SixSider @ The NSA

On the way to Baltimore to got to the America Visionary Art Museum, we stopped by the NSA. We didn't see if we could drive up to the main building (see below photo), but we took the winding path to the closed-for-the-day Cryptology Museum. I checked my cell to see if it was being tapped. And sure enough, it was! No, not really. Actually the battery was dead... but why??? Dum Da Dummmm!

The real NSA.

SixSider @ EPA

This morning I got up early to wander down to The Mall. On my way back, I smelled something funny. It was here. Go figure.

SixSider @ Papa Six

Here is my favorite. Papa Six taking photos! Here he is taking pictures of the the Jefferson Memorial while on a business conference call. Multi-tasking! Sweet!

(Note: all D.C. photos by Mama Six except for the Boy Scout one which was by Papa Six is Mama Six's camera.)

SixSider @ Boy Scout Memorial

Papa Six first enlightened me about this memorial earlier this year. Luckily we made time to visit it this time. (Actually this photo was taken on the third visit. The first time the photo didn't come out. The second, we tried to jump out just to take this picture but were foiled by a series of small fences. This third attempt was a success.) Again, I am just impressed by the almost naked man standing behind the boy. From what I can tell, his nakedness symbolizes the Boy Scout ideal of being physically fit. Or "comfortable" with our own bodies. Or with the bodies of male adults. I don't know. You can't see it here, but he does have an amazingly tight and well-formed butt.

The statue does have an inscription that ends with the words "morally straight." *snicker*

SixSIder @ FDR Memorial, part 4

And FDR is backed up by Eleanor, who also kicked some serious tuckus. I now give the edge to Team FDR over 28 foot Lincoln.

I have a feeling when they get around to making a Reagan Memorial (especially if they make giant Nancy) that he'll end up taking the top spot. Not because I'm a Reagan fan, mind you. I just imagine they'll make his memorial particularly fight-worthy. And if they put in a giant Bonzo... no contest.

SixSider @ FDR Memorial, part 3

Well, looky here! FDR keeps getting more of an edge. This is the giant Scottish Terrier, Fala. So FDR has a cape AND a giant dog sidekick. He's a bit like Superboy.

SixSider @ FDR Memorial, part 2

Okay, now we're talking! This FDR could had least give 28 foot Lincoln a good fight. And this one has a cape, so he may also be able to fly. I still put my money on Lincoln as he still has about 12 feet over this FDR.

SixSider @ FDR Memorial

Look! I'm on the lap of our cripple president! FDR was awesome! He fought the Depression better than Zoloft, fought WWII from a wheelchair, gave fireside chats! But in a fight between him a 28 foot tall Lincoln, I'd have to go with Lincoln.

SixSider @ The Washington Memorial

Not a lot to say about this one. It's tall. It's white. A bit Masonic. Much like the ex-Congressman C. Thomas McMiillen that I sat next to at Cirque du Soleil last night (more on that later). But seriously, what can you say about a great stick of stone. Something about penises, I guess... but I really have nothing to add. Maybe there is some place in D.C. where you can line up the Washington Monument with the Jefferson Monument so that the Jefferson looks like a scrotum. That could be humorous. But also a long way to go for a penis joke.

The Book As Art

We went to the National Museum of Women in the Arts today. The they have an exhibition called The Book As Art: Twenty Years of Artists' Books. Very very cool. It was inspiring to see all of the ways books, storytelling and the written word can be expressed. It did leave me with a sense of wanting, as book exhibits usually miss out on one important factor: the sense of touch. Books are meant to be felt. Pages are meant to be turned. And in many of the art pieces, it is how the artist played with (or against) that very aspect of books. Ah, well. Not much to be done about that.

Anywhozits, if you are in Washington D.C. anytime before February 4th, check it out.

SixSider @ The OAS

Oh my god. It's the Organization of American States! I can't tell you how long I've been waiting for this moment. Really. I can't. But, look! It is Queen Isabella of Spain! The inscription reads:

Ysabel I La Catolica
Reina de Castilla
de Aragon
de las islas
y tierra firme
del Mar Oceano.

How awesome is that?

SixSider @ WWII Memorial

At first I thought it was the WoWII Memorial. I was like,"What!? They came out with World of Warcraft Two... and it is already dead?!?" But then I realized that is was a little conflict back in the forties. This is me at the Pacific side. China, Burma, India. Those are eagles, not pelicans like I thought. Pelicans would have been cooler.

SixSider @ The Lincoln Memorial

Look at Lincoln. He was huge! No wonder he kicked butt in the Civil War. He was like the Godzilla of Presidents. Scary!

SixSider @ The White House

Papa Six, SixSider, Aunt Six.
I tried to climb the fence. They said Cheney was in Iraq, so I don't know who took shots at me.