Fun in Art History...

I have a test tomorrow in my Modern Art class that I've been studying for lately. When studying, my bella roommate from Italy and I went back over our lecture notes and got a kick out of the description for this one work of art by Marcel Duchamp. The work of art is The Large Glass (The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even). Duchamp also did Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, which I'm sure is recognizable, even if you don't know it. But the description that our teacher gave us for The Large Glass is just hilarious. Braegan and I cracked up when we were reviewing on Monday.

The Large Glass depicts an elaborate and unconsummated mating ritual between the bride in the upper half of the glass...and the uniformed bachelors in the lower half. Despite their efforts, the bachelors fail to project their "love gasoline" (the sperm gas or fluid constantly ground forth by the rollers of the chocolate machine) into the realm of the bride, so the the whole construction becomes a paradigm of pointless erotic activity.

This is, verbatim, what she said in class.

I'm sorry. "Love gasoline"?!? Are you kidding me?? We started laughing in Starbucks when we were reviewing on Monday. It's just one of those things.


Randomness for the day:
I had to scrape the ice off of my windshield this morning. It's not even Halloween and it's this cold?? I so don't like this. Maybe we'll get snow this year. That would be pretty cool.

You know you're up at Starbucks too much when the Midtown Village security guy recognizes you. "Oh, you were in here the other night, weren't you?" Yeah, I've only be there studying/writing a paper four nights this week....

I need to find a new place to study.