after the rain of roses
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yamamanamaAt the Museum of Fine Arts is an Endless Feast, sculptures of the food various kids ate the night before. Most people ate fairly mundane things. Ayisat, which is a Nigerian (I think Yoruba) name, ate spicy pepper soup. I like Aliyah’s enthusiasm. Aliya ate spaghetti. It was good. One of them had a burrito cake. Maybe Letaura or Sedelia, which are just names that caught my eye. Leah had a taco and gatorade. Not that Leah. I saw the name Zaniah and thought “isn’t that a star?” and I was right: Zaniah is derived from the Arabic “زاوية“ which means corner. It’s in Virgo.
I had a shawarma for dinner.
A woman there had hair of amplified grapefruit and tangerine.
Rachel says she’s never met anyone who spells her name Rachael with an extra a.
She thought Blade Runner was about ice skating so obviously she’s never seen that.
She was wearing a bull’s head pendant, possibly symbolizing the zodiac sign Chaos but if it did, she didn’t say so, that she just got. I thought there was Chinese writing on it but it turned out to be just a design. Once she was wearing a glass pendant with a flower inside or something like that and someone wanted to take a picture of it so she could draw it. She had black fingernails and a design in henna on her hand.
Alexa was wearing a pendant of violet and blue glass and hoop earrings.
There’s some sketchbook pages and journal fragments that Bharti Kher made while living at the Gardner Museum.
If you bleed in deep water, your blood will look green.
The neapolitan ice cream colors are the artwork, not a placeholder. It’s in memoriam of Freddie Gray and the colors are the average hue of a photo of him.
And I'm not the only person who thought of neapolitan ice cream.
Gardner owned a lock of Ferenc Liszt's hair, a cigarette butt Johannes Brahms was done with, a glass filled with sand from Egypt, a pair of bazubands owned by the wife of Bahadur Shah Zafar II, and a canopic jar but not the preserved organ.
Josh Knowles was back, this time with an acoustic violin, playing some duets with Ruby Rose Fox on keyboard and vocals. He has a new album now and he plays violin on Ruby Rose Fox’s new album. Ruby Rose Fox’s voice is far deeper than I’d ever expect it to be. Since her name is Fox, I had to show her the baby foxes we had at the wildlife center a few years back.
I have a drawing of the two, done in pencil because pens are verboten, and it’s the only drawing I did inside the museum because my graphite (a long long time ago, it was thought that graphite was a form of lead and not carbon) ran out. In the drawing, Josh is finger plucking his violin but mostly he played it with a bow. One of her songs reminded me of Goli. Ruby Rose’s friend is a a drummer and she has neon carrot hair and a tattoo of a venus sigil of roses with a fist inside of it, and a portrait of a woman surrounded by flowers.
I also drew a fern tree for the scavenger hunt. I can't imagine what kind of people would not draw the fern tree. As for paintings and other objects from the museum I'd take with me, I picked a sort of covered chair for shelter, an angel candlestick that I could possibly magick into an angel to fly me off the island or if it doesn't work, I could at least have something to bash a run of the mill wild boar or a monster, and a mandolin, because if I can't magick up some angels or hippogriffs, I'd have nothing better to do than learn to play the mandolin and also to repair mandolin strings.
There were bunnies in the Monk’s Garden, where you could look for giant gems and win some fake plastic crystals and a gem pouch. A woman saw a kitten the size of her palm. I'm pretty sure she did use the term kitten.
The scavenger hunt was the same thing as last year’s. They had some other things you could do, like look through a cut-out circle and sketch the first surprising object or view, sit back to friend with your friend and have them choose an object in the museum and describe it to you and sketch it based on that description, make a dot whenever you stop to look at an object and then connect those dots, sketch a shadow and have your friend shape the shadow into a creature of some sorts, and sketch an object in the courtyard from each floor.
When I was about to leave, a family from Ireland began the scavenger hunt. I'm not sure what they were hunting for but they talked about how in Ireland, it isn't raining all the time like it normally does and now there's a drought and how in Massachusetts, a lot of people are of Irish descent.
My theory is that Donald Trump is attempting to summon Ineluki, the Storm King.
I thought Sara was Anne. Also, I really don’t understand how Sarah isn’t above Ashley on top 10 names of the 1990s or 1980s or any specific year in the 1990s list.
A woman had a tattoo of a sword and The Terminator and Wolverine and pendulums around her year.
A woman on the train had a tattoo of a tree with a lotus flower and waves and a sun above it and sun-spoked hoop earrings. There really wasn't much going on on my train journeys so I spent them reading The Gospel of Corax. I finished The Heart of What Was Lost yesterday.
It's probably not much of a spoiler but click at your own risk anyway.
I wonder if Sulen will turn out to be important. His name is strange by Hikeda'ya standards. But then again, in the original trilogy, we only encountered four named Hikeda'ya: Utuk'ku, Ekimeniso Blackstaff AKA Ekimeniso of the Brooding Eye, Akhenabi, and Drukhi.
I described Hikeda'ya society as "the Spartans discover Japanese fascism" but they're way more feminist than Japanese Fascists, who make Isfahan look like Nakkiga.
burning question: How is clean water not a human right? I'd say something about disincorporating Michigan and distributing it amongst its neighbors, but its neighbors are Wisconsin, Indiana, and Ohio, so that wouldn't really help the people of Flint.
I had a shawarma for dinner.
A woman there had hair of amplified grapefruit and tangerine.
Rachel says she’s never met anyone who spells her name Rachael with an extra a.
She thought Blade Runner was about ice skating so obviously she’s never seen that.
She was wearing a bull’s head pendant, possibly symbolizing the zodiac sign Chaos but if it did, she didn’t say so, that she just got. I thought there was Chinese writing on it but it turned out to be just a design. Once she was wearing a glass pendant with a flower inside or something like that and someone wanted to take a picture of it so she could draw it. She had black fingernails and a design in henna on her hand.
Alexa was wearing a pendant of violet and blue glass and hoop earrings.
There’s some sketchbook pages and journal fragments that Bharti Kher made while living at the Gardner Museum.
If you bleed in deep water, your blood will look green.
The neapolitan ice cream colors are the artwork, not a placeholder. It’s in memoriam of Freddie Gray and the colors are the average hue of a photo of him.
And I'm not the only person who thought of neapolitan ice cream.
Gardner owned a lock of Ferenc Liszt's hair, a cigarette butt Johannes Brahms was done with, a glass filled with sand from Egypt, a pair of bazubands owned by the wife of Bahadur Shah Zafar II, and a canopic jar but not the preserved organ.
Josh Knowles was back, this time with an acoustic violin, playing some duets with Ruby Rose Fox on keyboard and vocals. He has a new album now and he plays violin on Ruby Rose Fox’s new album. Ruby Rose Fox’s voice is far deeper than I’d ever expect it to be. Since her name is Fox, I had to show her the baby foxes we had at the wildlife center a few years back.
I have a drawing of the two, done in pencil because pens are verboten, and it’s the only drawing I did inside the museum because my graphite (a long long time ago, it was thought that graphite was a form of lead and not carbon) ran out. In the drawing, Josh is finger plucking his violin but mostly he played it with a bow. One of her songs reminded me of Goli. Ruby Rose’s friend is a a drummer and she has neon carrot hair and a tattoo of a venus sigil of roses with a fist inside of it, and a portrait of a woman surrounded by flowers.
I also drew a fern tree for the scavenger hunt. I can't imagine what kind of people would not draw the fern tree. As for paintings and other objects from the museum I'd take with me, I picked a sort of covered chair for shelter, an angel candlestick that I could possibly magick into an angel to fly me off the island or if it doesn't work, I could at least have something to bash a run of the mill wild boar or a monster, and a mandolin, because if I can't magick up some angels or hippogriffs, I'd have nothing better to do than learn to play the mandolin and also to repair mandolin strings.
There were bunnies in the Monk’s Garden, where you could look for giant gems and win some fake plastic crystals and a gem pouch. A woman saw a kitten the size of her palm. I'm pretty sure she did use the term kitten.
The scavenger hunt was the same thing as last year’s. They had some other things you could do, like look through a cut-out circle and sketch the first surprising object or view, sit back to friend with your friend and have them choose an object in the museum and describe it to you and sketch it based on that description, make a dot whenever you stop to look at an object and then connect those dots, sketch a shadow and have your friend shape the shadow into a creature of some sorts, and sketch an object in the courtyard from each floor.
When I was about to leave, a family from Ireland began the scavenger hunt. I'm not sure what they were hunting for but they talked about how in Ireland, it isn't raining all the time like it normally does and now there's a drought and how in Massachusetts, a lot of people are of Irish descent.
My theory is that Donald Trump is attempting to summon Ineluki, the Storm King.
I thought Sara was Anne. Also, I really don’t understand how Sarah isn’t above Ashley on top 10 names of the 1990s or 1980s or any specific year in the 1990s list.
A woman had a tattoo of a sword and The Terminator and Wolverine and pendulums around her year.
A woman on the train had a tattoo of a tree with a lotus flower and waves and a sun above it and sun-spoked hoop earrings. There really wasn't much going on on my train journeys so I spent them reading The Gospel of Corax. I finished The Heart of What Was Lost yesterday.
It's probably not much of a spoiler but click at your own risk anyway.
I described Hikeda'ya society as "the Spartans discover Japanese fascism" but they're way more feminist than Japanese Fascists, who make Isfahan look like Nakkiga.
burning question: How is clean water not a human right? I'd say something about disincorporating Michigan and distributing it amongst its neighbors, but its neighbors are Wisconsin, Indiana, and Ohio, so that wouldn't really help the people of Flint.
