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I can't believe I almost forgot to mention that I met the lovely vschanoes and I had a yummy lunch at Tea and Sympathy -with iced peach tea (free refills and all) and then braved the heat --at least it was better than yesterday) to Brooklyn near the Gowanus Canal (we walked across it) to Observatory, an art gallery that has a free exhibition of art inspired by H. P. Lovecraft. There were some wonderfully accurate figurines of some of his creatures, art by artists I'm not familiar with, but one piece by Bob Eggleton. Also, the Centipede art book was on display along with one artists' sketchbooks. Small but nice. And as a special treat, we were able to visit another gallery within the complex that had odds and ends of strange materials including a couple of Wunderkammers (a box of curiosities both natural and unnatural).

For more info check out the website A Love Craft--the exhibit is continuing through July 23rd.

In celebration of H.P. Lovecraft and the jolly Christmas season (because they go so well together), Tor is presenting blogs about the great old ones, including suggested Xmas gifts from several bloggers, including moi!

<a href="http://tinyurl.com/ykkvnbz">December Belongs to Cthulhu</a>