07 Apr 2025 1 min read

4.07.2025

There's a cougar on a horse over there.

photo: coffee cup, water bottle, glasses case, corner of a shoulder bag

I went to the museum of arts and fineries. I don't take pictures in museums. It's a thing I'm snobbish about. Put your phone away you vulgar wretch. Here are some erudite descriptions of what I saw there.

Greek stuff. Amphoras I think. Amphorae? A two-sided bust of Athena and Cupid and a real life woman and a real life man leaning in like they’re about to make out with the face on their side. Now you see it’s a video and the humans tremble struggling to maintain stillness.

Also some vases and sprinklers and shot glasses incorporated into religious rites to provide an excuse to drink.

There's a cougar on a horse over there. A headless blue Venus de Milo.

Sarcophagi are made of stone, coffins of wood. Mummy servants were replaced with figurines that became very popular. In the Nile Delta they traded these like Pokemon.

African masks were sometimes adorned with ivory and beads made from conch shells to show off the wearer's wealth. Their value was proportionate to how difficult they were to procure.

Gold bracelets, blood diamonds, Iphones, Cabbage Patch Kids back in the day and I just read that braces are now a status symbol in the U.S. because our healthcare system is a horror film.