Barcelona Exhibit

Below is the link for the wonderful show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. We took in the show the day after the MWA Edgar Symposium.

http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId={4A34EF20-80E9-4086-B9FD-986350F52872}

Also saw the new Greek and Roman gallery which is worth a trip to New York alone. New York City energizes me, so it's good to visit there a few times a year.

For a girl from Colorado who used to keep a street map of the city in her dresser drawer at the age of six, it's always sort of amazing that I'm actually riding a bus down Fifth Avenue, walking in Central Park, window shopping on Madison, or enjoying a fried cod sandwich and a glass of Pino Grigio by myself in an Irish Bar on Lexington Ave, and being called quasi endearments by the bartender, which sounded sort of cute, actually, while I eavesdropped on a conversation about Club Med by a senior gentleman talking to his junior. Tempted to join in, but didn't.

Barcelona was full of art movements, from Modernism to Cubism, and I think one called Centrism. The interesting thing about the Modernists is that every single painting spoke of alienation. Every one. The artists had a cozy community, Som Quatre Gats, meaning we are four cats, which translates to a small number of people gathered at a place or at an event. They weren't alienated from each other, but from society, and their art spoke of this.

The New York Times Book Review did not speak to me today. The dystopian novels are coming out of the woodwork. Well, with our global situation, both ecological and political (and they are related), it's small wonder. We are alienated from the earth and each other and nature and things are pretty bad, aren't they? And no amount of sucking it up will change that. But I digress.

No writing lately, just some rewriting, nothing very inspiring. I read lots of blogs and the energy levels are stratosphere high which is very inspiring. Why is the New York energy dissipated already? Only been three days ago.

I have a few more queries to send out. I really sucked on the Fur Fin and Fantasy or whatever the hell it was pitch posting. Mostly urban fantasy and I'm not even sure what that is, but I don't think I have them.

Off to balance the bank statements, oh Sunday, how boring thou art.

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