Is it true that Pepto-Bismol is essentially flavored clay?

I couldn't make that title up. I can only long to.

No, that's from the fervid mind of one of my all-time idols, David Byrne.

Stop making sense, right now, wherever you are, and check out his blog.

It's like ours, only better.

Byrne is working all over the damn place, of course. In the art world he has teamed with Danielle Spencer to execute some inordinately clever installations, including a 2003 series of corporate signs that speak volumes, such as "Trust IBM," which didn't reproduce well here. But it's good. trust me.

All this I found while not even looking! I was Googling Irving Penn, actually, whose splendid exhibit we just saw on Sunday, despite our children's protests and the forbidding guards at the National Gallery of Art. (Step AWAY from the paintings! Step AWAY from the paintings!).

I always have at least one spitting fit while I'm in that elitist temple.

Still. I like the art there.