Skunkeye is experiencing another dangerously slow day. Fixin to get the hell out of Dodge soon… this heat really makes things oppressive. Maybe New York or Baltimore this weekend?

Last week The Man apparently got inspired by margaritas at some Cinco de Mayo office party in the Latin American division that I some how missed, and now he is bent on putting up a special website for our division celebrating our “diversity.” Um, I don’t think we really need a website to demonstrate that. Anyways, he’s tasked our office Slovak with that…

Had a nice party at mi casa MJ, F, and visiting S came over and I fed them gin and tonics and made a batch of my awesome chili. My sister, her fiance, and her Japanese housemate stopped by. Everyone got to meet Bumblefuck when he lumbered downstairs. We headed across the street to a friend’s house warming party and I met some cool neighbors on the street when I was out smoking. We ended up at Local 16 on the next block. Sometimes I love my little hood.

Spent yesterday afternoon at a funeral/memorial service for a dear family friend. Most of it was in Korean which I don’t speak but it was very moving and clearly he is held in high respect in the community. 98 years old, what a full life. I met the creator/artist of this. That was such an amazing series! I refrained from gushing given the circumstances and also I didn’t want to come off as a goofball. Charlize Theron just got cast in the live-action feature. He has to be mum about the other details but he did tell me he always pictured Famke Janssen in the role. That would have been perfect. I’m going to try to get an interview with him for our Korean programming. We need to go after the younger audience. Margaret Cho did not fly too well apparently.

Check out The Cubist Paintings of Diego Rivera: Memory, Politics, Place, on exhibit at the National Gallery until mid-July. Better known for his murals, this compact but illuminating exhibit showcases his smaller paintings and a few drawings when Rivera was a student and starving artist in Spain and France between 1913 and 1915. I found it interesting how Rivera integrated items and memories of his homeland Mexico with the European cubist approach and also assimilated his Socialist leanings. In his cubist still-life paintings he replaces the typical guitar with a balaika and freely mixes absinthe bottles and glasses with Mexican utensils and molinillos on café tabletops. The exhibit captures the young artist discovering himself in Spain and Paris, abroad at a time when the world was on fire. Oh, and the NGA is running a great Mexican film series.