2024.10.22 07:00 - MoMA and Animal Crackers

The Guardian for this meeting was Riddle Sideways. The comments are by Riddle Sideways.

Riddle Sideways: Good Morning Adams ㋡
Adams Rubble: Good Morning Riddle !
Adams Rubble: Happy last days of Sukkot
Riddle Sideways: thank you
Riddle Sideways: we don't have a sukah, but have been eating all meals outside anyway
Adams Rubble: Just want to mention that I've become more aware of the important work you do during elections

Adams Rubble: we had a mosquito revival day yesterday.
Adams Rubble: not good for eating outside

Adams Rubble: Hello bleu :)
Bleu Oleander: hi Riddle, Adams!
Riddle Sideways: good morning Bleu
Adams Rubble: sorry for missing your opening
Adams Rubble: will go see it though
Agatha Macbeth waves
Riddle Sideways: hi Aggers
Adams Rubble: Hello Agatha :)
Bleu Oleander: it was a fun opening!
Agatha Macbeth: Bleuji!
Agatha Macbeth: Sorry I missed it
Riddle Sideways: was very nice
Riddle Sideways: and fun
Agatha Macbeth: Wrote it down too
Agatha Macbeth: Maybe I'll put it at the top next time
Bleu Oleander: it will be up for several weeks so come visit :)
Riddle Sideways: many fancy dressed people there
Agatha Macbeth: I've actually been
Adams Rubble: Is it still hot in Arizona?
Adams Rubble: you've had some rough weather
Bleu Oleander: sorta yes but getting better
Bleu Oleander: indeed!
Bleu Oleander: in the mid 90's this week
Adams Rubble: wow
Bleu Oleander: which is a cold snap haha
Adams Rubble: It was 80 here yesterday and the mosquitoes returned
Agatha Macbeth: Bzzz
Bleu Oleander: that's pretty warm!
Riddle Sideways: glad we have few mosquitoes
Bleu Oleander: don't like mosquitoes!!
Adams Rubble: it gets cool overnight though
Agatha Macbeth: They like you
Adams Rubble: no, got bit three times yesterday
Bleu Oleander: yeah that's the problem!
Agatha Macbeth: And Adams too it seems
Agatha Macbeth: But who wouldn't?
Riddle Sideways: sweet people
Adams Rubble: they don't care for me; just my blood
Bleu Oleander: do you have west nile virus there?
Riddle Sideways: little vampires
Agatha Macbeth: Where's Drac when you need him

Adams Rubble: we need the bats and the oppossums
Adams Rubble: just the bats; the oppossums eat the ticks
Agatha Macbeth ticks the box
Riddle Sideways: ah, didn't think possums ate mosquitoes
Agatha Macbeth: Don't they eat anything?
Adams Rubble: they eat lots of things but eat losts of ticks
Adams Rubble: lots of ticks
Agatha Macbeth: Are they primates? remind me
Adams Rubble: no marsupials
Agatha Macbeth: Ahhh
Bleu Oleander: we are primates :)
Riddle Sideways: thatz easy for you to spelt
Agatha Macbeth: Thought they only lived in Australia
Adams Rubble: oppossums are North America marsupials
Agatha Macbeth: Wow
Agatha Macbeth: I always grouped them with lemurs - obvioulsy not
   --BELL--

Bleu Oleander: any new shows coming up in the museum Adams?
Riddle Sideways: yes change the subject before we start talking of wombats and tasmanian devils
Bleu Oleander: haha
Riddle Sideways: or sing "tie me kangaroo down"
Agatha Macbeth wobbles her board and breathes strangely
Adams Rubble: no shows yet
Riddle Sideways: takes a lot to put those shows together
Bleu Oleander: it does I'm sure!
Adams Rubble: a labor of love but the love and curiosity comes first
Agatha Macbeth: Just leave the cat out of it

Bleu Oleander: I just read an interesting book you might like Adams ... The Slip by Prudence Pieffer, she's a curator at MoMA
Agatha Macbeth: MoMa?
Bleu Oleander: museum of modern art NYC
Agatha Macbeth: Oh right
Adams Rubble listens
Bleu Oleander: history of lower Manhattan in the 50's and an artist community that lived and worked there
Adams Rubble: ahhh
Bleu Oleander: Agnes Martin Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Indiana and others
Agatha Macbeth: Maybe that's where MoCA comes from then
Agatha Macbeth: Would make sense
Adams Rubble: lower Manhattan used to be affordable
Bleu Oleander: ha not anymore!
Agatha Macbeth: Is anywhere affordable now?
Bleu Oleander: most expensive area is Tribeca these days
Adams Rubble: yes, Middle America
Adams Rubble: rich keep trying to move away from the poor
Bleu Oleander: or at least wall them out
Agatha Macbeth: Or eradicate them
Riddle Sideways: San Francisco has a MoMA and other cities have them. Wonder why NYC gets 'The MoMA' ?
   --BELL--
Agatha Macbeth: I want my MoMA!
Bleu Oleander: was first probably
Agatha Macbeth: Sorry
Adams Rubble: was first
Adams Rubble: I never thought of it as "The MOMA" though just MOMA
Bleu Oleander: me too

Bleu Oleander: I enjoy going every time we're in NYC
Bleu Oleander: do you get to the city often Adams?
Adams Rubble: not since Covid, Been going to Staten Island and taking the ferry in
Adams Rubble: to avoid the trains
Adams Rubble: went past NYC this week on a boat trip up the Hiudson
Bleu Oleander: oh that sounds nice!
Bleu Oleander: where were you going?
Adams Rubble: we went up to Tarrytown and then turned around
Bleu Oleander: is that past Dia Beacon?
Adams Rubble: Entertained two granddaughters with animal crackers
Bleu Oleander: sweet
Riddle Sideways: ㋡
Adams Rubble: I don't think so
Bleu Oleander: have you been to Dia Beacon? very interesting space
Adams Rubble: I don't think so
Bleu Oleander: worth the trip
Bleu Oleander: about an hour from Grand Central

Adams Rubble: I seem to have gone off for a few minutes
Adams Rubble: coudn't type
Agatha Macbeth: No you were here
Bleu Oleander: are you all using the new viewers?
Agatha Macbeth: Just stood and sat again
Agatha Macbeth: :is
Agatha Macbeth: :is
Adams Rubble: yes was here but could not type. Stranding seem to have broken the evil spell
Agatha Macbeth: ?
Riddle Sideways: tis the evil spell season
Agatha Macbeth examines her prefs
Adams Rubble: no, it is probably the proximity to halloween
Agatha Macbeth: Weird
Bleu Oleander: weird is the word of the season!
Agatha Macbeth thought grease was
Agatha Macbeth: I've got chills
Agatha Macbeth: They're multiplying

Riddle Sideways: Tarrytown would go past the new (renamed) bridge
Adams Rubble: bridge slightly before
Riddle Sideways: use to be the Tappenzee
Adams Rubble: it was very impressive the way the tappen Zee expanded
Adams Rubble: very very wide
Agatha Macbeth: That's dutch
Adams Rubble: yup
Riddle Sideways: now it is the Mario
Agatha Macbeth: New Amsterdam eh
Adams Rubble: everyone calls it the tappen Zee Bridge
Adams Rubble: Mario wasn't a bad chap but his sons sullied the name
Agatha Macbeth: Dressing as a plumber didn't help either
Bleu Oleander: :)

Bleu Oleander: off to RL work ... nice to see you all
Agatha Macbeth: Poor girl
Agatha Macbeth: Come back soon
Bleu Oleander: tc and have a good day!
Adams Rubble: OK nice to see you too
   --BELL--
Adams Rubble: have a great week
Adams Rubble: stay cool
Riddle Sideways: thanks for the visit ㋡
Riddle Sideways: have fun
Bleu Oleander: you too! see you soon!

Agatha Macbeth: She's great
Riddle Sideways: what is this 'Work' thing she mentioned ? ㋡
Agatha Macbeth holds up a crucifix
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: "WORK!!!!" - Maynard G. Krebbs

Riddle Sideways: your boat ride almost made it to Sleepy Hollow
Adams Rubble: it was advertized as that
Agatha Macbeth: Zzzz
Riddle Sideways: Do Animal Crackers still come in the little box?
Adams Rubble: yes but mine were in a package
Adams Rubble: they were so much fun
Riddle Sideways: could cut the bottom to make wheels for the animal wagons
Riddle Sideways: ah childhood was so much simpler back then
Adams Rubble: yeah we had polio, scarlet fever, mumps and measles then
Adams Rubble: RFK wants to bring them all back for us
Riddle Sideways: all kids have now is Covid
   --BELL--
Riddle Sideways: we did not even have iPads back then

Adams Rubble: thank you all for being here :)
Agatha Macbeth: Thank you too
Adams Rubble: have a great week :)
Riddle Sideways: and Thank you
Adams Rubble: bye for now
Riddle Sideways: by All
Agatha Macbeth: Hope the fence is better
Agatha Macbeth: Right then
Agatha Macbeth: Grab dat log
Riddle Sideways: poof
Riddle Sideways: got dit
Agatha Macbeth: See you anon