Dear Diary,

So I went in search of the Movin' Out cast recording at the Virgin Megastore in Times Square and they were...out of stock! Say what? How can the Virgin Megastore be out of stock of anything? So next it was off to the huge Borders at Columbus Circle and they were...out of stock! Next I went where I should have gone first -- Tower Records at Lincoln Center. They have everything! I had to restrain myself from buying a bucket of CDs! Great store.

Well it's Friday and that means Target Free Fridays at the MoMA! I hadn't gone since the renovation so off I went. And so did half of Manhattan! Boy was it ever crowded! I've never seen a museum so full. I think that's great -- in Toronto the museums are usually so empty you can fire a cannon through them.

Given that it was so full, I just gave it a quick once over and didn't linger. It looks great and I can't wait to return and spend a little more time.

There was one item in the contemporary gallery that I had never seen before, and that is relevant to Plane Crazy. It was a real airline departure flap chart designed by an Italian firm named Solari Udine (est. 1968). It listed Departures or "Partenze" for a number of airlines (such as SAS, American Airlines, Luftansa, Air Italia). Flight numbers, departure times, and comments. And the information kept changing. While I was watching the SAS flight "now boarding" flap came up with a red light!

Very cool. People just stood and watched and waited for the flaps to change! I gotta get me one of those...

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