Comments on: Almost Like Vienna

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:31:11 +0000

i’m a gustav klimt fan. this post gave me a new perspective of how a day with my own mother in an art gallery might unfold.

By: Diane Mandy

Diane Mandy — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:14:11 +0000

What an enjoyable post! One of my favorites to date. Your mother sounds like a delight to be around. I’m glad you are enjoying your time with her in NY.

By: christine

christine — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:02:52 +0000

This is so funny, in so many ways. The conversation with your mother in the museum, hilarious. No, she’s not sleeping, mom.

I love Klimt too, that whole time period, Aubrey Beardsley too.

By: Di

Di — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:28:16 +0000

I love this post!

I may have drooled over the cheesecake – Belgians don’t do cheesecake, a huge disappointment for this kiwi chick.

By: apathy lounge

apathy lounge — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:05:31 +0000

Every moment spent in New York tells a story. I love seeing your good side/bad side views of living there.

By: Jane

Jane — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:06:32 +0000

Headbang8 – great comment!

Neil, I just knew you’d find a way to fit masturbating woman into this post.

BTW, for $50, I’d have made you a whole cake or pie, and you could have taken the leftovers home!

By: natalie

natalie — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:04:50 +0000

ok…that conversation with your mom totally cracked me up. i can’t imagine ever having anything close to that kind of conversation with my mother. we would both walk by that picture and pretend like we didn’t see it! but on the inside i would be completely intrigued…not sure what my mom would feel!

By: headbang8

headbang8 — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:55:23 +0000

“Much of the German work from 1900-1930 is shocking, seedy, even ugly — as if these artists could see the festering amoralism of German culture of the time period.”

Many Germans thought that these artists were the festering amoralism of the time.

This allowed the Nazis to exploit the religious conservatism of (especially southern) Germans, just like the neocons do today with the godly folk of the south and midwest.

We often think of the Nazis as kinky perverts. This may have been true, but like the fundies today, they tried to keep the kink behind closed doors. The official party line was to support the most appalling prudery, in the guise of so-called “family values”.

By: Fiesty Charlie

Fiesty Charlie — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 04:00:20 +0000

Lovely… I am glad you are having this experience, it will be treasured all your life.

By: Karl

Karl — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:30:48 +0000

“I don’t think she’s sleeping.”

“Oh.”

Heh.