matt's teaching me code...

tonight matt is teaching me how to place pictures in the blog. (very important. in the 21st century we are very visual animals) in order to place pictures, one must write css code; so im learning to be a codewarrior. its a cascade and a cascade that i find i like. on some level i wish i had been a programmer. its like brain surgery. you enter a brain (the harddrive) and make the brain do things. sort of like a lobotomy for the computer. the commands cause one thing to effect another, which leads to a third thing. there is a flow to code, but in really obvious, blatant ways. of course the blatancy and obviousness of it all would change if i were writing more advanced code. then i like to think i would code with elegance and even wit — or at least with humor; this is possible in the code world, or so im told.
so, heres a picture of the building the museum is in, white river junction's 19th century fire station. the picture was taken before i started renovating it (photo: mark e. merrill). gosh. enjoy.

these actors are really wooden...

hey yall!
ria blaas is back. o, almost 10 years ago for several years, we had holiday puppet shows and even a puppet "blaast"; and now, ria wants to do it again. its a special treat and good for adults as well as children. heres the press for our latest scheduled event here in the museum front room:
There was no room at the inn so they landed at the Old Fire Station…
Upper Loveland Puppets presents
A Christmas Story
Featuring Prof. Ria Blass and her Intelligent Marionettes! With co-puppeteer Suzanne Lupien
Saturdays at 7:00 p.m. and Sundays at 4:00 p.m.
December 10th, 11th, 17th and 18th!
the museum's annual holiday open house will be held after the show, sunday december 18th at 5:30 p.m.
At the Main Street Museum 58 Bridge Street White River Junction
$7.00 us
See Jesus, Mary and Joseph on the road and in trouble — again! Shows last one hour
refreshments served with each show.
the main street museum is handicap accessible via the drop-off parking area in front of the building.

dff@mainstreetmuseum.org
www.mainstreetmuseum.org

photo: Joseph Mehling, Strafford, Vermont

the girls and boys rooms...

These are the graffiti left in the lavatory of the Main Street Museum between ca. June 2005 and November 16th 2005, c.e.
These scratchings are a fitting beginning to the lavatory at the Museum websight. This will be a continuation of earlier Main Street Museum bathrooms. You see, in the past you've been able to leave graffiti in our e-bathroom. (The new msm website has a place for e-postings—its here, on the museum blog) Now in the new museum headquarters on Bridge Street however, you can leave actual graffiti in our bathroom and not be embarrassed, or arrested, after doing so. The wall of the bathroom here is painted with chalkboard paint, and a basket of colored chalk is handy-by. Knock yourselves out. Before I erase it all tomorrow tho, I thought Id preserve it, and post it. Enjoy.
[editor’s note: ive put everything in lower case and presented these writings punctuation-free. Comments are in square brackets like these…]

4,000 miles to sign the wall
well worth the trip
—big don

vloot [picture of flower]

world class battles
[someone erased the “d” in “world” to read “word class battles” —dff]
yes vs no
north vs south
*“war of northern aggression” vs. “war of the rebellion”
shirts vs skinz
love vs fear
abstract expression vs. pop
popeye vs bluto
raunchy vs righteous
vice versa
orphys vs kamal
hot vs not
light vs dark
cock vs pussy
celtics vs sixers
gynecology vs urology [perhaps “proctology” would be more apropos here. Someone from the med school help me out… —dff]
rock vs paper
roe v wade
judy vs barbara
kang vs kodos
bette vs joan
laverne vs shirley
romanticism vs classicism
iconoclasm vs iconophilia
good vs evil
hulk vs animal
army v mccarthy
individual freedom vs elite control
exist vs ___
ladle vs spoon
label vs moishe
god vs mom
shut up vs you shut up
inevitable vs destiny
the rock vs hulk hogan
elton vs olivia newton
me vs you
cat vs cat
dog eat dog
monkey vs robot [hey, isn’t this a cartoon?]
flash vs xhtml
this vs that

the highway breathing
a single read leaf
they are just things until your mind remembers…
where
when
a smell
someone
a time
perhaps fondly

pretty walrus

la vulva

I [heart ] gordon
Gordon [heart]s you too…