Weird, just weird
It's been a very odd ten days and I feel like typing out my frustration on something but I'm not sure what. It's nobody's fault as such, except possibly mine, as I seem to have the ability, doubtless gifted to me at my birth by the cacalogic fairy, to make statements that seem perfectly clear to me but are apparently misleading, abstruse or just plain contrary to other people.
It may be because I've started on accutane, a direct result of which is to make all skin beneath my mouth incredibly dry and tight so that I look like the guy at the denoument of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and consequently to make everything taste of lipsalve. I'm just praying that American Airlines allows moisturizer on board, or I shall be arrested on landing at JFK as one of the Living Dead.
Enough vaporous naval-gazing. Today I spotted a sign in a shop window advertising Hallowe'en costumes, including one of the 'Grim Ripper' [sic]. I know scythes are somewhat out of fashion these days, but this is beyond parody...and irreovcably reminds me of the I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again episode about the Ripper (anyone who doesn't know the wonder of this show should follow this link immediately http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'm_Sorry,_I'll_Read_That_Again)
Okay, happy now. And now I present the first in an occasional series of lists, to which all readers are warmly invited to contribute. This week, we choose top Museums and Galleries (I know, but one has to make one's own entertainment on the Birmingham-London train):
(apologies if some of the names aren't quite accurate)
1 Te Papa/Museum of New Zealand, Wellington
2 Jewish Museum, Prague
3 International Spy Museum, Washington DC
4 The Accademia Gallery, Florence
5 The National Gallery and National Portrait Gallery, London (ok, I know that's cheating)
6 International Tennis Hall of Fame Museum, Newport RI
7 Historial de la Grande Guerre, Peronne
8 War Memorial Museum, Auckland
9 British Art Center, New Haven
10 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
It may be because I've started on accutane, a direct result of which is to make all skin beneath my mouth incredibly dry and tight so that I look like the guy at the denoument of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and consequently to make everything taste of lipsalve. I'm just praying that American Airlines allows moisturizer on board, or I shall be arrested on landing at JFK as one of the Living Dead.
Enough vaporous naval-gazing. Today I spotted a sign in a shop window advertising Hallowe'en costumes, including one of the 'Grim Ripper' [sic]. I know scythes are somewhat out of fashion these days, but this is beyond parody...and irreovcably reminds me of the I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again episode about the Ripper (anyone who doesn't know the wonder of this show should follow this link immediately http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'm_Sorry,_I'll_Read_That_Again)
Okay, happy now. And now I present the first in an occasional series of lists, to which all readers are warmly invited to contribute. This week, we choose top Museums and Galleries (I know, but one has to make one's own entertainment on the Birmingham-London train):
(apologies if some of the names aren't quite accurate)
1 Te Papa/Museum of New Zealand, Wellington
2 Jewish Museum, Prague
3 International Spy Museum, Washington DC
4 The Accademia Gallery, Florence
5 The National Gallery and National Portrait Gallery, London (ok, I know that's cheating)
6 International Tennis Hall of Fame Museum, Newport RI
7 Historial de la Grande Guerre, Peronne
8 War Memorial Museum, Auckland
9 British Art Center, New Haven
10 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
posted by BoB at 3:21 PM
2 Comments:
You seem to have a deep and unwarranted pro-NZ bias... sorry, vanity googling my own blog (where am I in the rankings of random search terms) and found yours... interesting
Te Papa the best museum in the world? It's flashy, but no substance. And although I'm fond of the Auckland War Memorial, it's a little sad. And yes, you may steal at will from my blog, tres flattering.
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