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Things to Remember From the COVID Spring #3: The Avengers Can’t Save Us

March 23, 2020 by Museum Fatigue

Americans are restless. We are always doing something. Always working. Always busy. Being busy is a virtue. How many jobs have I had where even if there was a pause in the work my boss would admonish me to “look busy.” Moving, hustling, starting up, making shit happen. America is all offense. Hit them before you get hit. Even our defense is offense: build so many weapons that nobody would dare mess with you. Americans invented superheroes—a modern pantheon of […]

Categories: COVID Spring • Tags: Americans, superheroes

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Hall of Heroes Superhero Museum

November 30, 2014 by Museum Fatigue

The holiday weekend has given me a little extra time to go through images from last summer’s midwestern road trip—including the Hall of Heroes Superhero Museum. Before much more time passes I thought I should get images up on my Flickr feed and at least make a short post here. The museum is located in a two-story structure behind the owner’s home in the outskirts of Elkhardt, Indiana. It is not just any structure, but built in a form of […]

Categories: Collecting, Museums, Popular Culture • Tags: action figures, cabinet of curiosity, collectibles, collections, comic book collector, comic books, Hall of Heroes, Stan Lee, superheroes

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Checking Out Products in Marrakech Marjane Hypermarket

January 2, 2014 by Museum Fatigue

Between tourist stops in Marrakech we passed a Marjane Hypermarket. Since I have done some work in Walmart stores in China, I was curious what a supermarket in Morocco might look like—especially because most of the products we saw for sale were in local markets. With only about 30 minutes to stop I made a quick walkthrough of the store and, since I wasn’t sure about photography, I just took a few photos with my iPhone. The layout of the […]

Categories: Consumption, Food, Toys • Tags: Barbie, flour, Gender, Made in China, Marjane, Marrakech, Marvel Superheroes, Morocco, ramen, superheroes, supermarket

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