there? Yeah, that's what Teddy Roosevelt used to shoot all those animals we got out front. And that over there is the Ark of the Covenant. Careful, it burns.Yeah, that might be even cooler than working for George Lucas...
On the other hand, there are drawers filled with thousands (could it be into 7 figures?) of non-human creatures who weren't consulted before they were slaughtered for science (or, in most cases, I suspect, just slaughtered).
ReplyDeleteHey, I didn't say it was a MORAL job, just an interesting one!
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