July 16th is Dinosaur Day!  Dinosaur Day is an important holiday that I have invented to commemorate the extinction of the dinosaurs.  I have exciting plans for Dinosaur Day, but you will have to wait for the Dinosaur Day Photo Essay that I will publish on July 17th to find out what those plans are.

But because July 16th, will be so awesome, I am having a countdown because countdowns are great!*  For each day from now until Dinosaur Day, I will be featuring a different Dinosaur as Dinosaur-of-the-Day!  AWESOME!

*Hopefully having a countdown won’t jinx Dinosaur Day.  The last time I tried to have a countdown to something totally awesome was that time in high school when Lisa and I got tickets to go to Edgefest because Silverchair was headlining and we were both SO INTO SILVERCHAIR (and, yes, this was long after Silverchair was actually popular.  Forgive me, for I was young and naive and for some reason thought Daniel Johns was hot (look, my teenage years were a DARK TIME), and I am pleased to say that I have not listened to Silverchair since high school), so we had this really awesome Countdown to Silverchair Day chart posted inside my locker at school and we would cross off a box on the countdown every day, you know, like you do.  And then the day before Silverchair Day I was thinking to myself, “Man, wouldn’t it suck if Silverchair cancelled?  THAT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN.” And then I checked the Silverchair website, where an annoucement was posted about how Silverchair had just cancelled all of their gigs for the next year because Daniel Johns had a “wasting disease.”  So we went to Edgefest and Nickleback headlined and it was stupid.  But I did get to see Hand of Doom, which is Melissa Auf Der Maur’s Black Sabbath tribute band, so I probably shouldn’t complain.  And also 30 Seconds to Mars was playing on, like, the THIRD stage, and Jared Leto was such a fucking diva that he took 20 minutes to do soundcheck for a 30 minute set and then insisted on starting the set by marching through the audience with his electric guitar.  WHAT AN AUSPICIOUS DAY IN MY LIFE.  Dinosaur Day is going to be SO MUCH BETTER.