Does the "oil slick" look like oil or like asphalt? (Because unless they mean used oil, the two are quite different colors.) I have always rather wanted to see the Tar Pits, ever since I read about them in a dinosaur book I had when I was 7 or 8. As a kid, I always imagined them as very thick and sticky, and probably w/ old hardened bits all cut away by paleontlogists when they were finding prehistoric beasties.

There was much squeeing here and on the friends list about the Veronica Mars finale. I'm so glad they picked it up for another season, though I wish they'd put it in a different time slot.