Bri and Andy Warhol

My friend, Bri, came up to visit this weekend. At around 11am yesterday, she called because she was stuck in her driveway in Cincinnati. The ice was still bad and she has rear-wheel drive, so she was having trouble. She said she’d call back when she was on the road. About a half an hour later, she called and told me that the remedied the situation by getting table salt from the kitchen and pouring it behind her back tires. So here she is, arriving in Columbus, salt still in hand. Ha, she’s like MacGyver!

So, then we went for a quick lunch at the North Market, where we both got Indian food and then some Jeni’s for dessert!

I was afraid we’d have a hard time parking on campus, so Matt picked us up and took us to the Wexner Center to see the Andy Warhol exhibit, which is really the reason she came up. We stayed there for about three hours. It was really interesting and bizarre. They had screens set up everywhere with his weird movies playing and signs next to them telling what they were about and how many minutes was left in the movie. One “movie” was just of the empire state building for like 8 hours and when we were watching it, it was nighttime, so all you could see was a streetlight. Weird. They also had his campbell soup cans and Marilyn Monroe pictures on the walls. Apparently he was interested in starting a TV channel before he died unexpectedly in 1987, so they had a room full of TVs with headsets and you could wander from TV to TV watching parts of his shows which were mostly about fashion and celebrities. We couldn’t take pictures in the exhibit, but there was some stuff out front, so here he is in drag and not.

Dan picked us up from the exhibit and we got some Adriatico’s pizza in preparation for fight night at our house. Dan got the UFC fight on pay-per-view, Ben, Matt and his sisters came over, we played some Encore (sweet, huh, Beth F.?) and then watched the fight. It was fun, but I was so tired that I couldn’t even write my blog last night. This morning, Bri, Dan and I headed to Northstar for some delicious breakfast and now Bri is on her way back to Cincinnati. Time flies.