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# Monday, July 18, 2005
I went to see the Tutankhamun exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and if any place on earth has worse crowd management than Paris, it is Los Angeles. Here you have 130 unbelievably stunning artifacts from antiquity, and the way they laid them out was as you walked through the various rooms, the artifacts were on two sides of the room. So after you saw the Shabti statuette on this side, you had to battle your way to the scarab necklace on that side. Further, they placed the placards which told you what was what on only one side of the display case; that meant you had to also battle your way to the front of the display case to read what the item was and what its significance was to King Tut. I gave up after two hours of battling haggy old women ("Look Marvin, do you think that glass is thick enough? You know the Michaelangelo statue was destroyed by letting people get too close. Marvin? Do you think it's thick enough? MARVIN?") and snotty children, I finally resigned to read them upside down. Note to selves, LACMA, you could have sold 3x the tickets if you had properly managed the flow of people. But what do you expect from a city that designed and defends traffic flow on Santa Monica Blvd. Angelinos, you know what I'm talkin' bout!
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