Not watching TV.
Ryther is watchign Dirk Gently. I never read those novels, and the BBC adaptation seems pretty weird, but he's enjoying it. Some things he watches I listen to as I FB, but this one I'm not really paying attention to.
So in the news, LD (lying donald) seems to have picked someone for big oil for Sect of State. Not sure if thats official offical, but looking at all the other choices, Ive decided that LD is going to get the money out of politics by litteraly eliminating the middle man. Instead of lobbiests buying off congress for votes, he's just cut to the chase and is hiring the people that hire the lobbiests to begin with to run the government. It's actually kind of brilliant. Fuck the people, give the governement right to Big (fill in the blank) and let them do as they please. And in some ways, there will be some happy workers.. and well, all those poeple who want clean air and water, well, fuck them. Someone mentioned that LD favors nuclear. Which I get, esp in a global warming kind of way. But as I live close enough to Pilgrim power plant, which at this very moment is going through yet another review showing just how flipping bad they are managing it and how very close to an accident it actually is.. I can tell you the idea of more poorly run power plants doesnt impress me. And yet neither do oil or gas pipelines nor does the idea of mining the hell out of coal country to burn that.
In other news, went to the Museum of Fine Arts today to see the WIlliam Merritt Chase exhibit. I really like his work, esp. as it compares to Sargent, which strangely I didnt really see or hear (got the audio) much comparrison at the show. Instead he was compared to was the teacher of people like Georgia Okeefe, or Whistler. They has some magnificent pastells by Chase, huge ones that I would have sworn were oil until I got up close. Also a few of his paintings seemed to be painted on burlap quality canvas. And yet they still looked amazing. I'm also always blown away by the goddamn frames for these artworks. Freaking woodwork on them is amazing. They must cost thousands just for the frame.
We also went to the exhibition of Robert McCloskey, who wrote the classic "Make Way for Ducklings". It had his illustrations for the book, and other books, and was just really fun to see. Boston Public Garden has a wonderful bronze sculpture of the ducklings and mom duck that kids flock to. They had a tiny mock up of that at the show too.
After that we were both oddly wiped out, so we left the museum and walked up to the street and popped into Dick Blick, which I have not been in since it was Utrecht back in the late 80's. It's always so much fun to poke around in an art store, not just Michael's, but a real art store.
Also while in Boston, we decided to go to the new Italian eatery section of the Prudential. Figured we'd get something to eat there. Well, given that it just opened a short while ago, and it's the Christmas season, this was not the best thought out idea. The line to get INTO the section, which is 2 floors worth of stuff I think, was backed up like a Disney ride. So needless to say, we did not go in.
All and all it was a nice trip, not too cold yet. Got a few Christmas gifts too. Because as Mr. Martin pointed out in his blog, it's 2 weeks until Christmas. UG.