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So yesterday it's the opening cannon shot for the big Tut exhibit here, first day for this huge deal, and I'm just driving to the gym in the morning, minding my own business and not thinking one thing about the carcass of an ancient dead pharaoh.
And I look through my windshield, a little bleary eyed (remember, I'm not much of a morning person!) and what do I see? A newspaper vendor for the Miami Herald at the corner of Broward and Federal and he's wearing a gold Tut headdress or whatever the pharaohs called those royal head pieces. I mean, he's walking between cars hawking newspapers and trying to look like Tut, for Pete's sake!
To me, that about sums it all up. South Florida has gone stark raving Tutmad!
And let me just say this, because I've heard about some serious art aficionados elsewhere who think we're having too much fun with this Tut business. Get over it! No one feels the extraordinary exhibit is anything less than a major event in the art world. But hey, come on! We're also talking about the mummified liver of a kid who died more than three millenia ago. If that's not fodder for a good joke, I don't know what is.
So yes, we've got Trina Restaurant serving Tut-inis (cocktails, of course! 12 bucks each) and Tut bobblehead dolls (who could possibly resist this one?) and Tut's face on everything from McDonald's cups to Papa John's pizza boxes to Muvico ticket stubs. They're even selling tissue boxes with an ancient Egyptian motif. (As one lovely lady friend of mine quipped, the proper comment when passing someone a Kleenex from that box can only be,"Gesund-TUT!" I like that one!)
And you can get the "King Tut Mummy Wrap" treatment at a Fort Lauderdale lux-hotel and King Tut Truffles at the Galleria and who knows what else?
So I say, lighten up and have a laugh at Tut's expense -- he can take it. A man with that much money isn't easily offended anyway.
Even if we've got streetcorner newspaper vendors trying to imitate our Golden Boy King. All I know is, for pure style points, my prize for Best Tut Kitsch definitely goes to this newspaper-selling dude.
At least he knows how to have fun!
And I look through my windshield, a little bleary eyed (remember, I'm not much of a morning person!) and what do I see? A newspaper vendor for the Miami Herald at the corner of Broward and Federal and he's wearing a gold Tut headdress or whatever the pharaohs called those royal head pieces. I mean, he's walking between cars hawking newspapers and trying to look like Tut, for Pete's sake!
To me, that about sums it all up. South Florida has gone stark raving Tutmad!
And let me just say this, because I've heard about some serious art aficionados elsewhere who think we're having too much fun with this Tut business. Get over it! No one feels the extraordinary exhibit is anything less than a major event in the art world. But hey, come on! We're also talking about the mummified liver of a kid who died more than three millenia ago. If that's not fodder for a good joke, I don't know what is.
So yes, we've got Trina Restaurant serving Tut-inis (cocktails, of course! 12 bucks each) and Tut bobblehead dolls (who could possibly resist this one?) and Tut's face on everything from McDonald's cups to Papa John's pizza boxes to Muvico ticket stubs. They're even selling tissue boxes with an ancient Egyptian motif. (As one lovely lady friend of mine quipped, the proper comment when passing someone a Kleenex from that box can only be,"Gesund-TUT!" I like that one!)
And you can get the "King Tut Mummy Wrap" treatment at a Fort Lauderdale lux-hotel and King Tut Truffles at the Galleria and who knows what else?
So I say, lighten up and have a laugh at Tut's expense -- he can take it. A man with that much money isn't easily offended anyway.
Even if we've got streetcorner newspaper vendors trying to imitate our Golden Boy King. All I know is, for pure style points, my prize for Best Tut Kitsch definitely goes to this newspaper-selling dude.
At least he knows how to have fun!
posted by LauderBLOGGER at 9:42 PM
I tend to see it your way, although I'm a professed non-arteest.
I'm digging the blog. Keep it up.
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