So, Jen and I went to Pittsburgh, and it rained. Our second day here in Baltimore. It rained. I think I should hire myself out. Having a drought? Invite Bill to your town! The rain will be coming a day after I get there.
Today was the day that we went to go Geppi's Museum. On the way out of our hotel, we encountered some viral marketing for a certain summer blockbuster...
See! For all you people who thought Gotham City was supposed to be New York, you were wrong! Here, in the sign for our very hotel, a sticker proves that Gotham is actually Baltimore!
What can I say about the Geppi Museum? It was awesome. I be writing an article about it for Broken Frontier, so I'll be brief here.
First off, from a historical perspective, it was amazing, If something was played with from the 19th century to today, it is represented here. The room devoted to comics was huge!
They had a representatitve of pretty much the entire history of comics, including pulps and little big books.
But it didn't stop there. They also had toys from the past century and a half, comic strips, movie posters and such. The hallway between exhibits had their walls filled with old posters and artwork.
Seriously, you will want to take some of the exhibits home with you. And if you don't say "I had that when I was a kid" at least five times while walking through the museum, then you really had a crappy childhood.
The only problem is that there was this one guy there who was giving me the stink eye. We almost came to blows.
You're lucky that my chick was there! And, by the way, nice tights!
The only other problem I might have had was that the gift shop was a little light on comics. It had a lot of toys and other doodads, but they had little or no floppies, and a selection of trades that you would find in a smaller bookstore. They did, for some reason, have a bunch of EC Archives, Disney comics and Overstreet Price Guides.
Whil we were in the museum, it had started to rain. We made the wet trek past Camden Yards (The Museum is right on the same block as the stadium) and went to Pickles Pub for some lunch. From there, we went to the Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum.
Since I am a generaql overall baseball fan, and more than just a little fond of The Babe, and my wife is a Yankee fan, we decided to give this museum a shot.
It was okay. It's a small museum, but it makes good use of its space. They pack a lot of information in there. Pretty much everything you ever wanted or need to know about Babe Ruth.
Jen and I had intended to visit the Edgar Allan Poe museum and gravesite, but by the time we got out of the Babe Ruth museum, it was pouring rain. We decided to go back to the hotel and got drenched. Maybe tomorrow.
