h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I want you all to know that I just saw Gosford Park and it is terrible. Nice sets and there is a Clueseauian detective, but there is no plot.

I popped open my MMA Calendar ...

Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi: Father and Daughter Painters in Baroque Italy (51 works by these Caravaggio-esque painters).

Surrealism: Desire Unbound (organized by Tate Modern in Lond, its the first major survey of Surrealism in more than 20 years).

Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn's Nudes, 1949-50 (highly unorthodox nude photos)

Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed (in the Costume Institute - reveals how fashion has both adapted to and reinforced evolving concepts of beauty) <--- I just may have seen this in London

Splendid Isolation: Art of Easter Island (the first American exhibition devoted to the art of Easter Island featuring some 50 works)

Benjamin Brecknell Turner: Rural England through a Victorian Lens (approximately 40 large-format photographs)

Graceful Gestures: A Decade of Collecting Japanese Art (more than 100 Japanese works of art collected by the museum during the past 10 years)

When Manchus Ruled China: Painting under the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) (nearly 40 works)

Courtly Radiance: Metalwork from Islamic India (approximately 25 examples of different metals fashioned into vessels, objects of daily and ceremonial use, and sculptural forms from the 16th & 17th centuries)

hmmm I could do the MET but I refuse to pick what we will see I would have no idea what I was picking depending on when we wanted to hit the place we could throw in a lunch/dinner thing if you wanted


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Met vs MOMA...

trouble brewing

That wasn't MOMA! That was the Met! I'd never, ever, ever recommend MOMA!

we haven't even met Shea's MOM....she might not want us to visit


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let's see... the Met or Shea's mom... hmmmm.. tough decision..

The Met sounds poifekt!!

plus we get to fool everyone into think we are all cutured up and all



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We don't need that Rodgers and Hammerstein.
We're not depending on the Theater Guild,
But you can alkways catch our act at the Met.
I'll be Siegfried, and you be Brunnhilde!



Ya gotta see MOMA every night,
or you can't see MOMA at aaaaaall.

I think you might choose my Mom over the Met if you knew she was staying on a small island in the Caribbean at the moment ...

to Mom's it is

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I think I'll suddenly find myself . It's not Mom, it's that I don't like the Caribbean much..

hmmm but there is sun and sand and water and no work well unless you work there


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So, why did Robinson Crusoe want to
escape from such a paradise?

Was it because Fridays were boring?

So were're meeting at the Met? How about on the front steps? Someone should carry and h2g2 sign.

well I tend to stand out...I will be the big guy wearing the towel well that and my regular clothes
Do we have a time we would like to meet at the Met?

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It's been kinda cold lately ... how about we meet *inside* the Met? Maybe by the big staircase ...

concidering I don't think I have been into the MET I will take your word that there is a big stair case inside to stand next to but you are right it has been a bit nippy out lately and waiting inside would be better.


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perhaps it would be better to meet at a restaurant or pub by the Met so everyone can find each other, then go to the Met?

The only problem is that there really aren't many restaurants/pubs near the Met ... are there?