And now -- art. The DeCordova Museum in Lincoln has a wonderful show just up of work by Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison, showing their pictures of Robert cast as "everyman" in an ill-fitting suit, coping as best he can with absolutely desolate hallucinatory dreamscapes, strewn with smokestacks, fields of light bulbs, and in one piece, a wickerwork radar dish. One picture shows him sewing up a rift in the earth, another pulling it back to adjust the gears of the machinery beneath; in yet another, he is trying to reattach a limb to a tree in a field of sawed-off stumps.

If this is the kind of thing you like, then you're already trying to figure out how to see it. It's at the DeCordova through January; the Toale gallery in Boston has a smaller show of ParkeHarrison work through mid-October, featuring some of the same pieces. Either is very worth your while.

By the way, not apropos of that or anything else, I have a few free gmail invites which I'm not sure what to do with. They're free to interested and reasonably friendly parties, while the supply lasts...