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Weirdness in my town

  
 
big city deserter
05:39 / 08.03.02
Blackpool Alien and UFO exhibition

I don't recon anyone can beat this for weirdness in their town, but hell, some of you live in London, so I'll thrown down the gauntlet to any challengers. I visited this exhibition on Saturday, less out of curiosity and more out of a need to get out of the rain. After you've passed through the gift shop with real Dalek and mucho Star Wrs tat you are confronted with an massive eye in a pyramid mural and the first of over a hundred information boards, and the "managment" also known as crazy guy. He greets all the customers and tells you strange things (making a convincing arguement after you've had a pint) about helicopters and planes in hieroglyphics and alien run ways millions of year old. On the first board you get a RAWesque instruction not to believe anything just because it habit, or those around you think its true and then lots of pictures that appear to be cut out of Eric Von Daniken book, for this is a cut price affair indeed. Most of the budget seems to have gone on the huge replica space ship and the mini pyramid (which the Managmnet reckon is on a ley line and encourage you to sit in.(While my mate sat in it he suggested she open her hand so that her spirit guide would come in her hands, and then got pissed off by my Beevis+Butthead giggles.)
Apart from information boards on everything from Masonic conspiracy to Atlantis, Roswell to the human unconcious, the other hightlights are the millions of spelling mistakes, the millions of fairy lights, hearing the owner argue with other customers that Aliens are real becaue he's met them, the alien sighting exhibits with replica aliens (apart from the one filled with tiny flower fairy ornaments and the Doctor Who Alien Cat costume with one paw missing). The grand finale after you've learnt that all religion is based on Aliens and their mission of love, apart from the so called negative lizardy ones, is a replica of the Roswell crash with moving Alien models- one of then lifts his head an inch if you press a button.

So who can beat this for weirdness in their town?
 
 
Shortfatdyke
05:50 / 08.03.02
wierd? it sounds bloody marvellous to me!

and no, i can't beat it....
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
06:58 / 08.03.02
It's not quite the same sort of weirdness, but there's a natural history museum in sunny Sarfsea, called Cumberland House, which has (in addition to tanks of river fish, butterflies, exhibitions on the Ice Age etc) a variety of oddities including a giant papier-mache iguanadon, a stuffed wolf (I think - I might be confusing this with the Portsmouth City Museum, which has a replica of a woolly rhino for some reason) and, tucked away at the top, an old Victorian cabinet of curiosities including various bottled sports - five-legged lambs, and so on - jars and jars of pickled weird.

I love local museums. Actually, though, come to think of it, it's not as lurid and bizarre as those tableaux of stuffed kittens getting married... I think the Horniman Museum has some of these...

[ 08-03-2002: Message edited by: Kit-Cat Club ]
 
 
higuita
11:34 / 08.03.02
Birmingham City Council runs tourist days.

For people who already live here.

I'd call that weird. And yet understandable, all at the same time. And then it's not understandable again.
 
 
Fengs for the Memory
11:38 / 08.03.02
Your not a tour guide are you mry.
 
 
Captain Zoom
14:33 / 08.03.02
I thought there was nothing weird in my town until I was driving around today and remembered the artist.

It's this guy who lives down on Bronte Rd. and he's got crosses made out of hubcaps and televisions and stuff all over his property. Through the summer he puts out rotating works of art all over his lawn. Really very cool.

Zoom.
 
  
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