entirely safe and fun

Following up on my last post - Sadly, I couldn’t find my picture of the “Saint of the Month Club” reliquary, but among my pictures from a trip to Italy in 2002, I did find a sort of modern equivalent. This stunningly tasteful glass Moses - this stunningly tasteful near-life-sized glass Moses, in fact, about five feet tall - was photographed in Venice (rather than Florence, but sometimes you gotta cast a wider net) at a random glass shoppe near St Mark’s Square. I imagine that if the later Medici could have purchased it, they would have, putting it as a devotional image right in one of Uncle Lorenzo’s stuffy old chapels. It fits right in with some of the religious tchotchkes in the Silver Museum.

On a wholly different, but still Venetian note, the water-bus equivalent of “Mind the gap.” Or maybe…

• “Exercise caution while grooving.”
• “Yield to passengers in clown shoes.”
• “Carry giant triangles on shoulders only while boarding.”