Back from the East....
...and had some great times, but man, am I happy to be home...and so are our little cats.
Some items of note:
- The American History Museum on the Mall has been reopened after two years of renovation. The place is massive and was packed with tourists. BTW, the day I went was the warmest Dec. 28th on record in DC: 68 degrees! Overall, the Museum was so-so; disappointing in some areas and up-to-par in others. No need to get into any details.
- My wife's Aunt and Uncle celebrated their 40th Anniversary and took my wife and I, well as several other family members, to L'Auberge Francois, a French Country/Inn restaurant in a super-posh DC suburb that makes Hillsborough look positively third world. This was my first experience in French cuisine and I AM HOOKED! We had 8 frickin courses over a span of 3 hours and everything was crazy-ass good; sauce after yummy sauce, tiny Amuse-Bouche's, tasty palette cleansing dishes, and portion sizes that completely blew-out all my presumptions about French culinary fare.
- Read DEWEY READMORE BOOKS, a true story about a very special library cat in Iowa whose story touched so many throughout the world. The book is partly about the cat but mostly about small-town life, small-town values, and the beautiful Midwest state of Iowa. Quick read and had to bust out the Kleenex at the end.
- Also reading OTHER CRITERIA by Leo Stienberg, a hefty text on confronting, deconstructing, and decoding 20th century contemporary art. Massively dense but utterly fascinating in the way it RE-addresses our notions about Art, unlocks areas in our psyche in which Art had not had access to previously, and challenges us to experience Art in ways we Could not and Would not experience previously. My brain is being put through the paces, exercising neurons and accessing uncharted areas of my cortex. It's like my brain is one FIRE! I've experienced epiphanies about seemingly enigmatic art (particularly Jasper Johns and Pollack) and want to share these revelations with you folks.
That's it for now...run out of time at work.
Some items of note:
- The American History Museum on the Mall has been reopened after two years of renovation. The place is massive and was packed with tourists. BTW, the day I went was the warmest Dec. 28th on record in DC: 68 degrees! Overall, the Museum was so-so; disappointing in some areas and up-to-par in others. No need to get into any details.
- My wife's Aunt and Uncle celebrated their 40th Anniversary and took my wife and I, well as several other family members, to L'Auberge Francois, a French Country/Inn restaurant in a super-posh DC suburb that makes Hillsborough look positively third world. This was my first experience in French cuisine and I AM HOOKED! We had 8 frickin courses over a span of 3 hours and everything was crazy-ass good; sauce after yummy sauce, tiny Amuse-Bouche's, tasty palette cleansing dishes, and portion sizes that completely blew-out all my presumptions about French culinary fare.
- Read DEWEY READMORE BOOKS, a true story about a very special library cat in Iowa whose story touched so many throughout the world. The book is partly about the cat but mostly about small-town life, small-town values, and the beautiful Midwest state of Iowa. Quick read and had to bust out the Kleenex at the end.
- Also reading OTHER CRITERIA by Leo Stienberg, a hefty text on confronting, deconstructing, and decoding 20th century contemporary art. Massively dense but utterly fascinating in the way it RE-addresses our notions about Art, unlocks areas in our psyche in which Art had not had access to previously, and challenges us to experience Art in ways we Could not and Would not experience previously. My brain is being put through the paces, exercising neurons and accessing uncharted areas of my cortex. It's like my brain is one FIRE! I've experienced epiphanies about seemingly enigmatic art (particularly Jasper Johns and Pollack) and want to share these revelations with you folks.
That's it for now...run out of time at work.
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