Eugenio's Blog!

Anyone who knows me surely knows that I love museums. For many years, the Imperial War Museum in London enjoyed the title of “Eugenio’s favorite museum.” When I visited Milwaukee back in August 2006, however, I went to America's Black Holocaust Museum there. For the past couple of months, I could not decide which museum was my favorite. Well, I’ve made my decision, and it’s been one of the easiest of my life.

I was in Washington this past week for a couple of conferences, but I had the opportunity to take a break Wednesday to visit the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. The Museum has only been open to the public for the past year or two. The exterior of the building is gorgeous, and it creates a very pleasant change of scenery on the National Mall. In addition, the tour guide at the Museum was phenomenal. The exhibits were incredibly clear and thought provoking. But what put this museum over the edge was the Native Foods café that sold meals inspired by Native cuisines. They were so good I had both lunch and supper there.

Without a doubt, it is my honor to call the National Museum of the American Indian my new favorite museum. I only planned to allot two hours visiting, but I seriously spent six hours there. I think the security guards were suspicious.

Without a doubt, one of the greatest days of the year was this past October 14. I was watching the Detroit Tigers and Oakland A’s baseball game at a bar right around the corner of Comerica Park in downtown Detroit.

So there we were, bottom of the ninth inning. It’s a tie game. Two men out. Runners on first and second. I don’t know what the pitch-count was, but let’s just say it was 3-2. Magglio Ordonez was the batter, who was previously a member of the White Sox [my friends were impressed that I knew that, too.] Anyway, there we were . . . anticipating an extra innings game when Magglio hits a shot to deep left center field . . . homerun! The bar went crazy! I went crazy! Like, crazy. Shouting for at least 10 minutes straight . . . no pun intended.

It was an amazing afternoon. Who knew sports could be so fun? The Tigers are now in the World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals. I’m happy to see two Midwest teams, but surely my loyalty falls to the Tigers. I definitely plan to be in Detroit when the Tigers win it all. Stay tuned for that posting. Go Tigers! Go Bayside!

Up to about last week, I thought blogs were the raddest form of journal-keeping ever. I soon learned through youtube.com, however, that blogs were so 2005. I guess the trend now is videoblogs, and I wish I can say I hated them, but I don’t.

There’s this one videoblog that is absolutely hilarious. Here's the link. Sometimes he crosses the PC line, but other than that, his posts are rather humorous and without a doubt entertaining.

I learned today that I don't have work next week Monday in observance of Columbus Day. I don't support the holiday, so I need to find some sort of teach-in or rally. Maybe I'll drive down to Columbus. I guess it would be a bit ironic to have an Anti-Columbus Day rally in Columbus, Ohio, but I think it would be smart, too.

This genocist has everything named after him . . . a state capital, a national capital, a country. Wow . . . the power of history.

And I do mean his story.