(no subject)

The escapade art show is happening now, and I just ... I just don't get into the art. So I'm taking this opportunity to comment on the vid show. ( Behind a cut because it's long. Also, fair warning, I am just going to ramble bluntly, so if I say something dismissive or even mean about your favorite vidder, hey, I warned you. Also, I am not a vidder, so while I might occasionally manage to critique something on a technical level, much of this will be along the lines of 'I hated this song' or 'why would anyone be into *him*' )

How dumb am I??

So Mark and I drove to LA this afternoon. We went to the Museum of Jurassic Technology (which was cool but gave me a headache, trying to peer at things through the dim light), and then we went over to the LaBrea tar pits. For some reason I think these are really, really cool, although I am quite cynical about the sculpture. (There's an adult female mammoth sinking into the tarpit, and on the adjacent grass there's a baby mammoth and a male adult mammoth, and the information placard explains that the mother mammoth is sinking while the child and father look on in horror. Anthropomorphizing much?)

*Then*, as CGU has never been to LA before, I thought we should go by the Chinese theater and check out the footprints and things. Only we were having a hard time getting there -- streets were blocked off, and we were trying to improvise an alternate route -- and suddenly CGU said, "We're never going to get there tonight!" And I'm all *why*??, completely mystified. And he's like, the Oscars, doofus.

Oh, right. The **Oscars**. So then I was all frantic that we had to abandon our plans to eat in LA and drive right back to the hotel so we could watch Chris Rock.