ok, it's not the worst museum i've ever been to, but it definitely has it's negative points.
today was rainy and nathan was away. without house-hunting, or cooking, or other pressing business, i decided to take my camera back downtown. because of the rain, today would be an indoor photography day, and what better place to take indoor pictures than the museum?
i got to the museum, bought my ticket, and noticed the sign that said that all bags must be checked. so i told the girl that i would leave the bag, but take the camera. she said i could take the camera, but i could not take pictures, because of copyright issues.
so there's no picture taking in the portland museum. do you know what museum does allow picture taking? the boston museum of fine arts that i went to last april, and the smithsonian (air and space building).
another reason the portland museum sucks: it's small. it seems smaller than the chrysler museum. and there's too much modern art and not enough good art. for me, it's all about the oils and the sculpture, and it was light on both.
reasons the portland museum doesn't suck: there was a nice special exhibit: hesse: a princely german collection. it was good not only because of the obvious reasons (you know, the art), but also because the word hesse (which is the name of a section of germany) in greek means literally "to poop." it's not complete, but it's like verbs in most other languages; they have a root that doesn't change. so hess is the root word of the future tense. it also needs a helping verb which is "tha" pronounced with a soft "th" as in "thick" and the "a" sounds like "ah". the conjugation is as follows: tha hesso = i will poop, tha hesseis = you will poop, tha hessei = he will poop, tha hessoume = we will poop, tha hessete = you (pl.) will poop, tha hessoun = they will poop.
this also makes room for a lot of beavis-esque jokes i mostly inherited from my mother. the california grocery store was no longer called "food 4 less" in my house, it was "food 4 hess" (accompanied by an asthmatic greek woman's cackle). tori and greg hessey (some of you should know them) had to endure endless jibes from me. well,not so much greg, because i avoided talking to him for obvious reasons.
in summary, while the portland museum = hesse, i will continue to be a frequent visitor, because it's all i've got.
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you (pl) = y'all.
you are right, you (pl.) does = y'all. they should really start teaching that. actually, i do believe my teachers in alabama did teach me that.
FYI: here's a bit more relevant info on the family name "von Hessen" that has a different source than the one you suggest:
The name Hessen (“Hesse” in English, just as Bayern translates as “Bavaria” in English) derives from the German root Chatten, a German tribe who settled in the historical region of Hessen.
The Chatti (Lat., [xaten]) are the ancestors of the Hessens, who originally settled south of Kassel. The Chatten (historically: Chatti > Hatti > Hassi (ca. 700) >Hessi (738) > Hessen) are one of only two Germanic tribes that have kept their name and the region of their settlement up to the present.
haha, sorry if i offended. strangers on this site might not have noticed that i joke a lot and do not actually think that the word hesse has any connection to it's greek counterpart.
Hello Christina, I was loving the Blog which i randomly found by google during an 8 hour boredom session, WATCH!! Until that is the part about avoiding talking to me for "obvious" reasons. WTF did I do??? I'm actually interesed and not trying to offend you.
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