Comments on: Tut-Tutting at Tut Tat

By: Potty Potter Punters | Cosmic Variance

Potty Potter Punters | Cosmic Variance — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 07:57:06 +0000

[...] Well, I’m a bit disappointed. Just got back from seeing the new Harry Potter film. Went to see it at Mann’s Chinese Theatre (you know, the one with all the surprisingly very small handprints and footprints of the movie stars), which is pretty impressive as a movie theater (though overall not as quite good as the Arclight Dome, ten blocks away), an indeed the line did snake back three sides of a small block, and there was some buzz of excitement. But I am disappointed because there were no nutty fans with costumes or anything! What’s wrong with the Youth of Today?! I had thought of this excellent title (almost tops my Tut-tutting at Tut Tat one… only the best for you, dear reader….) for the post I was going to do with pictures of these people. Nothing. So this post is completely pointless (i.e., more pointless than usual). I just had to use the title anyway, as I don’t know when I’d get the chance every again. Sorry. [...]

By: serial catowner

serial catowner — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 16:56:21 +0000

A doll of a 4000-year old mummy….that should make for some interesting playtimes…if you’re Steven King!

By: janet

janet — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 21:35:46 +0000

I am speechless with awe.

By: Clifford

Clifford — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:45:13 +0000

citrine… I totally agree with you. The gift shop stuff was entertainment…I did not buy anything. Stuff was overpriced anyway, as I said in the post. I think that wine rack was $400 or something like that…..!!!

Cheers….

-cvj

By: citrine

citrine — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:27:39 +0000

Samantha and Clifford,

If I knew that the proceeds were being donated to such a worthy cause I’d give a donation, which can be done without buying the gift shop stuff!

By: Clifford

Clifford — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:21:26 +0000

Samantha, I’m guessing that citrine was joking….. “tat” is not meant to be complimentary…. I don’t think that people will be rushing out to buy this stuff as a result of me making disparaging remarks about it… right citrine? Or did I misread you?

-cvj

By: Samantha

Samantha — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:44:49 +0000

…the inadvertant advertising you give the gift shop grotesqueries is not worthy of this august forum.

I don’t know if this will make you feel better Citrine, but part of the revenue from the gift shop is supposed to go back to the Egyptian government to fund restoration projects. Since money is always so short for Archeology, I am happy to encourage the sale of Anubis pens etc. in this case.

By: citrine

citrine — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:10:41 +0000

Clifford,

I usually like your posts but the inadvertant advertising you give the gift shop grotesqueries is not worthy of this august forum.

Tut-tut

By: Chantal

Chantal — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:40:03 +0000

Clifford,

Is this your way of saying that you didn’t get me a Tut Beanie Baby?

Chantal

By: Moshe

Moshe — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 09:10:10 +0000

Clifford, this reminds me of the most wonderful museums with the most terrible gift shop…there is this small village in Mexico that discovered that the land in their small cemetary preserved the corpses in almost perfect condition, so they dug them up and made this tiny museum with naturally mummified corpses (including for example a pregnant women, a murder victim,…, never seen anything quite that morbid before or since). In the gift shop of course you can find tiny replica of the especially grotesque exhibits, sold as keychains etc. Sadly I don’t have access to these pictures right now…but now doubt they already have a website.

By: Plato

Plato — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 08:24:00 +0000

I had a dream once where I was going around inside the pyramid and to my thought processes within the dream, this comment came out of thin air, about the desecration by intrusion. It showed these little articles, that you show clifford.

Then I was lead through some amazing hallways and sculpture that was three dimensional and extruded from the walls, all along the length of this hallway.

I have not seen anything like it in my travels through the literary and graphic world. Maybe, just a poignant way to describe the history?

This, would be counter to the way things were written on panels then as a two dimensional recognition of what art was then, to way it has exploded to visionary proportions now??:)

Cubist valuations of quantum gravity? Perspective of Mona lisa’s smile? Oh, where does it all end?

By: Plato

Plato — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 07:55:59 +0000

So was this the ulterior motive on posting the first entry on Tut?