Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for April 13, 2015
April 12, 2015
April 14, 2015
Transcript:
richard's poor almanack by richard thompson the new & improved museum of american history it's finally open! c'mon, let's go take a look! we combined the hall of transportation and the hall of shops! now you can push a button and the big green train runs over the ruby slippers! dude: yay. food cart over-flow hall of first ladie's under-wear unfinished. the contractor did some work then he never came back. jerk. it smells funny in here, so we don't use it. enlarged food cart area new interactive hall of that big statue of george washington in a toga statue: what're you lookin at? man: whoa we traded our big flag to natural history for their big elephant! woohoo! score! future hall of obama's many many accomplish-ments hall of objects removed for study guy: aw hall of doohickies, dinguses & contraptions guide: can everyone hear me okay? loud-mouthed tourists who ex-plain things wrong to their kids staging area our new state-of-the-arty pastry kitchen hall of least compelling pop culture-mayor mccheese, outfit, thomas kinkade's brushes, steven segal's face, urkel, etc. click this dumpster got left here, so we turned it into dumpster diving; an american passtime. remember, we're always looking for more stuff! if you have an interesting object (stray car part, an unusual lightbulb, an old calendar), please bring it by! our 24-hour appraiser will probably want to buy it from you for permanent display!
I had always wanted to go to the Smithsonian Museum of American History, and when my sister said she was going to Washington, DC in September 2006, I jumped at the chance. Then I flipped on NPR and they announced the museum was closing for refurbishment. (The luck of the Irish, I tell ‘ya.) I spent the extra time walking through Georgetown. But now I get to see what I missed.
While going through old National Geographics this weekend, I found a Richard Thompson illustration. He’s a DC artist, and National Geographic is a DC-based magazine, so it makes sense.