March 15, 2009 · No Comments

Yesterday I helped my pal Rival Dave move into his new apartment; here he gives a tour of his new digs.

 March 15, 2009 · No Comments

A few weeks ago, Carrie and I went to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. to see an exhibit of art excavated from the ruins of Pompeii. While we were there, Carrie told me about some of her experiences from when she used to work at the museum. “Did you know there’s a painting by Salvador Dalí?” she asked me, and when I said that I didn’t know she showed me where it was. Apparently she didn’t know about it either until she had worked at the museum for several weeks, and even then it was hard to find.

I looked up the painting later on Wikipedia: “Completed in 1955 after nine months of work, Salvador Dalís painting ‘The Sacrament of the Last Supper’ has remained one of his most popular compositions. Since its popularity at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., where almost upon its arrival in 1955 it replaced Renoirs ‘Girl with a Watering Can’ as the most popular piece in the museum, the piece has continued to draw interest.”