The Unfeathered Bird in the Time of Jersey Boys

Another shamelessly indulgent post which I nevertheless hope is made up for in sheer geekery. On the last day of his visit to London, Chris DiPiazza of Jersey Boys Hunt Dinosaurs met up with Marc and I once again at the Grant Museum of Zoology, where we were also joined by none other than Katrina van Grouw, the brilliant artist and author of The Unfeathered Bird, a book which has not only been mentioned by us many times, but which every reader of this blog should be in possession of by now (and if not, I recommend rectifying the situation post-haste!).

From left: Katrina, Marc, Chris, and me

But that wasn't all. Chris, Marc and I were wearing t-shirts designed by our very own Chasmosaurs blog master, David Orr, featuring dinosaur family crests representative of our saurian portraits.

Love in the Time of Jersey Boys

So, get yourselves Katrina's book! Get David's t-shirts! Support us artists! "Come buy our orchard fruits". You'll forgive my shocking commercial-mindedness, I hope. Blame recent personal circumstances...

Photograph by Marlies Fischer

As a bonus (such as it is), here is a picture of Chris' first day in London, where we also had the pleasure of Dr. Adam Stuart Smith's company (among that of other dear friends) -- marine reptile expert and our lord and master in another capacity over on the Dinosaur Toy Blog and forum. Chris here sports yet another gem from the Orr Store, from the Dinosaur Hearts series.

Love in the time of Chasmosaurs, uniting the Mesozoic blogosphere. Again, do please forgive the indulgence on my part.