Went to San Francisco last weekend, walked across the city so many times I got blisters. I went to the MOMA, Audium, and Howard’s Cafe (If you ever go to Howard’s, my friend Jesse’s art is all over the wall.) I got a nice calligraphy marker & I got to drive a 50 year old superbeetle. (And! I will probably get to drive it again.)

In Minnies House

I went to Disneyland for the first time as a belated birthday present. It was quite magical. I think I would have loved it as a kid, or maybe I would have been completely overwhelmed. I went on all the major rides. The second time I went on Space Mountain (which is a ridiculous name) I managed to do a Rodin’s The Thinker pose at the end of the ride, when I walked out to the picture area, someone saw the picture of me and came up to me and shook my hand. Everything is incredibly overpriced, so overpriced that my friend David chooses to look at prices in churros, as in “this lunch costs 3 churros.” I think it’s a good way to try to forget how much you’re spending and be able to actually enjoy it. Plus, Disneyland’s churros are pretty amazing. In front of the castle on the ground is the lyrics to the song from Pinocchio. I teared up a little when I saw that.

On Splash Mountain (seriously these names are terrible), my friends convinced me that the front seat is the best seat. Best seat if you want to be completely soaked. Thankfully it was hot outside. I then went up to hug Tigger. Lauren has a little book with all the Disney Characters she’s met and she gets their autographs. They’re actually quite good at mimicking how you would think the character would sign, but unfortunately the characters don’t talk. Not even the stormtroopers. But the stormtroopers have all the body motions down perfectly. They were a blast to hang out with.

It’s a bit strange how colorless the world feels after you walk out of Disney. Things are no longer themed, organized and extremely clean. And all of a sudden everything’s priced normal again.

After Disneyland I found out I got accepted into every school I applied to. Now I’m just waiting to see who gives me the best financial package, and seeing if there’s anything significant enough to sway me from, ya know, the fact that I can go to UCLA and double major.

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Said an image going around Tumblr.

Art deprecates. Or maybe it has always been a simple concept. But there are plenty of examples of art being pointless and not actually made (Duchamp) and even not original (Sherrie Levine) . So I don’t see why instagram can’t be elevated to high art. Modern art seems to have the retort “You could have made this but you didn’t” while instagram is the bit that says “that’s pretty and you did it”

Good enough for me.

There was a free admission day on Sunday to Bowers Museum. I’d have to say the highlights were seeing part of the famous terracotta army, the scrimshaw exhibit (because scrimshaw is really fun to say) and the Polynesian art section. There I saw lovely relics such as this adult human tooth necklace and a fork used for eating human flesh.

Yum.

When it lays down and dies.

Saw this near the San Clemente BofA.

Because they kill people, Van Loon.

From Van Loon’s Geography, my new obsession.

Don’t blame the paper, it’s blank. Don’t blame the pencil, it’s just doing its job at minimum wage. But the eraser, uninvited and bourgeois, you could do without.

Nope.

It’s like he just discovered ice cream legos, or got a new bike in the shape of a velociraptor or … he just saw the Lagoon Nebula. Excitement! I hope my kids love space and dinosaurs as much as I did. Spoiler alert. A lot.