it's here.....

SAM is about to open and all those skeptics and haters (you can include me in some of that) maybe need to giver her a second chance? $1 billion in new art. $1 BILLION! she's trying! and things like this this and this and this and the fact that the building is one big MOMA ripoff, give me hope! i mean nothing will replace my henry and frye, but sometimes you just want to go visit a pollock and spend a gazillion dollars on mondrian drinking glasses. i'm a sucker for a good museum gift store (National Gallery anyone?) though i will say, $13 admission? what are you, the EMP? not cool sam, not cool.

jackpot?

saturday we take the boat out, come back up to the marina parking lot and what do we find? someone has thrown out their 40+" samsung lcd television. we suspect the owners of the mega yacht a few slips over, who adam claims he saw pawing over a new big screen the other day. regardless, it is now in my apartment. so adam manhandles this thing for two days (parking lot to car to boat to cameron's car to my house), we plug it in and bravo! it works! for a minute! the lamp is blown. but cheap fix for a $2k television, right? worth it, right? $200 and I get a real television that can handle katamari damancy and some sexy setup with my macbook, right? RIGHT. so now i have this GIANT television eating up half a wall in my tiny apartment, that I refuse to give up on. REFUSE. just so you understand the severity of this bargain, let me explain my current television. in, say, 1994, my parents bought about ten of those giant black box mitsubishi tvs. i have been dragging one of them around from apartment to apartment since i was 18. now 13 years old, this bad boy is still kicking. i even have the original remote, if that gives you any inkling into how well i've cared for this thing. it is a perfect 2x2x2' cube. born before the days of dvds. baby doesn't have anything but a "cable in" and a power button. i've spent the last five years running a dvd player through a vcr, with the most elaborate speaker hook up you can imagine. it's time to let him fade away.... also samsung related: dudes, remember when you wooed me with your blackjack and convinced me that by bumping up its memory i could also use it in lieu of a new mp3 player? remember? also remember how you failed to tell me that no one on this planet sells a pair of headphones compatible with your special little headphone port? i do! you're on my shitlist.

doing

i was standing in our empty office eating my lunch, looking out the window and watching one of the school's gardeners carefully arrange twenty five or so plants in an empty flowerbed. sometimes (a lot of times) i think about quitting everything and adopting a trade like gardening. some trade where i can use my hands a create something. sit outside and dig holes and arrange fauna and understand the properties of potting soil. tactility. that's what i'm after. this is what happens to the dreams of a 23 year old woman when she spends too much time in a windowless office with only her excel spreadsheets to keep her company.

quiz

so last night we partook in some quizzing at the george and dragon. and i can admit proudly that i was the only one at the table who knew that it was jane seymour who played solitaire in 'live and let die.' in the end, we lost to some nerd wearing a scrunchi in his hair. cause he could identify an inverted and upside-down picture of hudson's bay. shove it, ponytail.

hank

so to finish my museum studies program i'm now doing a weekly blog for the Henry Art Gallery! check it out here: http://hankblog.wordpress.com i have quite an enormous crush on the Henry, so we can officially classify this as "kind of a big deal."