Saintly Sinners (Mary and me)

Both Jerry and my father have recommended this article to me and if two of the most important men in my life (I suppose there are six in all) strongly encourage me to read an article that seems like it'll probably be mind-numbingly boring, I do it (mildly grudgingly, but I do it). Once again, they were right and I was wrong. This New Yorker article on Mary Magdalene is totally interesting and not at all painful to read: http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060213fa_fact2

Also, I bought a painting at the Arty Gras show. I can't really afford it, but it's cheap in terms of paintings. It's a small 12 x 12 canvas of a robot holding a human heart in his hand. The friend who was at the show with me said that I liked it because it was like an allegory for me. I am a robot holding a human heart in my hand? I can't tell if he's holding it and feeling sad that he doesn't have one, or holding it with more ambiguous intent. We'll see. I haven't paid for it yet, but it's reserved for me and I must pay up within the week. I can't pick it up until April though- that's when the show comes down. I also bought a small print of a happy robot by the same artist, which was significantly more affordable and in keeping with my future hobby (the collecting of works on paper). Some artist out there knows my weakness for cutesy renderings of automatons and is exploiting it. She happens to be a very sweet prop maker for the DC Shakespeare Theater who seems to also really like robots. So I will have to forego smoothies, lattes, and breakfast sandwiches for a month to finance my addiction to small, "affordable" works of art.