It rained so we spent the day in the American Museum of Natural History. I have a short attention span when it comes to museums, but this one kept me interested most of the time. After about five hours the only thing keeping me going was I would see the squid and the whale from The Squid and the Whale. However, when I got to ocean exhibit, all that was there was the whale. In another room I found a squid. I think it might be the squid, but why wasn't it with the whale? I'll need to do some research on this. Maybe it was a literary construction by Noah Baumbach to drive a metaphor.

Was the AMNH the same museum Margot and Ritchie ran away to in the Royal Tenenbaums? I knew I should have watched that movie again before coming here.

We went back to Greenwich Village and I found Forbidden Planet, a geeks dream. I roamed around there for awhile looking at action figures and comic books before moving on to the Strand Bookstore. The Strand is a used bookstore that claims to have 18 miles of books inside it. I believe it. I was also overwhelmed and had no idea where to start looking.

The night ended back at the Yippie Museum. Miranda sat inside reading Harry Potter. I walked to the Bowery trying to figure out where CBGB's used to be. All I found was a series of boarded up storefronts with nothing to mark its former location. All that rock n roll history had been erased.

Apparently Moby lives near the Yippie Museum. We didn't try to find his house.

Tomorrow is our last full day. We plan to visit an art museum and see Ground Zero.

Tomorrow night is Nick Cave at Madison Square Garden. Oh, and this band called the White Stripes is playing too.

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