Key Features: Dinosaur Bones(!) inside... and new age stones, too, I guess…read more
So here's the thing - walking down Queen Street East, I saw Geologic: Gifts from the Earth. My first thought, quite accurately, was that it was one of those wacky rock stores with healing gems, and crystals, and all that. I wanted nothing to do with that. BUT I did want to know what it was like inside.
Much like my desire to understand the insides of a Scientology building, without stepping foot, I sent in someone else as a proxy. My proxy came out speaking of dinosaurs. I thought she was mad. But I couldn't take that risk. What if there really were bones to be seen inside?
So in I went. Now, I've got to tell you, as far as New Age rock shops go, this one is pretty good. All the rocks in bins, nicely labelled. Little cut out cards telling you what the rocks are, and what they can be used for. And the prices don't seem too bad. Even for someone like myself, who doesn't buy into the healing factors, I could have picked a few up as paper weights, and not felt all that bad about it.
But - and here's the selling feature - sometimes they have rare things like Woolly Mammoth tusk chips, for a couple of bucks, or megladon shark teeth, for fifteen dollars. They even had chunks of dinosaur bones you could buy. Now, when I first saw that - without a certificate of authenticity - I questioned if they were real, but I think they must have been.
In this store, is also a horn from a triceratops, and a claw from an Allosaurus. And then, at the back - although this one is only a cast - is the greatest of all: A T-Rex Skull mounted on a foot. It's fantastic. And it's worth coming in here for no reason other than to see the dinosaur bones! In the immortal words of the doctors: Fantastic!