Cthulhu rules
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bunrabAfter a long day Thursday going through the Baltimore Museum of Art, we did almost nothing Friday - C & V brought a couple of DVDs with them, and a game, so we played Munchkin Cthulhu, followed by a couple of games of Guillotine, then watched "The Call of Cthulhu" and "The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra," which we are apparently the last SF geeks on Earth to get around to seeing. It is a hoot. Munchkin Cthulhu has slightly too many rules for my taste, but the cards are awfully cute!
We got them headed west toward Pittsburgh this morning, jug of iced tea and bag of leftover chicken in hand, so that they have lunch taken care of.
It's really good to have friends visit, and C & V are extremely good houseguests - but it's also good to be able to go back to our normal slobby ways, leaving half-opened mail on all the furniture, and walking around in the morning sans PJs or bathrobe.
Funny thing about the BMoA - it has one of Rodin's "The Thinker"s - but the one day C & V were there, that's the day that the piece was removed from its spot to be taken and weighed, because they're considering moving it to a different wing and they're not sure the new wing will structurally support that many tons of bronze. The plaque was there, and a square of less-faded tiles on the floor. Oh well, at least the Antioch mosaics are still right there; they are the best thing in the museum, to my mind.
We're hoping to convince them to come back in the spring or fall, when day trips to DC won't involve the risk of heat stroke and the presence of 400,000 other tourists. For that matter, there's still lots more to see here - we didn't even get around to a boat tour of the harbor, or a concert in the Meyerhoff - and we didn't get around to playing our stack of 40 or so other games! (V noticed the Transamerica game, and said that he doubted it was related to the movie, and I said, you're right. That would be a different game altogether.)
OK, enough babble. Gotta get back to work on the bookmark with her name in Hebrew that I'm making for my cousin's daughter's Bat Mitzvah.
We got them headed west toward Pittsburgh this morning, jug of iced tea and bag of leftover chicken in hand, so that they have lunch taken care of.
It's really good to have friends visit, and C & V are extremely good houseguests - but it's also good to be able to go back to our normal slobby ways, leaving half-opened mail on all the furniture, and walking around in the morning sans PJs or bathrobe.
Funny thing about the BMoA - it has one of Rodin's "The Thinker"s - but the one day C & V were there, that's the day that the piece was removed from its spot to be taken and weighed, because they're considering moving it to a different wing and they're not sure the new wing will structurally support that many tons of bronze. The plaque was there, and a square of less-faded tiles on the floor. Oh well, at least the Antioch mosaics are still right there; they are the best thing in the museum, to my mind.
We're hoping to convince them to come back in the spring or fall, when day trips to DC won't involve the risk of heat stroke and the presence of 400,000 other tourists. For that matter, there's still lots more to see here - we didn't even get around to a boat tour of the harbor, or a concert in the Meyerhoff - and we didn't get around to playing our stack of 40 or so other games! (V noticed the Transamerica game, and said that he doubted it was related to the movie, and I said, you're right. That would be a different game altogether.)
OK, enough babble. Gotta get back to work on the bookmark with her name in Hebrew that I'm making for my cousin's daughter's Bat Mitzvah.
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Date: 2007-07-08 12:10 am (UTC)I'd like to see DC sometime myself.
I adore museums. I have a wish to go to another huge one. There's a lovely one in Hobart that I go to when I can, but its still fairly small. The Dallas Science one was fantastic - I have fond memories of that.
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Date: 2007-07-08 01:20 am (UTC)I think that in the Baltimore-Washington corridor, within an hour of our house or less, there are over 100 museums - from the Smithsonian to tiny town history museums. If you plan to come visit, plan for weeks.
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Date: 2007-07-08 01:41 am (UTC)Someday.
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Date: 2007-07-08 12:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-08 01:23 am (UTC)I worked my way through most of Lovecraft in 5th and 6th grade.
We have 4 different toy Cthulhus hanging around on our bookshelves - 3 different sizes of plush, plus one action figure Cthulhu. For some reason, we don't seem to have any wind-up Cthulhus, and no Shoggoths, either - I can't imagine how we've managed to avoid collecting them.
We do have a plush octopus magnet on refrigerator now, though!!
Question and confession
Date: 2007-07-08 02:58 pm (UTC)On a different note: How bad are the crowds on the Mall in DC? I refuse to drive there when we have the VA Railway Express in our backyard. But I am still not keen on crowds, and neither is my sweetie. He's been to the U.S. several times, and still has not visited DC. (To my mind, well, no great loss, but that's not my call.)
Re: Question and confession
Date: 2007-07-25 10:04 pm (UTC)The crowds at the Mall all summer are pretty bad, and on 4th of July, they are unspeakably bad. Best bet: wait till September and come on a weekday, if you can!
Lovecraft: try At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels, Dagon and Other Macabre Tales, The Dunwich Horror and Others, and The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions.