A day at the Met

[avram]

You’d think I’d spend more time at museums, what with having my days free and being able to pay virtually nothing for admission, but I somehow rarely get around to it. Today I went to the Met to get my sketch on.


Ornamental Chinese dragons. An Asian man complimented me in passing as I was working on them; then I heard him comment to his companions about a “cartoonist”. I wonder if he was from Japan, where cartoonists walk as gods and can have passing commoners executed on a whim.



Man, them neolithic Greek chicks were built!



Afterward I hung out at Ground for a bit. James and I got to talking about how South Park is the kind of thing Aristophanes would be writing if he were around today, and James said that the Mr Hankey song (“He loves me, I love you, therefore vicariously he loves you”) was like the doctrine of Apostolic Succession. And really, after that, what can you say?

Comments

[camwyn]

... I know every one of those dragons. My God, I spent long enough in the Asian section of the Met that I can recognize every one of them, and probably walk to where they are in the museum. The Greek chicks, no.

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

Thos Greek chicks -- literally callipygean, wot?

[avram]

’Pends on your taste. It literally means “having a beautiful butt”, from kallos (beautiful) and pyge (rump). (But view source to see the ALT text I used for that IMG.)

[gentlyepigrams]

I did. That was pretty damned funny.

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

Have I mentioned that one thing I really don't like about the version of Mozilla I've installed is that it doesn't display ALT tags? IE 5+ will often display alt tags if you mouse over the images.

Give the big uns they props, you do.

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

I liked the alt text, also. Wish I knew a couple more lines from the same song, I'd quote 'em back at you.