Hello again Dear Readers,
Deany V. here, today I’m reporting to you from the Smithsonian Museum of American Art. Hank and I
talked Brock into letting us visit here while he is across the street at The
International Spy Museum. Actually he just handed us some money and told us to
go away the moment he saw The International Spy Museum. His eyes kind of glazed
over, and he had a little bit of drool coming out of the corner of his mouth,
so we took that as our cue to skedaddle.
The Museum of American Art
has this really keen exhibit called the Art of Video Games which included all
the old systems like Atari, and Intellivison, and this really cool Commodore 64
from 1982. Pop’s computer that he keeps all his super science junk on in his
bedroom is a Commodore 64. (Hank says he also keep his naked lady pictures on
there too).The Exhibit is a look at video games from way back in the seventies
all the way up through today. Hank and I got to play games like Pac-Man, Super
Mario Bros., The Secret of Monkey Island, Myst, and Flower on really giant wall
sized screens; all together over 80 different games are represented. It was all
free, whereas Brock had to pay like seventeen bucks to get into the International Spy Museum
which I thought was a real gyp! Pop is up on Capitol Hill today attending to
some “really pressing business” which he said could make us some serious money.
I myself am skeptical because when he said it Brock just rolled his eyes, and
said something about,” Fracking being dangerous”, at least I think he said
Fracking.
I read about the Video game exhibit on the Interwebs, you
could actually vote for your favorite games to be included, they had over two
hundred listed to choose from and almost
four million votes were cast, for some reason none of the ones I voted for made
it. I guess Burger Time, and Mickey
Mouse-capades weren’t as earth shattering as I thought they were.
I’ve noticed a lot of the things we came to see in the city
are closed, besides the Washington Monument, the Reflecting Pool in front of
Mr. Lincoln’s memorial is closed for cleaning
and repairs.(Pop said that’s just what the Government is telling the tourists,
that really The Monarch crashed The Cocoon into it). Also part of The Smithsonian Castle, the
Science and Industry building, (the one with all the locomotives), is closed
for refurbishment. It’s like we went to Brisbyland and The Run Away Shoe Ride
was closed. But seeing this really cool
video game exhibit has led me to believe that Washington D.C.
is a neat city to visit. It’s not just filled with boring Monuments and Statues
of old dead guys like Hank said it was going to be. Well now the Art museum is about
to close and we have to go see if we can pull Brock out of The International
Spy Museum, he told us that if he didn’t come out in three or four hours we
should come in and find him. He was sure that he would see some of his old
friends or enemies there, and they could rehash some of the adventures they had
back in the glory days of spying during the Cold War. He promised us that he
would take us to Ford’s Theater to see if we could contact the ghost of honest
Abe again. Until later this is your man on the Street in D.C. Deany V.
GO TEAM VENTURE!
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