1. 15:48 23rd May 2009

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    Mom thought that the best way to entertain me after a seven hour trip yesterday would be another three hours driving along the Mississippi gulf coast. There’s actually a lot to see, but for her the journey is the destination (read: she doesn’t ever want to stop). I saw this from the road, however, and pretty much commanded the car to a halt. This is the under-construction Frank Gehry (Guggenheim Bilbao-Dancing Buildings Prague) designed Ohr-O’keefe museum, under construction. Gehry may be falling out of favor as an architect, but damn if this isn’t gonna be a breath of fresh air on the very staid, very conservative beachfront. I wish I’d brought a better camera than my phone, but I’ll be back when it opens to check out the vagina flowers and whatever Ohr does. EDIT: The Ohr in question is George Ohr, “the mad potter of Biloxi,” and the O’Keefe is NOT Georgia O’Keeffe of the flowery vagina, but rather Annette O’Keefe, whose vagina is “like a big ol’ snufflin’ bassett hound.”¹ ¹ Annette O’Keefe’s vagina may not be like a bassett hound. That’s a quote from Song of Solomon.² ² Not the Toni Morrison book, the one in the Bible: “Thou art beautiful, O prince’s daughter, and thy hoo-ha is akin to a big ol’ snufflin’ bassett hound.”³ ³ Oh, that’s not true, either. But it’s not too far from the truth.

    Mom thought that the best way to entertain me after a seven hour trip yesterday would be another three hours driving along the Mississippi gulf coast. There’s actually a lot to see, but for her the journey is the destination (read: she doesn’t ever want to stop).

    I saw this from the road, however, and pretty much commanded the car to a halt. This is the under-construction Frank Gehry (Guggenheim Bilbao-Dancing Buildings Prague) designed Ohr-O’keefe museum, under construction. Gehry may be falling out of favor as an architect, but damn if this isn’t gonna be a breath of fresh air on the very staid, very conservative beachfront.

    I wish I’d brought a better camera than my phone, but I’ll be back when it opens to check out the vagina flowers and whatever Ohr does.

    EDIT: The Ohr in question is George Ohr, “the mad potter of Biloxi,” and the O’Keefe is NOT Georgia O’Keeffe of the flowery vagina, but rather Annette O’Keefe, whose vagina is “like a big ol’ snufflin’ bassett hound.”¹

    ¹ Annette O’Keefe’s vagina may not be like a bassett hound. That’s a quote from Song of Solomon.²

    ² Not the Toni Morrison book, the one in the Bible: “Thou art beautiful, O prince’s daughter, and thy hoo-ha is akin to a big ol’ snufflin’ bassett hound.”³

    ³ Oh, that’s not true, either. But it’s not too far from the truth.