the previous post brought to you by the fact that I went to a strategic planning meeting about the future of my MA program today and one of my fellow students- an art museum education person- was saying that we should do LESS hands-on collections/exhibits work in our program and have classes focus more on the ethics and philosophy of museums and, furthermore, maybe museums shouldn’t even have collections at all.

so if you’re wondering how far up their own asses art museum people are……….. it’s that far.

okay, confession time: I’m an artist, an art history enthusiast, and a museologist but my tolerance for art and history museums is very low. I get bored, my feet end up hurting, and I just hate the stifling library-like hush and enforced air of reverence. I go to them because I feel like I ought to, and I do enjoy seeing the art and artifacts in person, but I run out of enthusiasm in about 20 minutes and spend the rest of the time wishing to be outside.

natural history museums or environmental education centers, though, I could cheerfully live in.

goddamnshinyrock:

I love that every joke people make about unitarian universalists is not only accurate, but is also immediately and gleefully repeated by unitarian universalists, ad nauseum

to be fair, basically anything one says about UUs already sounds like either the set-up or the punchline to a joke about well-meaning liberals

glumshoe:

This is weird, but kids who grew up running wild in the woods tend to find each other as adults. Many of my close friends now had similar childhoods to myself, even if we met online or in urban situations as adults. I don’t know what it is – the forest grows into your bones and stays there, maybe. Makes ya weird and gay.