America loves numbers---especially when they pass the Million mark... I read in the
Arts, Briefly column of this morning's NYT, that the National September 11 Memorial & Museum will receive $2.9 Million fr. The Lower Manhattan Corp. for planning & development of the museum's primary exhibition related to the 9/11 attacks. The Corcoran Gallery in Washington cancelled its "Turner to Cezanne" exhibit because the humidity control system was malfunctioning, even after they recently spent $11.5 Million in restoration of their roof and skylight system. Too bad, I like those guys! Meanwhile, this past Wed. 19.7 Million viewers tuned in to Fox to watch "American Idol"... All of this interesting news on just one small, virtually negligible corner of the media. To date, our government has spent $981,026,300,000 on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan-- Is anybody watching? --last night my 11 year old daughter and I watched West Side Story, for the first time ...I just can't get that awful little song out of my head now..."I wanna live in America..." Is that how it goes?! la la la...
The adjoining photo is purposely fuzzy...
Have a nice day.
