Yesterday Model-002 and I went to Freddie’s Bar and Back Room to do some nifty arts and crafts work.  It was a lot of fun!  They give you a theme (Search Party) and about an hour to create something ingenious which then has to be presented in front of others explaining how your diorama pertains to the theme.  We came up with the idea of getting lost in the plastic ball playpen at McDonald’s.   I actually thought we had a pretty sweet little thing going, despite the fact that we spent a bit of time just finding and eating food, but I mean, Come ON!  a search party at Micky D’s for a missing kid? ?  that’s FUNNY!  and has metaphorical value! although I didn’t mention that in the presentation of our work, so people just took the diorama kind of literally, I guess.   The semi scary part of all this was “defending” your diorama in front of many others who are somehow very well spoken.  I mean, these people knew how to talk about their work like it was their freakin’ MFA project.  Jesus Christ.