Museum Number 1 (I feel so damn accomplished right now)

Today Em and I went to the American Folk Art Museum. Finally. I've only been planning on heading over there for a week now.



That there is supposed to be a Baby's Quilt. It's made using condoms in tin packaging. There's no better way to tell your child "You were a huge mistake" like wrapping it in the condoms that you should have used the night of its conception. Classy.

The museum was different than I expected, which is a good thing. There's a lot of really interesting pieces that, although not astounding, were definitely interesting. I don't think that I've been to museum that inspired so much genuine conversation before.

A lot of the stuff was created by people who weren't artists by profession. They weren't attempting to create masterpieces and didn't think that they were going to get much recognition from it. As a result, the stuff is pretty eccentric and sometimes just odd, i.e. a rug completely made of used Wonder Bread wrappers.

My one real problem with the place was the portraits. We sat down by a TV that was showing a documentary on that:


The people being interviewed went on and on about how the portrait's minimalism made it great and how a European painter would have ruined the portrait. Hell, they even compared the thing to the Mona Lisa. Let's be honest with ourselves here, that thing says "Children of the Corn" much more than "Mona Lisa." I'm going to have nightmares about waking up and having that girl eating my intestines. The cat did speak to me though,



Unfortunately it said "My name is Mr. Bigglesworth. I used to have a soul but the frightening little girl holding me ate it three nights ago."

However the place definitely is worth the $7 admission (just tell them you're a student, they don't check). If you're having any doubts...



Can you really resist a face like that?