How To Disappear Completely

singing sinks and silence

To celebrate Evan's safe arrival in Colorado, we drove up to Denver to visit one of my friends, the lovely speech pathologist Mimi Urish. Since we couldn't waste a trip to Denver, we wandered over to the 16th Street Mall, which eventually took us to the Denver Art Museum. Though we decided against coughing up the admissions fee, we nevertheless enjoyed all the free public art surrounding the museum building and visited the restrooms.

If you ever get a chance to visit the DAM, please do properly hydrate yourself prior to the visit. The restroom will be the most worthwhile exhibit you experience. The bathroom sinks serenade you. I had great fun running from sink to sink, trying to get the voices to overlap. Since they start on different pitches, with different timbres of voice, I wished I was fast enough to create some sort of singing sink composition.

And so the moral of the story is that you should always wash your hands.

We also visited the Denver Public Library, which currently features an exhibit on the Presidents of the United States of America (the executives, not the band). For each President elected after the invention of the radio, we were able to hear a snippet of their inaugural address. Curious to see what Calvin Coolidge might have to say, I pushed the button on the recording under his name. Absolute silence.

And so the moral of the story is that if you are going to have defective wiring in your display, make sure to place it in the most appropriate place.