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Except that it is named as such, the Museum of Sex is nothing like a museum because everything inside is made to be touched. Also, gushing and explaining and bragging can be heard inside. All I can bring you are pictures here and videos because I could not even explain the varieties of articles inside from candies to books to postcards, csrdgames to pills, garments and kinky toys or gears, if I may say.  Museum it is not indeed but a store of merch, all kinky and for all kinds of handling!!! Here are the photos I got which are self-explanatory. Got videos of those I can't explain. Click here for the link to my youtube.  Video Post # 2 Xxx More video post here Post 3 Xxx More video post here Post 4 Xxx More video post here Post 5 Xxx Xxx Xxx Xxx We missed the show they have in a room or basement. You can tell me about it on your visit there!!!

The word Smithsonian brings back memories of reading Time Magazine and Reader's Digest Magazine back in my younger days and New Yorker in my college years. It is a depository of all American Art. I learned that the Smithsonian Institute houses varied all-American thingy that has historical significance. I just chose two, the Museum  of American Art and its sister, the Renwick Gallery. These are the six features in the museum when we visited. I like the space and dedicated rooms, wings and floors in this museum as it gave intimacy to the art and the viewer. Meanwhile, the traffic is flowing outside of the room which is not annoying when one is having a personal commune with a particular art.  I want to bring your eyes with me to gaze towards the painting of Frederic Edwin Church as its glowing and admirable Northern Light has a gift of reflection on the end result of every war. This is a very relevant painting when taken in its hi...

The Renwick Gallery is the sister of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, which  houses contemporary american arts from sculpture to installations to crafts using trashes and currently celebrates its 50th year. My top three favorites from this gallery are the truce flag, the glass cast sculpture and the spirit box. Top 1  I was in awe of the TRUCE FLAG and the question which applies to our warring nations today, "What if this flag of truce was the flag we knew, instead of the Confederate battle flag?"  Yes, what if?  What if we start anew for the 21st century and move forward? It's not abandoning the past but looking at the future without guns and blood.  Sonya Clark born 1967, Washington, DC in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia Monumental 2019 Woven linen with madder dye and tea stain Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the American Women's History Initiative A...

While traversing Manhattan one rainy afternoon, I spotted a unique lobby with colorful portrait paintings on the wall from a small square park known as Garment Center filled with unique human sculpture.  I entered the lobby and took photos of the wall paintings and read the informative corner covering the history and black and white photos of the Garment District, a center established in 1919 housing New York's fashion creative artists and the who's who in the American fashion world. A colorful human statues at the Garment center park Another colorful human figure at the square With the BW garment center photos A Basmat Levin painting The paintings were by Basmat Levin an artist who has a showroon in Hudson Street and I was surprised that the building I went in is not a Basmat gallery but residential/business units cslled ZAZ10TS. Well, it was a happy 30-minute exploration.  The address of the Basmat galle...

I am supposed to reserve my blog on the iconic Brooklyn Bridge, the bridge that connects Manhattan and Brooklyn borroughs of New York to a later post, after I read the classic Betty Smith book, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn perhaps   but here it is now though I have not continued reading the book yet. I am just so excited not to share my two visits to the bridge, more like one and a half walk. My first visit was more like a halfway walk only as I got cramps on my legs from walking non-stop for days. I started from the Brooklyn Side of the bridge and only reached the first arc. Why were there a lot of people wanting to cross the bridge despite rain or shine?  Brooklyn Bridge is the highway to a collective dream. It was first built in 1883. Abraham Hewitt profoundly put in words this work of art, engineering and practicality. Referring to the bridge in his address during the opening, he beautifully declared: "It is not the work of any one man or of...

The White House. We headed to the most popular residence in the USA and sure enough, a lot of people waited because SOMEONE WHO MIGHT BE THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF LEFT together with the convoys and the traffic was stopped.  Eventually, we saw the back of the white house and from there heard the Ukrainians in the US expressing their gratitude and plea for continued support in the Ukraine- Russian war. Not far from it, protesters built their "home" by the park.  The Washington Monument. Beating the sunset light, we proceeded to the other side to see the obelisk called Washington Monument. We enjoyed photographing the tallest monument in the world at 555 feet.  And on my back, the front of the white house in night light dazzled me. It was one cool cozy night in DC. #Mydccool story.

Princeton University in New Jersey is must-visit place as part of a pilgrimage to ivy-league schools in the US. Visiting Princeton Uni breathed life to some settings in the novels I could remember I read.  One book stood out, The Reluctant Fundamentalist. The author is featured in the alumni profile of said school.  The Campus is very big and I managed to see a few big buildings which are not only old  but also pretty. Structures are observed to be donated or sponsored by individuals or class, very much just like how we do it at home in the Philippines.  After visiting Princeton Uni, we went to the Palmer Square where restaurants, boutiques, wine houses, and the Public Library are located. There was an open dance sponsored by the Central Jersey Dance Society called Dancing Under The Stars. It was a special night as it is the second from last event they will be doing this. Happy that we joined. See video clips of the night in my...