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Primal Curve is absolutely 100% right. You can rent dvd players and vcr players there, or pay for 3 hours of old nitendo games, but there isn't any major hookups, not even in the hospitality room. There are pay as you go arcade games and pool tables in the hotel's activity atrium.

So here are the options as I see them:

A) No video games DVDs OR vcr's, because you are all too computer geeky as it is and your mother would be yelling at you to enjoy the fresh air anyway.

B) You pool your money and you pay for the rental. I think a separate video available TV was $60/day and I'm still not sure about the VCRS and DVD players. I am not sanctioning this as an "official" Kama Con event because there is no way our $10/head surcharge will cover it.

C) Someone (and it ain't gonna be me) will have to actually BRING a TV and/or DVD player and VCR as well as a playstation. (I'm not bringing our TV because it is too tempermental and moving it disagrees with it.)

You guys figure it out. I'm inclined towards A personally. (hmm maybe I do have maternal instinct )

AJ

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*decides she ain't THAT nuts*

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See? Sound mental health often boils down to a matter of choices.

*not contemplating hauling any AV equipment from home at all. so don't even ask.*

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Dr. Seuss, we thought we knew you. When you died in 1991, you were America's most beloved children's author, a cuddly grandpa with only the slightest hint of Cat-in-the-Hat impishness in your smile.

Turns out there was more, much more, behind that smile. In "The Art of Dr. Seuss," a retrospective and national touring exhibit making a stop in Chicago at Atlas Galleries, many viewers may be surprised to discover that Theodor Seuss Geisel had a widely varied career apart from his children's books. It included stints as a commercial artist, wartime editorial cartoonist, surrealist painter and social satirist whose images and poems depicting the well-heeled featured a surprisingly bawdy bite -- as in this passage from an early lyric, tossed off one morning after inspiration struck him in the midst of shaving:

Mrs. Van Bleck of the Newport Van Blecks
Is so goddamn rich
She has gold-plated sex . . .

"It's the kind of mischievous humor you sort of suspected was there in some of the children's books like The Cat in the Hat, which was considered pretty subversive," says exhibit curator William Dreyer. "His adult humor was really rich, really wonderful and sometimes ribald. We want to bring that out, to let people know that he had a very unique wit that he expressed mostly with his friends and didn't really put out there in a broad sense because it probably conflicted with his persona as the world's greatest children's-book author."

The "subversive" Geisel can also be glimpsed in his La Jolla Birdwoman series, in which he sent up his daffily decadent Southern California neighbors in avian form -- such as Martini Bird, who toddles about in a sheer peignoir with a Teddy bear in one hand and a cocktail in the other.

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