Miscellaniosity
Today we saw the Afghanistan exhibit of treasures from the National Museum in Kabul - from cities and burials of 2000 years ago and more (www.asianart.org/afghanistan.htm). Mine eyes are dazzled - she died young (of lust for gold. Me I mean.) So much lovely gold, and statues, bronzes, and glass of nice women and dippy-looking animals. Apart from the general gold-ness, a very similar sense of design to modern times. And they used the heart symbol on so many things. I'd never thought about where that came from before - did they mean the same thing by the symbol as we do, or what? Wikipedia wasn't much help - just blathering on about cows' hearts and vaginas. Typical. Any ideas from anyone out there?
Yesterday was the Fine Arts Museum Artisan's sale, or something like that. I wanted to go, but as I expected, overpriced and not that interesting. Mom tried to buy a little stuffed octopus that turned out to be $125. So she put it back. My crafty friends, you are all missing some big moneymaking opportunities here. We also saw the Yves Saint-Laurent exhibit. Yay clothes! But I am not a YSL fan in general. Can't put my finger on it - his clothes are fun and interesting, but they just fall on the other side of the line for me. Not things I'd ever want to wear, and please believe me, I've wanted to wear plenty of outrageous things! These weren't the right outrageous. I bet he read Ayn Rand. Still, he did make a suit in homage to Oscar Wilde. I appreciate that.
We all know JK Rowling pinched parts of her stories from Tolkien and others - now I know where she got her schoolboy stuff - PG Wodehouse of course! It could just be the limited number of British school stories I've read, but Mike at Wrykyn and Mike and Psmith could so stand in for Harry and Ron. Especially in the Quidditch-I-mean-cricket scenes. Such quaint charming stuff! Schoolboys who rag and drink tea! Enchanting.
Yesterday was the Fine Arts Museum Artisan's sale, or something like that. I wanted to go, but as I expected, overpriced and not that interesting. Mom tried to buy a little stuffed octopus that turned out to be $125. So she put it back. My crafty friends, you are all missing some big moneymaking opportunities here. We also saw the Yves Saint-Laurent exhibit. Yay clothes! But I am not a YSL fan in general. Can't put my finger on it - his clothes are fun and interesting, but they just fall on the other side of the line for me. Not things I'd ever want to wear, and please believe me, I've wanted to wear plenty of outrageous things! These weren't the right outrageous. I bet he read Ayn Rand. Still, he did make a suit in homage to Oscar Wilde. I appreciate that.
We all know JK Rowling pinched parts of her stories from Tolkien and others - now I know where she got her schoolboy stuff - PG Wodehouse of course! It could just be the limited number of British school stories I've read, but Mike at Wrykyn and Mike and Psmith could so stand in for Harry and Ron. Especially in the Quidditch-I-mean-cricket scenes. Such quaint charming stuff! Schoolboys who rag and drink tea! Enchanting.