| Feb. 20th, 2009 @ 04:12 pm The perks of my job. |
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So last week we're working in a huge house in Granada Hills (just north of LA). If you've ever heard of those "big fancy houses in the San Fernando Valley that they rent for a day and shoot porn in"- it's one of those houses. Literally, they have shot porn there. (Not the show I was on, though.)
Just behind the house, the ground sweeps down, giving way to a fantastic view of the basin. Every lot in this area is several acres, so each house has an acre or two of sheer hillside behind it. Apparently the next-door neighbors have goats- whether as pets or just sort of local fauna, I have no idea- because one of the grips found a goat skull behind the house. He mentioned it to the assistant director, who is a friend of mine, and went straight to my department to ask if we wanted it (because, as art department, we do tend to collect weird things). He made a cursory offer to my department head, and after she deferred to me (because I was jumping up and down going OOO ME ME ME CAN I HAVE IT?) told me it was waiting for me behind the house.
So I go behind the house and find a -whole-, nearly intact goat skull. It smells kinda fresh, actually, and by "fresh" I do not mean "refreshing", but rather "recent". It's in pristine condition, minus the tip of one horn. As an added bonus, a goat spine! Nearly intact- it has at least ten vertebrae, maybe more- and they're all still intact and attached to each other. Quite pliably, really, so I guess it's got all its interior ligaments still in good condition. I hope they don't dry out and fall apart, because a goat spine in one piece is so much cooler than a bunch of goat vertebrae.
So the goat skull is going on the front of my pickup truck, and the goat spine is going to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) hypothermya as soon as she gets back from Antarctica. Anyone have any good suggestions for cleaning and preserving? |
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