Mesozoic Mind

I acknowledge I live on the traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, The Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Huron-Wendat and Wyandot Nations. Since October last year there's been a unique little exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum. Toronto-based Fisher Creek Cree artist Kent Monkman, who depicts through his two spirit alter ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle the culture and history of Indigenous people, and the trouble and resilience against White colonialists, lampooning western art that glorified the white thieves (not settlers, they were thieves, plain and simple). I visited it two times so far: one in October when it debuted, and this month on the 8th. You can also view paintings on his website . Now a warning to any Indigenous reader: I'm not one of you (I'm South Asian-Canadian), so I might and will get things very wrong. I apologise in advance. While the primary focus is on Indigenous culture and history, there are a few fossil specimens at the...

Hello and welcome back to Mesozoic Mind. Today, with winter bearing upon me where I live, we are reviewing a fitting filmthat has turned 20 this year from the age of the mythical format known as the VHS tape, a bulky and hardy format in plastic and celluloid, which was an endangered species in the early 2000's, as well as the subsequent film series that I followed (but got progressicely worse the further it wenr). If you haven't seen the movie like I have, Blue Sky's (RIP to them)   Ice Age  (2002) tells the story of three different stranger mammals, a Mammoth named Manny (Ray Ramano), a ground sloth named Sid ((John Leguizamo), and a Sabretooth cat named... Diego (Denis Leary). They are all brought together amidst a giant migration by a younng neanderthal baby (while not named in the film, is named Roshan) orphaned in a sabretooth cat attack on his tribe, and they agree to return it to them before they can leave, but have to dodge the pack who want to eliminate the humans...