Angry Robin is Angry

MOTHER!

FUCKING!

B I G B O Y S

Yves Laloy

Le 14 Juillet

1972

Huile sur toile

We stood in the Roman ruins that, like patchwork, stitch so remarkably through the village of Caer-went, and dutifully read the information boards. The Romans had forcibly built and established Venta Silurum with the intention of Pacifying the Silurians, the local tribe.

“I think I feel weird now, about the Doctor Who aliens being called Silurians,” I said, “it’s sort of uncomfortable having ‘lizard people from the dawn of time’ being named after Celts. Tips into that bad-faith lizard-person space.”

“The BBC would have only been thinking of the Silurian period,” Dr Glass said neutrally. “That’s a fair siting for a ‘dawn of time.’ The Cambrian would’ve been uncomfortable and impractical.”

“Was the geological period of Palaeozoic life named after the tribe?” I said. “Hey, given that the Cambrian period is the Cambrian period! It must’ve been.”

“Haha - wait - look - look at the north!!”

“Damn! The whole-ass Ordovician period?!”

“Over to England for the Devonian,” Dr Glass, who claims Devonshire heritage on one side, said thoughtfully. “Permian, that’s Perm - probably the mountain range.”

Anyway, this proceeded to amuse me for a few days, and will be required to enjoy these jokes

This has brought up a very fuzzy memory of going on a fossil hunting trip in a class and coming back with small pieces of slate with tiny fossilized imprints of shells. Considering my mom is a hoarder, likely there are tiny pieces of the Pennsylvanian period sitting in their current Pennsylvanian house.