Well, I feel I must apologize for destroying art. As shown above, the paintings I made this year are actually hanging in an art gallery. Sorry everybody. Sorry art. Look, they’ve got little things with the names on them and everything:

It’s educational for me, though (and not only because I learned how easy it is to besmirch the concept of art). As for the medium of my works, it turns out that it is “tempera” which does, I admit, sound fancier than Crayola watercolors.

Thanks to Marq for the photos.

I need to make a note of the date here today. It’s an important one. Today, I vomited. I don’t remember the last time I vomited. It was certainly over a decade ago, quite a decent streak, but I didn’t have the date. Now I do. This time I can track how long it is between upchucks.

As soon as I woke up today I was feeling poorly. I immediately noticed a headache so bad I was considering going downstairs to the shops to get some of those pills that they have. I haven’t taken pills for a headache since high school, but this was a real problem. I didn’t make it downstairs. In the washroom it became clear to me that I was going to throw up. And I did. It wasn’t much, but it was vomit for sure. For what it’s worth, I felt better after for what that’s worth. The headache has stuck around, but at a much less immobilizing level.

I do hope my next non-vomit streak is even longer than the last one. It turns out that vomiting is a pretty unpleasant experience. I’m not a fan of it. And that’s… the PDR perspective!

This time we meet Joe Tyrrell, a scientist who discovers dinosaur bones. Surprise dinosaur bones are, like, seven times better than regular dinosaur bones. Canada wins!

This one gets a Piece of Cake for the soundtrack. Mostly I mean the native chanting there, but there’s a bit of other stuff going on. That all adds up to a nice bit of atmosphere.

I’ll dole out another Piece of Cake for Tyrrell himself. He’s got a beard worth respect. Also, this is another case of only having one person during the whole Moment. He carries it himself, aided only by the landscape, and it works out fine. Its interesting how sometimes they can fit so much story into a minute, and other times they do so little. It doesn’t hurt this piece to be simple, though, because there’s not much expansion you can do with a “guy finds surprise dinosaur bones” plot.

I’ll throw another Piece at it for being about dinosaurs. Dinosaurs are literally dinosaurs. So they’re awesome. And one more Piece for the phrase “Grandfather of the Buffalo”, which is totally cool and deserves more play (and is as close as this piece comes to a quotable bit).

So thanks to math, I know that this Heritage Moment has earned Four Pieces of PDR’s Reviewing System Cake. Not bad.