![]() Went to the Met today to say goodbye to the lovely Chinese writing exhibit. So I'm going to believe Wikipedia's characterization of the article just out of spite. I tried to go to the original source material on that (original source: artsy-fartsy art magazine) so as not to be passing around Wikipedia hearsay, but original source material was 1) behind a paywall that 2) pretended not to be a paywall for the Googlebot but 3) pretended not to be pretending not to be a paywall when I pretended to be the Googlebot. You know all those SUV ads that have the SUV climbing Mount Rushmore? They would have been moot because there already would have been an SUV carved into the top of the mountain. ![]() Constitution, Louisiana Purchase, and seven other territorial acquisitions from Alaska to Texas to the Panama Canal Zone." And Washington would have been wearing one of those big foam "USA #1" hands. It would also have included "a massive panel in the shape of the Louisiana Purchase commemorating in eight-foot-tall gilded letters the Declaration of Independence, U.S. But now I'm finding out things that are just ridiculous.įor instance, the original scope of the project included not just busts of the four presidents but sculptures of their torsos. I chose it as a minor example for the REST book because it's a well-known place about which people can have drastically different things to say. ![]() I'm learning more about Mount Rushmore than I ever cared to, which is kind of distressing as I already knew more about Mount Rushmore than I ever cared to. ![]()
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