When we got there, we checked in with our friend E* with whom we were staying the first night. We made our way to whatever side of town he lived on and Griffin and I were shown to our quarters in the basement, where we were to be sleeping on two giant black leather sofas arranged in an L shape. We were exhausted so we went right to sleep without even turning on the light. Five hours later, at the crack of dawn, cock-a-doodle-doo! cock-a-doodle-doo! Now I was pretty sure I had not been transported to a faraway homestead in the middle of Iowa during the dark of night so I opened my eyes and hmmmmmm. There, staring at me from the laundry room door, was a full-grown rooster, leashed with a sad little string to the washing machine. Turns out our friend E's mother was a high priestess of Santeria! And our little cock-a-doodle-doo-ing friend was set to be that night's sacrifice. Which is a lot of information to wake up to, let me tell you.
Later that day, we went to the Monet show. Long lines of people who pretty much just wanted to get to the gift shop. We were all standing in the octagonal room that had different examples of Monet's hay-stacks on each wall so you could see how he had painted them at different times of day to capture the different qualities of light. A lady swept in, sniffed, and declaimed quite loudly, "I don't get it; it looks like a big muffin!"
And that, my friends, is how to not go to an art show. Even though it totally does look like a big muffin.
*name obscured because I don't want a menacing, doomed rooster in my laundry room
3 comments:
Looks more like a giant cupcake to me, one made in this pan. Tragically frosted, though.
Complete with sound effects! Poor rooster.
I dunno, a show of spoons might be amusing ...
I went to a very good show all about eating utensils at the Cooper-Hewitt a couple of years ago. But there were forks & knives too, some of which folded up into compact travel packages, and Victorian implements specifically for serving huckleberry pudding or whatever.
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