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yamamanama59 days until the vernal equinox
It wasn't the most exciting day at the Museum of Fine Arts. Once again, I arrived at the tail end of an event, this time, a speech about privilege.
and it was the kind of day where She Who Tells A Story was dismantled and the next exhibit there hasn't been put up. The only new thing I noticed was contemporary Afro-Brazilian art, and some people were discussing the differences between Spanish and Portuguese. I heard Cape Verdean creole a lot in college too. And I took Chinese, which has a mindbogglingly vast array of logographs to keep track of but no tense and no gender to worry about, and only know a few phrases in Spanish. Phrases like "¡Ay ay ay! Es Homer Simpson. Me ha molestada" and "el yo-yo es grande*" and "ay, un gato malodoro" and "ay, naranjas en la cabaza," while I don't quite understand what he said about the corn cob. Hungarian I've heard is difficult, and then there's Marshallese, where you can look up the orthography on Wikipedia and determine in ten seconds or less that the orthography was conceived by native English speakers. Oh, and there was a wispy attenuated figure in the contemporary wing that I didn't notice the last few times I was there.
*Chihuahua is not Spanish at all, but possibly Nahuatl for confluence**.
**I don't think Shrine of Stars was actually translated into Spanish***
***but it's called Yama di Confluence**** in Italy.
****the only reason I know it's Shrine of Stars is because I recognize the cover.
People, including a woman with a henna-brown short mohawk and the rest of her head shaved, did like the snowy owl picture I took. And I did explain great auks, which went extinct due to hunting, carolina parakeets, which ate seeds toxic to cats, and passenger pigeons, which outnumbered humans, and how most modern-day extinctions happened on islands, where the animals are less numerous and less able to deal with invasive species like cats and rats. And the ones that aren't, in the last century at least, tend to be due to habitat loss and habitat destruction, not overfishing or overhunting.
Ivory-billed woodpeckers are thought to be extinct. I don't know why they are still considered critically endangered when one hasn't been seen since World War II, but if they're still around, it won't be the first time it happened.
Somebody brought up a people in Africa where they actually do honor women, and I told her about the beauty pageants they have there. I said they were from Chad or Niger or possibly Mali, it doesn't really matter because the countries are even more arbitrary in Africa than they are anywhere else.
Look up an ethnic map of Africa.
The unreleased Drop Nineteens songs sound like they were recorded in 2010 Bandung and not 1990 Boston.
burning question: is knowing Clay Aiken lyrics worse than the fact that he is still getting air time?
I love how I phrased that like an empathy test.
It wasn't the most exciting day at the Museum of Fine Arts. Once again, I arrived at the tail end of an event, this time, a speech about privilege.
and it was the kind of day where She Who Tells A Story was dismantled and the next exhibit there hasn't been put up. The only new thing I noticed was contemporary Afro-Brazilian art, and some people were discussing the differences between Spanish and Portuguese. I heard Cape Verdean creole a lot in college too. And I took Chinese, which has a mindbogglingly vast array of logographs to keep track of but no tense and no gender to worry about, and only know a few phrases in Spanish. Phrases like "¡Ay ay ay! Es Homer Simpson. Me ha molestada" and "el yo-yo es grande*" and "ay, un gato malodoro" and "ay, naranjas en la cabaza," while I don't quite understand what he said about the corn cob. Hungarian I've heard is difficult, and then there's Marshallese, where you can look up the orthography on Wikipedia and determine in ten seconds or less that the orthography was conceived by native English speakers. Oh, and there was a wispy attenuated figure in the contemporary wing that I didn't notice the last few times I was there.
*Chihuahua is not Spanish at all, but possibly Nahuatl for confluence**.
**I don't think Shrine of Stars was actually translated into Spanish***
***but it's called Yama di Confluence**** in Italy.
****the only reason I know it's Shrine of Stars is because I recognize the cover.
People, including a woman with a henna-brown short mohawk and the rest of her head shaved, did like the snowy owl picture I took. And I did explain great auks, which went extinct due to hunting, carolina parakeets, which ate seeds toxic to cats, and passenger pigeons, which outnumbered humans, and how most modern-day extinctions happened on islands, where the animals are less numerous and less able to deal with invasive species like cats and rats. And the ones that aren't, in the last century at least, tend to be due to habitat loss and habitat destruction, not overfishing or overhunting.
Ivory-billed woodpeckers are thought to be extinct. I don't know why they are still considered critically endangered when one hasn't been seen since World War II, but if they're still around, it won't be the first time it happened.
Somebody brought up a people in Africa where they actually do honor women, and I told her about the beauty pageants they have there. I said they were from Chad or Niger or possibly Mali, it doesn't really matter because the countries are even more arbitrary in Africa than they are anywhere else.
Look up an ethnic map of Africa.
The unreleased Drop Nineteens songs sound like they were recorded in 2010 Bandung and not 1990 Boston.
burning question: is knowing Clay Aiken lyrics worse than the fact that he is still getting air time?
I love how I phrased that like an empathy test.
