Day 13: Missed movies, mummies, and misprints, oh my.

I'm Adam Sell and I have two months left before I leave Boston. My challenge? Do something in the city every day. Have ideas for my adventure? Send me an email.

I wanted to go to the French Film Festival at the MFA. I had a snarky lead sentence written up and everything. It involved a white flag, a CharlieCard, and Zinedine Zidane. But they just had to go and sell out the flick I was going to see, didn't they? Humph.

And to my credit, I only pouted for a moment before deciding to just meander through the exhibit halls instead.

I honestly don't remember what that was, other than that it was supremely eye-catching. We wandered through the collection without a map, hoping to let our instincts bring us to the cool stuff in the museum.

Which, naturally, meant we found the Ancient Egyptian funerary art real fast. We examined the jars in which organs were stored, and wondered aloud if the organs were still inside. I think I scared off a five year-old or two.

My favorite object was the one with a typo in its placard. A "lion from a funerary monumnent." I'm the nerd who finds that highly amusing.

I've been to the MFA before. In fact, there may not be a publicly-open room in that building that I haven't walked through at one time or another. But I never fail to be impressed by the famous names on display: van Gogh, Matisse, Renoir, Monet, Manet, etc. (I could pretend I know what I'm talking about here, but I really don't.) The cachet the MFA carries is something I'm going to use this fall to plug my city.