Part of the Boston trip included a visit to the Museum of Fine Arts. One of the first exhibits we saw was the Egyptian and Nubian Hall, which was of particular interest to me becaue I had just covered a history class at Winchester Thurston where the 6th graders reviewed and then tested on Egypt and Nubia. The answer to the extra credit question, "What did the Egyptians and Nubians store mummified organs in?" was Canpopic Jars.

I have visited the MFA a couple of times before, and each time, look forward to seeing this girl I have a crush on: Jean-Baptiste Greuze's Young Woman in a White Hat

Something about her that's just sizzling hot.

Other cool stuff included some pieces in the "Degas to Picasso" Exhibit by Egon Shiele, Bertold Loeffler, Stuart Davis and Ditha Moser. Maybe someday I'll have tons of money, will retire early, and can do a few studies in art history.

Detroit AIrport

For any of you lucky enough to be heading to Detroit this weekend, be sure to go from concourse A to C, or verse-vice-a. It's so worth it, because... there's a huge curve-roofed corridor, the length of a football field, with ambient music and trippy lights on the walls. It may be the most exciting thing in thier airport. Even more so than the red tram that runs the length of the airport. Oh yeah, there's Super Bowl XL stuff EVERYWHERE. Go Steelers!

The trip to Boston (with layovers in Detroit) was good. This included my first Billy Joel concert, a visit to Grendel's Den in Cambridge for lunch and a cold Cambridge Amber (one of the best in North America).
One thing that struck me, is a physical similarity between Billy Joel (here pictured with Bill Clinton) and Anders (here pictured with Jill Sobule (who has a Kevin Bacon number of 2).





All you need to do is buzz your hair really short, and trim the beard to a goatee, Anders, and you got a strong resemblance. More so than the Anthony Hopkins playing Col. William Ludlow in Legends of the Fall.